For teachers new to Primary One, who wish to take part in Emerging Literacy networks.  The first network is due on the 15^th of September.  Please sign up through CPD.

Support Networks

Support Network 1 Term 1         Thursday 15^th Sept 2022              15:45 – 16:45

Network One will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around the Phonalogical Awareness Screener and to tour through what is in the Emerging Literacy Share Point Site.

Teachers attending should bring with them their data from the Phonological Awareness Screeners.

Support Network 2 Term 2         Thursday 15^th December 2022    15:45 – 16:45

Network Two will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Concepts of Print/Reading

Teachers attending should have looked at the Highland Literacy Concepts of Print Continuum and the Emerging Literacy Training video 5 on Emerging Literacy.

Support Network 3 Term 3         Thursday 16^th March 2023           15:45 – 16:45

Network Three will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Progression/Writing

Teachers should have accessed the Highland Literacy Oral Language Tool kit and looked at the information around Sequence and Narative prior to the network.

Support Network 4 Term 4         Thursday 1^st June 2023                 15:45 – 16:45

Network Four will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Transition and Achievement of a Level.

For teachers new to Primary One, who wish to take part in Emerging Literacy training or wish a refresher course, the second Session is on the 1^st September with the first Network of the year on September 15^th.  Please sign up through CPD.

Session 2

1^st September 2022 from 15:45 to 17:00 – Concepts of Print and Pre-handwriting Skills

Support Networks

Support Network 1 Term 1         Thursday 15^th Sept 2022              15:45 – 16:45

Network One will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around the Phonalogical Awareness Screener and to tour through what is in the Emerging Literacy Share Point Site.

Teachers attending should bring with them their data from the Phonological Awareness Screeners.

Support Network 2 Term 2         Thursday 15^th December 2022    15:45 – 16:45

Network Two will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Concepts of Print/Reading

Teachers attending should have looked at the Highland Literacy Concepts of Print Continuum and the Emerging Literacy Training video 5 on Emerging Literacy.

Support Network 3 Term 3         Thursday 16^th March 2023           15:45 – 16:45

Network Three will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Progression/Writing

Teachers should have accessed the Highland Literacy Oral Language Tool kit and looked at the information around Sequence and Narative prior to the network.

Support Network 4 Term 4         Thursday 1^st June 2023                 15:45 – 16:45

Network Four will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Transition and Achievement of a Level.

This is a reminder that the training for Members of Senior Management Teams within Primary and Secondary Schools (Highland Council only) in Literacy for All in a World of Diversity, begins today and will run for three days only.

This training will deliver a brief overview of Literacy for All in a World of Diversity.

During the training we will consider:

*Why this model of assessment, intervention and challenge is being put forward within Highland Council

*Ongoing observations and assessments for literacy difficulties and dyslexia

*Gathering information to inform planning for targeted learning and teaching as well as for the identification of Dyslexia, where necessary.

Training will be available on:

Monday 22^nd, August 15:45 – 16:45

Tuesday 23^rd, August 15:45 – 16:45

Wednesday 24^th August 15:45 – 16:45

The training will be on Google Meet (You will receive the code when you sign up, through CPD).

Over this session, we will be running a variety of training session covering different aspects of literacy.

If you wish to take part in any of these sessions, please sign up through the CPD calendar.

The trainings are as follows:

We will be running training over this coming session on Literacy for All in a World of Diversity, considering how to assess for change and progress in all pupils who are experiencing any level of difficulties in areas of literacy, and for gathering the evidence required to be able to make an identification of dyslexia where appropriate.   We will also look at the Three Wave model of Intervention and challenge and how to provide target learning for progress at each of the waves.

Each training will be delivered by an Educational Psychologist and the Literacy Development Officer.

All trainings should be booked through the CPD calendar.

We have different levels of training available.

1. Training for Head Teachers and other members of senior management.
2. Training for Lead Practitioners who will support class teachers in this process.
3. Class teachers.
4. Network Sessions and Drop–in sessions

Training for Head Teachers and other members of senior management.  One twilight session – 15:45 – 16:45 with the options of the following dates:

22^nd Aug, 23^rd Aug,  24^th August 2022

Training for Lead Practitioners (Additional Support for Learning Teachers and Literacy Leads). Two full days of training.  There will be the option of the following dates:

Day One

29^th, 30^th, August, 12^th, 13^th September 2022

Day Two

14^th, 15^th, 16^th, 17^th, November 2022

Training for Class Teachers. Four Twilight sessions – one per term.

Although we have grouped the ASGs, it is not essential that you stick to the dates for your ASG group  if there is a better date for you.  Each person enrolling for training should attend all four sessions, but it may be that they join with another group if a date particular date doesn’t work for them.  Please ask for permission from your line manager first.

There will also be a number of Drop-in Sessions and networks.

For teachers new to Primary One, who wish to take part in Emerging Literacy training or wish a refresher course, training and networks will be available over the course of the year.  Please sign up through CPD.

Session 1

25^th August 2022 from 15:45 to 17:00 – Oral Language and Phonological Awareness.

