Early Career Teachers – Coffee and Catch-up Sessions

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.

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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.

Webinar with Jeffrey Boakye: Race, Gender, and Power in Education

Click here for more information: Webinar with Jeffrey Boakye: Race, Gender, and Power in Education Tickets, Wed 26 Mar 2025 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

Join us for an engaging online webinar with educator, author, and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye, as he explores the intersection of race, gender, and power in education. Drawing from his acclaimed books, including Black, Listed and I Heard What You Said, Jeffrey will discuss how identity and systemic bias influence the classroom experience for both students and teachers, offering vital insights for building more inclusive educational environments.

This session is run by Education Scotland for educators and education professionals seeking to understand the nuanced dynamics of race and gender. It is part of a series of Building Racial Literacy+ and Leadership+ webinars. The talk will be followed by a live Q&A session, offering educators a unique opportunity to engage directly with Jeffrey’s work and insights.

Please note that there is a code of conduct for participants joining this session.

Target Audience – Please be aware that the target audience for this event is for professionals within the Education Sector in Scotland. To register, please enter either a school/establishment/local authority or Glow email address. If you work in Scottish education and would like to attend but do not have a glow or work email address, please email esevents@educationscotland.gov.scot with the name of your setting or service, to request a place. Thank you for your understanding.

Ticket Allocation – It is not possible to transfer your booking to anyone else. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your booking to free up a space for another participant. Please remember that for security purposes it is very important that you do not share event information with anyone else to provide them access to this event.

Joining Instructions – Joining instructions will be sent out 48 hours before the event. Attendees are advised to double check they received a confirmation email from Eventbrite to the email address they registered with as this may result in not receiving these instructions and could obstruct you from attending the event. Please contact us if you have still not receive joining instructions by one hour before then event time. We would advise you to check your junk files for emails about the event.

Request for advance information – If you have specific accessibility requirements (e.g. you need slides/more information to be sent to you in advance or need breaks at specific intervals) we would welcome more information about this in advance. Whilst it is your choice to disclose this information, doing so will help us to better understand your needs and plan how to best support your engagement. Our aim is to make appropriate adjustments to our programme delivery to ensure the best possible experience for our delegates.

Tree Council Force for Nature

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.

 

 

Climate Ready Classrooms

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/

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All the fun of the Circuit -an electrifying workshop for teachers

 

This CLPL will support practitioners to teach the following Experience and Outcomes:
I can describe an electrical circuit as a continuous loop of conducting materials.
I can combine simple components in a series circuit to make a game or model. SCN 1-09a
Builds simple circuits containing bulbs, switches, bells and batteries.
I have used a range of electrical components to help to make a variety of circuits for differing purposes.
I can represent my circuit using symbols and describe the transfer of energy around the circuit. SCN 2-09a
Designs and builds a variety of electrical circuits for differing purposes, using an increasing range of components. · Draws circuit diagrams using appropriate symbols to denote a bulb, switch, motor, bell, buzzer, wires, cell and a battery.
Describes how components in a circuit transfer energy into different forms.
It will also introduce practitioners to the new cluster electricity resource boxes.

Aim – To increase confidence in practitioners to teach electricity and explore the new cluster electricity box funded by RAiSE. S

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