Event Category: Early Learning and Childcare


Throughout September 2025  we will be celebrating all things gaming – playing, making and learning about them. What might this look like for our younger learners at early level? What games can children play? Are the games “open” or “closed”? Can children self direct the play or does the game direct them?   Join this 30 …


In this 60 minute session Niki Buchan of Natural Learning joins us to share experiences from practice captured in the book she coauthored, Exploring Natural Connections with Light, Reflection and Shadow. In this session Niki will explore and share the magical wonders children discover when they are provided with a range of exciting and freely available natural …


Digital Schools Award for ELC Settings. Professional Learning Network. Session 1 – Leadership and vision. Session 1 sets the scene by supporting you in the creation or to review your Learning with and Through Technology strategy. You will identify actions for/from your improvement plan and determine how success will be measured. Sign up here More information: …


Join this session to find out all about Scotland’s cyber resilience story for younger learners – ‘⁠The Bongles and The Crafty Crows‘ and why you might want to include it in your celebration of books during Book Week Scotland in November. About Book Week Scotland – Scottish Book Trust Children are supported to assess and …


Digital Schools Award for ELC Settings. Professional Learning Network. This 4 part professional learning network is for ELC practitioners working in ELC settings in Scotland who aspire to become DSAS awarded settings with the new Digital Learning Through Play in ELC Award. You can join any or all four sessions. Session 2 – The use of …


Computers are all around us and we carry out many of our daily tasks using processes and sequences, and through sorting and classifying, the concepts that computing technology requires to operate.​ Whether outside or indoors, children can begin to explore every day pieces of computing technology through play and begin to develop awareness of what …


Tha an leughadh còmhla seo do chloinn ag obair ann am Foghlam tro Mheadhan na Gàidhlig ann an Alba anns na tràth-bhliadhnaichean/feumlachdan taic a bharrachd agus bun-sgoil/an dèidh sgoile/san dachaigh. Leugh Còmhla ris an neach-aithris Linda NicLeòid. Thig dhan Leughadh Comhla bheò seo a mhaireas 30 mionaidean “Na Bongles agus na Starragan Carach”, a’ chiad …


This Accessible Read Along is for learners working across early and first level in Additional Special Needs classes and schools in Scotland. November sign up March Sign up Join this 30 min accessible Live Read Along of ‘The Bongles and the Crafty Crows’, with Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Joanna Courtney from CALL Scotland. Joanna will …


This read along is for children working across early/first level IN SCOTLAND in ELC settings/ASN & primary school/home settings. Join this 30 min live read along of ‘The Bongles and the Crafty Crows’,  a unique and first-of-its-kind learning resource for younger children, demonstrating the importance of cyber security through the medium of text. You may …


Digital Schools Award for ELC Settings. Professional Learning Network. This 4 part professional learning network is for ELC practitioners working in ELC settings in Scotland who aspire to become DSAS awarded settings with the new Digital Learning Through Play in ELC Award. You can join any or all four sessions. Session 3 – Your setting’s digital …

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