Falkirk Pedagogy and Curriculum Team

Ready to transform your classroom questioning from a simple check for understanding to a powerful tool for deep thinking and engagement?

Join us for our spotlight session this week. Let's make every question count!

🗓️ Date: Thursday, October 9th
⏰ Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
💻 Where: MS Teams

It was great to have Yvonne Manning with us last night for the second ‘Reading Unpacked’! We explored how to foster a love of reading and how our text choices shape reader identity.

Thank you so much for having me along. It was a great session and I’m looking forward to coming back in March to hear about the impact it had on learners in the classroom.

A big thank you to Ashley Page, Falkirk’s Numeracy and Maths Officer for presenting at this week’s core sessions. Ashley’s insights were incredibly valuable and we left feeling inspired and equipped with a wealth of practical strategies to try out!

Excited for Session 2 of 'Cultivating Engagement' CLPL on Monday at the Pedagogy Pod!

This display captures key reflections from our last session.

Next week we're exploring strategies to reduce teacher talk & increase pupil accountability - all key for truly engaging learning!

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Pupil Leadership in Early Years and Primary Webinar An opportunity for teachers and practitioners in early years and primary school to hear about impactful practice around pupil leadership.

Ready to empower the next generation of leaders?

Education Scotland is hosting a webinar on Pupil Leadership in Early Years and Primary.
📅 Thursday, 2 Oct 2025 at 16:00
🔗 Secure your spot now using the link below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pupil-lead...

Reading fluency: why it matters and how to teach it A focus on reading fluency can help to bridge the gap between decoding and comprehension, says Penny Slater, who shares strategies for supporting children to become fluent readers

Reading fluency can help to bridge the gap between decoding and comprehension, so why aren't more schools putting it at the heart of their literacy policy? Penny Slater details what it is and how to master it

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Thank you to Nicola and the dedicated team @glenburnelcc.bsky.social for hosting the British and Irish council Early Years workforce today. Nicola passionately shared their approach to play before the visitors were blown away by the high quality interactions, experiences and spaces in the playrooms🩷

Great teaching and targeted academic support High quality teaching - each day and each hour - is likely to prove the greatest lever for securing success in education. Not only that, but it is likely to be disproportionately beneficial to pupils ...

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‘Great teaching and targeted academic support’

“High quality teaching should remain top of the agenda. Though it is vital to recognise that for some pupils it will not offer the volume of necessary practice posed by targeted academic support.”

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Crafting Great Sentences We can take the brilliant complexity of sentences for granted. Each sentence written in the classroom is a distillation of a near-infinite number of complex moves. For pupils, practising one sent...

💡’Crafting great sentences’

“Too often, in the classroom, sentences are modelled, but pupils don’t have a strong concept of difference sentence level moves, their functions, and how to manipulate them.”

alexquigley.co.uk/crafting-gre...

Join us for a 1-hour online session on 'Powerful Lesson Starts'. We'll share practical ideas you can use to spark curiosity and focus learning.

Sign up and make your lessons unforgettable! #PACTFalkirk #engaginglearners

Are you interested in finding out about the key elements of the national review of Curriculum for Excellence? If so, come along to our online session this Thursday from 4pm-5pm. Sign up available via CPD Manager. #PACTFalkirk

Are you planning for forgetting—or just hoping students will remember?

In short: we must plan for forgetting as deliberately as we plan for delivery. This means, delays must be built into the teaching process. bit.ly/4ke8qjy

While my daughter rides up and down on her bike, I’m really enjoying this chapter all about lesson structures from Primary Reading Simplified @suchmo83.bsky.social

Thank you to David Ironside @braeshighschool.bsky.social for delivering an engaging on Learning Intentions and Success Criteria which challenged thinking and sparked discussion amongst our probationer colleagues. We look forward to session 2 in the new year. 😀

We were delighted to welcome our first group of practitioners to our new Pedagogy Pod @carronshore, yesterday evening. Thank you to everyone who attended and for your valuable contributions.

Ready to level up how you engage learners? Join us in the new Pedagogy Pod at Carronshore Primary next week for our latest course. A few spaces are left, so sign up on CPD Manager today!

Pedagogy Pod - Carronshore PS

We're excited to be hosting our first CLPL session in one of our new Pedagogy Pods tomorrow. Our pods are welcoming spaces for us to all learn together. They're designed to showcase ideas and strategies you can take straight back to your classroom ❤️

Here are the CLPL offers from the Pedagogy and Curriculum Team that are starting next week. Sign up via CPD Manager. #engaginglearners #PACTFalkirk