Team 1 0131 4692890 Team 2 0131 4692830 Team 3 0131 4692850 Thank you to everyone for your hard work and dedication over the course of this session. It's been a year that continues to bring its challenges but your passion to get it right for the children, young people and families that we support drives us on. Enjoy a well earned, relaxing and fun filled summer; may the sun shine on you no matter where you are. I look forward to welcoming everyone back in August. Happy holidays! Additional Support for Learning Service 101 Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QL Newsletter June 2017
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Team 1 0131 4692890
Team 2 0131 4692830
Team 3 0131 4692850
Thank you to everyone for your hard work and
dedication over the course of this session.
It's been a year that continues to bring its
challenges but your passion to get it right for
the children, young people and families that
we support drives us on.
Enjoy a well earned, relaxing and fun filled
summer; may the sun shine on you no matter
where you are. I look forward to welcoming
everyone back in August.
Happy holidays!
Additional Support for Learning Service
101 Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh EH6 5QL
Newsletter June 2017
New Teams
South East Kate Varona
Liberton/Gracemount Anne Davidson
Alison Hawke, Julie Levack, Bryan McPhillip, Angela McLeod, Susan McBeath, Olga Hunter, Abi McNab, Dora Kollar, Justyna Chondromadidis, Diana Fakhoury
James Gillespies/Boroughmuir Nicola Hammond-Evans/Jodie Morrison
David Fox Moving & Handling Team: Lisa Olsson ASL Nurse: Sonya Crawford
Kate Varona SLT OT: Hilary Cowie, Sarah Duncanson, Caitlin Doig, Sue Harper, Penny Owens
Iona Brockway TIP: Kate Nelson, Mandy Adamson, Gillian McKelvie, Maureen Scott
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Office Updates Please see below the Admin Support for the new teams.
North West
Medical
Sensory Team
Irene Keenan
0131 469 2830
North East
Literacy Team
Moving and Handling
Heather Meikle
0131 469 2980
South West
EAL Bilingual Support
Aleksandra Williams
0131 469 2890
South East
Early Years Team
Linda Cochrane
0131 469 2850
Please update your
signatures with the new
information.
Electronic Diaries
Please accept the invites for the trainings that are sent by
ASLS Admin. Trainings will automatically appear in your
personal diary with times and venues.
CPD Trainers will be sent invites with the venues booked for
their trainings.
Please make sure that
you share your diary
with the new Admin
and update it regularly.
You can find ICT help guides on the GDrive > ASLS > Resources > ICT > ICT help sheets Please DO NOT send a response.
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Success Stories
Thank you All for your hard work!
A message from Katy Westacott (HT, St Margaret’s RC PS)
‘I just wanted to let you know that Annie Page organised an excellent Bilingualism sup-port morning at our school today with Antonella Sorace from Edinburgh University. It was a logistical challenge as she had all our local schools attending- Kirkliston, Echline, Queensferry and Dalmeny and the turnout was excellent! Annie had translators organised for the key languages and the children were involved too. As it was hosted in my school I was able to send a few of our teachers to try to upskill them at the same time. It was so well organised and appreciated by all the parents.’
GREAT JOB ANNIE!
‘After working closely (in a signing capacity) with Aleksander Winiarski,
I am very proud to share that he has successfully left school as a confi-
dent individual, having sat a mixture of Highers and national 5's. He has
even passed his CBT test and now has his own motorbike. ‘
Caroline Wilson
Good news is nice to share.
Well done to Caroline, who has made a real difference to a boy’s life.
Message from Derek Law, HT at Craiglockhart PS ‘Just to say that although she has only been with us for half a year and is now moving on due to the new ASL cluster re-arrangements, we have been very impressed by Aisling Groarke, She fitted in well to our staff team, liaising sensitively and effectively with all staff. She has shown great organisation skills. She has responded exceptionally well to the needs of the school. And, in particular, supported a couple of vulnerable children extremely well, contributing very well to child planning meetings and helping to things forward with these children. ‘Very impressed. So sad to be losing her but I am sure our new EAL teacher, Samina, will do a great job.’
Well done Aisling!
