Chinese New Year celebrations start on 31 January this year, when we enter the Year of the Horse.
The British Council has prepared a free primary education pack with lesson plans, assembly plans and other activities to help schools bring Chinese culture and language to life in the New Year period. Schools already registered on the British Council Schools Online website will have received a copy in the post. You can also download an electronic copy of the pack from the website.
The Scottish Poetry Library has launched our shiny new blog for teachers! Here you can find resources for poetry teaching in primary and secondary schools. Plus in our Over to You category you can share your own resources and examples of class work. Clyde Valley High in Wishaw have already sent us a photo and poem. By the time you read this, there’ll probably be more!
Find topical teaching resources for November in Education Scotland’s calendar of events including Remembrance Sunday, Armistice Day, Road Safety Week, Anti-Bullying Week, Book Week Scotland and St Andrew’s Day.
Click here for the calendar.
The events in this calendar are celebrations, awareness days and action weeks covering topical issues relevant for schools. The calendar includes details of websites and support materials related to each event. These resources can assist in planning activities for learners.
Events in March include Climate week (4-10 March), World Book Day (7 March), International Women’s Day (8 March) and Commonwealth Day (11 March).
Promoting Diversity and Equality: Developing Responsible Citizens for 21st Century ScotlandThis publication aims to support schools and centres in promoting diversity and equality through all aspects of planned learning.
Diversity is about recognising and valuing difference, where everyone is respected for who they are. Equality is about creating a fairer society, where everyone can take part and where everyone has the opportunity to be all they can be.
Curriculum for Excellence challenges schools and communities to develop children and young people as responsible citizens who:
All involved in successful learning need to understand themselves what it means to live in this diverse society, and to help children and young people understand what it means for them.
This resource is a digital version of The Kist / A’Chiste anthology and contains prose, poetry and drama in various dialects of Scots, and in Gaelic. Texts in Gaelic have been translated. Those in Scots usually have a glossary. The anthology is primarily targeted at learners working at second and third levels.
Find out more here
Youth Scotland, as part of a partnership of six national volunteer-led youth organisations, has recently been funded to support the Scottish Government to develop a community-based approach to tackling sectarianism. The Stand Up to Sectarianism project offers free resources, training and funding to support youth workers, volunteers and young people to introduce and develop anti-sectarian based work in their groups.
This national project offers free worker training and funding opportunities to youth groups across the country, alongside a new e-resource(www.youthworkessentials.org/stand-up-to-sectarianism.aspx). The e-resource provides accessible background information on sectarianism in Scotland, as well as practical ideas and downloadable session plans for use in youth work settings. Youth Scotland would welcome any feedback on the new e-resource.
support materials for teachers
To help teachers make the most of Red Nose Day on 15 March, Comic Relief and Education Scotland have worked in partnership to produce resource materials directly linked to Curriculum for Excellence and new National Qualifications.
Find out more here
Education Scotland has recently published Professional Learning Resourceson assessing progress and achievement designed to support quality assurance and moderation activities. The resources are a work-in-progress and draw on emerging practice from practitioners from 3-15.
We would like to hear what you think about what has been produced so far for your sector or curriculum area. Your feedback will help inform on-going work on annotated exemplification of achievement of levels in each of the curriculum areas to be shared through NAR.
Find out more here
Testimony is Education Scotland’s high quality resource to support learning and teaching in religious and moral education. This site illustrates how faith, belief and values can influence how a person acts and lives their life. It includes examples of religious and non-religious standpoints to show how people from around the world and in Scotland have been influenced by faith, belief and values.
New resources have now been added to the site including some BBC Class Clips that are relevant to the different sections. There are also additional video clips that will act as a stimulus for class discussion and debate. These can be used in conjunction with the text or adapted to suit the needs and context of your classroom.
