Target Audience – Primary Practitioners
Aims – The aim of this session is to give practitioners ideas for STEM activities running up to Christmas
This session will be delivered on MS Teams. Please logon 10 minutes before the session is due to start and have your cameras on and be ready to join in discussion, share thoughts, experiences and learn from each other.
26 November 3:45pm – 4:30pm.
Please book via Business World.
Content:
To understand how to facilitate play through a balanced approach of teacher led, teacher initiated and child led play experiences. The first session is to be accessed independently as this is a pre-recorded session and should be engaged with prior to 13th January 2025. The second session is a facilitated online session which will take place on Tuesday 21st January 2025.
Aims:
Places can be booked through Business World.
Content – An opportunity to connect with others, share practice and collaborate with teachers across the Borders on various stages of their play journey. The sessions will be facilitated by the Early Years Pedagogy Team, the focus of each session will be chosen by the teachers attending.
Aims – The Early Years Teacher Team will:
Dates (all sessions 4:30pm – 5:30pm)
26 November 2024
4 February 2025
25 March 2025
3 June 2025
Places can be booked through Business World.
The next course will take place on:
| Dates | Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th November 2024
You must be able to attend both days fully |
| Time | 8.50am – 5pm |
| Venue | Tweed Horizons, The Tweed Horizons Business and Conference Centre, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, TD6 0SG |
This course is offered to you free of charge but it should be noted it costs us over £1200 from local suicide prevention funds to deliver each course, so can we please ask if you need to cancel please do so in a timely manner to allow us to try and fill any spaces.
The administration of ASIST courses has changed nationally and you now need to book through a link to the national portal (which I will provide below). All bookings are on a first come first serve basis and we are unable to influence or prioritise who gets allocated places. We also cannot access the portal to cancel any places so if you book a place and can no longer make the training please be sure to cancel your place via the portal.
To book click here
19 September 16:00 – 17:00
Online
FREE
Register here:
Join this unique CLPL for Primary School teachers in the Scottish Borders, as we celebrate the William Gillies: Modernism and Nation exhibition at Hawick Museum. This Royal Scottish Academy Touring Exhibition is open until 20th October, and offers local children an opportunity to see paintings, drawings, photographs and objects from the artist’s career.
This CLPL will begin with an introduction from Sandy Wood, Head of Collections at RSA. We will then hear from the Hawick Museum team, about how your school can make the most of your visit.
Finally, you will have the opportunity to take part in a focussed lesson on William Gillies’ artwork, using Art UK‘s flagship visual literacy programme The Superpower of Looking. The Superpower of Looking is an innovative and inclusive programme that seeks to transform the visual literacy skills of primary school children across the UK, taking the world of art and images as its starting point. Using a set of free teaching resources, children will gain an essential superpower: the ability to really ‘see’ – to critically observe, analyse, question, interpret, and empathise. Children will become visually literate in the image-dominated world around them.
If you are unable to make this bespoke CLPL session, you can view Art UK’s William Gillies online resource which includes teachers’ notes to download, and a high-resolution zoom function.
More information on the exhibition: https://www.liveborders.org.uk/exhibitions/gillies-modernism-and-nation/
More information on the Superpower of Looking: https://artuk.org/learn/the-superpower-of-looking
Aims:
To support practitioners who are new to, or ready to take the step into leadership as an Early Years Officer. or Room Leader.
Exploring: leadership skills, leadership tools and the role of Early Years Officer.
Target Audience:
New EYOs, EYPs looking to become EYOs
| 7th Nov Roles and Responsibilities |
| 5TH Dec Pedagogical Leadership |
| 6TH Feb Quality Assurance /Calendars |
| 13TH March Self evaluation |
| 24th April Courageous Conversations |
| 15th May Applications and interviews |
Please book through Business World.
Do you have experience in Practitioner Enquiry? Would you like to support a small group of NQTs with their enquiries?
The enquiry projects will be undertaken between January and April 2025.
If you are interested in this please contact clpl@scotborders.gov.uk
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.
Are you currently a teacher or a Childhood Practice graduate, working with children aged 0-8, looking to develop your skills and expertise in Early Years Education?
The Scottish Government has approved funding of MEd Early Years students for the 2024-2025 academic year through the University of Aberdeen, so there is no time like the present to begin your PgCert year.
Why study for your MEd Early Years at the University of Aberdeen:
Applications for this course are open and the course begins 23 September 2024
To find out more please visit our website: MEd Early Years University of Aberdeen
If you have any questions about the course you can contact our new Programme Director Amy: amy.mcfarlane@abdn.ac.uk
Click here to apply now: Apply Now
The course will consider the drivers of behaviour, consider our reflective practice and suggest strategies to support others (pupils and staff).
Aims:
1. Understand where behaviour comes from
2. Identify some signs of dysregulation
3. How to support the children we work with and each other
Target Audience: Education professionals in primary and secondary
Online – 25 September 2024, 3:45pm – 5:15pm
Places can be booked through Business World.
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