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Euro Quiz and End of Topic Celebration
10 pupils from P6 went to Lerwick to compete in the regional heats against P6 pupils from across Shetland. This was to try and win a place in the Euro Quiz 2024 final . The class faced some tricky questions but both teams did extremely well with only 1 point between them for their finalMore Engineering!
This time Eleanor visited us with Kapla blocks. We loved using these to build castles. We tried as best as we could to make them strong. They had to pass the test of being hit by a cannon ball! We had to go back and adapt our designs to make sure they passed! After thatMTA Kits – Towers
We got the chance to use the MTA kits again and this time we built towers. We have been learning about castles as part of our IDL project. We learned that castles had to be strong to defend against attacks. We also learned that they had to be tall, so that you can see forMusic Festival Performances
Several pupils have participated in the music festival lately. They treated us to performances in the Senior Wing. We’ve heard Fiddlesticks and also the guitar students playing their pieces. We hope that you can enjoy the videos below of the guitarists. We’re looking forward to the saxophonists playing soon. IMG_1839 IMG_1842 IMG_1846 IMG_1847MTA Kits
We were very lucky to have Eleanor from the UHI visit us with her MTA kits. These are large engineering kits. We used them to make lots of different shapes. We discovered that triangles are the most structurally strong shape. We adapted other shapes we had made to include triangles to stop them collapsing. WeDrama afternoon
Izzy Swanson joined us this afternoon for lots of drama fun! We had games, drama scenes from Tudor and Stuart times and also got to dress up in the amazing costumes!Latest News
H5P in Glow Blogs – News
The First Annual H5P Academy Awards were just announced. The winners in the different categories: Although they are all from higher education they give a good idea of how H5P can be used at a sophisticated level. The winners are linked from the announcement. H5P updates There has been a new version of Game Map and […]Glow Blogs Twitter Changes
Twitter/X keeps changing the goal posts for integration with other systems. Recently they have stripped out most of the functionality for free third party use.Glow Blogs Updated 1 Feb 2024
Fixed an issue with Google Analytics, the ‘Sessions and Views in the last 30 days graph for last 30 days’ is now showing properly. There may still be a problem with very old blogs not being able to display the Analytics data. Fixed upload of m4a audio files in block editor Audio Block. Plugin updates […]Glow Blogs Update: More Blocks & More
Glow Blogs has undergone an update, including fixes for various issues and notable improvements. Fixes Improvements Still to fixForms in the Block Editor
We have just added a lot more blocks to use in the Block Editor. Unfortunately the Forms are not working properly. The Developers are working on a fix. Workaround In the meantime the Jetpack Contact form still word as expected in the classic editor. If you switch to the classic editor for a post or […]