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Lynne_SCILT
@lynnescilt.bsky.social
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Professional Development Officer at SCILT, Scotland’s National Centre for Languages https://scilt.org.uk. Primary languages. Professional learning. Leadership Development. she/her/hers. Joined Aug2024. Reposts ≠ endorsements
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#ScotsCareersWeek25 Day 2 saw @karen-scilt.bsky.social & I facilitated our 'Give DYW a languages twist' online workshop for primary teachers. Educators from Ireland & Scotland joined us online. See below for the🆕primary teaching resource from @scilt.bsky.social
Logo for Scottish Careers Week 2025. Strapline reads: Shape the Future. 10-14 November 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Appreciated the opportunity to co-present with @sheenascilt.bsky.social at @saltlangs.bsky.social #SALT2025 Conference. Launched a 🆕 primary teaching resource in time for #ScotCareersWeek25. Great to be among teachers exploring #LanguageLearningInMotion together @unistrathclyde.bsky.social today.
Collage of slides from workshop entitled ‘Making languages work for your learners - DYW in action’ at SALT Conference 2025 at University of Strathclyde.
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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And just like that registration for @scilt.bsky.social’s #Euroquiz2026 opens for primary schools in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Fab to hear from previous participants at the twilight info session for interested P6 teachers.EQ questions are all set! #HistoryGeography #Languages #EuropeanCultures #EuropeanAffairs
Collage of three slides from the information session for teachers interested in registering their P6 pupils to take part in Euroquiz competition run by SCILT. Second slide lists some reasons to take part. Thurs slide lists next steps for teachers. Final text reads: Euroquiz 2026 in Scotland. Schools who want to participate - register now with your local authority Euroquiz coordinator!
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Come join authors from @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social for a panel discussion. Writing Scotland's Future: Perspectives from Writers of Colour takes place 15/10/25 #BlackHistoryMonth at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social The Ramshorn. Lunch provided. Register for your free place: tinyurl.com/Writing-Scot...
Promotional flyer for 'Writing Scotland's Future: Perspectives from Writers of Colour' event on Wednesday 15 October 2025 at The Ramshorn, 98 Ingram Street, Glasgow G1 1EX. Panel of writers of colour will comprise: Titilayo Farukuoye, Yasmin Hanif and Safina Mazher. QR code in bottom right corner links to registration page.
October 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Now the scorer’s table is all set up, I’m exploring the fabulous venue for Euroquiz 2025 national final before the teams arrive!
Pic_collage of six photos. Title reads: Textures of Euroquiz Final. Inside McEwan Hall. Photo I. Decorated dome. Photo 2. Carved wooden end of seating area. Photo 3. Stone stairwell with statue and stone arch. Photo 4. Painted ceiling design. Photo 5. Tiled corridor floor and brick wall. Photo 6. Looking down corridor with brick walls and circular windows.
June 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Today’s the day for @scilt.bsky.social’s Euroquiz 2025 Final. Can’t wait to welcome the teams representing their schools from across the country soon for some 🔝 quizzing!
Four photos taken in Bristol Square, Edinburgh. Title reads: Textures of Euroquiz Final: outside McEwan Hall. Photo 1. Lines of light coloured stone laid into contrasting monoblock. Photo 2. Side of glass entrance to McEwan Hall, steps and railings. Photo 3. Up into the leaves of trees. Photo 4. Engraved doorway on McEwan Hall, wooden door and decorative wrought iron lamppost.
June 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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🍃And just like that our series of in person, hands on, outdoor workshops are all done. The weather even held for us yesterday!
🤩Thanks to the teachers from @strath-ioe.bsky.social Renfrewshire, WDC, ERC & further afield who joined @karen-scilt.bsky.social & @suzannescilt.bsky.social for🚶&🗣️ & more
Pic•collage entitled Scots scavenger hunt. Photo 1: Photo of feet walking on grass around edge of a flower bed. Caption:How mony tottie steps aroon tge flouer mote? Photo 2: Photo of a bench with notice ‘Take some breathing space’. Caption; Somewhere to coory. Photo 3: Blue sky and white clouds above a tree in bottom left corner. Caption: Whit craiturs in the cluds? Photo 4: A noughts & crosses grid drawn on a piece of hessian with playing pieces made of small stones. Caption: Stanes for a gemm o xey-oey.
