Play Pedagogy in Primary 1 and 2  2026 - 27

Bookings will close on Wednesday 17th June 2026.

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Summer Reading Challenge 2026: Read to the Beat with East Lothian Libraries!

The Summer Reading Challenge returns to East Lothian Libraries on 20th June! This time the theme is all things music.

Find out more about free events over the summer holidays, resources for assemblies, and more!

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Ctrl + Alt + Adapt 

Ctrl + Alt + Adapt is a new series of "espresso-shot" webinars designed to help you master the tools you use every day—without the hour-long meeting fatigue. In just 15 minutes, we’re cutting through the noise to give you practical, clever, and creative ways to work smarter, not harder.

No slide decks here. These are high-energy sessions focused on adapting to new tech with confidence. Whether it’s mastering AI, cleaning up your inbox, or discovering a shortcut you never knew existed, we’re here to help you level up.

Sign up to as many of the 18 sessions throughout the year as you’d like by completing this form.

Google Classroom Standardising Success

This training series is designed to help staff achieve complete consistency across Google Classroom, which reduces cognitive load for students and significantly cuts down administrative time for teachers.

Throughout the series, you will learn how to set up a clean, uniform digital classroom by locking down key settings to eliminate clutter and distractions. This covers how to intuitively organise your Classwork tab as a "digital textbook", automate your workflow by scheduling materials and seamlessly distributing assignment templates, and utilise built-in tools like native audio feedback and the Insights Dashboard to monitor and support student engagement. 

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East Lothian Council Education Service Calendar 2026 - 2027

Final Call! Game Jam 2026!

With almost 12 weeks passed of the Game Jam, we hope your ideas are now starting to take shape and you are tinkering and debugging creations.

The Game Jam entry form will close on Monday 1st June.

All learners can enter their games at any point during this time. Please follow the instructions in the form to ensure the game link is shared correctly.

Good luck and Happy Coding!

Together Type 1 from Diabetes UK

Please expand the form for the QR Codes to join the webinars.

Diabetes Training for Schools

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Congratulations Pencaitland Primary School!

A huge well done to Pencaitland Primary School who recently received the Digital Schools Award.

  The Digital Schools Award Scotland is a national programme designed to promote, recognise, and encourage a whole-school approach to digital technology in education. It helps schools assess their progress in digital learning, teaching, and assessment while providing practical support and guidance.  

Well done to all pupils and staff at Pencaitland for this awesome achievement!

East Lothian Education Service Calendar 2025-26

Refugees: The Data Behind the Story

This interactive session will help teachers explore issues around refugees and migration in the classroom, empowering learners with the data literacy skills to critically assess claims they come across in the media.

Scotdec and the Data Education in Schools team will share practical activities and resources on terminology, respectful dialogue, interpreting data and understanding how statistics can be used, or misused, to shape narratives.

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Asthma and Allergy Awareness Training 2026 - 27

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Be Internet Legends (Primary Cyber Reslience and Internet Safety Resources)

Google have partnered with Parentzone to create a series of 12 planned lessons aimed at developing digital citizenship. Find these here!

The Be Internet Legends curriculum pack includes lesson plans, engaging classroom activities, posters, stickers and more.  The curriculum is built around five pillars — Sharp, Alert, Secure, Kind and Brave — and is designed to equip children with the key skills needed to stay safe online including critical thinking and empathy. There are also free downloadable family activities to engage parents and an interactive online game called Interland. 

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. 

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’. 

Campaign Keeping Children Safe and Supported during the school holidays