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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.
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?

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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 [...]

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, [...]

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I met with the PTs of the English departments this afternoon to begin to look at the technology requirements of the modern English classroom. The task was to look at current provision, consider current curricular ‘requirements’ for technology and to look towards future developments and to consider the implications. We recently [...]

 
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 [...]