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Room 8
Hello from room 8! I’m sure that you all know by now how much fun we had on our trip to Hampden last week. We started the day by walking to Newton train station and got on the train to Mount Florida. Once we arrived at Mount Florida station we met the lovely Suzie, who works for the charity Rail74, an amazing charity who has a main focus of supporting the delivery of community benefits though the medium of innovative projects within the surrounding communities of the rail stations and rail passengers. They very kindly funded our train adventure and …Examples of prior games learning from Scottish schools
Examples of learning from previous games live lessons back to Making Games A primary teacher from Rowantree Primary School in Dundee shared this with us: “My class recently attended the above session and following on from your email we were keen to share our learning. They really engaged well with the session and loved making game ideas. We used their ideas later the same day to create a short piece of writing talking about their gaming ideas. Some really exciting and dark stories emerged! I liked the simple materials and found it fun myself. I’d consider using the materials again.” …Continue reading Examples of prior games learning from Scottish schools
Into Film support for YGD
Into Film support for BAFTA YGD back to Making Games We have partnered with Into Film again to support educators with YGD participation. Sign up for the webinar on Tuesday 27th January at 330pm using this link: Into Film and YGD webinar link This will be followed up with 2 LIVE lessons to guide classes through the Into Film Games Lite resource: Thursday 5th February 930am (register with this link) Thursday 26th February 930am (register with this link) Game Making Award Entrants must submit an original game created by themselves or with a team of up to two other people. …About BAFTA Young Games Designer competition
More about the BAFTA Young Games Designer competition back to Making Games YGD is “a chance for 10–18-year-olds to design, develop and present new game ideas”. The competition is now open and the closing date for entries is 12th March 2026. Children and young people will need an account on BAFTA to enter the competition – educators should check their employers’ rules on children and young people creating and accessing accounts. Educators can create an account to oversee and create accounts for children – *Check the T&Cs. There are two categories: Game Concept and Game Making (use this link to visit …Continue reading About BAFTA Young Games Designer competition
Latest updatesOur Fortnight in Room 24
Last Week: On Tuesday afternoon we had Mrs Reilly do drama/health and wellbeing with us. We got into groups and had to choose ‘What Would You Do?’ scenarios to act out from cards in a pile. These scenarios were about online safety, and were things that the police have had to deal with in the past. Things like someone you don’t know chatting to you online and asking you to meet up with them after school, or receiving a threatening message asking you to do something ‘or else.’ We talked about these after each group acted them out and discussed …Room 2 and 3
This week during P.E, Room 2 and Room 3 had a fantastic time coming together to learn and share something special. Room 2 took on the role of teachers and taught Room 3 The Grand Old Duke of York song and dance. It was wonderful to see the pupils working together and supporting one another. Room 2 did an amazing job leading the activity. They confidently demonstrated the actions, helped explain the moves and sang the song clearly so everyone could follow along. Room 3 were great learners, giving the dance a go and joining in with lots of enthusiasm …Latest News
Advent in Glow Blogs
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. 25 examples of the H5p plugin. Example of using the Draw Attention plugin.Canva Embeds in Glow Blogs
Canva embeds are now supported in Glow Blogs.Fixed: PDF Issue
The PDF Issue that recently developed on Glow Blogs has now been fixed. PDFs can now be uploaded as expected without any workarounds.Glow Blogs Update 30 Sep 2025
Glow Blogs has been updated to WordPress 6.8.2. This update is mostly a behind the scenes one, you might not notice much difference.Fixed: PDF problem
An issue with pdf uploaded to Glow Blogs has recently developed. Our developers are looking at the issue to create a fix. The issue is that pdfs uploaded to Glow Blogs are ‘truncated’ to one page. We hope this is fixed soon. There are a few workarounds you can use in the meantime.
