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.
Tag Archives: Experiences & Outcomes
Using a blog to communicate between schools
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.
Story Telling in French at Kilmodan Primary School
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.
Interdisciplinary Learning
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.
Outdoor Learning at St.Mungo’s
The school has inherited the use of a nearby forest!
Active Learning in Modern Languages
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.
New ByC resources!
New resources to support schools with their curriculum planning have recently been published on the LTS website:
1. A workshop which can be used with staff when creating or revisiting a curriculum plan. It brings together ideas from different schools (with room to add your own) and asks staff to consider how they might work in their own content.
http://bit.ly/gssGmd
2. This case study describes the journey Law Primary School took as they developed their curriculum plan. It is hyperlinked to all the resources and workshops they used too.
http://bit.ly/hBN88T
3. Two new versions of the strategic curriculum planner are available. One shows how you could link the strategic plan to HGIOS and the school improvement plan. The other shows how this tool could be used to focus on a particular aspect of CfE (in this case the three responsibility of all areas).
http://bit.ly/g00ynN
Promoting children’s involvement in planning their learning
Claire Lavelle, HT at St Martin’s PS East Lothian, talks about how children have become more involved in planning and assessing their learning. Personalisation and choice is promoted and children engage more actively in class. Children keep track of their learning progress and success using Learning Journals. Planning in this way has given teachers confidence in working with the Es and Os.
Planning teaching with colleagues
Dunbar PS is a school with over 700 children. A P1 teachers talks about how she works with the four other P1 teachers to agree what the children should learn and what the standard should be.
Driving consistency of practice in CfE
Staff in Stoneyhill PS in Musselburgh have been actively engaging with CfE for a number of years and were involved in developing NAR. Here three teachers talk about how the school is going about ensuring there is consistent practice across the stages.
