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Mhairi Stratton from Humbie primary spent last summer developing an early numeracy tracker based on he principles of Maths Recovery. The purpose of the resource was to use maths recovery assessments within the classroom context to know where children are in their development and understanding of number and to track their progress. [...]

Buggy Buddy books in action
One week ago today, we held a target literacy conference in East Lothian. Literacy is a key focus for the authority and this conference was the starting point for building a coherent strategy to ensure all our children are literate. One of the key outcomes of our Service Improvement [...]

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 [...]

Laughing Squid
We have recently decided to review the ‘various’ Acceptable Use Policies that have grown in our authority in the last few years as technology and the Internet have developed. We have tried to streamline the paperwork as much as possible, to make it accessible and relevant whilst still stiking that balance to ensure [...]

Thank you to David Gilmour for providing the link for the Active Learning website mentioned in my previous post.  It is still under development but definitely worth keeping an eye on: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/activelearning.

Edublogger
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 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 [...]

Edublogger
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. [...]