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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon talks to Student Teachers
£100 million fund created to improve educational outcomes. A new Scottish Attainment Challenge has been announced today by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The Challenge will be backed by an Attainment Scotland Fund of more than £100 million over four years to drive forward improvements on educational outcomes in Scotland’s most disadvantaged communities.The four-year Attainment Scotland Fund will be targeted initially at schools in the local authorities with the biggest concentrations of households in deprived areas. It will focus on improving literacy, numeracy, health and wellbeing in primary schools in these areas, with the clear objective being to give all primary-school age pupils – regardless of background - the best start in life. The First Minister launched the scheme on a visit to the St Joseph’s Primary, Victoria Park Primary and Balgay Hill Nursery campus in Dundee, where she also addressed an audience of teachers, student teachers and education leaders
