Gordon Smith will be hosting a session of Outdoor Education and EVOLVE as part of our HT Induction programme. The session will take place on Monday 2 September from 1-2pm. If you are a new in role and feel that you would benefit from this training please feel free to click on the link below and join the session.

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Signposts for Global Citizenship

Scotdec, Wosdec and Highland One World Development Education Centres offer a range of free, Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL) opportunities for educators to support the development of Global Citizenship Education within their setting.

Here you can find the CLPL twilights on offer for early, primary and secondary level educators over the coming year.

 

Climate Action Week 2024

Timed with the Scottish Government’s Climate Week, this year’s Climate Action Week will focus on how our homes and gardens could look in a climate ready future with pupils invited to design their own sustainable home.

Timetable

Early years-P3:

Tuesday 24th September 11.00-11.30am: Animal homes with RZSS

P4-S2: All lessons take place 9.30-10.15am.

Monday 23rd September: Imagining our future with Scottish Book Trust

Tuesday 24th September: How to engineer a sustainable home with Jacobs

Wednesday 25th September: How to design a sustainable home in association with SEDA

Thursday 26th September: Climate ready gardens with the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

All ages Assembly Friday 27th September 9.30-10.00am.

Register here

TRAINING – PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT

We are pleased to be able offer places on a short online course focusing on pre-retirement planning run by Affinity Connect, a financial education company. The course will be delivered online – Monday 2nd September 09.30-12.30 or Thursday 21st November 13.00-15.30

 

This pre-retirement course is perfect for anyone thinking about retirement or who is already at the planning stages.

 

During the course you’ll learn how to:

Help plan for the lifestyle changes ahead

Maximise the benefits of your State and workplace pensions

Make the most of your tax-free cash

Understand the income options available from your pension

Achieve your retirement goals

 

If you would like to attend the course please click on the link below or use the QR code on the attached poster and book directly with Affinity Connect.

 

Affinity Connect (event-registration.co.uk)

 

Managers – please ensure that colleagues who do not have council email addresses are aware of and can access these sessions. The information is available Employee Policies and Procedures | Scottish Borders Council (scotborders.gov.uk)

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One Good Adult : information and launch of resource : Wednesday 11^th September

One Good Adult: Information session | Events | Education Scotland

This session will provide an overview of the ‘One Good Adult’ resource created by the partners in the Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Joint Delivery Board for all people who work / volunteer with children and young people in Scotland across all sectors including education, Health, Social Work etc.

One Good Adult Job Description (nhs.scot) was written by children and young people. It sets out what children and young people need from the adults around them to optimise their mental health and wellbeing.

 

Keeping your cool in school : information session Wednesday 2^nd October

Keeping Your Cool in School: information session | Events | Education Scotland

This session will provide an overview of the ‘Keeping Your Cool in School’ primary resource designed to support children in developing and maintaining positive relationships; becoming more confident in tackling challenging situations and enabling them to have a better understanding of their responsibilities in school and beyond.

Cool in School – A site about keeping your cool in school

 

Gender Based Violence : new guidance information session for practitioners Wednesday 18^th September

This awareness raising event will provide practitioners with an overview of the new Preventing and responding to gender based violence: a whole school framework  and considerations for next steps relating to future professional learning that may be required to support its implementation.

 

**NEW** Safeguarding : Criminal Exploitation page on the website

Safeguarding: Criminal exploitation | Resources | Education Scotland : This resource aims to support the knowledge skills and understanding of criminal exploitation of the education workforce. Includes professional learning for educators as well as resources to support learning and teaching.

Over a number of years SCES and the University of Glasgow have been working to ensure that as many students and teachers can access the required Catholic Teacher Certificate to teach Religious Education. It has just been confirmed that this year the eligibility for funding has been extended to include existing GTCS registered teachers, including NQTS.

This means that any teacher, currently working within a Scottish school and eligible to teach RE in a Catholic school can apply and receive a fully funded place to undertake the Catholic Teacher Certificate via CREDL or “Setting Out On The Road”.

Details of both courses can be found here:

Setting Out On The Road

CREDL

If you have any questions regarding the courses, please contact Roisin Coll: roisin.coll@glasgow.ac or Denise Porada: denise.porada@glasgow.ac.uk at the University of Glasgow.

TUESDAY 17^TH SEPTEMBER 2024

4.30 – 6.00PM @ Selkirk High School, Music Dept

 CLASS TEACHER SESSION

 As part of the Benedetti Foundation’s Residency Sessions in the Scottish Borders, there will be the opportunity for a free professional development session for primary classroom teachers, teaching assistants, trainee teachers, or anyone responsible for delivering music in the classroom. This session is aimed at educators who are non-specialist musicians and would like to gain more confidence and develop skills in delivering classroom music.

The workshop will be delivered by Head of Creative Learning at the Benedetti Foundation, Lucy Drever, and percussionist Calum Huggan who will be delivering workshops during the Residency.

The session will offer practical ideas and suggestions to help you feel comfortable with teaching music. We will cover topics including singing in the classroom, body percussion activities, creating soundscapes, using graphic scores, the percussion trolly in a creative way and embedding music into the curriculum. We will work with teachers to develop ideas for teaching music in an easy to access way for all and leave you with a bank of resources to support your work.

This workshop is free.

Please contact Sara Alakus to register

The Primary and Secondary CLPL programmes can be found on Archdiocese of St Andrew & Edinburgh website.