Who can believe that the last week of the first term is upon us? It has been a privilege to witness teams across Falkirk work together to ensure their wee people have the very best early learning experience. Our practitioners have gone above and beyond for children and families – we really do have, #fabfalkirkfolk.
Our Early Years Pedagogue team have been working on many interesting projects during the first term. Like everyone else, our team have had to adapt to our current circumstances and develop new ways of working with children, families and teams.
Our Falkirk Early Years Pedagogue poster gives you more information on our role as Equity and Excellence Leads.
We also have to think about the way in which we are sharing our work with practitioners. Each of our Pedagogues have developed a Sway which details their progress in developing different projects. These will be updated monthly and you will be able follow each project as it develops. Follow the links below to have a look at what we have been up to in the last few weeks and get to know our Pedagogues a wee bit better. Remember you will need your Glow login!
Helena MacPhail- Sacred Heart ELC
Donna Green- Nethermains ELC and Froebel Falkirk Lead
Claudette Wright- Beancross ELC
Yvonne Robinson- Victoria ELC and Queen Street ELCC
Our early years pedagogues have been focusing on :
What Matters to Me? 
Our What Matters to Me projects stem from Jason Leitch’s TED talk in which he spoke about a what matters to me approach for patients in hospital. We wondered how this approach would look in ELC while thinking about transitions, care planning and responsive and intentional planning. Have a wee look at the video below, we are sure it will definitely get you thinking!
Children’s Creativity 
Our Pedagogues will be exploring the progression of children’s creativity using the Duffy Scales. From painting to dancing, our Pedagogues and their teams have their creativity hats on in developing these experiences, spaces and interactions across their settings.
Early Mathematics 
Our Pedagogues and their teams will be exploring different mathematical concepts through the use of Cuisenaire rods. We are currently receiving CLPL on this and will begin this project after the October break.
Keep in touch
The Pedagogue sways will also share unique successes and developments within settings that happen out with the identified projects. From nurturing nature, to our fabulous Froebel initiatives, we hope you’ll find these sways useful in sharing our work.
You will also be able to read about our pedagogues in the Falkirk early years newsletter. Look out for our pedagogue ponders section.
You can now also follow us on twitter @FalkirkEYP to keep up to date with our latest developments.
Let us know what you think of our sways and get in touch for more information.
