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Transitions for Armed Forces Families

[Subposts] MoD Support

Moving around is a way of life for many Armed Forces families.  It can often be exciting, but sometimes it can be difficult to find your feet in a new location.  It can be unsettling for children and young people who are in education as they leave behind old classmates, make new friends and face a different curriculum or exam system.

This leaflet aims to help make the transition as easy as possible for families who are moving to Scotland, or who are already here but relocating to another part of the country.  To view, please click on the following link: https://www.npfs.org.uk/2019/06/new-nutshell-launched-transitions-for-armed-forces-families/

Forces Children’s Education

[Subposts] MoD Support

The Scottish Government, Local Authorities and Schools are working hard to ensure that moving to Scotland has a positive effect on the educational outcomes of children from Armed Forces families. This website has been created in order to bring all these efforts together and put the resources that parents and the education professionals who support their children need, together in one place.

To view, please click on the following link https://forceschildrenseducation.org.uk/

Argyll and Bute Welcome Booklet

[Subposts] MoD Support

Our leaflet aims to provide information for Armed Forces families about schools, early learning and childcare provision in the area, such as advice on the transition to the Scottish Education system, a detailed explanation of how our 3 – 18 education system works and how to identify their catchment school. It also provides a guide on how parents can enrol their child, even when they are awaiting allocation of service family accommodation.

To view, please click on the following link:  https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/welcome_pack_jan_2018.pdf

European Day of Languages- September 26th

[Subposts] 1+2 Languages, Uncategorized

Resources for European Day of Languages- 26th September

Poster– the-rights-of-the-language-learner

Effective resource to generate a class discussion about creating a positive ethos around language learning.

Cultural Treasure Hunt and Quiz

Resources from PowerLanguage Schools

Choose French or Spanish Cultural Treasure Hunt, questionaire and interactive quiz or if you have time do both.

6 QR codes for printing and placing around the school,  questionaires to complete during the cultural hunt and a follow on interactive quiz:

spanish_culture-hunt_QR-codes

Spanish culture-hunt_questionnaire-for-printing

spanish culture-hunt_quiz

French culture-hunt_QR-codes

French culture-hunt_questionnaire-for-printing

French culture-hunt_quiz

You can also login to https://powerlanguage.school/ to find these resources.

(If you do not have login details please contact gwen.mccrossan2@argyll-bute.gov.uk )

Click on PLANNERS

PLS4 Block 4- French Culture Hunt

PLS4 Block 4-Spanish Culture Hunt

You will need an iPad per group for this culture hunt. You also need to download a QR reader from the App store. These codes can then be read by the camera on the iPad. Hide the QR codes around the school. When the children find the code, they scan it and then watch the associated video. They can then answer the questions on the questionaire. If you do not have ipads, the videos can be accessed on PowerLanguage Schools. The activity is the completed with the interactive quiz.

 

Introduction to Gaelic- Scotland’s own language.

Go to Go!Gaelic to download the sound enabled Gaelic Introductions PowerPoint presentation

Compare languages

ECML (European Centre of Modern Languages) website for comparing animal noises and idioms in many different languages. There are also many other language related activities available on this site.

P7/S1 Comic Book Transition Project French Resources

[Subposts] 1+2 Languages

New Digital Teaching resources for the Project:

All About Me           

All About Me Continued….

Guidelines for French Comic Book Transition Project

Extension powerpoint with sound files for this project

French Comic Strip Success criteria and learning intentions

Es&Os for French transition project

 Printable Resources

Gap fill activities

Asterix and Tintin     Lucky Luke       Lou         Marsupilami

Matching Activities

 Asterix and Tintin              Lucky Luke-Lou-Marsupilami

Guess Who Activities

 Asterix-Tintin               Lucky Luke-Lou             Marsupilami

Talking Pen Resources

Talking pen labelling sheets

Talking Pen sound files for Asterix and Tintin

Comic Strip Templates

Big_Start_Big_End_Comic_Page

comic speech bubbles

comic templates

character in middle

 

 

Alt codes for accents

 

 

Powerpoint Presentations:

The French tradition of comic books/first person description

Example Comic Strip and Dialogues to help children create their own

Examples of French Comic Strips

 

P7/S1 Comic Book Transition Project – Gaelic Resources

[Subposts] 1+2 Languages
Beano PowerPoint
Broons PowerPoint

Guidelines for Gaelic Comic Book transition project

Gaelic Comic Strip Success criteria and learning intentions

All about me Gaelic booklet

Character sheet template

See French Resources post for comic panels templates

The Broons Character descriptions:

Athair         Mathair          Seanair        Joe          Hen           Daphne                                                        Maggie        Horace         The twins        The baby

The Beano Character descriptions:

Dennis  Menace          Gnasher         Minnie          Billy whizz            Roger               Banana man

