Aberdeen City’s Curriculum Support Team

New year, new exciting developments, new courses.

Working closely with the developmental Physical Education team from Edinburgh University, we are pleased to offer a number of “cutting edge” courses.

The first one was actually on Monday, 28th January, from 6.30p.m. -9p.m., when 38 keen people turned up at Summerhill to hear Mike Jess tell us about early years physical activity/education and development.

This successful seminar will be followed up in May (16th) with a whole day on
Developmental Physical Education in the Primary School, with a focus on Curriculum for Excellence, innovative and inclusive practice and support materials to further develop this key area.

Application forms will be out with a range of courses on offer for that day (soon). However, if you feel that this is for you, please don’t hesitiate to get in touch and I will put your name on the growing list.

As part of the drive to support teachers with CPD in PE, the postgraduate course 3-14 physical education has now signed up a further 6 class teachers. This brings the total number of teachers on the course to 20. Aberdeen is seen as a hub for this course and we work with colleagues from Aberdeenshire, Moray, Orkney and Shetland. It is all very exciting and goes hand in hand with practical and theoretical support courses for teachers in Basic and Early Moves and Movement for Excellence.

Movement for Excellence is part of a research project in partnership with Edinburgh university. More of this in a later blog.

Excellent website is available at http://www.educationcity.com/start/
Good for all subject areas.

Hi All,

This is just to let you know that Edublogs have made available a new email subscription service for individual blog sites.

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The 2007-08 Curriculum Support Team Newsletter is now available.

You can download a copy of the newsletter from here, or to view individual articles from the newsletter, go to the CST Newsletter Page, which can be found in the CST Essential Information section above.

Multiple hard copies of the newsletter will be sent to schools with an accompanying circular on Friday 11th January 2008.

Below is a link to a site for Hounslow Language Service which has EAL Numeracy Word Booklets for various languages. The booklets can be freely downloaded. I spoke with Karen Kedem from Hounslow Language Service and she has agreed that there are no copyright issues . The site also has EAL books for other subjects. The booklets are available at the site below. When you arrive on the homepage for Hounslow Language Service click on the parents and visitors link. That will take you to the page with a search facility. Type ‘Maths Word Book’ into the search box at the top left which will take you to the appropriate page.
www.hvec.org.uk

The Education ICT team has a blog at http://www.abernet.org.uk/jist%20haiverin/ - pop in and leave comments.

I have added a list created by Liz Anderson which provides details of the Curriculum Support Team contacts.

Curriculum Support Team List

I have added a link to the engagement process from the Learning and Teaching Scotland website here.

I have also added a link to the mathematical outcomes which incorporate numeracy here.

Money Week is a resource which can be downloaded free. It was created by pfeg which is English based and LTScotland have adapted it to suit the Scottish system. The resource aims to raise financial awareness in primary schools during a week of activities which involves the whole school. I have attached a sheet with the a list of possible contacts for the various topics and stages and I will add to this list if and when I find other useful contacts. The resource is also useful for key tasks. Click here for link MONEY WEEK CONTACTS

A gentle reminder to all colleagues who submit applications to attend our face to face workshops and courses - please remember to send in your applications as early as possible, and at least two weeks prior to the date of the course.

This allows us time to confirm final numbers with course presenters, catering providers and venues, and where courses are oversubscribed it gives us time to notify any unsuccessful applicants.

Occasionally we have to cancel courses which are undersubscribed, so we need to know final numbers well in advance of the course in order to decide whether or not the course can go ahead.

Many thanks.