I went along to meeting this afternoon to find out more about the Standard Council for Community Learning and Development. (CLD)
The new council will have three main functions:
• to approve professional qualifications and courses for everyone involved in CLD
• to offer a registration system for everyone delivering community learning and development
• to support induction to the profession and [...]
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We are holding a conference in October entitled:
Curriculum Architecture in East Lothian Schools: Building A Curriculum for Excellence
Objective - To provide direction for policy decisions relating to curriculum architecture in our secondary schools.
Some of the issues which will be discussed at the conference will include:
Timetabling; Class Organisation (setting); Age and Stage; Choice and Personalisation; [...]
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I had a very enjoyable morning at Loretto RC Primary School this morning to help them update their Behaviour Policy.
We looked at their own policy and compared it with another school’s. It proved to be a very useful exercise as we were able to identify strengths in both.
The key to the success of any policy [...]
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We’ve completed the template which schools can use to complete their Standards and Quality report.
The background and rationale behind to this development can be accessed here
We will be launching the new format for all schools on the 21st March at our Head Teacher Conference. Those schools who volunteered for the on-line version will receive additional [...]
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We held an Exc-el Open Group meeting this evening.
We discussed the permission forms which parents will be asked to sign to enable their children to participate and have their images displayed on school websites.
Christine - AKA guineapigmum - suggested that it would be good to speak to school boards about blogging/use of images/learning through the [...]
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We held our second public meeting in Dunbar Primary School on Tuesday to discuss the proposed primary school provision in Dunbar.
We tried a “post-it” exercise for the first time to try to capture the opinions of every person who attended the event. Everyone completed ‘post-its’ with their ideas, questions and possible solutions and stuck them on a notice-board.
The [...]
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