Claire Mackay
@misscmackay.bsky.social
Mum to a strong-willed teenager who keeps me on my toes | EAL teacher, GCC | Proud Dsylexic | Supporting migrant and refugee families | Lover of books, big ideas, and the occasional quiet moment (rare, but cherished!)
Love using @bookcreator.com to make pages for their floor book as evidence! 📖✨ Children helped add their work, videos & share their opinions – so valuable to have voices being captured in this way. 🖍️💬 #EarlyYears #PupilVoice @ealglasgow.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Love using @bookcreator.com to make pages for their floor book as evidence! 📖✨ Children helped add their work, videos & share their opinions – so valuable to have voices being captured in this way. 🖍️💬 #EarlyYears #PupilVoice @ealglasgow.bsky.social
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Looking for support with EAL learners? The EAL Early Years team have a number of fantastic training sessions available, book your place now: blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/gl...
September 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Looking for support with EAL learners? The EAL Early Years team have a number of fantastic training sessions available, book your place now: blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/gl...
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Have you checked out our latest resource antiracisted.scot?
Join us tomorrow for our workshop exploring all the resource has to offer on your Anti-Racist Education journey.
🧠 Interactive activities
💭Practical strategies
🧰 Classroom Tools
👥 Time to discuss with colleagues
🔗 buff.ly/YWLf3H2
Join us tomorrow for our workshop exploring all the resource has to offer on your Anti-Racist Education journey.
🧠 Interactive activities
💭Practical strategies
🧰 Classroom Tools
👥 Time to discuss with colleagues
🔗 buff.ly/YWLf3H2
September 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Have you checked out our latest resource antiracisted.scot?
Join us tomorrow for our workshop exploring all the resource has to offer on your Anti-Racist Education journey.
🧠 Interactive activities
💭Practical strategies
🧰 Classroom Tools
👥 Time to discuss with colleagues
🔗 buff.ly/YWLf3H2
Join us tomorrow for our workshop exploring all the resource has to offer on your Anti-Racist Education journey.
🧠 Interactive activities
💭Practical strategies
🧰 Classroom Tools
👥 Time to discuss with colleagues
🔗 buff.ly/YWLf3H2
🌍 Eastwood Explorers: our youngest learners discover the world through play, language & curiosity — international education starts here! 🧩✨ #EAL #EarlyYears @ealglasgow.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🌍 Eastwood Explorers: our youngest learners discover the world through play, language & curiosity — international education starts here! 🧩✨ #EAL #EarlyYears @ealglasgow.bsky.social
🦒 Giraffes Can’t Dance fun! We measured jungle animals, made muddy lion masks, Gerald puppets & danced to our favourite songs—lots of talk, new vocab & context, perfect for EAL! 🎶 #EAL #EarlyYears #Storytime #Creativity #Oracy #Wellbeing @ealglasgow.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🦒 Giraffes Can’t Dance fun! We measured jungle animals, made muddy lion masks, Gerald puppets & danced to our favourite songs—lots of talk, new vocab & context, perfect for EAL! 🎶 #EAL #EarlyYears #Storytime #Creativity #Oracy #Wellbeing @ealglasgow.bsky.social
💛 Exploring feelings with Ruby’s Worry! Felt faces, jigsaws & making our own worry dolls help pupils talk about emotions— great for EAL language too! 🌟 #Wellbeing #EAL #EarlyYears #BigFeelings @ealglasgow.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
💛 Exploring feelings with Ruby’s Worry! Felt faces, jigsaws & making our own worry dolls help pupils talk about emotions— great for EAL language too! 🌟 #Wellbeing #EAL #EarlyYears #BigFeelings @ealglasgow.bsky.social
🌍 Our little learners helped create a display showing the languages we speak in our playrooms — celebrating every voice! 💬✨ #EAL #Multilingual #PupilVoice #InclusiveEducation @glasgowealey.bsky.social @ealglasgow.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🌍 Our little learners helped create a display showing the languages we speak in our playrooms — celebrating every voice! 💬✨ #EAL #Multilingual #PupilVoice #InclusiveEducation @glasgowealey.bsky.social @ealglasgow.bsky.social
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We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is.
The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.
The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We’ve been lied to our whole lives. The maps we grew up with shrink Africa down, making it look so much smaller than it really is.
The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.
The truth: Africa is massive. You can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, and most of Europe inside it—and still have room left over.
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Looking for more ways to engage with your learners with complex needs? SSC are offering a free online session on turning picture books into sensory stories to help make story time fun for all children: www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/courses/vi&m...
Turning Picture Books into Sensory Stories
For everyone who is involved in the education of deaf children, deafblind children and visually impaired children and young people, the young people themselves and their families.
www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk
August 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Looking for more ways to engage with your learners with complex needs? SSC are offering a free online session on turning picture books into sensory stories to help make story time fun for all children: www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/courses/vi&m...
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🎒 BACK TO SCHOOL books: ➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...
🌟Don't miss our UPDATED list of back-to-school picturebooks to share with children returning to classrooms – grouped into themes of community, being yourself, starting something new, big feelings, friendship and fun.
