FREE year-long singing CPD

CALLING UPPER PRIMARY TEACHERS! We are offering a FREE year-long singing CPD from September 2025 in Edinburgh. It is designed for, and with primary teachers who have low confidence in singing and music. There is one week left of school term, why not secure your space now? Limited spaces remaining! Supported by Creative Scotland and William Syson Foundation.

LINK: https://lovemusic.org.uk/portfolio/sing-for-wellbeing/

Adobe Express in Scotland

Still getting started with Adobe Express or exploring how to make use of this tool more in your classroom. This teaching pack hosts 35 lessons for the Scottish Classroom. 

Linked to the benchmarks and E's and O's as well as providing lesson plans, video tutorials and pupil handouts it's a great place to thread digital skills through all areas of the curriculum. Make your own copy using the link below!

35 Adobe Express Lessons for Scottish Classrooms

Global Citizenship

Please see below the CLPL offer for 2025/26 which is now available to all ELC staff Current CLPL Offer – Signposts for Global Citizenship 

Their new antiracist website antiracisted.scot is now also available which provides workshops for 2nd, 3rd level. ScotDec have been supporting local authorities with this work and offering CLPL that guides practitioners through this resource and develops anti-racist practice. 

FASD research with ELC Secondary school staff - Are you interested?

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a very common neurodevelopmental condition and disability, which is a result of an alcohol exposed pregnancy. It can impact learning, behaviour, wellbeing, health and relationships for young people. Miranda Eodanable, PhD researcher at Edinburgh University has started to recruit secondary school staff in East Lothian Council for a new study to understand what would help school staff support pupils with FASD. She is keen to speak to secondary staff at different levels (learning assistant/subject teachers/Support for Learning/Pupil Support etc). Seeking staff to be part of research in May and June.

More information here

Recruitment information

Carefest 2025 is coming to you!

Children's Services, the Education Outreach Service and East Lothian Young Carers are in the process of collaborating to offer Carefest 2025 to all schools in East Lothian. 

There will be materials shared to use at in-service, CLPL sessions for staff, cluster based activities for children and young people and networking opportunities on offer.

Please see the attached save the date, more details will follow in August and we hope as many colleagues/schools as possible will support this event for the benefit of the young people across the authority. 

Professional Learning Calendar

The professional learning calendar outlines ALL opportunities for East Lothian Education staff. 

Professional Learning Calendar

GIRFEC e-Learning

The e-learning modules are available at two levels: informed and skilled. The ‘informed’ level applies to any practitioner providing services to the public, especially those likely to come in contact with children, young people and/or their families. The ‘informed’ module may also be helpful for others who wish to gain a general understanding about ‘Getting it right for every child’. The ‘skilled’ level applies to any practitioner likely to come in contact with babies, infants, children, young people and/or their families and carers, especially those working directly with them. The ‘skilled’ module may also be helpful for others who wish to gain more depth of understanding about ‘Getting it right for every child’. 

Education Service Calendar 2024 - 2025

Microsoft Teams

Following progress with Office 365 being accessible to all schools, we will be introducing the addition of Microsoft Teams for staff. IT are working to ensure all staff members have access by Friday 25th April.

Teams will improve methods of communication between school staff and corporate staff and will be available by searching ‘Teams’ in your search bar. Following first access Teams will appear automatically when logging into your device.

To make Teams more accessible, staff can pin the icon to their taskbar. Simply search Teams as before, right click and ‘Pin to Taskbar’.

Support materials were curated by the Digital Champions as Teams rolled out to all corporate staff, to access these support resources please use the link below.

Teams Support Resources

If staff have any difficulties accessing teams, please log a call to itservicedesk@eastlothian.gov.uk