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At the Early Years Head Teacher’s meeting today, we evaluated our use of Learning Stories in the Early Years to record children’s achievements. The Learning Stories were introduced in East Lothian two years ago, the purpose to involve children in making decisions about their learning, to record achievements and show the progress made.
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Today, Stenton Primary held a Curriculum for Excellence assembly for Parents. The aim was to raise awareness of the new curriculum and to explain, in the words of the children, what it means in practice. In the last few weeks as I have attended events as the new outcomes and experiences [...]

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I attended a drop in meeting today at the Musselburgh cluster with Prmary 1 teachers to look at how Active Learning is developing within their classrooms. Primary 1 teachers received a half day training in the principles of Active Learning in June and have been experimenting with implementation this session. Claire Lavelle, [...]

I have managed to visit most of the school in the Haddington cluster over the last few weeks in my capacity as QIO. Yesterday I spent the afternoon in Kings Meadow primary. The purpose of the visit was fairly informal, a chance to get to know the school better, meet the teachers and children [...]

I attended the Achievement Awards at Dunbar Grammar, an annual event to celebrate the wide range of Achievements of pupils last session.  This was about Achievement in the true sense, not only were awards given for attainment in exams but for achievement in sports, music, drama, dance and out of school activities.  What was really [...]

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Today we had a joint Local Authority presentation and discussion about Curriculum for Excellence. It was a chance for us to hear the latest developments from those close to the initiative and to find out how our colleagues in other LEAs are moving forward. There were some clear messages regarding the science [...]

I had a really enjoyable visit at St Mary’s Primary School in Haddington today. One of the classes I visited was a Primary 6/7 class with their teacher Patrick Griffen. Patrick has started an interesting system for working with the class this year, and the pupils were very keen to tell me about it. [...]

I attended the latest meeting for Glow key contacts today. We were updated on various outcomes of the pilots that many authorities, including East Lothian, have been involved in. One of the interesting presentations was from Anna Rossvoll from Aberdeenshire. She has been involved in the latest phase, like ourselves, but has [...]

I visited Haddington Infant school today to look at the progress made by our little bloggers group - P3 pupils using the blogging platform for formative assessment. There were a few technical difficulties but I managed to see the second group in action. The class teacher, Robert, was ever positive but I could tell [...]