CfE Twilight Seminar 11th Feb

I'm delivering a twilight seminar for Aberdeen City English and Primary teachers on Curriculum for Excellence. This will take place in Summerhill on Monday 11th February at 4.15pm. Teachers from Aberdeenshire and Moray would be welcome to come along too.

I'll look at the background and rationale of CfE, as well as discussing possible implications for English teaching. Language and Literacy outcomes will hopefully be released next month and this session will provide a context in which they can be considered. It will be best suited to those who have not had an opportunity to engage with CfE in schools.

Information should be out this week, but you can always email me at gomckenzie@aberdeencity.gov.uk if you can't find it or would like further details.

Burns Night Resources

It's Burns night on the 25th of January - if you're thinking of marking the occasion in your classroom or department, LTS have a few pages crammed with links and resources which will help. They look at Burns, Scotttish culture and also poetry in general.





You'll find Early Years resources here,

Primary Resources here

and Secondary resources are here.


In addition to this, the Robert Burns World Federation has organised a range of national and school-based competitions suitable for pupils in primary, secondary and special schools. The closing date for these is not till March 22nd. Full details here.

There are also school-based competions which you can run in areas such as verse-speaking and writing in Scots language. Work can be sent away and rewarded with official certificates from the federation. It may well be that work already completed can be recognised in this way.

I'd love to hear about any Burns-related work going on in schools over the next week or two!