Good wishes to all our students, families and friends observing and celebrating Ramadan this year from Saturday 2nd April to Sunday 1st May.
Good wishes to all our students, families and friends observing and celebrating Ramadan this year from Saturday 2nd April to Sunday 1st May.
Here is a link to the school holidays for 2021-2022 for Perth & Kinross Council
Scotland’s Census is almost upon us and many people will have started receiving information about it in the mail over the last few days.
It is important that all communities are aware of the census and what it entails.
A picture of the timeline of the key dates surrounding the census is attached and below you will also find:
A short You Tube film showing how to complete the census paper work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8e_Kza2XpM
Scottish Government links to translated materials around the census Scotland’s Census 2022: translated marketing campaign summary | Scotland’s Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)
Event Date: 03/02/2022 14:00 – 15:00
Thank you to SCILT for posting this – Link below
Would you like to know more about a multilingual approach to language learning and how art can act as a vehicle to explore this? Well, we have exciting news to share with you on this subject.
During the last few months, SCILT, in collaboration with Bilingualism Matters, has been working with teachers in mainstream primary schools and Polish complementary schools to investigate a multilingual approach to language learning through the medium of art. This has included exploring a variety of activities to support this such as language portraits, zines, multilingual comic strips and Chagallian idioms. Teachers from the participating schools have been implementing this approach with their pupils through various art activities that exemplify multilingualism as an approach.
Following on from this, we are delighted to announce that the pupils’ work will be featured in an online exhibition which will launch during Languages Week Scotland. You will have the opportunity to hear from pupils, teachers and partners who have participated in this project, in addition to viewing the pupils’ creativity and their artwork.
We very much hope you can join us to celebrate this exciting and innovative approach to language learning.
The event is suitable for practitioners in all sectors, EAL teachers, language leads, development officers and student teachers. Attendance at the event is free of charge and will be hosted on the MS Teams platform.
Register via the link above by Tuesday 1 February.
The following website has some useful key words and phrases to support EAL families in the UK as well as an excellent spreadsheet of resource links. These cover a number of languages and include support materials and websites for Refugees.
Wishing all our pupil, families and colleagues and very happy Christmas holidays. We look forward to seeing you all again on Thursday 6th January 2022.
An Easy read leaflet with the latest advice from the Scottish Government to manage the Omicron Corona Virus Variant December 2021.
If you are looking for somewhere to boost your digital and IT skills the following websites might be useful and have different training courses or advice you can access. Thanks to the SCVO for sharing.
Book Week Scotland is next week 15th -21st November 2021.
The link below to the Scottish Book Trust has lots of Ideas for you to look at. Enjoy reading!
This website has some useful advice for supporting our Afhan families arriving into the UK and enrolling children in school.