New Developments in Practitioner Enquiry in Falkirk Establishments
Yvonne McBlain has been working with probationer support team colleagues and colleagues in schools for the last 4 years to promote practitioner enquiry as an integral element of good practice. Practitioner Enquiry has been a mandatory part of each professional standard defined by the General Teaching Council for Scotland since 2012 – click here to [more]
Grangemouth HS Developing Practitioner Enquiry for Professional Learning
Yvonne McBlain attended the most recent meeting of secondary professional learning co-ordinators to hear how Falkirk secondary schools are using an enquiring approach to their self-evaluation and development of teaching and learning. Yvonne provided an update on the success and impact of the practitioner enquiry element of Falkirk Children’s Services’ probationer induction programme. Co-ordinators from each school [more]
Moray Primary use Storyline Approach to Develop Literacy Skills
Rebecca Spalding and Rachel Keane are using the Storyline approach to develop their pupils’ language and literacy skills. They are class teachers at Moray Primary school – Rebecca has a primary 1 class, and Rachel teaches primary 2 pupils. They chose a Fairy tale context to target specific language skills and have been supporting each [more]
Falkirk Probationer Teachers Present their Practitioner Enquiry Projects
Between October 2016 and February 2017, probationer teachers working in Falkirk secondary schools have engaged in Practitioner Enquiry. The photo on the left shows a quick, light-hearted, visual evaluation by one of the teachers who took part in the process. This experience is an important part of our Falkirk probationer induction programme, and helps probationers fulfil the [more]
Denny Cluster Continue Their Collaboration for Skills Transition
Yvonne McBlain joined primary and secondary teachers from the Denny cluster at their transition project meeting on January 26th between 4-5.15pm. They have been working together for over a year to develop quality, skill-based transition within their cluster. Their task is “To build a shared pathway of progressive learning across the broad, general education in [more]
Probationer CPD – Active Literacy
This week Probationers in Falkirk Council have been engaging in professional development on Active Literacy – one of the resources used in Falkirk Council to teach literacy in our primary schools. To begin the session an introduction video from Falkirk Council’s YouTube channel was shared. Further videos to Active Literacy can be found at the link below. https://www.youtube.com/user/FCEducationServices [more]
St Patrick’s RC PS enjoys the benefits of student exchange
Pupils and staff at St Patrick’s RC PS in Denny have enjoyed hosting student teacher Marjorie Brewer from Chicago, USA. Marjorie arrived in Scotland in early May, and has been working with Victoria Daly’s primary 1 class, and Antoinette Irwin’s primary 5 class. She feels she has benefitted a great deal from getting to know the [more]
Curriculum Development at Hallglen PS
On 19th April, Yvonne McBlain popped back to gather staff feedback on their curriculum development so far at Hallglen Primary School. 10 staff members were kind enough to give their time and views during this informal evaluation activity. You can read more about Hallglen’s curriculum development process here. Staff described the following impact: Increased knowledge of the [more]
Building resilience at St Francis-Xavier School – the journey
On Thursday 17th March 2016, Helen Quinn, primary 7 teacher, met with Yvonne McBlain, curriculum support officer, to describe how she and her colleagues at St Francis-Xavier RC PS have developed their pupils’ resilience. The journey began in 2012 with a partnership between the school and Dr Sally Paul of the University of Strathclyde, who was then a social [more]
Building Resilience at St Francis Xavier RC PS
Over the past two years, pupils and staff at St Francis Xavier Primary School have been building their emotional resilience in lots of different ways. With the support of Mrs Quinn, nine pupils from the primary 6 and 7 classes wrote this blog post to explain what they did, and what they feel they have learned: Discussing [more]
Braes Cluster Day of Dance 2016
Morag Simpson and Morag Young, PE Lead Officers within Falkirk Council Curriculum Support Team organised and delivered a Day of Sottish Dance for the Braes Cluster. Avonbridge Primary kindly agreed to host the event with Sheildhill Primary and California also attending. The day was a great success with lots of fun had by all and some fantastic dancing on display. [more]
St Mary’s RC PS perform with Scottish Opera
