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Our East Ayrshire Literacy Newsletter for March 2022 is available. Included in this issue we celebrate our first primary school achieving their EA Communication Friendly Environment Accreditation. There is a round up of local, regional and national literacy news too.
As we approach Robert Burns’ birthday, take a look at the a range of activities and resources the SAC Literacy Team has created to help you and your children take a deep dive into some super Scots poems. Find them on the EA Literacy Team or on our Glow Tile.
Seona from Giglets has organised a webinar for East Ayrshire staff. This training will take place on Teams on Thursday 03/02/2022 from 3:45 pm. It is scheduled to run for an hour and a half and accounts for 15 minutes of questions at the end.
Training is suitable to those who have some, little or no experience of using Giglets and those who would like to become more confident using Giglets. To sign up for this event click here: Register for this event.
Seona MacRuary is hosting the event. Seona is Head of Education Engagement at Giglets. She was a primary teacher in Glasgow before joining the Giglets Team in 2018. In the Giglets Team, Seona supports teachers with initial training and throughout their Giglets subscriptions. She can be contacted on seona@giglets.com.
Our East Ayrshire Literacy Newsletter for November is available. It has a focus on the work of our SAC Speech and Language team. The SAC literacy teaching team share information on on-going, daily assessment in literacy. There is a round up of regional and national literacy news too.
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September has come and gone and the October break is almost here. The SAC Literacy Team has some new materials and CLPL which have been shared over the term – if you missed them you will find out about them here:
Hello and welcome back. We hope the summer break was a good one for you. The SAC Literacy team looks forward to working with you over this coming session. Please have a look at our August newsletter.
We are delighted to invite headteachers, senior management and literacy leaders to our first East Ayrshire Giglets Leaders Event.
There is a choice of two dates and times: Thursday 10th June, 4.00 pm or Tuesday 15th June, 3.30 pm.
In this session, we’ll let you know what is new at Giglets, some top tips, and have a focus on how to develop key reading strategies in the classroom. Gail Elder, Literacy Education Manager with the East Ayrshire Scottish Attainment Challenge team will also talk about how Giglets fits with East Ayrshire Literacy priorities.
We’ll have the opportunity for some professional dialogue, discussing our successes and challenges in teaching reading.
To guarantee your place please follow this link.
Scroll to the date (10th or 15th June), select the time, insert your details and select ‘Book’. You will then receive an email with the Teams link to attend the event. If you have any problems with this please feel free to RSVP to us by replying to this email.
If you are unable to attend, please do feel free to forward this invite to any staff who may be interested.
As part of our partnership with East Ayrshire, we also run termly reviews to discuss implementation, successes and challenges with using Giglets. You can also book a 30-minute call to discuss Giglets in your school for a time that best suits you.
I look forward to speaking to you soon and if you have any questions before the event, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Seona
Seona MacRuary
Head of Education Engagement
Building Blocks of Literacy – A SWEIC Professional Learning Opportunity
In 2019 East and North Ayrshire collaborated to deliver professional learning on literacy to a cohort of P1 teachers from both authorities. In 2020, we moved to an online format and opened the professional learning sessions to all four SWEIC authorities. Over 120 P1 teachers from over 70 schools joined this year’s programme. We have very positive feedback from the teachers on both the learning inputs and the opportunity to discuss the content and the impact on practice with other staff from across the SWEIC.
This year we are delighted to open up the opportunity to any teachers in the SWEIC who are working with children at the Early stage of literacy learning. The programme will have the same content as last session: an in-depth focus on literacy learning and teaching at this stage providing teachers with the knowledge of what underpins literacy learning and the tools to build a reader and writer. The delivery team includes experienced teachers and Speech and Language Therapists.
East Ayrshire teachers who are interested should speak to their HT who can contact gail.elder@eastayrshire.org.uk and add names to this form
Programme Introduction: for HT/DHT and Teachers
Wednesday 25th August 2021 4pm -5pm
Dates of Sessions:
Language & Communication + Phonological Awareness: Wednesday 4-5.15pm 08.09.2 + 20.10.21
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling & Handwriting: Wednesday 4-5.15pm 17.11.21 + 19.01.22
Building a Reader and a Writer: Wednesday 4-5.15pm 23.02.22 + 23.03.22
Discussion groups TBA.
All on MS Teams.
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