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PLACES AVAILABLE! MANAGING DISCIPLINE & GRIEVANCE – HR POLICY TRAINING SESSION***
We have places available on this training session for managers that explores SBC’s disciplinary and grievance policies. The session will be on Teams on Tuesday 20th May from 9.30 to 11.30.
You can book a place through the course catalogue on Business World or by contacting Andrew Frost directly.
Current CLPL Offer – Signposts for Global Citizenship
I also wanted to share our new antiracist website antiracisted.scot which provides workshops for 2nd, 3rd level. We have been supporting local authorities with this work and offering CLPL that guides practitioners through this resource and develops probationers’ anti-racist practice.
We would be happy to facilitate a local CLPL session designed bespoke to your local authority priorities including Global Citizenship / LfS and anti-racist education.
sarahjane@scotdec.org.uk
The Digital Schools Awards is a national awards scheme to promote, recognise and encourage a whole school approach to the use of digital technology in schools.
Participants can sign up to individual sessions and do not have to attend them all.
The Digital Schools Award and Digital learning Through Play Award is a 3-step programme to help schools assess progress and recognise excellence in the use of digital technology at nursery, primary, enhanced provision and secondary level while providing practical support and encouragement.
The Digital Wellbeing Award for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety is designed to provide education professional with the resources and support required to help pupils safely navigate the digital world.
The Equitable Creative Coding Award offers special recognition for the inclusion of coding and computational thinking in the planning and delivery of the curriculum in school.
Digital Schools Award – European Recognition
Participation is free and schools that successfully complete the programme receive a nationally recognised award.
Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025
Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025
Educator webinars
Launch and Update on Digital Literacy Guidance: May 7, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm
The aim of this webinar is to provide an overview of Scottish Digital Literacy Week 2025 and provide updates on the development of digital literacy as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle that is being undertaken.
Creating ELC family newsletters with Adobe Express in Glow May 12, 2025 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Emma from the Adobe Express for Education Team in this beginners demo session, as she takes us on a guided tour of creating your own interactive and accessible nursery newsletters.
Educator webinar – Digital Schools Award (Scotland) May 12, 2025 3:45 pm – 4:30 pm
The aim is to provide up-to-date and relevant information on the Digital Schools Award Scotland and the latest developments, including other awards for wellbeing, coding and early learning centres.
Educator Webinar – Digital Citizenship May 13, 2025 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
The aim of this session is to set out a data justice approach, in which all young people have a right to information integrity. We are looking to engage teachers in processes of reflection on their own practice, drawing on examples of leading practice across the curriculum from our project so far.
Research Highlights with Dr Kate Cowan and The Froebel Trust May 13, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
In this 30 minute recording Kate will share insights from research highlight FROEBEL TRUST GUIDANCE FOR PRACTITIONERS ON DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION published in 2020.
Educator Webinar – Scottish Esports May 13, 2025 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The aim is to provide up-to-date and relevant information on Esports in Scotland. It will cover: the Scottish Esports Education landscape, pathways and organisations they can work with locally for engagement and the new HNC ESports being developed.
Research Highlights with Dr Lorna Arnott May 14, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
In this 30 minute session Lorna will talk about her experiences and findings from research around what digital and online play looks like in practice. Drawing on data from a recently completed ESRC funded project, Lorna will share examples of high quality and creative play experiences with babies and toddlers in family homes.
Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC May 15, 2025 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
This 30-minute information giving session is for ELC practitioners working across a range of ELC settings in Scotland to find out about the exciting Digital Learning Through Play Award in ELC.
In Person Training – Adobe Express for Education – DigiLearn May 14, 2025 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
During this in person event. you will gain hands-on training with Adobe Express and discover responsible generative AI tools that make teaching & learning experiences more engaging.
Adobe will have refreshments, snacks and more for all teachers to enjoy during the session!
Sharing practice
Sharing Practice Session: Digital Profiling in Aberdeenshire ELC Settings & Primary Schools May 13, 2025 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Join us in this sharing practice session with Julia Rickard, Education Officer, Aberdeenshire and Nikki Kimbell, Educational Consultant at digital profiling platform Just2Easy, to discover how ELC settings and primary schools in Aberdeenshire are using the j2journal – Just2easy.
LIVE lessons
The Big Listening Quiz May 12, 2025 9:00 am – 16, 2025 6:00 pm
The Big Listening Quiz is an audio quiz, where you will activate both your sense of sight and your sense of hearing. The quiz will have a variety of sounds (audio recordings) to listen to and a choice of pictorial answers. Once you think you have identified the sound, select the answer and move through each sound until you have reached the end.
Using Podcasts for Learning & Teaching with Adobe Express May 13, 2025 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Learners will explore the basics of podcasts and will develop an episode on a topic. If learners could have a topic in mind that would hugely beneficial.
Using Podcasts for Teaching & Learning with Adobe May 13, 2025 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Learners will explore the basics of podcasts and will develop an episode on a topic. If learners could have a topic in mind that would hugely beneficial.
