{"id":411,"date":"2021-05-13T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/?p=411"},"modified":"2021-05-13T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T14:38:58","slug":"building-blocks-of-literacy-a-sweic-professional-learning-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/2021\/05\/13\/building-blocks-of-literacy-a-sweic-professional-learning-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Blocks of Literacy \u2013 A SWEIC Professional Learning Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Building Blocks of Literacy \u2013 A SWEIC Professional Learning Opportunity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/2021\/05\/10\/an-invitation-to-building-blocks-of-literacy-a-sweic-professional-learning-opportunity\/sweic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/literacytrialsite\/uploads\/sites\/16803\/2021\/05\/10142241\/SWEIC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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: \u00a0an in-depth focus on literacy learning and teaching at this stage providing teachers with the knowledge of <strong>what underpins literacy learning and the tools to build a reader and writer.<\/strong> The delivery team includes experienced teachers and Speech and Language Therapists.<\/p>\n<p>East Ayrshire teachers who are interested should speak to their HT who can contact <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/file\/086D37BC-7B6C-433F-B179-E6BD7650B398?tenantId=ccd32ca3-16ce-428f-9541-372d6b051929&amp;fileType=xlsx&amp;objectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fglowscotland.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FActiveLiteracyTrainingSessionsJune2020%2FShared%20Documents%2FGeneral%2FRecord%20of%20Teachers%20Joining%20Building%20Blocks%20for%20Literacy%20SWEIC%20programme%202021-22.xlsx&amp;baseUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fglowscotland.sharepoint.com%2Fsites%2FActiveLiteracyTrainingSessionsJune2020&amp;serviceName=teams&amp;threadId=19:6077131f7af54a5f88b4ee8db8812cb4@thread.tacv2&amp;groupId=d2cb2ccb-5e6d-4475-943d-43abb938714c\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">gail.elder@eastayrshire.org.uk<\/span> and add names to this form<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Programme Introduction<\/strong><strong>: for HT\/DHT and Teachers <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 25th August 2021 4pm -5pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to the programme<\/li>\n<li>Organisation of discussion groups<\/li>\n<li>Phonological Awareness screener<\/li>\n<li>The Primary One year<\/li>\n<li>Curriculum calendar<\/li>\n<li>Pace &amp; challenge<\/li>\n<li>Classroom organisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Dates of Sessions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080\">Language &amp; Communication + Phonological Awareness<\/span><\/strong>: Wednesday 4-5.15pm\u00a0 <strong>08.09.2 +\u00a0 20.10.21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993366\">Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling &amp; Handwriting<\/span><\/strong>: Wednesday 4-5.15pm\u00a0 <strong>17.11.21 + 19.01.22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Building a Reader and a Writer<\/span><\/strong>: Wednesday 4-5.15pm\u00a0 <strong>23.02.22 + 23.03.22\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussion groups TBA.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ff00\">All on MS Teams.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Blocks of Literacy \u2013 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/2021\/05\/13\/building-blocks-of-literacy-a-sweic-professional-learning-opportunity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Building Blocks of Literacy \u2013 A SWEIC Professional Learning Opportunity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-universal-literacy-professional-learning-2020-2021","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/literacytrialsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}