🌟Don't miss our UPDATED list of back-to-school picturebooks to share with children returning to classrooms – grouped into themes of community, being yourself, starting something new, big feelings, friendship and fun.
August 29, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🎒 BACK TO SCHOOL books: ➡️ booksfortopics.com/booklists/to...
🌟Don't miss our UPDATED list of back-to-school picturebooks to share with children returning to classrooms – grouped into themes of community, being yourself, starting something new, big feelings, friendship and fun.
🌟Don't miss our UPDATED list of back-to-school picturebooks to share with children returning to classrooms – grouped into themes of community, being yourself, starting something new, big feelings, friendship and fun.
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Thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social for bucking the trend and sharing positive stories about the people behind the statistics
10 years since the first Syrian refugees arrived in Bute, it has become a home for people who fled war
🗣️'My best time I spent here, with very good people'
Read the full story: www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
🗣️'My best time I spent here, with very good people'
Read the full story: www.thenational.scot/politics/254...
August 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Thanks to @scotnational.bsky.social for bucking the trend and sharing positive stories about the people behind the statistics
🌟 Hugasaurus brings comfort while The Colour Monster gives us words for our feelings — a playful path to emotional literacy. 🌈
August 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🌟 Hugasaurus brings comfort while The Colour Monster gives us words for our feelings — a playful path to emotional literacy. 🌈
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Welcome back teachers! Do remember to check out ⭐ www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org ⭐ for engaging and quality assured teaching resources on real world issues from refugees and migration to food and farming. Searchable by topic, level, curricular area and subject, and all available for free online.
August 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Welcome back teachers! Do remember to check out ⭐ www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org ⭐ for engaging and quality assured teaching resources on real world issues from refugees and migration to food and farming. Searchable by topic, level, curricular area and subject, and all available for free online.
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DATES:
📅 Wednesday, 3 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Kurdish Sorani)
📅 Wednesday, 24 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
📅 Thursday, 9 October, 10:00-12:00 (English, Kurdish Sorani and Tigrinya)
📅 Wednesday, 22 October, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
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📅 Wednesday, 3 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Kurdish Sorani)
📅 Wednesday, 24 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
📅 Thursday, 9 October, 10:00-12:00 (English, Kurdish Sorani and Tigrinya)
📅 Wednesday, 22 October, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
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August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
DATES:
📅 Wednesday, 3 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Kurdish Sorani)
📅 Wednesday, 24 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
📅 Thursday, 9 October, 10:00-12:00 (English, Kurdish Sorani and Tigrinya)
📅 Wednesday, 22 October, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
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📅 Wednesday, 3 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Kurdish Sorani)
📅 Wednesday, 24 September, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
📅 Thursday, 9 October, 10:00-12:00 (English, Kurdish Sorani and Tigrinya)
📅 Wednesday, 22 October, 14:00-16:00 (Arabic, English and Farsi)
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We’re holding free, multilingual info sessions for refugees struggling to find accommodation after getting refugee status in Scotland.
People in unsuitable temporary accommodation or experiencing homelessness can join us on Zoom to learn about their housing rights and options.
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People in unsuitable temporary accommodation or experiencing homelessness can join us on Zoom to learn about their housing rights and options.
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August 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We’re holding free, multilingual info sessions for refugees struggling to find accommodation after getting refugee status in Scotland.
People in unsuitable temporary accommodation or experiencing homelessness can join us on Zoom to learn about their housing rights and options.
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People in unsuitable temporary accommodation or experiencing homelessness can join us on Zoom to learn about their housing rights and options.
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New term, new friend 🦖💚
Meet Hugasaurus — helping my EAL learners find the words for big feelings. Sometimes the best teaching tool is a cuddle. ✨
#BackToSchool #EAL #HugasaurusHugs
Meet Hugasaurus — helping my EAL learners find the words for big feelings. Sometimes the best teaching tool is a cuddle. ✨
#BackToSchool #EAL #HugasaurusHugs
August 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
New term, new friend 🦖💚
Meet Hugasaurus — helping my EAL learners find the words for big feelings. Sometimes the best teaching tool is a cuddle. ✨
#BackToSchool #EAL #HugasaurusHugs
Meet Hugasaurus — helping my EAL learners find the words for big feelings. Sometimes the best teaching tool is a cuddle. ✨
#BackToSchool #EAL #HugasaurusHugs
Started my new role with training on digital discourse from @tie.scot and being neuro-affirmative with @glasgoweps.bsky.social. On Thurs children were back — I played in the sand, with playdoh, joined Bookbug, and began getting to know pupils and staff. A joyful start! Looking forward to next week💫
August 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Started my new role with training on digital discourse from @tie.scot and being neuro-affirmative with @glasgoweps.bsky.social. On Thurs children were back — I played in the sand, with playdoh, joined Bookbug, and began getting to know pupils and staff. A joyful start! Looking forward to next week💫
And just like that, summer’s over — hello, #BackToSchool2025! 🎒✨
20 years teaching, and even with the challenges, I still care deeply about the difference it makes ❤️
Excited (and a little nervous) to start a new chapter with our EAL Early Years team. Here’s to what’s next! 🌟
20 years teaching, and even with the challenges, I still care deeply about the difference it makes ❤️
Excited (and a little nervous) to start a new chapter with our EAL Early Years team. Here’s to what’s next! 🌟
August 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
And just like that, summer’s over — hello, #BackToSchool2025! 🎒✨
20 years teaching, and even with the challenges, I still care deeply about the difference it makes ❤️
Excited (and a little nervous) to start a new chapter with our EAL Early Years team. Here’s to what’s next! 🌟
20 years teaching, and even with the challenges, I still care deeply about the difference it makes ❤️
Excited (and a little nervous) to start a new chapter with our EAL Early Years team. Here’s to what’s next! 🌟
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We've created free Global Goals Packs for primary and secondary level!
