Category: Primary

Emerging Literacy Training Package

The training package is available online – via the portal pages which have lots of information on them and the recorded training is in 4 parts that covers the emerging literacy training on each page.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sb/earlylevelportal/emerging-literacy-and-english/

Emerging Literacy & English, Oral Language & Phonological Awareness – Early Level Portal

Emerging Literacy & English, (pre) writing – Early Level Portal

Emerging Literacy & English – Concepts of Print – Early Level Portal

Education Scotland Early Level Reading resource – Learning to read in the Early Years: A professional support overview | Resources | Education Scotland

Play Pedagogy Sessions

Play Pedagogy

Catriona Gill from Education Scotland will be leading two sessions for Scottish Borders Council on Play Pedagogy this term.

Friday 20th September, Inspire Building 9:00am until 12:30pm  – This workshop is the second of two planned engagement sessions for head teachers. The focus of the session will include: observation of play; quality assurance; messages from HMIe inspections.

Friday 4th October, Inspire Building 9:00am until 12:30pm – This session is designed specifically for those who are leading play pedagogy across primary schools. Please contact Claire Crawford, Early Years Improvement and Support Officer to confirm who will be attending from your school.

A number of Play Pedagogy training sessions are planned to follow on from the above sessions aimed specifically at Primary 1 class teachers. These training sessions are designed to support pedagogy and practice and those signing up can opt to do specific individual sessions or all five. These can be booked through Business World.

The termly Play Pedagogy Community of Practice for Primary 1 teachers will also continue this session facilitating professional discussion, the sharing of practice and the building of support networks. More information will be sent out shortly.