East Lothian EduHub
The place to find it all for East Lothian Education staff!
Investigate how Artificial Intelligence impacts your life as a class, and win some top prizes!
Scottish AI Alliance is very excited to announce their Scottish school's competition: Me, Myself & AI. They are inviting school classes in Scotland to investigate how Artificial Intelligence impacts their life and share their findings as a piece of creative work which will be exhibited at the Scottish AI Summit 2023.
Competition partners, The National Robotarium are supplying the Grand Prize for winners: a class visit to their centre for Robotics & Artificial Intelligence!
Sign up here - Me, Myself and AI: Scottish Schools Competition - NOW OPEN! — Scottish AI Alliance
Professional Learning
Access to Work Mental Health Support Service ‘Virtual Appointment Day’ 13th December
A member of The Better Health Generation team will call you at your chosen time between 7.00 - 17.00 to discuss how they can support your Mental Health – whether it be stress, anxiety, low mood or generally feeling burnt out. During the 30-minute call they will gather your basic details including your; National Insurance number, email address and start date of your current employment. This is fully confidential, and we as your employer will not be made aware of any appointments or bookings.
Further information can be found on the Able Futures website here. You can apply via the Able Futures website at any time, you don't have to wait until the 13th December if you prefer to self-refer before the appointment day.
SEIC - Play Pedagogy
Catriona Gill from Education Scotland will deliver a session on providing an introduction to child-centred play pedagogy. It will explore the ways in which young children learn and the best ways we can support them. The session will focus on the child-centred pedagogy in practice cycle as set out in Realising the Ambition (2020:48)
This session is suitable for all early year's educators.
STEM Edinburgh
Below are the CLPL offers from STEM Edinburgh from up until the end of term. These are focussed towards to Primary but secondary colleagues are more than welcome to attend.
For more details click on each title.
Curious Teachers Club - STEM Nation
CIRCLE Surgeries 2022 - 23
These 1 hour online drop-in sessions are designed for education practitioners who wish to discuss the practicalities of and share examples of using CIRCLE to improve inclusive practice in their setting. They will be facilitated by the CIRCLE Implementation Team to support discussion but content will be driven by the attendees.
No need to book a space just join one of the surgeries by clicking the date below.
All surgeries run from 4-5pm
Spotlighting Equity
Click this link to the latest issue of the Spotlighting Equity sway publication, highlighting current equity insights, new publications and monthly spotlights on all things equity. This issue focuses on improving attendance, as well as highlighting the launch of Scotland’s Equity Toolkit.
Why not subscribe to the sway and keep up to date with all the fantastic resources that are available to practitioners in schools, CLD and the Third Sector.
Children and Young People Experiencing Violence Against Women and Girls - Monday 28th November 2022, 2.00pm - 4.00pm
Embedding Safe & Together in Scotland - Creating Domestic Abuse Informed Systems, Service and Workforces - Tuesday 29th November 2022, 1.30pm – 4.00pm
Violence Against Women and Girls and Mental Health - Wednesday 30th November 2022- 9.30am-11.30am -
Violence Against Women and Girl and Community Safety - Thursday 1st December 2022, 10am – 12.30pm
Commercial Sexual Exploitation - Tuesday 6th December, 10am-12.30pm
Outlook Support (2022-11-04 09:35 GMT)Outlook support recorded session
Focusing on areas such as, Time Management, Organisation, Tips and Tricks and Mailbox Maintenance this session has all the elements required to streamline your use of Outlook.
Exploring The Four Capacities
Exploring The Four Capacities is a thought paper, commissioned by Education Scotland, compiling the views of over 150 educators and over 600 learners from across Scotland’s education system. It’s been designed to help inform the National Discussion on Education and to stimulate your own exploration of the four capacities. This paper will be useful to all educators and settings exploring curriculum rationale and curriculum design. Find out more.
16 Days of Activism 2022
News
Info Point.pdf
Virtual Rights Assembly
Want to engage your pupils in Rights Respecting School content? Unsure of where to start? Come and join the East Lothian wide virtual Rights Assembly!
Join us every Friday (starting on 2nd September) from 11.30am-11.45am, where we will explore learning ABOUT, THROUGH, and FOR rights.
Suitable for P1-P7 pupils. Assemblies are fun, fast paced, lively and very enjoyable!
Click this link and join in: CLICK HERE
Support
Guidance - IT Procedures and Processes
The document in the link below aims to highlight some of the procedures and processes that staff within Schools/Education may find useful as they engage and interact with the central IT team.
East Lothian Council have recently created a Google Classroom space called 'SEEMiS Support' for Teachers and Admin staff.
To access the classroom simply click on the invitation link below