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• CLD and professional learning – an analysis

  Education Scotland’s role is changing. Going forward the organisation will have a focus on curriculum and professional learning. In late 2024, a paper was presented to Education Scotland’s (ES) leadership team giving an overview of the context for our Education Scotland’s CLD officers’ support to the sector. A recommendation from that paper was to initiate an exploratory phase of work to develop ES’s potential role within the recommendations from the independent review of CLD, and within the refocussed work of ES. To support this proposal, we undertook an appraisal of the current evidence on professional learning in Scotland, to assimilate ...

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• Room 1 – 9.10.26

  Hello! We’ve been very busy in Room 1 since the September weekend so we thought you would love to see what we’ve been up to with a selection of photos from the last two weeks ☺️ - We’ve learnt two new phonemes over the last two weeks. ‘a’ and ‘t’ 🐜🎾 - We’ve now worked on all numbers to 10 and used ten frames to help us recognise quantities. We will continue to revise ordering numbers and understanding more and less. 🔢 - Some pupils have created amazing builds with Lego! - We also introduced a big question. ‘Who Helps ...

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• Room 24 – The Week

  The Blog By Orlaith, Lucy and Millie   Police First the Police came in to tell us about how to ride E-bikes and E-scooters safely. We must ride our electrical devices properly, he said! Also, the Police come round everyday to check on our school so we are being safe.   Science 1 - Lava Lamps In science we were learning to make Lava Lamps! Here's how we made it: First we put water in a jar. Next we put green food colouring to make it pop! Then we put oil in. Finally we put fizzy tablets in to make ...

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• Room 7 09.10.2026

  This week, Room 7 were inspired by the wonderful book, ‘Leaf Man’, by Lois Ehlert. After reading the story, we went on our own autumn leaf hunt and collected a variety of leaves, noticing their different colours, shapes, sizes and textures. We then used our imaginations to transform our leaves into our very own Leaf Man pictures. We experimented with arranging, overlapping and turning the leaves to create people, animals and imaginative characters. 🌿 Our Learning Focus Through this experience, we have been developing our: Creativity and imagination – using natural materials to create our own pictures and ideas.   ...

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• Room 8

  We've had lots of lovely discussions this week after previously being asked the Big Question, 'What makes us happy?' We've gathered our ideas and have hopefully come up with lots of fun learning activities we can do between now and the Winter break. Stay tuned to find out more! To kick start our 'Big Question' learning, we've been starting to create some new artwork. After learning about colour theory, and identifying warm/cool and complimentary/opposite colours, we coloured tin foil with washable felt tip pens, sprayed it with water and then placed paper on top of the watery ink. The ink ...

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• Room 13 – a busy year so far!

  We can’t believe it’s the October holidays already! Primary 4 have had a fantastic start to the year, and we thought we would share some of our favourite learning experiences so far, chosen by the children themselves! 📚 Literacy: We have enjoyed writing our own stories (AN), taking part in drama to recreate scenes from Mr Skip (CL) and challenging ourselves with Wordle during ICT (KH). 🔢 Numeracy: We have been busy learning about place value (HLA) and rounding numbers to the nearest 10 (NM). 🎨 Expressive Arts: Art has been a firm favourite in Room 13!    We have ...

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