June 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🤯We’ve had loads of interest in ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ final workshop on Tues 3 June @unistrathclyde.bsky.social campus, so we’ve upped capacity⬆️
🫵Don’t miss it! Grab your 🆓 place while you can
✅In person, hands on, out of doors
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-ou...
Promotional flyer for SCILT’s ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ workshop series. Wednesday 14 May, 4-5pm at Grandtully PS, Pitlochry. Friday 23 May, 1:30-3pm at The Howff, Outdoor Learning Hub, Queen Margaret University,Musselburgh. Tuesday 3 June, 4-5pm at University of Strathclyde campus.
May 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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☀️It was a lovely afternoon @qmuniversity.bsky.social on Friday for our 2nd ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ workshop.
📸 snapshots of some of the activities tried, teaching ideas shared & magpied. Nice to welcome @carolinegordon.bsky.social @louisehawxwell.bsky.social & others to The Howff
Collection of 8 photographs from ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ workshop on the campus of Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh. Captions read: On the jetty. Wee forest. Languages in colour. Natural equations. Scots scavenger hunt base.
May 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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📸 Bag packed for tomorrow’s @scilt.bsky.social hands on, in person ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ workshop. Back out on tour 🚆 again, this time to The Howff @qmuniversity.bsky.social
In person, hands on, out of doors. What’s not to love?!
Photograph of a cotton shopping bag with a design of hand drawn mushrooms sitting on a wooden floor. Blue coloured clipboards are inside the bag. In front of the bag is a roll of string, some parcel labels, a stack of foil cartons with lids, a whistle on a yellow coloured cord and a narrow rectangular shaped light green coloured box with images of a moth, some mushrooms, a sprig of blackberries and a Robin on the lid.
May 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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⏰You’ve still time to join me @karen-scilt.bsky.social & @suzannescilt.bsky.social at our 2nd ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ workshop this Friday 23/05/25 @qmuniversity.bsky.social
✅In person, hands on, outdoors & free of charge
🔗Register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-ou...
Promotional flyer for a series of 3 in person workshops entitled ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’. Offered by Scotland’s National Centre for Languages (SCILT). Wed 14 May, 4pm-5pm at Grandtully Primary School in Pitlochry. Fri 23 May, 1:30pm-3pm at the Outdoor Learning Hub at Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh. Tues 3 June, 4pm-5pm on the University of Strathclyde city centre campus in Glasgow.
May 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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SCILT on tour 🚆🚘 catch-up. ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ at Grandtully PS yesterday was a delight! Thanks to @ciaracreative.bsky.social & Gillian for sharing all their learning spaces, tools & materials
6 photos of activities & artefacts created by pupils & attendees at ‘Getting outdoors with primary languages’ workshop at Grandtully PS. Captions read: Natural colour hunt. La chenille qui fait des trous. Stitch & sew a story quilt. Recall a story. Make a wooden character.
May 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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SCILT on tour 🚆🚘. Already been in 3️⃣ of these cities today! Spending this morning working with @karen-scilt.bsky.social in Perth, before heading to Grandtully PS in Pitlochry for our workshop later this afternoon. In person, hands on & outdoors - cannae wait!
Photo of ScotRail InterCity 7 poster, a map of Scotland featuring 7 cities in Scotland - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen & Inverness.
