Please find below the Northern Alliance Emerging Literacy Term 1 Update. The update includes: Debrief from the first Emerging Literacy network (August/ September) Phonological Awareness ALONGSIDE Phonics Pencil Control Skills Toolkit. CLICK HERE – 18/19 Emerging Literacy Term 1 Update
Over the last academic session a new Literacy and English progression for the Early Level of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE), which provides guidance for practitioners to supports children’s development within and through the Level towards the CfE Benchmarks for Early Level, has been developed with education and health practitioners across Read more…
Today we are pleased to share the progress of work across the Northern Alliance through Raising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication. The attached end of year report (July 2018) summarises the progress made in the Northern Alliance Emerging Literacy workstream as of July 2018. The summary (pgs. 2 – Read more…
Last week Caol Primary School (Highland Council) won the ‘School and Community Partnership Reading Journey’ award at the First Minister’s Reading Challenge award ceremony. The young people and staff at Caol have shared how they’ve developed ‘Reading is so Caol’ in their community. This year we have had the pleasure Read more…
Over the last week we have had five days of events which have brought together practitioners from across the Northern Alliance as part of the Emerging Literacy workstream. On Tuesday and Wednesday we brought together 150 practitioners to celebrate and share the impact of Emerging Literacy on their professional learning Read more…
Today we are pleased to share the progress of the Northern Alliance Raising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication workstream. The interim report (March 2018) summarises the progress made in the Northern Alliance Raising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication workstream as of March 2018. Interim Report Summary – Key Read more…
Today we are pleased to share the progress of the Northern Alliance Rasising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication workstream. The interim report (November 2017) summarises the progress made in the Northern Alliance Raising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication workstream as of November 2017. Interim Report Summary – Key Read more…
The Northern Alliance aims to improve the outcomes for children and young people. Through the working partnerships within and across local authorities and within and across health boards, effective collaboration is core to the improvements across the Northern Alliance. As part of the Raising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication Read more…
As part of ongoing school self evaluation, linked to How Good Is Our School 4 (HGIOS4) and How Good Is Our Early Learning and Childcare (HGIOELC), an audit tool to support schools in taking a whole school approach to Emerging Literacy has been created and is being shared through the Read more…
The Northern Alliance Raising Attainment in Literacy, Language and Communication report from July 2017 detailed the positive impact on practitioners and outcomes for children through their collaboration in taking a developmental approach to emerging literacy. Based on the emerging literacy approach, originally developed in Highland Council, the seven Local Read more…