Please note this page will be regularly reviewed and updated with the latest information on the range of resources which make up the Education Scotland support for remote learning.
The National E-learning Offer
The National e-Learning Offer provides a single place to find resources available including:
Online interactive sessions for learners
As part of the National e-Learning Offer, e-Sgoil is supporting schools' own arrangements for remote learning and teaching by providing live interactive learning sessions in the senior phase to support children and young people who are working from home.
e-Sgoil has extended its provision to include live interactive sessions for the broad general education and live study support sessions.
Resources for practitioners preparing online remote learning
The National e-Learning Offer has a range of recorded and supported resources which are available for learners to use as directed by their teacher. The recorded and supported materials are being generated by Scotland’s education community and the range of resources will increase over time.
The following range of resources are available:
- West OS recorded resources - A growing range of recorded lessons are available, designed to support learners to develop skills, knowledge and understanding related to a key learning concept. Currently these are available via the West OS powered by ClickView which is accessible via Glow (access is available to those local authorities who have signed up for this service)
- Supported resources - An initial range of resources has been identified by the Scottish education community to enable practitioners to select a variety of digital content to support their learners.
- Curriculum support - A range of curriculum support is also available. Our wakelets provide lots of useful links to external resources which practitioners can use with their learners.
Professional learning for working remotely with learners online
A range of webinars and online events are available to help support practitioners with the skills for working remotely with learners online.
DigiLearn.scot provides support on how to use digital tools and pedagogical approaches to deliver online learning, including engaging learners with active digital learning, live mixed delivery between school and home, and creating videos for learners. View the learning paths exploring a range of digital tools to support learning and teaching on-line.
Scotland Learns
Here you will find a range of ideas and suggestions of activities to help parents, carers and practitioners support learning at home.
- The parents and carers newsletters have information on supporting learners and their families, along with news, resources and useful links to support children’s learning. There are ideas, hints and tips for parents and carers, including activities that children can do on their own or families can do together.
- The activities are aimed at a variety of ages, across the Broad General Education, and cover a variety of topics. The activities focus on literacy and English, numeracy and mathematics, health and wellbeing as well as activities based around a theme, such as art and design and science. These activities encourage and support learners to apply their learning and skills in different situations.
- You will also find a range of activities to support learning through the medium of Gaelic. The activities are designed to help children and young people use Gaelic at home, either self-supported or as a family.
Covid-19 Education recovery page
This resource provides a single point of access to guidance and support for COVID-19 recovery. It includes key advice from the Scottish Government's COVID-19 Education Recovery Group (CERG), and from sources approved by CERG.
It will be updated as new, key advice becomes available. Where there are revised versions of earlier publications, these revisions will be highlighted.
CERG guidance - This section provides direct access to key information on COVID-19 mitigation for education authority staff, leaders of schools and early learning and childcare settings, and highlights any changes to guidance.
Practical activities guidelines - This area provides guidelines to support safe learning and teaching in curriculum areas which involve practical activities. The guidelines have been prepared by Education Scotland, working with teachers and other partners.
Public Health Information - This section provides information from Public Health Scotland that relates directly to education. This includes resources and surveys.
Emerging practice - This area provides practical examples of emerging practice in COVID-19 mitigations in schools and education authorities. It will be developed further over the coming weeks.
Professional learning
PLL Programmes - Our Professional Learning and Leadership website allows you to engage with a large range of online learning activities and programmes of learning. We have currently paused all face-to-face Professional Learning and Leadership activity and moved our delivery online.
Online events - We offer a significant range of virtual events which are available for booking here. The aim is to support education professionals to connect, share and collaborate. Events cover a range of topics, including Curriculum support, DYW, Professional Learning, Inclusion and data analysis.
Workforce health and wellbeing - You can access information on support for school staff to help manage additional pressures as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are four elements to this support:
- Mental health support for the schools workforce
- Coaching and mentoring education system offer
- Enhanced support for post-probation teachers
- Columba 1400 values-based leadership programmes