May 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Great to connect & share with prof learning pals at @ipda-prof-learn.bsky.social Scotland Symposium on the glorious @qmuniversity.bsky.social campus today. Especially appreciated the thought-provoking responses to the ❓posed by @sheenascilt.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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#StarWarsDay #MayTheFourth 🎵
Black and white drawing of Star Wars character Darth Vader looking at two pastry pies on the table in front of him. French language text reads: 3 pains et 2 tartes rating, comme d’hab? Bonne mémoire. Facile m’sieu Vader: PAIN PAIN PAIN TARTE TATIN TARTE TATIN …
May 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Online applications for Scotland’s Languages Leadership Programme 2025-26 are open until 31/03/25. Scan the QR code in the image below for more information & to access the application form itself. Any Qs from prospective applicants, pls @ me or email lynne.jones@strath.ac.uk
Promotional image for Scotland’s Languages Leadership Programme 2025-25. Building capacity in leading language learning and teaching for all. Registrations open 7 February to 31 March 2025. Core Days professional learning 20 & 21 June 2025. Ongoing personalised professional learning Aug 2025 to May 2026. Leading to GTCS Professional Recognition. Information session 11 March 2025. QR code links to more information and the online application form. #LangsLeadScot
March 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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📣To mark the start of Languages Week Scotland #LWS25, British Council Scotland has published the 1st Languages Trends Scotland report
🎯 Stats show strong foundations, with 98% of primary schools teaching modern languages & 77% having taught languages for more than 5 years
🔗Read it ow.ly/Mirm50US2ph
Photo of a pile of four copies of the British Council report entitled: Language Trends Scotland 2024/25. Language teaching and learning in local authority and independent primary and secondary schools in Scotland.
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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👀 Yay! @karen-scilt.bsky.social is doing a bit of Languages in colour 🎨 at #PedagooPerth at Bertha Park HS on 22/02
🔗🆓🎟️ bit.ly/PedagooPerth
#ByTeachersForTeachers
Full workshop listing for Pedagoo Perth event. Curious about curipod. Rolling, beeping & playing: robotics for all educators. The Art of Meeting. Challenging assumptions: memory stories from a Ghana-Scotland school partnership. WomenEdScotland. How is artificial intelligence going to shape our future classrooms? Languages in colour. Using Japanese abacus in Primary. Clean up your mess, what goes wrong in presentations and what to do about it. Glow + Adobe Express. I love it when a plan comes together. An inspector called. Promotional flyer for Pedagoo Perth event on Saturday 22 February at Bertha Park High School, Perth PH1 0AU. From 10am to 1pm. Two QR codes to scan. One to sign up to lead a workshop. One to get your free ticket to attend.
February 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Today was our 1st Primary Languages Signpost Session for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Early Career Teachers of 2025. Our friend Mel Salter answering Qs and sharing ideas abt her 2 favourite things - digital & languages.
Sign up for next 🆓 Signpost session in March for #ECTs www.eventbrite.com/e/9984447441...
January 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Lovely to be welcomed to Haymarket by some jazz piano this morning, waiting on an early train taking me to my first gig of 2025 with early career and supply primary teachers in Dumfries & Galloway
Photograph of a person playing the piano on Haymarket station concourse. On the window behind the piano overlooking the platform is a black coloured silhouette of a steam train with multicoloured heart shapes coming out of the train chimney.
January 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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An excellent symposium with thought-provoking presentations and discussions. Thanks to Erin, Lisa, Joe, Ro and everyone on the call.
Screenshot of slide from Ro's presentation at the ILCS symposium on 05/12/24. Text reads: A diverse curriculum is a rejection of erasure and a call to build something radically new.
December 6, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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For more Lapin🐰 fun find out how Tania, me, @karen-scilt.bsky.social & 4️⃣0️⃣ EY&P1 practitioners developed a creative puppetry approach to early language learning inspired by the first Lapin story🐰🍎🥦🥕
🔗Read our case study scilt.org.uk/Primary/Deve...
Photo of picturebook called ‘Lapin is hungry’ with handmade models of five characters from the story. From left to right: Tania, Oiseau, Ver, Escargot, Lapin
November 23, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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📬Today’s the perfect day for postie to deliver the new French/English bilingual picturebook by my friend Tania Czajka. 🆕 Lapin is cold 🐰🥶
Photo of a hand holding up a children’s book called ‘Lapin is cold’ in front of a window. Through the window is a snowy outdoor landscape.
November 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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👋 Bye bye Birmingham, it’s been a blast. Thanks to the IPDA team and wider community. 🤞 Here’s to next time in Dublin, and to many productive connections between now and then
Sculpture of Ozzy the Bull, a mechanical metal sculpture in the concourse of Birmingham New Street train station
November 16, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Day 2️⃣ at the IPDA conference continues with interesting conversations with @dianatremayne.bsky.social & co. about 🚶‍➡️🗣️ in practice & in research.
All the books I should have read but I have been doing other things instead. Sculpture by Marko Mäetamm. On Aston University campus.
November 16, 2024 at 11:11 AM