Courses
Joyning the Learning: Fairyland

Fairyland provides a context for play based activities which help to extend the active learning approaches used in pre-5 education. It joins the learning in Literacy and English, Expressive Arts, Numeracy and Technologies.

Participants will:

• Become familiar with the rationale of the Joyning the Learning methodology
• Make the connections to CfE
• Gain confidence in the use of the Fairyland materials
• Be inspired!

When a sad dragon leaves a (slightly singed) letter at the end of a glitter trail in their classroom, the children know something different is afoot! The dragon enlists their help. Fairyland has disappeared and all his friends (Little Red Riding Hood, The 3 Bears etc.) have nowhere to live. Can the children help? And of course they do! They recreate Fairyland and invite their parents and friends to visit.

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How to Use Outcomes and Strategies for Success to Help Pupils Take Ownership of Their Own Learning (All sectors from Nursery to FE)
Half day course

This course focuses on how to generate and use learning intentions and success criteria from the outcomes and experience of CfE
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How to Use Questioning to Actively Involve All Pupils in Their Learning (Primary and Secondary)
Half day course

This course looks at how to design and use more challenging questions that cause and reveal pupils' thinking and support pupils
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How to Model Giving Feedback That Provides Effective Support and Challenge (Primary and Secondary) 
Half day course

This course looks at how to give pupils the good quality feedback that they need to suceed and to help them be more independent learners
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The Final Brick in the Wall: Actively Involving Learners in Assessment (Primary and Secondary)
Half day course

This course looks at how teachers can build on the ideas developed in the previous three courses
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Joyning the Learning: Fairyland (Suitable for P1-P3) 
One day course

Fairyland provides a context for play based activities which help to extend the active learning approaches used in pre-5 education
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Joyning the Learning: The Unsinkable Ship (P4-P5) 
One day course

The Unsinkable Ship has a Social Studies focus. It Joins the learning in Literacy and English and aspects of Expressive Arts and Technologies
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Joyning the Learning: The Magic Castle (P4-P7) 
Day course

The Magic Castle is indeed magical! It is Literacy and English based topic and joins the learning from aspects of Technologies, Expressive Arts and Health and Wellbeing
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Joyning the Learning: The Very Important Bear (P6-P7) 
Day course

The VIB has a Technologies focus and joins the learning from other curricular areas, in particular Literacy and English, Expressive Arts and Health and Wellbeing
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Non-Fiction Writing (Primary) 
Half day or twilight course

Course participants will examine the links between reading and writing, considering the sort of non-fiction books children like to read
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