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Monthly Information Digest August 2012

The East Lothian Physical Activity & Health Partnership recently  invited Jane Crawford Senior Development Officer for Play Scotland to lead a discussion at the partnership on early years play and the need for a ‘play forum’ in East Lothian. A lively discussion was held during the meeting and a number of options for better co-ordinating [...]

Morag Nicholson – senior health promotion specialist and service champion recently brought this web resource to my attention. It is an interesting interactive baby brain map site http://www.zerotothree.org/baby-brain-map.html Is this the kind of thing that  could be promoted to parents in Scotland? As a 49 year old who considers himself reasonably…[Read more]

Here is the output from the East Lothian Service and Community Champions Action Learning Set held on 23rd August 2010

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Colleagues from the Glasgow City test site came through to East Lothian to give a presentation a ‘Health Bites’ seminar hosted by the East Lothian Public Health team Here is the report from the  seminar held on 15th June 2010 in Musselburgh East Community Learning Centre. The presentation can be viewed in an earlier post Healthy environment [...]

Here is the output from the recent Service Champions Action Learning Set held on 24th June 2010

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Attached is the first E-Guide to Children in Scotland Training and Events  -  August-December 2010. We hope you find this format easy to navigate, and that it saves you  time when it comes to booking places – you can do it all online with  the touch of a button.  With events on subjects from children’s [...]

This  is a great great project looking at speech and language deve;lopment in nursery settings. It is funded by Fairer Scotland and focused on  the Support from the Start target area. The link below is to a newsletter on the work to date. Contact details are in the newsletter for those that want to know more [...]

Pauline Homer alerted us to this paper by The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. It provides evidence for the argument that  ’Early Experiences can alter Gene Expression and affect Long Term Development’

Working Paper

posted on behalf of Pauline Homer   Deprivation and risk – The case for early intervention A new report from Action for Children stressing the importance (and cost effectiveness) of early intervention. Plus a new website which actually does have a lot of useful information on crying, sleeping and how to settle. The name is an acronym, not the [...]

Here is the output from the East Lothian Service Champions Action Learning Set held on 12th April 2010

Session 6

Professor Aline Wendy Dunlop   was the third presenter at a seminar on readiness for learning held on the 6th May at the McSense centre in Mayfield, Dalkeith. 

Professor Aline-Wendy Dunlop is a Chair of Childhood and Primary Studies; responsibilities include providing leadership in applied educational research and teaching and learning. She is…

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  Dr Christine Stephen of the Stirling Institute for Education  provided the second presentation at the readiness for learning seminar held on the 6th may at the Mcsense centre in Mayfield, Dalkeith. Christine spoke on ‘Readiness for learning – what is it and how do we improve it?’ I really enjoyed Christine’s presentation, perhaps more so because…[Read more]

On the 6th may a seminar was held at the McSesne conference centre in Mayfield, Dalkeith – looking at the concept of readiness for learning. The seminar was attended largely by Support from the Start service champions for Mid and East Lothian, but also by a number of headteachers and other interested professionals. Dr Rosemary [...]

The Fast tracking of forest school is one initiative within Support from the Start – over the last year we have commissioned two forest school leader training courses for East Lothian staff that priortised staff in the target are.. The folowing year we hope to train more forest school leaders in partnership with Edinburgh Forest [...]

Linden Ross a community champion from the Homestart organisation has been hosting a series of civic conversation events focused on bringing together services to look at early years issues effecting local communities. Here is the summary document from the Civic Conversation event held in the Early Years Centre a little while ago.  I attended this [...]