Posted in Education Committee, Elected Members, Extra-curricular, Finance, Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2006 No Comments »
9.00 - 10.30 Education Committee agenda setting meeting. This is a meeting with John Ross and Maureen Talac (convener and vice-convener of the education committee) about the papers that are to be presented at the next education committtee. We finished the meeting with an update of the budget suituation. It is likely that we will [...]
Posted in Blogging, Elected Members, Finance on Nov 17th, 2005 No Comments »
9.00-10.00 Maureen Grainger and Claire Sime of our Educational Psychology Service showed me some of their work relating to summarising educational theories and learning styles. This section of our website has the potential to provide easily accessible and useful information to teachers about learning theory.
After a brief chat and demo' Claire and Maureen worked on [...]
Posted in Accountability, Elected Members, Finance, Leadership, Performance Indicators on Oct 14th, 2005 No Comments »
8.15-9.30am Weekly Education Officers Meeting. Each person reports on issues that have arisen in schools over the past week. It proves to be a very useful forum to share information and to pick up on concerns.
Colin Sutherland (HT North Berwick HS) arrived at 9.30am to help us develop our attainement evaluation procedures. I'm keen that [...]
Posted in Early Years, Elected Members, School visits, Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2005 No Comments »
Met Maureen Jobson, education officer, at 8.30am. We talked about the work she has been doing this week with all our nursery nurses and teachers. The sessions have been looking at how we can improve the planning process. There can be no doubt that an enriching and well structured nursery experience provides a very sound [...]
Posted in Elected Members, Planning on Aug 21st, 2005 No Comments »
I’m working on a paper to take to the Education Committee in September. The paper will set out an attainment actin plan for the next three years. The starting point is an analysis of East Lothian Attainment in comparison with our comparator authorities. The results of this analysis are very positive and demonstrate that we [...]