On 17th February, primary 6 and 7 pupils at St Mary’s RC PS performed “Fever!” with members of Scottish Opera to a very varied audience. In the morning they completed their dress rehearsal by performing for a group of visitors from the Scottish Government, which included Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe & External Affairs. [more]
Mariner Support Service Open Afternoon
Yvonne McBlain enjoyed popping into the Mariner Support Service Christmas Open Afternoon. Staff, pupils and parents have been working hard over the last weeks to prepare for this event and there was lots to see. The event opened with a celebration of learning by pupils, with prizes for good work done this term. The young people [more]
Whitecross Primary invite parents and community to celebrate their anniversary
On 2nd of December, Claire Quigley, head teacher of Whitecross PS and her staff hosted an unusual celebratory event on the 60th anniversary of the opening of their school. This involved visitors in making a terracotta clay tile which was personal to them. These will be dried, fired, and added to a tiled display in [more]
Pupils as Digital Leaders at Hallglen Primary School
Malcolm Wilson, ICT Curriculum Development Officer within the Curriculum Support team of Service and School Improvement, Falkirk Council Children’s Services, supported a session with the Digital Leaders group of pupils in Hallglen Primary School. These pupils are being supported for them to then support classes around the school in the use of technologies in their [more]
Yvonne McBlain has been working with probationer support team colleagues and colleagues in schools for the last 4 years to promote practitioner enquiry as an integral element of good practice. Practitioner Enquiry has been a mandatory part of each professional standard defined by the General Teaching Council for Scotland since 2012 – click here to [more]
Yvonne McBlain attended the most recent meeting of secondary professional learning co-ordinators to hear how Falkirk secondary schools are using an enquiring approach to their self-evaluation and development of teaching and learning. Yvonne provided an update on the success and impact of the practitioner enquiry element of Falkirk Children’s Services’ probationer induction programme. Co-ordinators from each school [more]
Rebecca Spalding and Rachel Keane are using the Storyline approach to develop their pupils’ language and literacy skills. They are class teachers at Moray Primary school – Rebecca has a primary 1 class, and Rachel teaches primary 2 pupils. They chose a Fairy tale context to target specific language skills and have been supporting each [more]
Between October 2016 and February 2017, probationer teachers working in Falkirk secondary schools have engaged in Practitioner Enquiry. The photo on the left shows a quick, light-hearted, visual evaluation by one of the teachers who took part in the process. This experience is an important part of our Falkirk probationer induction programme, and helps probationers fulfil the [more]
Yvonne McBlain joined primary and secondary teachers from the Denny cluster at their transition project meeting on January 26th between 4-5.15pm. They have been working together for over a year to develop quality, skill-based transition within their cluster. Their task is “To build a shared pathway of progressive learning across the broad, general education in [more]
This week Probationers in Falkirk Council have been engaging in professional development on Active Literacy – one of the resources used in Falkirk Council to teach literacy in our primary schools. To begin the session an introduction video from Falkirk Council’s YouTube channel was shared. Further videos to Active Literacy can be found at the link below. https://www.youtube.com/user/FCEducationServices [more]
Pupils and staff at St Patrick’s RC PS in Denny have enjoyed hosting student teacher Marjorie Brewer from Chicago, USA. Marjorie arrived in Scotland in early May, and has been working with Victoria Daly’s primary 1 class, and Antoinette Irwin’s primary 5 class. She feels she has benefitted a great deal from getting to know the [more]
On 19th April, Yvonne McBlain popped back to gather staff feedback on their curriculum development so far at Hallglen Primary School. 10 staff members were kind enough to give their time and views during this informal evaluation activity. You can read more about Hallglen’s curriculum development process here. Staff described the following impact: Increased knowledge of the [more]
On Thursday 17th March 2016, Helen Quinn, primary 7 teacher, met with Yvonne McBlain, curriculum support officer, to describe how she and her colleagues at St Francis-Xavier RC PS have developed their pupils’ resilience. The journey began in 2012 with a partnership between the school and Dr Sally Paul of the University of Strathclyde, who was then a social [more]
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