Scott Lavery\’s Enterprise Blog

It has been a while since I last gave an update on my work in Wallyford. All classes are now using the WHY question where relevant and discussion with both staff and pupils has shown this to be successful in improving motivation.
Since returning after the October break, I have been working closely with the [...]

I have been working alongside the staff and children in the various classes at Whitecraig Primary School for the past four weeks looking at how we can join the main agendas together to improve teaching and learning. As in Wallyford, I have been focusing on consistency across the school and mirroring in the various [...]

I had a very interesting session with the staff at Whitecraig Primary yesterday.  The head teacher had asked me to work alongside staff in school to identify ways of developing teaching and learning in consulation with the children.  This work will mirror what I am carrying out at Wallyford. 
Yesterday was about the staff refecting on [...]

I spent the morning in 3 different classes at Wallyford Primary School on Monday.  This was my first session focusing on developing teaching and learning in line with the major educational agendas.  I was developing learning intentions (What) and asking pupils to explore the relevance of the lession (Why) whilst setting their own success criteria [...]

 
I was asked to showcase our work on ‘Joining the Agendas’ at the Learning Festival on Wednesday.  In order to make this relevant to the audience, I enlisted the help of staff at both Gullane Primary School and St Gabriel’s RC Primary School.  Both schools have demonstrated clear links within teaching and learning to the [...]

Following on from the successful pilot project last session at Musselburgh Burgh last session, I am now leading the Joining the Agendas workshop with the whole staff at Wallyford Primary School.  The idea behind this is to allow staff the opportunity to reflect on their practice and give support to them in relation to learning [...]

I have now completed my pilot project at Musselburgh Burgh Primary School with a variety of staff ranging from the Support for Learning teacher to the probationer in Primary 1.  It was refreshing to work with such an open and receptive staff who were willing to look at new ideas and improve the quality of [...]

I have been extremely pleased with the progress of the project in Wallyford and how it has been receievd by both the children and staff involved.  The P7’s now have a number of projects running in class which they have responsibility for and also which incorporate elements of AiFL and CfE.  The children themselves were extremely [...]

I attended the inter authority event looking at the science outcomes that had been released recently.  The purpose of the day was again to engage with the outcomes and look at how we could address these in different scenarios.  Our task was to focus on the transition from P7 to S1 whilst focusing on the [...]

We ran our joint ICT and Enterprise event entitled Can You Make a Difference on Wednesday.  The purpose of the day was to give the participants the ICT skills in order to plan and run a campaign based around an issue in their local community.
We ran two workshops, one on podcasting and the other on [...]