Quality Improvement Officer, Early Years. Passionate about improving outcomes for children and families. Views are my own.

Joined February 2015
Fantastic opportunity to apply for Headteacher at Lauder Primary school. It is a fantastic modern school with an amazing community.  myjobscotland.gov.uk/council…
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Check out our TRANSITIONS page for key messages on Vertical & Horizontal Transitions in a Nursery setting. Useful Tools pages for self-evaluation & professional reading as well as a useful Transitions audit. blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/sb… #sbcearlylevelportal
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Great day at @inspireSBC Learning Festival! A highlight was @Bruce_NextLevel talking about how professional learning led to improvements in learning & teaching at BHS. Big shout out to our colleagues in the @inspireSBC team on a very successful 3 days! 👏
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Kirsty (Early Years Inspire) & Kate (SBC Early Years Teacher Team) spent a great day at the #InspiringFestival23 @inspireSBC promoting the appropriate & meaningful use of iPads in Nursery. We had a wee Nursery set-up of our own embedded with iPads -zoom in to see how we did it!
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Crikey! I'm not a physics teacher, or even a secondary teacher but this tweet just looks absolutely incredible! What a massive undertaking to produce this bank of resources, and how generous to share so freely! @Headteacherchat
Here it is folks. All of GCSE Physics in video format. Every single lesson. Use this. Share this. Enjoy. youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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📢 Calling all NQTs for the class of 2023/24 📢 If you’re heading down to the beautiful Scottish Borders, please do get in touch. We’re excited to welcome you to the SBC family 😊 @SBCProfLearning @sbcincludes @SBCEquity1 @scotborders @inspireSBC
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Grace Frew retweeted
We're looking for Modern Apprentices to join us as Early Years Practitioners The successful candidates will work in various areas/early learning and childcare settings within the organisation and work towards an SVQ level 3 Social Services. Find out more ow.ly/5spI50Otznh
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We're proud to support and welcome new childminders to the profession every day – establishing a flexible, childcare service for families to access high-quality care. We still need more childminders to grow the workforce and expand the team! ow.ly/ZWuI50OmCOl
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Exciting opportunity to join our highly regarded&successful Maths faculty. We are a Apple Distinguished School with a fantastic staff! Find out more from our PT Maths @SamanthaMcHenr3 Her words “A great wee school and great craic too 😊” myjobscotland.gov.uk/council…
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Thank you to the children, staff, families, Fr Andrew and Archbishop Cushley for making this morning such a wonderful celebration. The presentations and questions from pupils to the Archbishop were outstanding. Well done to all involved.
A wonderful occasion for everyone at St. Joseph's PS,Selkirk today where the children were able to showcase the great work of the school and how proud they are of it with Archbishop Cushley. @SCESDirector @SBCEducation1
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📣 Get ready for the launch of a new podcast - Educating Borders! 🎧 Join us next Wednesday as we dive deep into the fascinating world of education in the Scottish Borders. ▶️ Check out the trailer here: spoti.fi/3V9Uc88 #EducatingBorders #OneTeam
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#SkillsQuestBorders day 2 today saw young people complete workshops delivered by our partners&businesses. We are so grateful for their time planning&delivering activities, thank you! Thanks to @jsinclairSBC & @FrewGrace for popping by to experience the buzz! #SBCequity
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An inspiring 1st of 3 days at #SkillsQuestBorders in p/ship with @DYWBorders 80 pupils in S2&S3 explored meta skills in workshops provided by partners&businesses. Huge thanks to @KatHamilSmith for her inspiring talk, sharing her journey to success & #LivedExperience #SBCequity
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Our ELC and P1 pupils had a brilliant time playing with the new @Sphero Indis this morning for the first time. We can’t wait to develop our early coding skills in the coming weeks! @inspireSBC @SpheroEdu
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Some highlights from Term 1 😊… #Disrupters, iPads, maths, writing to companies, Teams meeting with @PechaKucha recycling, outdoor learning, making friends, partner school in India, being in the newspapers, being on TV, #SDGs , #COP26, having fun! 🌍💚 #ThisIsLfS 👇@SBCLfS
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From BBC Scotland Lockdown Learning: here are some resources to help support learners, teachers and parents in Scotland. bbc.co.uk/lockdownlearningsc…
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Practitioners - The National e-Learning Offer webpage provides a single place to find out more about the range of live, recorded and supported resources available. The webpage will be regularly reviewed and updated. You can check it out here: ow.ly/WKVJ50D1zwC
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Getting prepared for next week
Find lots of short help videos on our YouTube Channel m.youtube.com/channel/UCf-7G…
Over 1100 staff in the Schoolhouse Glow Team can access a new channel for support called How Can We Help. There will be daily drop in sessions every morning for technical support and digital learning and teaching as well as key resources. #iaminspirelearning
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