Session 2

1^st September 2022 from 15:45 to 17:00 – Concepts of Print and Pre-handwriting Skills

Support Networks

Support Network 1 Term 1         Thursday 15^th Sept 2022              15:45 – 16:45

Network One will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around the Phonalogical Awareness Screener and to tour through what is in the Emerging Literacy Share Point Site.

Teachers attending should bring with them their data from the Phonological Awareness Screeners.

Support Network 2 Term 2         Thursday 15^th December 2022    15:45 – 16:45

Network Two will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Concepts of Print/Reading

Teachers attending should have looked at the Highland Literacy Concepts of Print Continuum and the Emerging Literacy Training video 5 on Emerging Literacy.

Support Network 3 Term 3         Thursday 16^th March 2023           15:45 – 16:45

Network Three will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Progression/Writing

Teachers should have accessed the Highland Literacy Oral Language Tool kit and looked at the information around Sequence and Narative prior to the network.

Support Network 4 Term 4         Thursday 1^st June 2023                 15:45 – 16:45

Network Four will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Transition and Achievement of a Level.

For those of you who enjoyed exploring morphology with your class last week, here is another word exploration.

The word expensive is one that we use a lot now.  Everything seems to be getting more and more expensive.  Have you ever stopped to think about what the word expensive really means?  It is an interesting word and full of history.

There are three morphemes (units of meaning) in the word expensive.  Ex + pens + ive

• Ex means very or out of or from
• pens means hang or weigh
• ive means someone or something that does something

So expensive means something that weighs a lot.

This seems a strange meaning for things that cost a lot of money.  Hundreds of years ago, when people bought things in markets, the produce that they were buying was weighed to determine how much they cost.  Goods now usually have a set value so the term expensive doesn’t make as much sense now as it did a long time ago.

Another interesting thing is, why does pens have an e after it when it is at the end of a word and not in the middle?

If a word ends with an s, it usually means that it is a plural word, e.g. dogs, or it is a third person singular verb, e.g. she runs.  It is often put after a word that ends in s that is neither a plural nor a third person singular verb.  So, expense is neither a plural nor a third person singular verb, so it has an e after the s.

Thank you to the Highland Council schools who have so far returned their numbers for the P1 Book Bug Bags and the P2 and P3 Read, Write, Count bags.  Remember the deadline of Friday 24^th of June.

Through Bookbug and Read, Write, Count, every child in Primary 1–3 receives a free bag with books, educational games and writing materials that change on a yearly basis. Read, Write, Count also provides advice and support for learning professionals and families through training events and online resources.

For more information go to:

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/bookbug-picture-book- prizehttps://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading-and-stories/read-write-counthttps://www.booksforall.org.uk/book-awards/

For children with a print disability, who have difficulty with the original versions, you can request a digital version with symbols in four different formats from https://www.booksforall.org.uk/book-awards/

• PowerPoint narrated.
• PowerPoint Switch Prompt.
• Keynote.
• Grid.

Have you ever wondered why some people use the word holiday and some people say vacation?  In the UK, we tend to use the word holiday and in America, the term vacation is generally used. 

The word holiday was first used in the 1500s.  Holiday came from holy day.  Holy days were special days in the religious calendar that were set aside to be days where people didn’t need to work.

In America, the word vacation is used, and it is becoming more popular in the UK too.  This is a very interesting word which is connected to others that we may use. It is built from a root which means empty (even though our holidays are often full) and it is related to words such as vacancy and vacuum.

As we explore the word vacation, it can lead us to learning other words too and what the parts of the words (morphemes) mean.  Learning about morphemes can help us understand some strange spellings in words.  To find out the meaning of morphemes with a Greek or Latin origin, go to https://membean.com/roots .

Have a look at this word matrix.  How many words can you make from this list of prefixes, roots and suffixes?  Can you work out why each of these morphemes was used to create the word?

If you would like to try out more with your class, look at Pick and Mix Spelling.

The following trainings and networks are for teachers in Primary One and others interested in Emerging Literacy as an intervention within Highland Council.

To access the codes for the following trainings and networks, please sign up through the CPD calendar.

Emerging Literacy Training Session 1

16^th June 2022    15:45 – 17:00

In session one we will look at Oral Language and Phonological Awareness

Emerging Literacy Training Session 2

23^rd June 2022    15:45 – 17:00

In session two we will look at Concepts of Print and Pre-handwriting Skills

These two sessions will be repeated on:

Session 1 – 25^th August 2022 – 15:45 to 17:00

Session 2 – 1^st September 2022 – 15:45 to 17:00

Emerging Literacy Support Network 1 – Term 1  

Thursday 15^th Sept 2022              15:45 – 16:45

Network One will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around the Phonalogical Awareness Screener and to tour through what is in the Emerging Literacy Share Point Site

Emerging Literacy Support Network 2 – Term 2  

Thursday 15^th December 2022      15:45 – 16:45

Network Two will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Concepts of Print/Reading

Emerging Literacy Support Network 3 – Term 3  

Thursday 16^th March 2023              15:45 – 16:45

Network Three will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Progression/Writing

Emerging Literacy Support Network 4 – Term 4  

Thursday 1^st June 2023              15:45 – 16:45

Network Four will provide the opportunity to ask questions and share best practice around Transition and Achievement of a Level.