Community Learning and Education Links
Nov 16th, 2006 by Don Ledingham
We held our first of three seminars today to explore links between Community Learning and Education. What was striking was that there are so many existing links between community education - in all its forms and our schools.
The Museum Service support many curricular projects - they even offer a mobile service such as this display at Dunbar Grammar School.
The museum service supported Campie Primary School set up their own exhibition on the Romans.
The Active Schools programme supports one primary school and one secondary schools active school co-ordinator in each of our communities. Our sports development unit promotes and develops sports in all our schools with international level coaches.
The East Lothian Countryside Ranger Service work closely with schools on a wide variety of environmental projects.
The Countryside Rangers set up this river survey for Wallyford Primary School.
The Community Learning and Development Team have arranged a number of school based family learning days which have been exceptionally successful.
Don, the first of your three seminars sounds really interesting and I look forward to finding out more about it. Is there any way I could participate in future seminars? One of our aims for this year as a school is to become more involved in the community and community learning would be a key part of this. Ollie
I’ll be sending out details to schools next week. We took this one as a trial run.
I thought Thursday’s “seminar” was terrific, and a very valuable opportunity to meet others with a similar agenda. It’s striking how appropriate the various departments that met (sports, ranger service, museums, community learning) are for fostering the sort of cross-curricular learning that the Curriculum For Excellence expects. I look forward to meeting with schools to explore opportunities for collaboration!
yes seminar was very interesting. The conversations led me to get on with setting upm y own blog
Oops, Last comment seemed to have been sent before I had finished when I pressed space bar- still getting used to software. Check out my blog for more comments on this seminar and also IOL Scotland conference.
Looking forward to reading your blog Bill - what is the URL? Ollie
Bill Stephen’s Outdoor Ed Blog is at http://edubuzz.org/blogs/billstephen There’s a link on the Exc-el home page too.
Thanks David!