{"id":2780,"date":"2021-03-22T11:54:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/?page_id=2780"},"modified":"2025-11-04T14:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T14:07:44","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meet Falkirk’s Early Learning Central Team.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Susan McElhatton<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

@McelhattonSusan<\/small><\/cite><\/em><\/p>\n

Curriculum Support Officer; supporting the development of high quality early learning and childcare in Falkirk. Link officer for the Graeme cluster.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n

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Fiona Pascall<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

@fionapascallEY<\/small><\/cite><\/p>\n

Early Years Peripatetic Teacher; supporting learning and teaching in Falkirk ELC settings; linked with Grangemouth, Bo’ness and Graeme clusters<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Elaine Craigen<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

@elaine_craigen<\/small><\/cite><\/p>\n

Early Years Peripatetic Teacher; cluster link for both Falkirk and Braes supporting practitioners to continue to develop their skills to deliver high quality learning and childcare.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cheryl Smyth<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@CherylSmyth15<\/small><\/cite><\/p>\n

Early Years Peripatetic Teacher; link officer for the Denny and Larbert clusters, supporting practitioners to continue to develop their skills to deliver high quality learning and childcare.\u00a0\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lysa Thomson<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@MrsThomson_KPS<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Early Years Peripatetic Teacher; focusing on Falkirk Council’s Play is the Way initiative supporting th development of high quality play pedagogy in our primary schools. Representative for Falkirk within the FVWLRIC EY Team.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Margaret Aitken<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

@MargaretDAitken\u00a0<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

ELC Training & Improvement Officer; working predominately with private partner nurseries and childminders, whilst overseeing Internal Verification for Level 6 & 7 SVQ qualifications.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Vicki Muir<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@VMuir20<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

ELC Training and Improvement Officer (early Intervention); developing and sustaining an implementation strategy for effective early intervention for children in the early years.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nicola McCarter-Gall<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

@NicolaGall<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Early Intervention Pedagogue providing support to settings around Additional Support Needs. Also overseeing the SVQ programme for ASN and Internal Verification for SVQ Social Services Children and Young People\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lisa Boa<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@boa_lisa<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Early Interventions Pedagogue supporting high quality inclusive practices, with a particular focus on ASN. Currently champion for family support and learning.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Helena McPhail<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@HelenaPedagogue<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Nature Play Pedagogue, based at The Hub at Woodlands ELCC. Passionate about outdoor learning and deepening children’s connections with nature.<\/small><\/p>\n

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Elaine Haughton\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@HaughtonElaine<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Early Years Peripatetic Pedagogue supporting ELC Settings on their improvement journey. Striving for equality for children and families across the authority to experience the same rights and opportunities irrespective of their individual needs.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Yvonne Robinson<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

@Yvonnea1T<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Early Years Pedagogue working as part of an Early Years Team supporting Equity and Excellence through the delivery of high quality play pedagogy with a particular interest in Early Language and Family Engagement.\u00a0<\/small><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Falkirk’s Early Learning Central Team. Susan McElhatton @McelhattonSusan Curriculum Support Officer; supporting the development of high quality early learning and childcare in Falkirk. Link officer for the Graeme cluster.\u00a0 \u00a0 Fiona Pascall @fionapascallEY Early Years Peripatetic Teacher; supporting learning and teaching in Falkirk ELC settings; linked with Grangemouth, Bo’ness and Graeme clusters Elaine Craigen …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11020,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2780\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/falkirkearlyyears\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}