Educating Borders

Welcome to Educating Borders, the podcast from Scottish Borders Council. For our final episode of the year, we deliver a powerful blast of professional learning! Listen again to three high-impact "Pedagogy Shorts" covering key teaching and learning practices. We also share an important update about the podcast’s new, bitesize format launching in January. This Is Educating Borders!

Welcome to Educating Borders, the podcast from Scottish Borders Council all about the latest goings-on in and around schools across our region. On this latest edition we’ve got the latest Professional Learning update, we have a Wee Blether with Gordon Smith about outdoor education and we hear from pupils about just why they love the Cycle Skool project. This Is Educating Borders!!

Welcome to Educating Borders, the podcast from Scottish Borders Council all about the latest goings-on in and around schools across our region. On this first edition of the new school year, we hear from Catherine Thomson about SBC’s priorities for the year ahead, an Inspire Learning update with Linzi Holliday, the Professional Learning blog is back for the new school year and we hear from some ver...

Welcome to Educating Borders , the podcast from Scottish Borders Council bringing you the latest stories, updates and innovations from schools across our region. On this special edition we hear from a variety of musicians about how music has the power to inspire young learners across our region. This is Educating Borders ! Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts usi...

Welcome to Educating Borders , the podcast from Scottish Borders Council bringing you the latest stories, updates and innovations from schools across our region. On this month’s June edition, we hear from pupils at this year's Inspire Learning Festival, there's a school showcase at Balmoral Primary on CYPIC writing and our Chief Education Officer Justin Sinclair reviews the school year tha...

Welcome to Educating Borders , the podcast from Scottish Borders Council bringing you the latest stories, updates and innovations from schools across our region. On this month’s May edition, we have a wee Blether with Bruce Robertson, we hear from leaders across the region in our professional learning update and we hear from staff and pupils who attended this year’s Countryside Day. There’s our mo...

Welcome to Educating Borders , the podcast from Scottish Borders Council bringing you the latest stories, updates and innovations from schools across our region. This month, in our April edition, we’ve got another rich mix of voices and insights. We begin with A Wee Blether with Pamela Whittaker, Early Phase Support Officer, who shares more about her role and the ways she supports student teachers...

Welcome to episode 24 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s March edition we’re shining a spotlight on professional learning with a focus on coaching, we’ve got a digital update from Helen Orde from the Inspire team, a brand new Pedagogy Short from James Bewsey, and a school showcase fro...

Welcome to episode 23 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s February edition we hear from Active Schools Manager Paul Scott in our latest Wee Blether, we have an update from the Inspire digital team, there’s STEM CLPL opportunities plus a new Pedagogy Short. This is Educating Borders! Su...

Welcome to episode 22 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s January edition we hear from Kathy Davidson, chief Educational Psychologist in the region in our latest Wee Blether, we have updates from the Inspire digital team and the SBC professional learning team plus we hear about AI in e...

Welcome to episode 21 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s November edition we hear from Alison McPherson with CLPL opportunities regarding additional support needs, Doug Crabbe brings us news of professional learning within the Inclusion and Wellbeing team and Shona Easingwood is our W...

Welcome to episode 20 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on our October episode we have a special focus on HMIE and inspections. we have an extended wee blether with HMIE chief inspector Janie McManus and then hear from Robbie Devlin Oliver, headteacher at Lilliesleaf Primary to hear his reflect...

Welcome to episode 19 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on our September show we hear from local councillor Julie Pirone who has recently been given the education remit within the council, we have our latest professional learning bulletin with Caroline Howieson and talk anti-racism education an...

Welcome to episode 18 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s first episode of the new school session we chat with James Bewsey about all the year of implementation for SBC Way and a newly revamped Inspire Learning Team plus we have our professional learning bulletin with lots of CLPL offe...

Welcome to episode 17 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s final edition of the school year, we hear from our Early Phase Officer Pamela Whittaker and some of our UHI students moving into their NQT year after the summer and an in-depth wee blether with Scott Watson about the newly launc...

Welcome to episode 16 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s May edition, we have a wee blether with our Early Years improvement officer Claire Crawford, there’s an update from the Professional Learning team and our new school showcase is with P1 teacher Louise Ford on play pedagogy. This...

Here's a special edition of Educating Borders as we share our 'Big Blether' with Jonathan Hall, maths teacher and creator of the wonderful MathsBot website in this extended interview. Enjoy! Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts using the links below. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3U6DvVp6k4Y6CjT4ikdnWl Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.c...

Welcome to episode 15 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s April edition, we have a wee blether with Mr Mathbot himself Jonathan Hall, there’s updates from the Inspire Learning and Professional Learning teams and our latest school showcase is in the Earlston Cluster on their maths impro...

Here's a special edition of Educating Borders as we share our 'Big Blether' with Christopher Such, teacher and author of The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading in this extended interview. Enjoy! Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts using the links below. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3U6DvVp6k4Y6CjT4ikdnWl Apple Podcasts: https://pod...

Welcome to episode 14 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s March edition, we have a wee blether with Christopher Such on all things reading, there’s an update from the Inspire Learning team and our brand new school showcase is with the team at Berwickshire High School on Pedagogical Coa...

Welcome to episode 13 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s first episode of 2024, we have a wee blether with Christine Teahan from The Writing Revolution, there’s an update from the Professional Learning team and Inspire Learning plus our school showcase is also with Inspire Learning as...

Welcome to episode 12 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s episode, we have a wee blether with SBC’s chief executive David Robertson as he rounds up 2023 and looks ahead to 2024, an update from the professional learning team and a school showcase from Tweedbank Primary School and their...

Welcome to episode 11 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s episode, we have a wee blether with primary science development officer Alison Heaton, we hear from the Inspire Learning team (and a festive friend) about their December plans and our school showcase this week focuses on wonderf...

Welcome to episode 10 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s episode, we have a 'wee blether' with recent Speaker Series presenter Emma Turner, we hear from the Professional Learning team about all things CPD and our school showcase this week focuses on the brand new book for Earl...

Welcome to episode 9 of the Educating Borders podcast, where we bring you the latest updates and exciting developments in Scottish Borders education. Coming up on today’s episode, we have a wee blether with Amy Gaunt from Voice 21 about their role in developing Oracy with SBC, we hear from the Inspire Learning team with their latest digital update and our school showcase this week focuses on the T...