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Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.A high school teacher working with both primary and secondary pupils is one of the innovative ideas which is helping Bathgate Academy boost pupil performance.The high school hired a maths teacher with a remit to work across primary and secondary classes - a first in Scotland- to improve the numeracy skills of pupils coming up from the cluster primaries into the academy.Headteacher Grant Abbot told West Lothian Council’s Education Quality Assurance Committee that the academy was one of the first in Scotland to appoint a middle years maths teacher to work with children from P4 to S 3 in the cluster.“It has had a significant impact on attainment.

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