School Improvement Programme

Strategies for Improvement

The School Improvement Programme (SIP), which was launched in 1998, provides a comprehensive strategy, involving all education partners, to raise standards in schools is concerned with tackling low achievement and raising standards for all, in all types of schools.

It has a number of separate but related strategies, including:

• the School Support Programme (SSP), which offers a period of intensive support to a number of individual schools

• a strategy for the promotion of literacy and numeracy, including early intervention strategies and training for teachers to improve literacy and numeracy teaching

• a strategy for promoting and sustaining good behaviour in schools

• guidance for schools on the development planning process including measures to improve the quality of school leadership

• the development and dissemination of good practice in schools, including schools in areas of social need

• guidance on target-setting as an integral part of development planning