Highland Modern Languages Subject Support

10.00 – 10.30 – Alasdair Bauld went through use of the new HMLDF hosted by googlegroups.com, mlsupport blog (this one!), mlsupport wiki (http://mlsupport.wikispaces.com) and new resource sharing area (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/hmldf) set up to replace the old smartgroups file share area. This last site is now fully operational, and any files you have for sharing should be [...]

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Thanks to all who came from Farr and wide to make today work. Thanks also for the flippant remarks from various people who responded to out test HMLDF ‘post a new message’. The prize for the most flippant remark goes to John Mackay at Dingwall Academy for suggesting that Golspie is not the centre of [...]

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Just back home after a great day at Invergordon (followed by a Faculty meeting back in Dornoch, looking at HGIOS!!).  Sincerest thanks to Arthur and Stuart for being such wonderful hosts, but also to Anne and Alison for their contributions in the afternoon.  Anyone who was there, or even if you couldn’t make it, please [...]

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From Highland, Una Drinkwater (Millburn), Gillian McCulloch (Grantown), Gisela Cumming (Kilchuimen), Alasdair Bauld (Dornoch), Pat Crippin (IRA), Alyson Gorrie and Fiona Malcolm (Thurso) attended the SQA Understanding Standards Day for Advanced Higher Modern Languages on Saturday 11th November.  On the whole, we felt this was a very useful day.  The Principal Assessors in each of [...]

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Collated minutes of our meeting were as follows: 
1. Staffing update (to see if I can get everyone on HMLDF – and explain what that is to those that maybe don’t know)  all names have now been added to new googlegroups HMLDF.
2. CPD needs (to gather ideas for what you want us to address at our [...]

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