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  • Building the Future 

    A Day in the Life of an Assistant Supervisor on the A9 Dualling Project  Have you ever wondered what it is really like to work on a live construction site? For Gregor Moffat, an Assistant Supervisor Engineer working on the A9 Dualling project at Tomatin to Moy, every day brings something different on site. Gregor has worked in the civil engineering industry for eight years and has spent three years on this project, including one year based on site.  Gregor’s interest in engineering started early. At school, he enjoyed maths, physics and design, but his love of building things began even before that,<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/academy9/2026/09/11/building-the-future/">Read More</a>

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  • Room 6 Taekwondo

    On Tuesday we had the most exciting morning ever because a real Taekwondo teacher came to visit us in the gym hall! We were so surprised when we walked in and saw her wearing a white uniform with a shiny black belt. She looked just like a superhero, and she showed us how to stand up super tall and bow nicely to show respect before we started. We got to shout, Tae-Kwon-Do! First, we had to warm up our bodies so we didn’t turn into floppy noodles. We ran around the hall as fast as cheetahs and stretched our arms …

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  • Room 5

    This week in Room 5 we have learned lots of new things. This week we focused on 3 sounds in phonics ‘oo, ee, ck’ and 4 new common words ‘are, come, of, new’. We spent time focusing on addition to 20, splitting the 10s and 1s in each number to help us to add smaller numbers to bigger numbers. For Non Number, we focused again on 2D shape and we created a poster to showcase our learning of all the shapes we have learned. The children also had a taekwondo taster session this week, and they really enjoyed learning some …

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  • International Adult Literacy Day 2026

    International Adult Literacy Day 2026  UNESCO states that “Literacy is a fundamental human right for all. It opens the door to the enjoyment of other human rights, greater freedoms, and global citizenship. Literacy is a foundation for people to acquire broader knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviours to foster a culture of lasting peace based on respect for equality and non-discrimination, the rule of law, solidarity, justice, diversity, and tolerance and to build harmonious relations with oneself, other people and the planet. Despite progress, at least 739 million youth and adults worldwide still lack basic literacy skills in 2024. At the same time, 4 in …

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  • Creating and editing media – second level

    …back to Primary Digital Skills home Capturing and editing media I know that… I can… For example… Devices can be used to capture media using inputs, such as cameras and microphones Cameras can capture still images and video Microphones can capture audio Apps can be used to edit the media on a device Use the camera app to capture images and videos Use a device to record audio (including as part of a video) Use an app to edit media and save the new version   take a photo of a peer (with their consent) record a video of yourself<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/technologiesandinnovationearning/2026/09/08/creating-and-editing-media-second-level/">Read More</a>

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There has been a new release on Glow Blogs, making some changes, dealing with some issues and updating themes and plugins. Changes Site Creation This will have no effect on existing sites. We have changed the default site created to use the block editor and the Twenty Twenty Five five theme, a block theme. In […]

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Glow Blogs Update July 2026

There has been a new release on Glow Blogs, dealing with some issues and updating themes and plugins. Event Organiser A security issue has developed with this plugin. We have temporarily patched(fixed) the problem for sites already using the plugin. We have also prevented the plugin from being installed on sites. If you remove the […]

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Glow Blogs Update June 2026

We have updated Glow Blogs to WordPress 6.9.4 This upgrade focuses on collaboration, editing improvements, new blocks, accessibility, and performance. Here are the main changes.