Tech for Everything Assembly 1 with Tech She Can May 14, 2025 10:00 am – 10:25 am
Tech for Everything Assembly 1 is the first assembly in a brand-new series for P7 and S1 students. This first assembly in the series focuses on the subjects of English, Languages, Music, Art and Drama.
Technology for Everything Assembly 1 with Tech She Can May 13, 2025 2:00 pm – 2:25 pm
Tech for Everything Assembly 1 is the first assembly in a brand-new series for P7 and S1 students. This first assembly in the series focuses on the subjects of English, Languages, Music, Art and Drama.
CALL Scotland Early/First Level Accessible Read Along ’10 Dogs’. May 15, 2025 10:00 am – 10:30 am
Join this 30 min accessible Live Read Along with Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Joanna Courtney from CALL Scotland who will take us through an accessible format of ’10 Dogs’ by by Louise Fitzgerald (Author) and Kate Hindley (Illustrator), from the BookBug P1 Family Bag.
Live Lesson – Playing and Making Games May 16, 2025 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Callum Croughan from North Lanarkshire will deliver this live lesson on making games with MakeCode Arcade.
Live Lesson – Search for AI: Close reading not required? May 16, 2025 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
The aim of the session is to foster critical information literacy, offering several examples of how search engines might not give you the most relevant information, with some suggested strategies for navigating digital spaces overloaded with information.
Sharing Practice
Your feedback from the last couple of engagement days has asked for a sharing practice session. We would like to hear from you if you have a project or piece of work you would be keen to share and discuss? This would be a short presentation and discussion (15 minutes).
Verbal Intervention Training
We are pleased to confirm that Crisis Prevention Institute will continue to offer 3 Verbal Intervention Training across our authority during academic session 2025/26. CPI provide de-escalation and behaviour management training that puts people first.
Sessions are face to face at Council Headquarters and run from 9am until 4:30pm (4:00pm if shorter breaks are agreed).
The training is for 24 delegates and a member of the inclusion and wellbeing team will also be present on the day. Spaces can be booked through Business World.
Please note – these sessions are for mainstream staff only. Enhanced provision staff will receive Safety Intervention Training from CPI on the August Inset Day.
For further information or enquiries please contact clpl@scotborders.gov.uk
DYW Live are hosting sessions for NND 2025
A CLPL for Teachers and School staff on 1st May at 4pm and then a day of live webinars on 21st May.
Details in graphics attached.
sign up https://e-sgoil.com/dyw-live/events/24-25/national-numeracy-day-2025/
Supporting Learners with Difficulties in Mathematics
Session Three: Fractions, Decimal Fractions and Percentages 13/5/25 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Sign up here: Maths Difficulties (Fractions) Webinar Series Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
BSRLM (British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics)
BSRLM Summer Conference will take place at the University of Glasgow on Friday June 13 2025 (Day Conference) and Saturday June 14 2025 (New Researchers’ Day – mainly PGRs’ presentations). The last time a BSRLM conference was held in Scotland was in 2013 (it was supposed to come back, to Edinburgh, in 2020) so this is an excellent opportunity to meet with Maths education researchers from all the 4 UK nations and present the work that we are doing in Scotland.
BSRLM is a very supportive a friendly environment, so it would be great to see many Scottish colleagues at the conference. Friday Registration is £ 30 and Saturday Registration is free. To register, you need to be a BSRLM members (£ 35 for an annual membership, £20 for students. this gives online access to three annual issues of Research in Mathematics Education published for BSRLM by Taylor and Francis). See https://www.bsrlm-members.org.uk/pages/15-conferences for how to register and for key dates.
Key theme is Money!
Reason for Focus: For the first time National Numeracy Day has a theme. For 2025 we’ll be talking about Money, and this is why…Our new research shows that a third of UK adults (32%) say being able to better manage their money is the reason they want to improve their maths and numeracy skills. This goes even higher for parents of young children, and young people. We also know from talking to learners how crippling it can be for our finances to lack confidence with numbers.
We are now seeing a rise in completed Change Initiatives for the Education Scotland self-directed Middle Leaders Leading Change programme. If you’ve started but not yet completed all the online learning, we are hosting sessions in May and June which will focus on how to complete and submit the final Change Initiative for review and certification. This is relevant if you are engaging individually or as part of a Local Authority group.
Click the links below to register for your preferred date:
Wednesday 14th May, 4pm-4.45pm
In addition, we’re celebrating middle leaders and aspiring middle leaders who are engaging with our middle leadership professional learning (Aspiring to Middle Leadership and Middle Leaders Leading Change) at an online event on Wednesday 21st May, from 4pm – 5.30pm. The event will provide an opportunity to share reflections and hear about the learning from colleagues nationally.
Please click here to register for the Middle Leadership Sharing the Learning event.
We are holding an online information evening about the PDA Childhood Practice (SCQF Level 9) on Wednesday, 7th May 2025, from 7.00 PM to 8.00 PM, to register your attendance, please email angie.thomson@edinburghcollege.ac.uk
The PDA Level 9 Childhood Practice is a qualification designed for lead practitioners and managers of childcare and playwork settings. This qualification is equivalent to a university degree and is accepted by the SSSC for registration as lead practitioner/manager.
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