Below I have included links from Tourette Scotland about upcoming Tourette Awareness Training webinars, which may be of interest to staff and partners:
These sessions support greater awareness and understanding of Tourette Syndrome and how best to support people in services and communities.
Education Scotland’s Professional Learning and Leadership team have an exciting calendar of professional learning sessions for educators this spring. Places at these sessions are in high demand, so early booking is advised.
Tuesday 24 February, 4pm to 5pm
Leadership+ with Jennifer Abrams. Stretching your collaborative edges: Growing (up) at work
Click here for further information and to register
Wednesday 04 March, 4pm to 5.30pm
Coaching in Education: Introductory Session
Click here for further information and to register
Tuesday 10 March, 4pm to 4.45pm
Middle Leaders Leading Change: Completion Session
Click here for further information and to register
Tuesday 17 March, 4pm to 5.30pm
BRL+ Alistair Heather (Historic Ally) on Scotland’s Hidden Colonial History
Click here for further information and to register
On behalf of our colleagues in the Inclusion, Wellbeing and Equalities team, we’d like to share this offer which is open to all educators and may also be of interest.
Monday 09 March, 4pm
Responding to Racist Incidents: Launch of the new Whole School Approach
17 March – 9 June 2026
Target audience – anyone working with ELC 2s, including Managers and EYOs in settings with ELC 2s.
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.
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.
These sessions will delivered on MS Teams from 5pm-6pm on the following dates:
17 March 2026 – Enhance your understanding of early child development to support your ELC 2s in practice
31 March 2026 – Explore the essential documents that all ELC2 practitioners need to know about, including UNCRC
28 April 2026 – Develop your understanding of tuning into and working with schematic play
12 May 2026 – Introducing the Froebelian concept of slow pedagogy and how this could work with ELC 2
26 May 2026 – Explore a variety of ways to plan with and for your ELC 2s
9 June 2026 – 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
Dates and timings:
Teacher training: 2.30-4.00pm Monday 23 February
Pupil workshops: 11.00-11.30am Wednesday 25 February, 4 March and 11 March.
Climate Ready Classrooms for Primary Schools is a series of workshops and activities, delivered on a local authority basis. By taking part, pupils will gain an understanding of the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis and take action to address these issues. It is delivered as a series of three workshops spread over three weeks with classroom activities to take part in between sessions. The final output is an Action Plan, shared with your local authority, which includes actions that pupils would like to focus on in their school.
If your class would like to take part please email CLPL@scotborders.gov.uk by Friday 6 February to confirm.
Scottish Teachers for Enhancing Practice (STEP) are holding their annual conference in Stirling Court Hotel on Saturday 14th March 2026. This conference is run by teachers for teachers. We have a very diverse programme of workshops and keynotes with a prize draw from our sponsors Collins Leckie.
We have an early bird booking price of £29.95 until 31st January 2026. We always hold our conference in Stirling as it is ideally placed for delegates from all over Scotland.
I am attaching all the information needed but feel free to contact me with any other questions. Further information is available on the STEP website here:
29 January – places still available
The Curriculum Improvement Cycle (CIC) for 3–18 Sciences is well underway, with significant progress already achieved through the valuable engagement of practitioners across Scotland. Last year, the Education Scotland science team hosted four webinars, providing updates on the CIC and consulting on key aspects of the process with colleagues across the wider network.
We are keen to continue hearing from as many practitioners as possible, ensuring that your expertise and perspectives directly inform and shape a forward-looking sciences curriculum.
We are pleased to share the dates of three further webinars planned for early 2026:
Wednesday 4 February, 16:00–17:30
Wednesday 25 February, 16:00–17:30
Thursday 19 March, 16:00–17:30
Each online session will include:
Each webinar is open to all practitioners across early years, primary, secondary, and ASN who deliver science. We warmly welcome participation from every sector and strongly encourage you to share this invitation with colleagues and wider networks — broad engagement is essential to ensuring the curriculum reflects the needs and ambitions of the whole sciences community.
Please note: This invitation is being shared across several networks and distribution groups. If you subscribe to multiple lists, you may receive this email more than once — our apologies for any duplication.
We fully appreciate that this is an especially busy time of year for all practitioners. If you are unable to attend the webinars, you can keep up to date with CIC progress through our Science Blog. The blog provides access to previous webinar recordings, presentations, our termly newsletter, and outputs from earlier Core and Collaboration group events.
Please do share the blog with colleagues within your setting, school, and wider networks to help ensure everyone can stay connected and informed.
You can access the Sciences CIC blog via the following link.
Sciences Curriculum Improvement Journey |
Thank you for your continued engagement and commitment. We look forward to working together to shape the future of science education in Scotland.
Joe from Magma Maths will be hosting a twilight session on 3.45pm on Thursday 5th February 2026. This session aims to support teachers in P1-3 in ways that Magma Maths can be used with the shared iPads.
