Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

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

 

Superpower of Looking CLPL: William Gillies at Hawick Museum

19 September 16:00 – 17:00

Online

FREE

Register here:

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e6be4179-b5c9-43f3-a08e-8bd0b650c46b@12fdaf10-48f7-4366-933f-8c3ceff4bbad

 

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.

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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.

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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

Early Years – Aspiring to Lead

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.

Play Pedagogy Sessions

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.

Master of Education (MEd) Early Years- Free Funding Opportunity 2024-2025

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:

  • Guaranteed funding for 2024-2025
  • Online delivery- fit study around location, work and personal commitments
  • Develop skills and expertise in Early Years Education

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

De-escalation: Understanding & Responding to Behaviours that Challenge

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.

IWS

STEM Inquiring through Creativity, Exploration & Investigation across Early Level Supporting & Developing STEM the #SBCWay

A series of 5 bitesize virtual training sessions developed in line with the SBC Early Level Portal STEM pages and the National STEM Nation Award, evidenced through practitioner inquiry tasks.

Aims:

To increase knowledge and confidence to support and extend STEM through spaces, experiences and interactions, evidenced through practitioner inquiry tasks.
To introduce and support consideration of STEM Nation Award- Education Scotland.

Session 1
Introduction to STEM, skills and capabilities through spaces experiences and interactions

Introduction to STEM Nation Award-Education Scotland
Practitioner enquiry 1. “Identifying and developing skills and capabilities in ELC/classroom”

Session 2.
Feedback practitioner enquiry 1.
STEM and Creativity
Practitioner enquiry 2. “STEM into Christmas” (indoors)

Session 3
Feedback practitioner enquiry 2.
STEM Gender Stereotyping and its impact
Practitioner enquiry 3. “Consider gender stereotyping and its impact (in relation to STEM)”

Session 4
Feedback practitioner enquiry 3.
STEM Outdoors and Beyond the Gate (Communities/STEM Nation Award-Education Scotland)
Practitioner enquiry 4. “STEM outdoors”

Session 5
Feedback practitioner enquiry 4.
STEM Pedagogy
A Check in, impact on practice and Check out, sustaining and building on impact

Target Audience:

All Early Learning and Childcare setting practitioners, Primary Teachers and support staff (ANAs, EYPs etc.)

All sessions will be from 2pm – 3pm on the following dates:

25 October 2024

22 November 2024

17 January 2025

7 March 2025

25 April 2025

Microsoft Teams link will be sent out to all approved delegates. Please join 5-10 minutes before the given start time to allow for connection issues. As an introduction please watch SBCway Professional CLPL Video Getting started with STEM the #SBCway before first session on 25.10.24

Places can be booked through Business World.

Neurodiversity: Deepening our understanding and sharing strategies for Additional Support Needs across Early Level

Course Contents:

Deepening our understanding of a range of neurodiverse presentations.

Exploring strategies to support children, with a needs based approach.

Ensuring educators’ knowledge of policy and procedures for effective documentation.
Aims:

Session 1. To uplevel our knowledge on a variety of Additional Support Needs and brain types.  To understand ways that children communicate their needs through their behaviours.  To help develop nurturing, consistent support through strong relationships.

Session 2. To support Neurodiverse / Additional Support Needs to positively impact all. Explore what we can do to support through our Core Provision. Developing a holistic multi-agency approach and strong links with families.

Session 3. Strengthening understanding of record keeping and individual support plans. To share impact of change for child and educator.

Target Audience – ELC practitioners, Primary 1 teachers, 0.1s, teachers and support staff

This course is run online over 3 twilight sessions from 4pm – 5:30pm:

23 October 2024

13 November 2024

4 December 2024

Participants must attend all 3 sessions and complete follow on tasks

Places can be booked through Business World

Health Care Training

The School Nursing Team are going to provide an information session in each cluster. This will cover the information from the modules on SBLearn – Asthma, Anaphylaxis and Epilepsy.

Unfortunately there will not be an input from the diabetic team. It will still be a requirement that the staff attending to complete the modules online prior to this session as the team will provide additional support and answer any queries which they may have.

The training will run from 4-5pm.

17 September 2024 – Main Hall, Hawick High School

22 October 2024 – Main Hall, Berwickshire High School

18 November 2024 – Earlston High School (4:15pm start)

27 November 2024 – Kelso High School

25 February 2025 – St Peter’s Primary School

17 March 2025 – Peebles High School

25 March 2025 – Selkirk High School

1 April 2025 – Eyemouth High School

1 May 2025 – Jedburgh Grammar Campus

Spaces can be booked through Business World. Private & Voluntary Nurseries or Childminders are welcome to join these sessions.