posted by Pauline Stephen, Head of Schools & Learning

Three Sleeps until the Angus Learning Festival 2015!……………………Connect, Collaborate & Aspire

This Thursday sees the first Angus Learning Festival.  I say first, as depending on the feedback as to the success of the event we may well look to how we make it a regular feature in our annual calendar.  There are over 1000 teachers in Angus.  The wealth of experience, talent and skill in a group that size is vast.  We need to look for more opportunities to share and hear about each other’s practice and then consider how it would work in our own context.  One of the key messages coming from the newly launched How Good is Our School 4 is that you can only be excellent if you collaborate. 

So we are looking forward to welcoming nearly 400 Angus teachers over the course of the day to come together to consider the national education drivers and our collective attainment challenge.  We will hear about established and emerging practice from primary and secondary colleagues in Angus Schools. Facilitated workshops will consider how we move forward with growth mind-set approaches, how teachers really do make the difference, how to embed a language of learning across a school and how to plan and assess for quality learning.  We will also be joined by colleagues from the Winning Scotland Foundation and Midlothian Council to explore practices from other areas.  Maybe see you there!

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