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.

Leading Professional Learning For anyone leading the learning of colleagues in their setting. Applications open 12^th August 2024 – 12^th September 2024

Aspiring to Middle Leadership  and Middle Leaders Leading Change currently open to all via their programme pages.

The How of Change: Facilitated learning for strategic leadership Expressions of interest are now open of this new offer for headteachers and those who hold the GTCS Professional Standard for Headship.

Connected and Collaborative Systems Leadership For experienced headteachers and system leaders. Applications open 14th August 2024 – 30th August 2024

 

SELF-DIRECTED PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AVAILABLE VIA OUR WEBSITE

Coaching in Education An open access resource designed to support all educators to develop leadership of learning through an enquiring approach.

Enquiry in Education An open access resource designed to support all educators to use coaching approaches in practice.

Scotland’s Financial Schools

Session 1 – Introducing financial education across the curriculum

Session 2 – Embedding financial education through IDL

 

Target Audience:

Early Years/Primary/Secondary (all subjects)

Term 1                                                                                    

Sector	Session 1	Session 2
Early Years	03.09.24	10.09.24
Primary	04.09.24	11.09.24
Secondary	05.09.24	12.09.24

 

Term 2

Sector	Session 1	Session 2
Primary	05.11.24	12.11.24
Secondary	06.11.24	13.11.24
Early Years	07.11.24	14.11.24

 

Term 3                                                                                   

Sector	Session 1	Session 2
Secondary	25.02.25	11.03.25
Early Years	26.02.25	05.03.25
Primary	27.02.25	06.03.25

 

Term 4

Sector	Session 1	Session 2
Early Years	12.05.25	19.05.25
Primary	13.05.25	20.05.25
Secondary	14.05.25	21.05.25

All sessions will run from 16:00 – 17.15

 

Subject(s): Financial Education, Health and Wellbeing, Skills based learning, Learning for Sustainability, Developing the Young Workforce

 

Course Overview: Young Enterprise Scotland aims to equip all young people with the skills to thrive in life, learning and work. Our Scotland’s Financial Schools professional learning programme is designed to support teachers build their confidence in delivering financial education learning experiences and ensure our young people are equipped with appropriate financial skills. The course runs four times throughout the year and consists of two CLPL sessions. We would ask practitioners attend both.

 

Session 1 – Introducing financial education across the curriculum

• To raise awareness of what financial education is and why it is essential for developing skills for life, learning and work
• Learning for Sustainability contextualisation with links the Sustainable Development Goals, DYW agenda, Career Education Standards 3-18, Curriculum Entitlements and the Attainment Challenge.

• To encourage a cross curricular approach to financial education going beyond numeracy and maths

• Overview of ‘Scotland’s Financial Schools’ website – includes access to free lesson plans, a whole school reflections tool and a Financial Education Scottish Progression Pathway which is linked to Curriculum for Excellence
• Overview of financial workshops delivered by our SFS team (secondary schools only)

 

Session 2 – Embedding financial education through IDL

• Encouraging a sustainable approach to embedding financial education into teaching and learning
• Examples of delivering financial education through interdisciplinary learning opportunities
• Examples of case studies to inspire and motivate
• A practical session to encourage discussions and the sharing of examples and ideas

 

Cost

All our training and resources are free. numeracy

 

Book a space

Complete the Microsoft Forms to book your place on the course.