Category Archives: Parents
Every Day’s a Learning Day
‘Every Day’s a Learning Day’ consists of two books produced by Education Scotland for parents and carers of children aged between birth and 3 years, and 3 to 6 years. The aim is to help parents support their child’s development in the crucial areas of health and wellbeing, literacy and numeracy.
This resource highlights the many excellent learning opportunities that exist within daily experiences such as washing the dishes, preparing a meal or doing the shopping.
The books will be distributed through the Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug programme. Parents of new babies are set to receive a copy of the birth to 3 book from their health visitor. The second book, which supports parents with children aged 3 to 6 years, will be issued when their child turns 3 and starts nursery.
To view the copies of ‘Every Day’s a Learning Day’ online, please visit the Education Scotland website where you can download both books in PDF format, including a Gaelic language version.
Curriculum for Excellence – A vision to Transform Learning in Scotland
EARTH HOUR 31st March 2012
WWF’s Earth Hour is a simple idea that’s quickly turned into a global phenomenon. Hundreds of millions of people turning off their lights for one hour, on the same night, all across the planet. It’s about appreciating the brilliant world we all share – and how we need to protect it. Not just for an hour a year, but every day.
Imaginate Festival 2012
There’s only 1 week to go until booking opens for this year’s Bank of Scotland Imaginate Festival!
As always, the Festival offers you, your family and friends the opportunity to see some of the best theatre in the world for children and young people, at venues in and around Edinburgh.
Click here for copy of Festival Programme
Edinburgh International Science Week
Impact and benefits of Curriculum for Excellence
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/resources/i/genericresource_tcm4688548.asp
http://www.engageforeducation.org/cfefilms
The Scottish Government has published four new short films on the Engage for Education website – three sector specific, featuring a nursery, primary and secondary school, and one combined – in which learners, parents and teachers describe in their own words the impact and benefits of Curriculum for Excellence.
The films contribute towards the Cabinet Secretary’s Curriculum for Excellence Action Plan 2011/12 commitment to develop new materials for parents which illustrate the benefits of Curriculum for Excellence, following calls for such resources from parents. They have been developed in co-operation with the National Parent Forum of Scotland and aim to show the types of impact and benefits that CfE is already having in early years, primary and early secondary settings across the country.
