**New!!** Quality Improvement Framework for ELC and Childminders

*New!* Digital Technology Audit & Guidance (SBC) – Nov 2025 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Portal Page – June 2025

The #SBCway for Early Level in the Scottish Borders

The One-Stop Shop for Early Level Educators

Our Curriculum

Child’s Voice, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Technology, Early Learning & Childcare 2 year olds (ELC 2), Emerging Literacy, Health & Wellbeing, Mathematics & Numeracy, Meta-Skills, Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM), Learning for Sustainability

Nurturing Care & Support

Care Plan, Chronologies, Family Learning, Family Partnerships, Individualised Support – Care Plan+, Learning Journey, Lunch/Snack, Medical Information, Personal Plan, Professional Partnerships, Transitions

Wellbeing, Inclusion & Equality

Ableism, Anti-Racist Education, Additional Support Needs (ASN), Attachment, Supporting Children’s Development, English as an Additional Language (EAL), Gender Equality, GIRFEC, LGBT Inclusive Education,  Neurodiversity, Nurture, Self-Regulation, Sensory Processing, The UNCRC – Children’s Rights

Planning, Tracking & Assessment

 Learning Dispositions, Making Learning Visible, Observations, Planning – Responsive & Intentional, Tracking, Monitoring & Assessment, SBC Trackers & Developmental Overviews

Play Pedagogy

 Block Play, Heuristic Play, Interactions, Loose Parts, Nature Pedagogy, Play, Play Pedagogy, Risky Play, Schemas, SPACES (Indoor, Outdoor & Beyond the Gates)

Leadership & Quality Assurance

Audits, Child Protection, Focus Observations, Leuven Scale, Pedagogical Leadership, Peer Observation, Policies, Quality Assurance, Self-Evaluation, Vision Values & Aims

The Early Level Portal was designed by Scottish Borders Council to enable all Early Level (approximately 2 – 6 years old) Educators to easily access all the information they might need to inform and develop best practice within their settings.  

It details the Early Level approach to LEARNING, TEACHING & ASSESSMENT with clear guidance on Early Level Pedagogy and was created in line with the Scottish Borders Council’s Learning Teaching and Assessment Framework.