Signposts for Global Citizenship

Scotdec, Wosdec and Highland One World Development Education Centres offer a range of free, Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL) opportunities for educators to support the development of Global Citizenship Education within their setting.

Here you can find the CLPL twilights on offer for early, primary and secondary level educators over the coming year.

 

Climate Action Week 2024

Timed with the Scottish Government’s Climate Week, this year’s Climate Action Week will focus on how our homes and gardens could look in a climate ready future with pupils invited to design their own sustainable home.

Timetable

Early years-P3:

Tuesday 24th September 11.00-11.30am: Animal homes with RZSS

P4-S2: All lessons take place 9.30-10.15am.

Monday 23rd September: Imagining our future with Scottish Book Trust

Tuesday 24th September: How to engineer a sustainable home with Jacobs

Wednesday 25th September: How to design a sustainable home in association with SEDA

Thursday 26th September: Climate ready gardens with the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

All ages Assembly Friday 27th September 9.30-10.00am.

Register here

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.

All of these offers can be booked through Business World.

An Introduction to NSA – 30 January 2025 – MS Teams 4.00-6.00pm 
This course is for anyone involved in the delivery of national standardised assessments to children and young people in primary or secondary schools who wish to understand the purpose of the assessments and gain familiarity with the functionality of the assessment platform. It also highlights examples of good practice in administering the assessments and provides advice and practical information for example, on the ability to stop the assessments or take a break, guidance regarding the timing of the assessments and assigning out-of-stage assessments.

 

A Closer Look at NSA in an ASN and EAL Context – 13 February – MS Teams, 4.00-5.30pm
This course will include content that is relevant when working with children and young people who require additional support with their learning or for whom English is an additional language. It contains details of platform functionality that can be used to support accessibility as well as practical advice on using NSA with children and young people who require additional support with their learning or have English as an additional language (EAL).

Staff who have previously administered the Scottish National Standardised Assessments (SNSA) or Measaidhean Coitcheann Nàiseanta airson Foghlam tron Ghàidhlig (MCNG) with their children or young people will gain insight and understanding into any changes to the assessment platform introduced for phase two of the assessments.

 

An Introduction to analysing NSA Data – Thursday 3^rd April – 9.30-11.30am – Inspire, Tweedbank

This course is for anyone involved in the delivery and in the analysing of standardised assessments to children and young people in primary or secondary schools. This course will use a set of demonstration reports to look at the assessments’ adaptive design and the long scale. We will also highlight key features of the Individual report, Group Diagnostic reports and Group Aggregate report that are used to report on children’s and young people’s achievement and progress. We will then consider how NSA data may be used to stimulate professional reflection and discussion and to help inform the next steps in learning.

 

Using NSA Data to Support Improvement – Thursday 3^rd April – 1.30-3.30pm or Wed 7^th May – 9.30-11.30am – both Inspire, Tweedbank

This 2-hour course is aimed at supporting primary and secondary practitioners, as well as school leaders who wish to gain a deeper understanding of how to use NSA data to inform and support in creating improvement.

Using demonstration data, delegates will be able to view reports, to inform next steps in improvement.

It is anticipated that all attendees will have experience of using the NSA reports and/or will have attended our course ‘An Introduction to Analysing NSA Data’.

 

Using Longitudinal Data and Reports in NSA – Wed 7^th May – 1.30-3.30pm – Inspire, Tweedbank

This course is for anyone involved in the delivery and analysis of outcomes in the national standardised assessments in primary or secondary schools. This course will introduce the Outcomes by Academic Year report (OBAY) and Learning Progress Report (LPR). We will review the key features of these reports and highlight ways in which they can be used to identify individual learner and cohort progress and give you an insight into how you might use these reports within your school.