The draft experiences and outcomes for literacy, English and Gàidhlig will be released on Thursday 21 February on the Curriculum for Excellence website.

http://www.curriculumforexcellencescotland.gov.uk

They are also releasing guidance on literacy across the curriculum which emphasises the role of all practitioners involved with children and young people in promoting the development of literacy skills.

Vivienne

Many schools I know already use resources from www.sparklebox.co.uk but for those of you out there who have not paid this website a visit I would recommend it!!

There are loads of FREE downloadable resources which cover nearly every curricular area.

For middle and upper stages of the primary school click on sparklebox2 (or key stage 2) for some fantastic literacy and numeracy downloads (many with an active learning approach!!)

They also seem to update this site quite frequently (particularly good for celebration days e.g Chinese new Year, Pancake Day etc) so it is well worth putting into your favourites and revisiting it once in a while.

Let me know what you think.

Vivienne

The above course is running as a twilight on Wednesday 20th February.

So far there have been over 80 applications for this course (which is great!) and in order for us to accomodate all of you then we have changed the venue to Curl Aberdeen.

If you haven’t yet applied but would like to attend please complete the application form in the CPD directory.

Those of you that have applied should receive confirmation shortly.