2408, 2018

Social Bite calls for Scotland’s young people to join movement against homelessness with first ever ‘Wee Sleep Out’ initiative

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August 24, 2018
Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Inclusion and Equality, Outdoor Learning, Primary, Secondary, Skills, Social studies
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Social Bite has launched the Wee Sleep Out; a national awareness raising and fundraising campaign to get the young people of Scotland involved in the charity’s mission to end homelessness. Wee Sleep Out is calling on all teachers, youth leaders, parents and guardians to challenge young people between 8 and 16 years old to get out of their beds, and their comfort zones by organising their very own Wee Sleep

2108, 2018

Scottish Learning Festival: Details of the seminar for Gaelic Education

Peter Murray
August 21, 2018
CfE, Early Learning and Childcare, Gaelic Learners, Literacy and Gàidhlig, Primary, Secondary, Senior Phase, Skills
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Seminar Title: Early learning, early gains in reducing the attainment gap in Gaelic Medium Education (GME) Date: Wednesday 19 September 2018 Time: 9.30am Venue: Leven Seminar Code: L1A Registration for the seminar: http://ow.ly/oO8n30k1UGB The Scottish Learning Festival (SLF) is Scotland’s key educational event. We look forward to inviting you to a seminar for the Gaelic sector at 9.30am on Wednesday 19 September. This will have a focus on raising attainment

2205, 2018

Using digital portfolios to share learning experiences and skills progression

Tarbolton Primary School in South Ayrshire use ‘Seesaw’, a student driven digital portfolios, for learners from to instantaneously share and record learning experiences and achievements from within and out with school. Children and young people use mobile devices to evidence their learning, upload personal targets and reflect on their progress . This is then continuously shared with their teachers and parents in order to review their learning. Seesaw is also used for uploading homework, sharing letters or information as

2808, 2017

St Mary’s Primary School (North Ayrshire): Work-based learning opportunities through community partnerships

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August 28, 2017
Primary, Skills
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St Mary’s Primary School, finalist at the Scottish Education Awards 2017, has developed a systematic approach to career education weaving work-based learning opportunities across the curriculum. This includes an assisted work placement programme for all P7 students with local business across a wide range of sectors from science and technology, IT and the hospitality sector. The programme is now running in its second year. Headteacher Mary Hume says: “We have built excellent relationships within the town evidenced

2808, 2017

Maisondieu Primary School (Angus): Opening horizons and challenging stereotypes through career education

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August 28, 2017
Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Skills
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Rising to the challenge set by the Career Education Standard 3-18, Maisondieu Primary School has woven career education and advice into their curriculum from early years to P7. Working in partnership with parents and the wider community the school harnesses a range of resources and support to develop skills and career aspirations for the 21 century. A working group, led by a parent-teacher partnership and local community partners, helped to promote the

1307, 2017

DYW Interesting Practice – Dalgety Bay Primary School: The Career Education Standard at the heart of school planning

Laura Spence , HT at Dalgety Bay Primary School has adopted a unique approach to ensure that career education is an integral part of the school improvement planning. Embracing the Career Education Standard 3-18 all staff have used Learning Resource 1: Introduction to the Career Education Standard in order to embed the entitlements into the learning and teaching across the school. This approach has become a cluster model and has been recognised

2402, 2017

Apps for Good Scottish Event

Peter Murray
February 24, 2017
CfE, Creativity, Digital Learning, Primary, Secondary, Skills, Technologies
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Apps for Good is an education movement that is powering a generation to change their world with technology. We partner with teachers in schools and learning centres to deliver our course to young people from 8 -18 years of age. Students work together as teams to find real issues they care about and learn how to solve them using technology. Since 2010 Apps for Good has been delivered to over 75,000 students

0802, 2017

Financial Education, Numeracy and Mathematics

Peter Murray
February 8, 2017
Broad General Education, CfE, Digital Learning, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Mathematics, Numeracy, Primary, Secondary, Senior Phase, Skills
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The ability to work with numbers is an essential part of being financially capable. This has been recognised recently in a number of support materials recently published by Education Scotland. The first of these is the National Numeracy and Progression Framework. This includes a progression pathway on money (linked to the experiences and outcomes for money in Curriculum for Excellence) One of the key aspects of this framework is the

0211, 2016

How to join the Developing the Young Workforce Yammer group

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November 2, 2016
CfE, CLD, Early Learning and Childcare, Primary, Secondary, Sector, Senior Phase, Skills
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All educators in Scotland with an interest or remit around DYW are invited to join this community. Here you can: take part in collegiate dialogue share what is working (or not) in your learning setting talk to the ES Skills Team and other staff working on this remit support team get help for your improvement objectives. To join the community, you need to be a member of Glow Yammer, so click here to

2710, 2016

What are creativity skills? – new Creativity JPEGs available for use in presentations, reports, posters and online.

Peter Murray
October 27, 2016
Broad General Education, CfE, Creativity, Early Learning and Childcare, Health and wellbeing, Primary, Responsibility of All, Secondary, Skills
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The following JPEGs and PNGs (with a transparent background) are drawn from the What are creativity skills? infographic, poster for learners, poster for staff, and poster for early learning and childcare settings, all available on the National Improvement Hub. Please use and share the images as widely as possible with educators, learners and partners in presentations, reports, posters and online. You can also build your own infographics from scratch using the Everything Is