The Broons Gap-fill Activities:

Athair        Mathair           Seanair           Hen            Daphne           Joe           Maggie                  Horace       The Twins         The baby

The Beano Gap-fill Activities:

Dennis           Gnasher              Minnie Minx              Billy whizz             Rodger                 Banana Man

The Broons Matching Activities:

 Maw,Paw, Grandpa              Hen, Magaidh, Daphne                     Horace, Twins, Baby

The Beano Matching activities:

Roger, Dennis, Gnasher                 Minnie, Billy, Banana man

 

Gaelic P7/S1 Comic Book

The comic, “Na Gaisgich” was written by primary seven pupils from Islay, Jura, Mull and Tiree as part of a transition project for going into secondary school. The pupils were all learning Gaelic as a second language at school and were able to create the comic as a result of funding from the Scottish Government. The book is based on folklore and fables from the islands, and all ideas were collaborated to form the final product. Social Enterprise Company, Magic Torch Comics, travelled to each of the islands involved to deliver workshops to enable the children to adapt the stories, characters, illustrations and plots into comic strips. The comic is accessible to all as it is written in Gaelic and English. Click HERE to discover the comic.

S1 French Comic Book Transition Resources

[Subposts] 1+2 Languages
Thank you to Oban High School for sharing these excellent resources for all schools to use.
Section 1- Comment je me vois personality

PowerPoints:

Comment je me vois 1    comment je me vois 2    comment je me vois  3  

comment je me vois  4 SR        comment je me vois  4           Round the room reading for ppt4

 Word Documents:

  adjectival agreement table no feminine       adjectival agreement table      adjective table write-on sheet

Section 2- Comment je me vois- Hair and eyes: 

       Comment je me vois 1 sondage      et les autres hair and eyes SR                                                        et les autres hair and eyes                 hair vocabulary                                                                                     2 les yeux les cheveux SR     2 les yeux les cheveux                                                                      reading activity les yeux et les cheveux

Section 3-Les autres

1 les autres               Physical description               ref sheet for hair and eyes

Section 4- Les Bandes Dessinees

1 les bandes dessinees          Bandes Dessinees quiz               BD characeter adjectives

2 les bandes dessinees and more adjectives          adjective pairs    les bandes dessinees listening – write-on sheet                         les bandes dessinees listening

Section 5- Comic preparation

Sound files

Listening Activity 1-1

Listening Activity 1-2

Listening Activity 1-3

Listening Activity 1-4

Listening Activity 1-5

Listening Activity 1-6

Listening Activity 1-7

1 comic preparation      adjectives         Comic preparation 1

On recherche-  2 On recherche poster             Help phrases

2 Reading and Writing         S1 cicatrice etc and revision

Writing the Comic

comic template 1      comic template 2          comic template 3            comic template 4     comic templates     

pupil help comic page 1 (2)      pupil help comic page 2          pupil help comic page 3        pupil help comic page 4           Writing the comic (2)     

Superheroes

Listening 1     Listening 2            Listening 3              Listening 4            Listening 5       Listening 6

Superheroes

Assessment for Learning

[Subposts] Assessment & Moderation

Here we have materials to support professional development and training related to Assessment for Learning, a key aspect of effective learning and teaching. Schools can adapt these resources to suit their own context and needs.

Resources which can be used are:

  • Guidance on Assessment for Learning Version 1a
    • This guidance can be used as an aid to support embedding formative assessment in schools.  It consists of:
      • explanations and examples of various aspects of AfL, including Learning Intentions, Success Criteria, Feedback, etc.
      • checklists which can be used for learning walks and peer observations
      • a brief list of suggestions for embedding these strategies in schools.
  • A self-evaluation resource for staff which could be used as part of an audit before using these training materials, created and kindly shared by Karen Wheatley at Lochgoilhead Primary School.
  • A presentation on Making Thinking Visible, a series of questioning strategies which could be used to support AfL, created and kindly shared by Ross Stewart at Hermitage Academy.

 

Materials being used in schools include:

The Ocean Explorer Centre – Science trips on our doorstep

[Subposts] Science

The Ocean Explorer Centre has been developed by marine scientists from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) to share with visitors and schools their fascination and concerns for the sea. It showcases much of the research done at SAMS. It provides an ideal base for both indoor and outdoor education and runs several engaging and informative workshops for school groups, such as food chains, renewable energy and marine pollution. We cluster mentors have taken groups numerous times and it has always proved a huge hit with the pupils and they have aways come away with lots of knowledge, as well as having had their eyes opened to potential scientific careers too. If you haven’t yet visited, we highly recommend it.

The following link will take you to their site

http://www.oceanexplorercentre.org

Their outreach officer Helen McNeill is fabulous and extremely helpful. she can be reached on the link below

Helen.McNeill@sams.ac.uk