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TRUE Colours: Inspiring Volunteers On 7 June, members of the TRUE Colours student equality group
at St Augustine's RC High School received an
Inspiring Volunteering Award.
The ceremony took place at the City Chambers, with the Lord
Provost presenting awards to teams and individuals from
across the city.
The TRUE Colours group, which is
supported by EAL staff at the
school, was commended for the
work it does to raise awareness
of equalities issues and to celebrate the diversity of Scot-
land.
This year the group has supported Polish National Day, Unity
and Diversity week, St Patrick's Day and Refugee Festival
Scotland.
Jane Berry and Rajni Punn, ASL/EAL
Beth Marshall and Harry Lyons
representing St Augustine's RC High School, TRUE Colours group,
at the Inspiring Volunteering Awards 2017 at the City Chambers.
EAL staff supported a series of activities at St Augustine's to mark this year's refugee festival, culminating in an event on 22 June.
The refugee situation was explored, and the contribution of refugees to our society was celebrated, through art, music, dance and presentations.
Jane Berry, EAL Teacher
Success Stories
Scottish Refugee Festival
at St Augustine's RC High School
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NEWS
25th April 2017
The ASL Literacy Team and our ICT
ASL colleague (Stephan Millar)
recently had a wee trip out to
Murrayfield Stadium, taking our
wares and knowledge to
Head Teachers who were attending a conference
on use of equity funding. We spoke to a num-
ber of Head Teachers who were interested in
developing literacy support and resources in
their schools.
Hilary & Fiona
3rd April 2017
Mary Morrison and Amanda Knani each gave a talk to the Second Year Primary BEd students at Moray House.
Claire Hornby invited them to give an input on their experience with ASN. Amanda talked about Looked After Children and the impact of trauma on learning and Mary talked about ASD.
They were explaining how they can support children with additional needs and discussed various inter-ventions designed to do this e.g Getting It Right & the child planning process; and the legal require-
ments they will be bound by such as In On The Act and the equalities law.
Mary also shared some personal experiences as the mother of a child with autism and spoke about how it is important to involve parents in decisions about their child.
Well done Ladies!
14th June 2017 Anne Davidson met with Dr Janet Richmond from Edith Cowan University,
Australia who was visiting Edinburgh to research Inclusive Practice, in particular
the CIRCLE Toolkit, with a view to developing a similar resource in Australia. Good luck Anne!
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NEWS
15-16th June 2017 On June 15th and 16th, EAL Teachers and Equalities Leads Nikhat Yusaf and Sandra Scott presented at the
Centre for Education for Racial Equality in Scotland’s 3rd International Conference: Activism and Antiracism
in Education: telling our stories. Nikhat and Sandra’s presentation was entitled ‘Destination Cultural Profi-
ciency: An Equalities Journey with School Leaders’. They shared their experience of working with school
Equalities Coordinators to develop their practice and further the Equalities agenda across the city. Nikhat
and Sandra were particularly inspired by contributions such as:
Keynote: Racialization Relations – The Making and Re-making of Race Professor Nasar Meer, University of Edinburgh
‘Race' equality in primary schools: examining teacher commitment,
curriculum spaces and policy directions in Scotland. Ania Byerly, University of Edinburgh
Minority youth voices and lessons for education
Rowena Arshad, University of Edinburgh,
Policy, Pedagogy and Pupil Perceptions: EAL in Scotland and England Yvonne Foley, University of Edinburgh
Heritage Language Learning in Scotland: a case of linguistic apartheid?
Andy Hancock, University of Edinburgh
Scotland’s BSL Act - how it has come about and what difference it might make? Rachel O’Neill, University of Edinburgh
Workshop: Identifying and tackling Islamophobia at School Farkhanda Chaudry, Equality Unit, East Renfrewshire Council
Presentation and Discussion: Experiencing Islamophobia – stories from
Muslim schoolchildren in Edinburgh Samena Dean, Community Activist, Edinburgh
Nikhat and Sandra hope to share their new knowledge across
the Service and beyond. In the meantime, if you would like
to hear more about any of these topics please get in touch
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