Transitions for Armed Forces Families

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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

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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

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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

MoD Support

MoD Support

This section contains MoD Support resources for staff.  Please click on one of the following links to access a resource, or read the text below for an overview of the Armed Forces context in Helensburgh and Lomond, and the MoD Education Support Fund.

For further information, please contact:

Emer Flett, Service Pupil Advisor

Tel: 01436 658921 | Email: emer.flett@argyll-bute.gov.uk | Facebook:  Service Pupil Advisor Helensburgh & Lomond

Armed Forces Context within Helensburgh and Lomond

Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde, at Faslane, is a major local employer for both civilian and Service personnel and has a direct impact on the number of Service children currently enrolled within Helensburgh and Lomond Schools.

HMNB Clyde is home to the United Kingdom’s Strategic Nuclear Deterrent and the Astute Class submarines. However, it is also the base port for the First Mine Countermeasure Squadron (MCM1), the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron (FPBS), the 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group Royal Marines and the Northern Diving Group (NDG). It also has significant numbers of Armed Forces personnel involved in training, engineering support, personnel support, administration and medical roles.

The ships, submarines and support organisations and their differing roles means that there is a constant cycle of, often unpredictable, deployment patterns. Depending upon the particular role being conducted, there can be times when contact between Service personnel and their families is extremely limited, often for extended periods.

Our Service children and young people often experience situations and challenges that their civilian counterparts may not. Particularly coping without a parent during deployments can have an impact upon children from Armed Forces families. Mobility within the Services may also mean that children change schools and geographical locations more frequently, adding extra pressures.

Education, from early years through to higher education, can provide the stability to help children and young people through these times.

MOD Education Support Fund

2011 saw the launch of the Ministry of Defence’s Education Support Fund. The Fund was £6m per annum until 2017/2018 and has been made available to assist publicly funded schools throughout the UK, to mitigate the effects of exceptional mobility or deployment of their Service communities, Regular and Reserves.

In light of the ongoing drawdown from Germany and to provide time for the educational authorities across the UK to bring in longer-term provision for Service children, the Secretary of State for Defence in July 2018 announced the extension of the ESF, on a limited basis, for an additional two years.  The fund consisted of £3 million for 2018/2019 and £2 million will be available in 2019/2020.

P7/S1 Comic Book Transition Project French Resources

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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

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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

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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

Get Creative Music CPDs May 2019

Curriculum (General), Expressive Arts

Are you interested in developing your skills in delivering music in the classroom?

As part of the Youth Music Initiative, the Creative Arts in Schools Team (CAST) have run CPD sessions in 2018-9 using Get Creative, a new music resource for primary school teachers full of creative ideas, activities and learning outcomes to enable you to deliver musical activities with your class, regardless of your musical experience.

Continue reading Get Creative Music CPDs May 2019 →

Assessment for Learning

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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: