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Information literacy is a key skill for people who are trying to navigate an increasingly complex information landscape. To help empower people to understand the tools and tactics that they can use to make sense of information online, Google is partnering with CILIP to launch the Super Searcher training programme in the UK. Google have successfully rolled out this initiative in America with the American Library Association and in Europe with Public Libraries 2030. Under this partnership, librarians and other library staff across the UK will be trained on best practices from information literacy experts to help evaluate information online. In turn, trained …

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Intro I’m Eirini and I’m new to Newton Farm Primary.  I’m Callum. I started in our school Nursery when I was 3.  We’re both going to tell you about our first month in our new class. We all love the  pod and now we call it podlife. We even  made groups  for maths an literacy (sapphires,emeralds and rubies-literacy. Decimal dragons,shape shifters and math magicians-Maths) UNCRC We  all made posters for the rights of the child. We all picked an article  that we thought was important to a child then all did a poster on what you article you had  picked. …

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The window for STEM Nation Award applications is currently open. We invite applications from all registered settings in ELC, primary school, secondary school and CLD sectors. If you haven’t already done so, please use this link to register. In order to receive feedback by the end of next term, element evidence must be submitted by Friday 10 October 2025. Any evidence received after this date may not receive feedback until after the winter break. There are two different PowerPoint templates for collating and uploading element  evidence: When you are ready to do so, the Form on this page should be used to upload your<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/stemnation/2025/09/23/stem-nation-award-evidence-submissions-3/">Read More</a>

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Every day two people die by suicide in Scotland. The vast majority of those thinking about suicide will find some way to signal their intent.  Suicide may be prevented through the actions of prepared caregivers.  As part of an Action Plan to reduce suicide in Glasgow, the Glasgow City Suicide Prevention Partnership aims to provide

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Good afternoon, The children have been working incredibly hard and showing enthusiasm in everything they’ve done. One of the highlights of the week was our food tasting session, inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The children absolutely loved exploring different fruits and foods from the story – there were lots of happy faces (and some funny ones!) as they tried new flavours and shared their thoughts. Here are some of our favourite parts of the week: EM – I liked playing red light, green light at PE. EJ – I liked playing tig at PE. KH – I liked tasting …

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Hello everyone, This week in Room 1 we have been reading the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have been learning to order the story, check out our amazing Hungry Caterpillar with all his food that we made using outdoor materials. During writing we described our favourite and least favourite foods after we tried some of the food from our story. We are working hard to add detail to our drawings such as facial expressions and full bodies. In Maths and Numeracy we have been looking at counting and making the numbers 8 and 9. How amazing are our responses …

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