Jamielee Dickson, Clerical Assistant within the Falkirk Council Education Services Curriculum Support Team deals with staff booking onto courses. Jamielee is the person at the end of the phone or sending e-mails for staff booking onto professional development.
Month: February 2013
Employee Review and Development (ERD)
Anne Hutchison, Support Officer for Professional Development in Falkirk Council’s Education Services Curriculum Support Team has been co-ordinating the implementation of the new ERD scheme.
Falkirk Council’s key education policy, Learning to Achieve states ‘In a culture of ongoing self-evaluation and professional accountability, practitioners will be encouraged to be proactive in their own professional developments in line with personal, establishment and authority priorities.’
Anne has worked with colleagues across our schools to devise Work Profiles which set out their key accountabilities in their daily practice. Those profiles will be used to support regular self evaluation of practice, and to focus the discussion at one to one meetings with line managers. What’s the difference beteween the new scheme and the former PRD process? ERD is an ongoing process, rather than just an annual review. At the end of the day, we need to ensure that all staff have a responsibility to deliver the very best support for Falkirk’s children and young people- this can only be achieved by having a workforce that reflects on what they do, and takes action to improve.
Click here to see the Glow Group Employee Review and Development (ERD)- please note that a Glow username and password are required to access this group, which is open to Falkirk staff only.
Falkirk pupils create their own version of our policy
A small group of primary and secondary pupil council members are working with Yvonne McBlain and Christine Snedden from the Curriculum Support team to decide what the pupil version of Learning to Achieve should be. With the help of pupil council co-ordinators and other staff in schools, they have great plans to create this policy as a video production. They are hoping to involve as many pupils as possible from across Falkirk council in the making of the video. They also have great ideas for how the video could be launched across our authority. Everyone invovled in this sub-group is hoping that this policy will really make a difference in all of our schools and centres.
A Curriculum for Eggsellence!
Shieldhill Primary School are eggs-ploring the life cycle of chickens through their Living Eggs Project- and now they've become Internet stars with their own live show!
Learning Journey Evaluation
Daniel Barrie QIO with the Falkirk Council Curriculum Support Team is visiting all Nursery Schools and Classes to evaluate the impactof the introduction of learning journeys on children’s experiences. Karen Thomson, Early Years Support Officer with the Falkirk Council Curriculum Support Team will be working with him. The focus of these visits will be to discuss with staff and children the way in which learning journey’s are used to plan experiences for young children that are responsive to their interests
Enterprise in Education & Enterprise Champion Awards 2013
Lynne Lauder, Enterprise Co-ordinator and Daniel Barrie, Quality Improvement Officer, Curriculum Support team are busy preparing for the next round of Enterprise in Education and Enterprise Champion Awards.
The Awards which were launched in November 2006 have proved very successful over the years allowing schools to celebrate excellent practice in Enterprise in Education. The young people have a key role to play in the awards and benefit from seeing the work they have been doing in school celebrated across the authority.
Schools should complete their checklist for the appropriate level of Award, Gold; Gold Year 2; Gold Year 3 or Platinum and submit it along with a folder of evidence. The portfolio should also include Enterprise Champion nominations for individuals ( not employees of Falkirk Council) who have motivated and inspired young people to be more enterprising. Falkirk employees should be recognised through the Learning to Achieve process. Schools aiming for Platinum Status will be invited to host a half day Quality Assurance visit.
This link will take you to information on the Enterprise in Education pages of Glow which may help in preparing a submission. https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/establishments/falkirkcouncil/Enterprise%20in%20Education/Lists/Pages/Enterprise%20in%20Education%20Awards.aspx
The timetable for this year is as follows.
LGBT Young Person Group FKInclude
Marian Boyle Curriculum Support Officer Health and Well Being in Falkirk Council Education Services Curriculum Support Team supported the implementation of LGBT Young Person Group FKInclude. This is the new Falkirk group for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people and their friends and allies aged 13-26.This group runs every Thursday. It is an inspiring, fun and great place to be! There is a programme of weekly activities, which include workshops on young people rights, sexual health, ‘coming out’, mental health, the National Youth Council, LGBT History Month and Film nights, to name but a few. Workers and volunteers are also on hand for check-ins, support, advocacy and information.If you would like to be kept up to date with information about the group and other opportunities, please go to www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/Falkirk
Quality P.E.- The 2 Hour Target
Morag Simpson, Physical Education Lead Officer in Falkirk Council Education Services, Curriculum Support Team has been engaging in series of meetings supporting the delivery of quality physical education in Falkirk primary schools. These meetings with Headteachers of the Larbert and Falkirk cluster primary schools were to explore a variety of ways in which schools were able to meet the delivery of the 2 hour target to fulfil the pupil entitlement. These discussions provide the means to share different solutions to the different contexts in relation to staffing, accomodation and resources to name but a few.
Quality Physical Education -2 hour target
Morag Young, Physical Education Lead Officer, in Falkirk Council Education Services, Curriculum Support Team has been engaging in series of meetings supporting the delivery of quality physical education in Falkirk primary schools. These meetings with Headteachers of Denny and Graeme cluster primary schools were to explore a variety of ways in which schools were able to meet the delivery of the 2 hour target to fulfil the pupil entitlement. These discussions provide the means to share different solutions to the different contexts in relation to staffing, accomodation and resources to name but a few.
