Here is our September 2024 list of Literacy News items from your Falkirk literacy team:

1. Once you’ve read this update, please browse this refreshed Literacy blog using the page menu at the top and the post selections below. Our digital spaces have been “tidied” to make them as clear, simple and valuable as possible. Thanks to your Literacy Audit responses last year, we’ve added a Literacy Resources section here and are gradually developing our Literacy Microsoft Team too. Further suggestions welcome.
2. Our updated and streamlined second edition of our Falkirk Literacy Framework will be launched soon. It includes our latest literacy team plan and the visual description of our Falkirk Literacy Networks below.   
3. Our Falkirk Literacy and English Curriculum Network (FLECN) includes at least one representative from each of our cluster areas. These colleagues act as literacy leads and will share key literacy information with each of their cluster colleagues. They will meet for the first time this session on 12.9.24.
4. We’ve worked hard to create a diverse menu of literacy and English professional learning for all. Our universal CLPL menu includes a selection of sixteen opportunities listed under the prefix LIT within Falkirk CPD Manager. Our team members are also providing more targeted literacy support through close collaboration with selected schools.
5. Education Scotland has released another chunk of their Early Reading Resource. These resources, offer valuable support not only for early years practitioners, but for everyone supporting the literacy of our children and young people.
6. The National Response to Improving Literacy (NRIL) board are almost ready to report their findings to the Scottish Government – more news next time on this.
7. Yvonne McBlain takes up a 0.5 FTE role as NRIL Development Officer with Education Scotland between October 2024 and March 2025.
8. Your literacy team are planning to offer a menu of literacy professional learning on the February 2025 in-service day. This is a work in progress, but we are aiming for a menu with options for practitioners working in any sector or setting. Contact us to add to the wish list!