Inspire pupils to take action around the SDGs - fight inequality and injustice, end extreme poverty and tackle climate change.
17 colourful postcards and accompanying booklet ✅ buff.ly/3u1dKQ5
Inspire pupils to take action around the SDGs - fight inequality and injustice, end extreme poverty and tackle climate change.
17 colourful postcards and accompanying booklet ✅ buff.ly/3u1dKQ5
August 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We've created free Global Goals Packs for primary and secondary level!
Inspire pupils to take action around the SDGs - fight inequality and injustice, end extreme poverty and tackle climate change.
17 colourful postcards and accompanying booklet ✅ buff.ly/3u1dKQ5
Inspire pupils to take action around the SDGs - fight inequality and injustice, end extreme poverty and tackle climate change.
17 colourful postcards and accompanying booklet ✅ buff.ly/3u1dKQ5
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We’re proud to be the #BeCalm Wednesday partner for #ScottishChildrensHealthWeek with @ChildHealthScot!
🌿 Join us on 3 Sept as we support every child’s right to the best possible health.
Full activity book 👉 https://www.childrenshealthscotland.org/events/scottish-childrens-health-week/
🌿 Join us on 3 Sept as we support every child’s right to the best possible health.
Full activity book 👉 https://www.childrenshealthscotland.org/events/scottish-childrens-health-week/
August 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We’re proud to be the #BeCalm Wednesday partner for #ScottishChildrensHealthWeek with @ChildHealthScot!
🌿 Join us on 3 Sept as we support every child’s right to the best possible health.
Full activity book 👉 https://www.childrenshealthscotland.org/events/scottish-childrens-health-week/
🌿 Join us on 3 Sept as we support every child’s right to the best possible health.
Full activity book 👉 https://www.childrenshealthscotland.org/events/scottish-childrens-health-week/
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We have 20 copies of Minna's Masks by @louisegooding.bsky.social to give away! Published by DK
Through Minna’s story, readers will learn about masking, which people use to help them fit in or adjust to situations where they may otherwise feel insecure.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Through Minna’s story, readers will learn about masking, which people use to help them fit in or adjust to situations where they may otherwise feel insecure.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We have 20 copies of Minna's Masks by @louisegooding.bsky.social to give away! Published by DK
Through Minna’s story, readers will learn about masking, which people use to help them fit in or adjust to situations where they may otherwise feel insecure.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Through Minna’s story, readers will learn about masking, which people use to help them fit in or adjust to situations where they may otherwise feel insecure.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Happy National Play Day! Hope everyone enjoys playing today and every day. Play Scotland have some simple ideas for play on a budget: www.playscotland.org/resources/pr... and a useful guide for parents about the importance of play: www.playscotland.org/resources/pr...
August 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Happy National Play Day! Hope everyone enjoys playing today and every day. Play Scotland have some simple ideas for play on a budget: www.playscotland.org/resources/pr... and a useful guide for parents about the importance of play: www.playscotland.org/resources/pr...
📚🍎 Back‑to‑school but make it ✨sparkly✨ — loving my French tips with primary colour polka dots! #NailGoals #BackToSchoolStyle
August 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
📚🍎 Back‑to‑school but make it ✨sparkly✨ — loving my French tips with primary colour polka dots! #NailGoals #BackToSchoolStyle
Loving the slower pace of summer—finally time to cook real meals again! Made a comforting bowl of spaghetti Bolognese tonight and paired it with a salad the size of my head to keep the points calories but the satisfaction high 😄💚
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
July 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Loving the slower pace of summer—finally time to cook real meals again! Made a comforting bowl of spaghetti Bolognese tonight and paired it with a salad the size of my head to keep the points calories but the satisfaction high 😄💚
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
Loving the slower pace of summer—finally time to cook real meals again! Made a comforting bowl of spaghetti Bolognese tonight and paired it with a salad the size of my head to keep the points calories but the satisfaction high 😄💚
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
July 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Loving the slower pace of summer—finally time to cook real meals again! Made a comforting bowl of spaghetti Bolognese tonight and paired it with a salad the size of my head to keep the points calories but the satisfaction high 😄💚
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨
Feeling proud, feeling full, and feeling like I’ve got this 💪✨