We are delighted to confirm details for our next Middle Leaders Engagement Day. This will be a hybrid session in which attendees can join online or in person and can dip in and out of sessions which are of interest.

If you would like us to book a space at HQ for you so that you can work from HQ before or after the morning or afternoon session please state this on the booking form.

Cluster Electricity Boxes are now available from your Cluster Secondary School.

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3 and 4 December 2025, 9am until 4:30pm

What does it do?

Seasons for Growth aims to strengthen the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people (aged 6-18) who are dealing with significant life changes by:

• Exploring the impact of the change and loss on everyday life
• Learning new ways to respond to these changes

 

Who is it for?
Anyone who is living with the effects of change and loss. Many factors can cause change such as:

• Friends can come and go
• Loss of someone or something you love
• Parents and families separate
• Moving to a new place
• Impact of illness
• Family work-life changes

Change affects everyone differently, as does grief. It’s the impact of the change, not the event itself that Seasons for Growth focuses on.

Please book via Business World

27 November 2025

Please note new timings: 9am until 12:30pm OR 1pm until 4:30pm

Business Suite, Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells

 

CPI’s Breaking Up Fights™: Intervention Skills Training provides staff with the
skills to prevent fights, assess risk, and respond with appropriate interventions.
The programme, led by one of CPI’s experienced trainers, takes 3 hours to
complete and is split into two parts:

• Part 1 covers the theory element of how staff can best prepare themselves
  before, during, and after a fight incident. This section will remove ambiguity
  around staff responsibilities, improve risk assessment and decision-making
  to reduce repercussions, and upskill staff with evidence-based preventative
  methods.
• Part 2 contains the programme’s physical skills. Staff will learn the key
  principles of physical intervention and the six essential skills to maximise
  safety and minimise harm to all involved.

After successful completion of the programme, learners are certified to practise
skills for 2 years.

Facilitation Methods
This interactive programme is taught by one of CPI’s experienced trainers entirely
in-classroom/face-to-face and can be delivered on your school premises. The
programme takes 3 hours to complete, so it can be delivered during a twilight
training session. Alternatively, two programmes can be delivered back-to-back
(morning and afternoon) to two groups of participants during an INSET.
For the theory element of the course (Part 1), access to a large screen or projector
is essential. For the physical skills section, we recommend ample space and floor
mats for each sub-group.
Training can be delivered in groups of up to 24 participants. Participants will
be split into smaller sub-groups of 4 when learning the programme’s physical skills (Part 2).

 

Programme
Objectives
• Apply best practice in recognising, preventing, and responding to fights.
• Professionalise decision making process ‘in the moment’ before and during a fight.
• Identify key techniques to aid composure and build resilience.
• Demonstrate safe intervention skills to minimise harm to all involved.

 

Bookings can be made through Business World.

 

 Is your school keen to provide more coding opportunities? Do you need help determining where to begin or taking those initial steps?

Code Club are excited to invite you and your school to participate in our free 5-week ‘Learn to code with Code Club’ programme. Run by the Code Club team, the programme helps educators develop the confidence to independently run coding sessions, and provides learners with the skills and knowledge to use code to bring their ideas to life.

Click here to sign up

 

The programme will begin with a training session on either 21 or 28 October, followed by an hour-long session each Tuesday for the four subsequent weeks. All sessions will be hosted by Rebecca Gracher, Sarah Roberts, and Rujeko Moyo from Code Club:

• A one-hour online teacher training workshop (choose between 21 and 28 October to suit your availability)
• Four one-hour online coding sessions for learners, (choose between 11am and 1pm to suit your availability)
• A one-hour sharing session for teachers that provides a space for you to review your learning with other community members, ask questions, and plan your next steps

For more details about the programme, please check our website.

Sign up to reserve your place

The programme is aimed at schools looking to run a Code Club. Please note that only one Code Club can be registered per school, although multiple educators from the same school can participate.

All participating schools must register a Code Club before the start of the programme — we’ll send you further information on how to do this after you’ve signed up. Like all other aspects of the programme, registering a Code Club is completely free.

Click here to sign up

Thank you for your interest — I look forward to meeting you!

 

 

Course Content – A deep dive into the Magma Maths platform to showcase advanced features such as pacing, skills and practice mode.

 

Course Aims:

1. Feel confident using Magma beyond the basics, applying advanced features in ways that save time and improve lessons.
2. Use Magma insights to target support more precisely.

 

Target Audience – Maths Teachers

 

Course will be held online

Options:

22 October 2025 – 3:30pm – 4:15pm

23 October 2025 – 3:30pm – 4:15pm

This course will outline the national context of anti-racism in Scotland, reflecting on the importance of this work and building staff confidence around language and using the Mirrors and Windows framework in their classrooms and settings. Staff will explore the anti-racist education resource with opportunities to engage in activities they can use in their practise- interactions, experiences and spaces.

This course will be delivered in 2 sessions – a main interactive, informative session, followed by a reflection and next step development session.

Course Aims:

• To build confidence in all staff working at Early Level in their anti-racist practice.
• To explore Scotland’s anti-racist education resource to support Early Level educators and settings.

31 October 2025 – 2pm – 3:30pm

5 December 2025 – 2pm – 3:30pm

Venue – Inspire Academy, Tweedbank

A series of six one hour-long collaborative sessions where we will come together to reflect on the joys and unique challenges of working with ELC 2s. Each session will include a short learning input from the Early Years Teacher Team followed by professional discussion and reflection; come prepared to share!

At the end of each session, you will be given the opportunity to develop an area of your practice based on the content of the session in a way that’s meaningful for your setting and children.

Participants will:

• Enhance your understanding of early child development to support your ELC 2s in practice
• Explore the essential documents that all ELC2 practitioners need to know about, including UNCRC
• Develop your understanding of tuning into and working with schematic play
• Introducing the Froebelian concept of slow pedagogy and how this could work with ELC 2
• Explore a variety of ways to plan with and for your ELC 2s
• Use technology to share your practice and take time to reflect on the impact that your learning in the last five sessions has had on experiences and outcomes for your ELC2’s

 

Course Aims – To ensure that our ELC 2s are supported to thrive through developmentally appropriate practice.   We will support practitioners in this by providing key messages around early child development, schematic play, slow pedagogy, essential documentation and planning with and for ELC 2s.

The CoP also provides a space for developing self-reflection, peer conversations and sharing of best practice.

 

Target Audience – Anyone working with ELC 2s, including Managers and EYOs in settings with ELC 2s.

All sessions are 5-6pm on the following dates:

• 4/11/25
• 18/11/25
• 9/12/25
• 13/1/26
• 27/1/26
• 3/3/26