Our Building Racial Literacy programme is hosting 3 upcoming BRL+ webinars which are open to all educators and education leaders in Scotland. We would appreciate your help in sharing these among your networks. To help with this we have attached a pdf which has the Eventbrite registrations hyperlinked, and also QR codes so the poster can be printed and hung on a bulletin board.

BRL+ is a suite of standalone sessions from the Building Racial Literacy Programme Building Racial Literacy | Programmes | Professional learning programmes, webinars and events | Professional Learning | Education Scotland team. They are for all educators to learn more about racism and other experiences of inequalities, and how they manifest in education.

The upcoming webinars are as follows:

Tuesday 11^th February, 4pm-5.30pm

Angela Saini – Keynote and Q&A

Tuesday 11^th March, 4pm-5.30pm

Dr Neil Spiers – Reflecting on the Effects of Poverty in and out of the Classroom

Wednesday 26^th March, 4pm-5.30pm

Jeffrey Boakye – Race, Gender and Power in Education

We request that everyone registering to attend an online event via Eventbrite take a moment to review our Online Code of Conduct.

Climate Ready Classrooms – Inspire Learning Live Lesson Programme – Supporting Schools with Learning for Sustainability experiences and British Science Week – Calling all Primary 6 pupils and their teachers.

Climate ready classrooms for Primary Schools is a series of workshops and activities, delivered by Keep Scotland Beautiful and ScotDec. It is delivered to the whole of the Scottish Borders at the same time via Teams. By taking part pupils will gain an understanding of the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis and take action to address these issues in their own way. Aimed at Primary 6 (but composite classes can take part too) The series of three workshops are on Wednesday 26th February, 5th March and 12th March (9.30am-10.00am). Teacher information session Monday 24th February 2.00pm – 3.20pm (during in-service day). Please nominate one or more teachers who will be joining from your school/s and enter their information into this form. They will be sent further information and asked to save the dates. Nominate HERE Any questions please email Helen.orde@scotborders.gov.uk     https://www.keepscotlandbeautiful.org/climate-ready-classrooms/

When – 13th May 9.30am-11.45am

Venue – Inspire Building, Tweedbank

A practical session which moves through the three following questions:

• What are the prevalent views of masculinity amongst many of our young people?
• What socio-cultural factors are shaping these views?
• What evidence-based strategies can we employ to challenge regressive, dominance-based models of masculinity and promote a healthier, more aspirational understanding of what it can mean to ‘be a man’ in today’s world.

The training empowers staff to approach topics often considered sensitive and taboo within the male world (mental health, the impact of pornography, online influencers etc) but also helps to bring back the joy of masculinity and the potential of our gender to counter the overwhelmingly negative social narrative around masculinity.

Target Audience – All Pastoral Staff

 

Please note the date of the next Middle Leaders Engagement day. Agenda and how to book will follow shortly.

Learning through Landscapes are now offering a fully funded online Nurturing Nature: Family Learning in Local Greenspace course to support any practitioners  to learn more about the approach.

Nurturing Nature is a play project that uses outdoor free play in areas of local greenspace as an early intervention strategy to support the wellbeing of pre-school children.

Nurturing Nature – Family Learning in Local Greenspace

Towards the end of last term, Early Career Teachers (ECTs) were given the opportunity to get together in their clusters at our new ‘Coffee and Catch-up’ sessions. Lots of rich discussion took place and valuable feedback was received regarding current support ECTs are receiving.

 

This feedback has proved to be incredibly helpful in terms of understanding and recognising the positive support some ECTs are receiving as well as highlighting areas we can improve for the future.

early phase

We look forward to having more ‘Coffee and Catch-up’ sessions before the Easter break and would welcome all ECTs. Please keep a look out for the next ECT flyer in the CLPL.

Teachers CLPL events at Selkirk High School & Broomlands Primary School

Selkirk – Thursday 27 February 2025 from 4pm – 5:15pm (click here to book)

Broomlands – Thursday 6 March 2025 from 3:45 – 5:00pm (click here to book)

Tree Council & Tweed Forum – Teachers Immersive Inspiration CPD at Faldonside Estate – 27 March from 4 – 5:30pm (click here to book)

A free fun training session packed with ideas and activities to inspire young people’s connections and understanding of the power of trees.

This practical and interactive training event will give you a range of activities and ideas to help young people, schools, youth clubs and many more to connect with trees and nature and unlock the potential in your educational setting. The training is suitable for teachers, teaching assistants and outdoor education leads, offering a number of practical sessions and a takeaway pack to help you embed these ideas in your practice.

The event will also be a great networking opportunity to meet with other educators, interested in engaging young minds with trees and nature.

For more information about the Young Tree Champions Programme visit our website.

We hope to host another event at Kingsland Primary School on 1 May. Once confirmed this date will be promoted in the weekly communication to schools.

 

 

POSTPONED – NEW DATE WILL BE PROMOTED SOON

The University of Edinburgh are hosting a conference to explore best practice in primary and secondary language teaching and learning.

Click on the image for further information.