Education Scotland has published the new guidance document ‘Realising the Ambition: Being me’ This guidance is for anyone who works with and for babies and young children in all areas of early learning and childcare and early primary school. Education Scotland state: “Realising the Ambition: Being Me builds upon the original principles and philosophy of […]
When: Wednesday 11th March 2020 – 5pm – 7pm Where: Inverness College UHI, 1 Inverness Campus, Inverness. IV2 5NA About this event: This is a presentation on the research findings from a 9-month study exploring innovative models of ELC and an opportunity for you to provide your views/feedback. Exploring innovative models of ELC to sustain […]
Cyber Scotland Week (CSW) 2020 takes place between 17th – 23rd February. This will be a weeklong festival of events on cyber awareness, cyber careers and innovation in cybersecurity. During this time organisations large and small are being encouraged to join in. Examples of how we can get involved include: Be part of the conversation […]
The Scottish Government are consulting on the Parental Involvement Act – Statutory Guidance. “The Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act 2006 sets out the role parents, schools (including nursery classes) and education authorities must play in ensuring all parents are fully involved in the life and work of the school and engaged in their children’s learning”. […]
Highland Psychological Services have produced new EASEYS (Encourage and Support Early Years Skills for Additional Support Needs) – supporting inclusion for Early Learning and Childcare Expansion. Highland Psychological Services introduce the resources by asking us to consider “the impact of the expanded hours on children with Additional Support Needs (ASN)?” along with stating: “Some of the […]
This week is Children’s Mental Health week and this year the theme is ‘Find your Brave’. Place2Be, the children’s mental health charity has some useful tips for parents and carers to help encourage children and young people to ‘find their brave’ and overcome challenges. It seems that 1 in 8 children and young people could […]
Are you involved in a Community Group or Third Sector Organisation and keen to ensure your Child Protection Policy is appropriate and robust to help keep children safe? Then the Highland Child Protection Committee’s Child Protection Policy and Toolkit for Community Groups and Third Sector Organisations is for you! The toolkit contains a range of […]
Highland Council shared reviewed guidance on deferred and early entry to school on their ‘elchighland blog’ Click here to access the post for full information and download the guidance.
A recent newsletter from the Northern Alliance highlighted the website Parentzone Scotland for supporting Family Engagement. This website is a tool to support parents ‘be at the heart of their child’s learning’ by providing useful information on a broad range of topics including curriculum, schools, additional support needs and ideas for supporting their child’s learning […]
We wanted to share a lovely example of how our Family Service workers are promoting early literacy and family learning through PEEP sessions which support parents and children to learn together. At a recent PEEP session, one of our FS practitioners was talking with parents about the benefits of sharing books with babies. Parents of […]
Bookbug are inviting you to join them at their ‘Bookbug Shared Practice Event’ on Wed 4th March 2020, 10am – 2pm at Canal Park, Inverness: you can find out more about how Bookbug is being used by a whole range of practitioners in communities and family homes throughout your area and beyond. For further information […]
The following is a letter from Mollie Rawnsley sharing the details of her exciting project has come to us via ‘Generations Working Together’ – If you are interested in taking part, or feel like you might know someone who might like to write to you, please get in touch either via e-mail: [email protected] or by […]
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