Category Archives: Early Years

Creative practitioners, Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Education Scotland, Health and Wellbeing, Primary schools

Developing school play times to support the curriculum and nurture happy, healthy children: new Free CPD Resource launched

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In recent years, a number of Scottish primary schools have developed innovative approaches to enabling child-led outdoor play in morning and lunchtime breaks.

This new training resource has been created with support from Education Scotland to share the learning from these schools. Its aim is to demonstrate how outdoor play in schools can support the curriculum and nurture happy, healthy children and to share practical, tested ideas and approaches to providing richer play experiences in primary schools.

Click here for more information.

Creative Learning, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Dance, Early Years, Glasgow2014, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Commonwealth Games for School Teachers

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Commonwealth Games for Nursery, Primary and Secondary teachers across Scotland sessions begin this November.

Learn to explore 3 different aspects of the Commonwealth Games through dance:

– Cultures & Traditions
– Ready, Set, Go! (Creative dance tasks inspired by different sports)
– Learn the Motto, Get Inspired!

BOOKING & INFORMATION
If you would like further information on what’s involved in these sessions then we’d love to hear from you. Please email cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712

Sessions begin early November and spaces are limited so please book in plenty of time.

Discounts are available for booking multiple sessions so please have a look at our website www.ydance.org for a list of sessions to choose from.

Art, Art and Design, Assessment, Creative Learning, Creative practitioners, Creativity, Curriculum for Excellence, Dance, Drama, Early Years, Education Scotland, Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Numeracy and Maths, Science, Social Studies, Technologies

Learning Experiences Catalogue now launched

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Education Scotland has announced the launch of the Learning Experiences Catalogue which aims to develop a sustainable programme of relevant, engaging and challenging learning experiences for children and young people aged 3–15 within a broad general education.

Learning experiences have been designed to support children and young people to learn to create, collect, code, animate, bake, garden, build, tell stories all set within contexts and many of them are interdisciplinary.

The catalogue provides learners with a brief description of each learning experience which they can read or can be read to them by clicking the audio file beside the LearnCat icon. Graphics have been designed to support learners in understanding where the learning will take place, which curriculum areas they will learn within and who they will learn with. Educators are provided with more information about each learning experience and planning guidance.

Each academic term a new collection of learning experiences will be launched. The autumn collection of learning experiences will be live from September 2013.

Explore the Learning Experiences Catalogue today.

Early Years, Events, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, resources, Secondary schools

ON at Fife – Hansel and Gretel, behind the scenes!

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ON at Fife with Robert Wiseman Dairies have created a fantastic video ‘behind the scenes’ of their Christmas show, Hansel and Gretel which kicks off on 30th November! There is also an activity pack to accompany the video.

Schools can enquire about a free educational workshop, when they book their tickets.

Hansel and Gretel at Dunfermline’s Carnegie Hall- get your tickets here.

 Download the Full activity pack

Early Years, News

Early Years Matters survey

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Education Scotland’s Early Years Matters magazine is published twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The Early Years team at Education Scotland is keen to seek practitioners’ views on this professional development publication in order to inform future issues of the magazine.

Please take part in the online survey which will only take a few minutes to complete but will be hugely beneficial to the editorial team. The survey closes on Friday 30 November 2012.

Early Years, Learning, Literacy and English, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, resources, Secondary schools

Book Week Scotland

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On Friday 30 November at 11am we’re holding The Reading Hour.

The idea is to get as many people in the country as possible reading at the same time. This is an easy, fun way to participate in Book Week Scotland, and gives you a chance to build excitement and anticipation!

We have a free learning resource full of ideas to help you make the most of The Reading Hour. You can download it online here

Competition, Early Years, News, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

What difference would £5,000 make to your school?

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We’ve already had a great response to The School We’d Like competition, which we are running with Zurich Municipal. The competition offers three lucky schools the chance to win £5,000.

 There’s still time for your school to enter – all we’re asking you to do is to tell us how you would spend it making your school an even better place to learn. Each winning school should use the prize money to help make their winning idea a reality.

This is an opportunity for the whole school – teachers, students and school councils – to put their heads together. Maybe purchasing new equipment for your school band would revolutionise your music department? Or perhaps you want to develop your anti-bullying programme? Or plan an educational trip? The judges are looking for some really inspiring and creative ideas that will make a difference to your school.

To get you started, we’ve created a series of teaching resources that will inspire your students to come up with an exciting idea on how they can improve their school. In addition we have a great poster for you to download from our website to spread the word about this exclusive competition within your school.

For more information and to register your interest please click here.