The SQA wants our feedback
Qualifications development is under way. Want to have a say in our young learners’ curriculum? The SQA welcome all input. Read about it here, and get active!
Special Summer week for S5’s at Heriot-Watt
If you’ve got an S5 this Autumn, you might alert them to the ‘Brightest Watts Summer Week’, 23-27 July, 10.00-16.00. Details here.
BHS coverage in the foreign press!
The Donegal Democrat reports on Jonathan Foley’s Gaelic football programme at Broughton, launched in February of this year partly to promote Gaelic games outside Ireland, and partly to give boys another way of socializing positively. Interestly, this programme includes a one-hour class each week, in which the boys learn about the social and political foundations of the game. Soon they will offer a presentation to the school on what they have gotten from this remarkable new undertaking.
See the whole article in the Democrat here.
Let S6s try teaching, say MPs
Want to channel talent into the teaching profession? Let 6th-years give it a go, says a Commons Education Select Committee in a report this month called ‘Great Teachers’. This would give ambitious school leavers a chance to see what it’s like at the front of a class, help them anticipate how best to apply to training progammes, and encourage them to think how they could bring their own skills and knowledge into future classrooms in new ways. Schools Minister Nick Gibb laments how many top grads choose careers besides teaching. This might be a way to change that.
Read more about this exciting idea here.
summer school?
Primary school pupils in north London will experiment with US-style summer school this July, to help them overcome some perceived achievement disparities with more advantaged schools in the area. Its format, a combination of small tutorials and personal mentoring, has proven very effective in American schools. The Education Endowment Foundation will be monitoring closely to see if similar results obtain on this side of the Atlantic. All going well, the programme is set to expand to more locations in the summer of 2013.
Read about it here.
Broughton High School Parent Council 