Please use the link below to access the session:
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/37257449517500?p=2RKRzsMXoJpFfznemi
Meeting ID: 372 574 495 175 00
Passcode: gq6eD6Na
Following our letter to Directors of Education sent in August 2025 regarding Fitness to Teach scheduling issues, we are reaching out again to our key contacts in local authorities to make you aware that we are currently recruiting new Fitness to Teach panel members. We are asking for your support to share this as widely as possible across your schools and other relevant key areas, and to reassure any applicants that their release time will be facilitated.
To provide further context, we thought you may find the following information useful:
What you can do
Please support us by being proactive in encouraging your registered and lay employees to consider applying to be a panel member. We need people who have good levels of availability and we need employers to commit to allowing panel members to attend hearings. If all panel members were able to commit to attending one 5-day hearing per year, the impact on our scheduling would be immense.
You may also identify personnel holding key roles within your authority who could support us in raising awareness of the recruitment round, particularly with those registrants who have greater availability. For example, those who manage the supply teacher list or individual headteachers. We would welcome any conversations with any interested stakeholders. Please share this email with those colleagues, or ask them to contact me directly on governance@gtcs.org.uk
You can find the advert and further information about the role on our website: Vacancies
The following webinars are scheduled to take place in January and have been added to the SEEMiS website. Guidance on accessing the website can be found here.
| 1 | 16 – Admissions & Leavers | 12/01/2026 | 9:30-10:30am |
| 2 | 27.1 – Pupil Records – Part 1 | 12/01/2026 | 11am-12pm |
| 3 | 27.2 – Pupil Records – Part 2 | 12/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
| 4 | 3.1 -3.2 – COS Subjects & Students | 13/01/2026 | 9:30-11am |
| 5 | 3.3 – COS Options | 13/01/2026 | 11:30am-12:45pm |
| 6 | 3.4 – COS Classes | 13/01/2026 | 2-3pm |
| 7 | 35.1 – NAMS – Create & Manage Applications | 14/01/2026 | 9:30-10:30am |
| 8 | 35.2 – NAMS – Nursery List | 14/01/2026 | 11am-12pm |
| 9 | 35.3 – NAMS – Record Placement Decision | 14/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
| 10 | 4.1 – SQA – Additional Arrangements & Exam Planning | 15/01/2026 | 9:30-11am |
| 11 | 8 – Casual Groups | 15/01/2026 | 11:30am-12:30pm |
| 12 | 28 – Bullying & Equalities | 15/01/2026 | 1:30-2:40pm |
| 13 | 10 – Custom Reports | 20/01/2026 | 9:30-11am |
| 14 | 7 – Standard Letters | 20/01/2026 | 11:30am-12:30pm |
| 15 | 2.2 – SQA Entries | 20/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
| 16 | 3.5 – 3.6 SETTS Resources and Matching | 21/01/2026 | 9:30-10:45am |
| 17 | 3.7 – SETTS Timetable with Rotations | 21/01/2026 | 11:30am-12:30pm |
| 18 | 16 – Admissions & Leavers | 21/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
| 19 | 29 – Latest Pastoral Notes | 22/01/2026 | 9:30-11am |
| 20 | 11.5 – Tracking & Monitoring – Management | 22/01/2026 | 11:30am-12:30pm |
| 21 | 27.1 – Pupil Records – Part 1 | 22/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
| 22 | 3.1 -3.2 – COS Subjects & Students | 26/01/2026 | 9:30-11am |
| 23 | 3.3 – COS Options | 26/01/2026 | 11:30am-12:45pm |
| 24 | 3.4 – COS Classes | 26/01/2026 | 2-3pm |
| 25 | 27.2 – Pupil Records – Part 2 | 27/01/2026 | 9:30-10:30am |
| 26 | 4.1 – SQA – Additional Arrangements & Exam Planning | 27/01/2026 | 11am-12:30pm |
| 27 | 28 – Bullying & Equalities | 27/01/2026 | 1:30-2:40pm |
| 28 | 23.5 – Progress + Achievement – Management Reports | 28/01/2026 | 9:30-10:30am |
| 29 | 2.3 – SQA Results | 28/01/2026 | 11am-12pm |
| 30 | 2.4 – SQA Reports | 28/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
| 31 | 35.1 – NAMS – Create & Manage Applications | 29/01/2026 | 9:30-10:30am |
| 32 | 35.2 – NAMS – Nursery List | 29/01/2026 | 11am-12pm |
| 33 | 35.3 – NAMS – Record Placement Decision | 29/01/2026 | 1:30-2:30pm |
Please note that it is occasionally necessary to change a webinar. To ensure access to the webinar, the delegate should take the link directly from the SEEMiS website at the specified date and time.
