We held our first meeting of the Creative Arts and Education Group.
As has become a pattern for first meetings it was more of a conversation about what people thought should be the purpose of the group.
The essential focus of the group is to enable us to give some shape and consistency to the wide variety [...]
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I talked about ‘Passion through achievement’ at the recent
Outdoor Connections conference. My point had been that too often we think that its enough just to expose children to an activity for them to be ‘turned on’. I disagreed with this by arguing that we need to enable children to experience success (in their own terms) [...]
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Left home at 5.50am to get to Dundee for the conference. Edinburgh bypass was clogged at 6.30am!! Got to Dundee for 9.00am. My
presentation seemed to go down reasonably well. I had lunch with Heather Reid “BBC’s Heather the Weather”, who was chairing the event; Bernard McLeary, Chief Exec’ Learning and Teaching Scotland ;and Colin Brown, [...]
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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 [...]
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Friday 2nd December
8.15 - 9.45 Education Officer’s; Meeting - Sorted out the programme for the 25th January HT meeting. Each education officer gives an update of their week and any issue arising. This is becoming more focused as we go on and is helping to support more informed and purposeful practice.
10.00 Staff Briefing - I [...]
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