Posted in CPD, Finance, Integrated Children's Services, Leadership, Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2006 No Comments »
9.15-10.00 Directorate Meeting- focussed on the Better Integrated Services Paper. We agreed in principle to reflect upon how we can best deliver Staged Assessment and Intervention. We are going to organise an event for our co-ordinators of pupil support in schools, a number of HTs and a range of reps from children's services. The intended [...]
Posted in Finance, Learning and teaching, Vocational on Feb 13th, 2006 No Comments »
TFT Number 2
Check out the new part of the site written by our Educational Psychology Service entitled -
Everything you wanted to know about Teaching and Learning and ………..more. I think this is a tremendous resource and demonstrates how educational psychologists can play a central role in developing teaching and learning. All too often Educational Psychologists’ [...]
Posted in Finance, School visits on Jan 19th, 2006 No Comments »
I had hoped to get along to the Prestonpans cluster meeting this morning but we have to submit proposed efficiency savings and their consequences by Monday lunchtime. Spent all morning working with Derek Haywood with assistance from Anthony Gillespie and Alan Borthwick.
1.00-2.00 Met with Alan Ross and Sheila McKendrick to shape our presentations about inclusion [...]
Posted in ASL, Finance, Planning, School visits on Jan 11th, 2006 No Comments »
9.00-9.30 Met Seonad McGillivary, HT Stoneyhill, and Debbie Beveridge, HT Wallyford. They are in the office all day to participate in our new induction programme for HTs. In addition to meeting me they met, Alan Blackie; Carolyn Walker from Personnel; Derek Haywood; and Carolyn Smith, Finance. I managed to have lunch with them and showed [...]
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 Early Years, Finance on Dec 8th, 2005 No Comments »
9-12.00 Business Continuity scenario exercise This exercise had been set up by Steven McLachlan (the Councils Emergency Planning Officer) and Chris Lawson (our Health and Safety Officer). When I first met Steven and Chris to chat about emergency planning I was worried that we didnt seem to have any emergency plans in place in the [...]
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 Bullying, Early Years, Finance, Head Teachers, Integrated Children's Services, School visits, Using data on Oct 6th, 2005 No Comments »
Met with David Scott and Donald McGillivary fro the Association of Headteachers Scotland (AHTS) from 8.30 - 10.00am. Very enjoyable meeting and characterised what I hope will be my relationship with unions. We solved a lot of problems and they made some very useful suggestions. One of the key suggestions was that we develop a [...]
Posted in Finance, Head Teachers, School visits, Unions on Sep 12th, 2005 No Comments »
In early to make up for not being in on Friday. However, the fact that I can access my e mail at home had enabled me to respond to all my emails last night. There was still plenty to clear.
Meeting of Management Team at 8.30am. Alan Blackie has been on holiday for the past two [...]