In this video Laura Compton from the Learning and Teaching Development Team in West Lothian explains how they changed the West Lothian Glow area to make it easier for practitioners to communicate with other practitioners, pupils and parents across West Lothian.
Click here visit West Lothian’s Sharing the Learning Blog.
To find out how the blog was created click here.
In this video Morna Matthews from the Learning and Teaching Development Team in West Lothian explains how their team created a Glow Group to help with ICT CPD across West Lothian. Morna also discusses the benefits of this offering suport in this way.
In this video listen to how Karlie Robinson from Bridgened Primary in West Lothian used a blog with her P6/7 class to communicate with a school in Orkney.
Karlie and her pupils presented on this project at the Scottish Learning Festival 2011, to find out more click here.
Gwen McCrossan uses story telling to inspire and enthuse her learners and embed the learning and teaching of French in the wider curriculum. She shares how she uses the storybook “La Surprise de Handa” with her P2-4 learners and the animated film Kirikou et la Sorcière with her P5-7 class.
In this video listen to how Karlie Robinson from Bridgened Primary in West Lothian used the Interdisciplinary topic of Orkney to Curriculum Areas and how Technologies for Learning were used throughout the topic.
Karlie and her pupils presented on this project at the Scottish Learning Festival 2011, to find out more click here.
I am investigating what schools are considering with regards option choice in the Senior Phase. My own school is considering 6 options throughout S4/5/6 with 5 periods per option. I would like to know what other schools around the country are considering (could you please also indicate which local authority your school belongs to).
The school has inherited the use of a nearby forest!
The head teacher describes her planning processes.
Diane Stokoe at St Ninian’s High School, Kirkintilloch decribes how her department promotes literacy skills in French through a range of “ghostly” themed activities in an exciting and engaging morning devoted to Modern Languages.
Anne Leary, Head Teacher of Glebelands Primary School in Dundee, describes a cluster transition project to develop the literacy skills of P7/S1 learners
