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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.
The [...]

Stenton primary are currently podcasting wonderful descriptions of monsters for children at Athelstaneford to draw. View their post here. Not to be outdone, I thought i would have a go. Stenton Primary - can you guess who’s monster I have drawn?

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.

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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 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 [...]

Apologies for a late post. On Thursday I went to visit Derek Robertson and the Consolarium at Learning and Teaching Scotland in Dundee. For those who have not been yet, the grounds are beautiful and it was a sunny early summer day, so the drive up was also scenic. The building, however, [...]

An invite at the Teaching and Learning group yesterday led me to St Gabriel’s primary in Prestonpans today to hear the feedback from an Active Learning pilot that has been taking place in some of our schools. The pilot has involved bringing learning through play, currently evident in nursery education, to primary 1. [...]

 
One from my daughter, aged 4.
 
On returning from nursery today she said to me, ” Mummy, guess what! Our house corner is a hospital.” “Wonderful,” I said. “Were you playing in the hospital today? What were you … a doctor, a nurse, a patient?” “No she replied, I was a [...]

I  visited the p2/3 class at Whitecraig primary today to look at the work they are doing using Interactive Whiteboards.  The school fairly recently had one installed in every classroom and I wanted to see the impact they have made in Learning and Teaching. 
I am somewhat of a late convert to interactive whiteboards but [...]