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  • Room 11

    Welcome to room 11’s third blog we hope you enjoy. Some of our favourite things this week include: In reading primary three’s got their new book and P4’s are reading  ‘Aliens Stole my Dog’  and P3’s were doing mystery word sentences and P4’s were doing inference questions.  In  spelling P3’s got new magic e and common words and their words are Steve, eve home and yellow.  On Thursday we got ‘20’ proud clouds !!!!! Today we are going to choose our class  treat and we were all so excited when we got our last PROUD Cloud just before home time. …

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  • Begin with learners’ understanding

    Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction states that learning should begin with a daily review of prior learning as this can strengthen the connections of the material previously learned. This might be vocabulary, processes or concepts. By revisiting them, educators can correct misonceptions or have them recalled and the learners primed for that day’s learning. Read Principles of instruction – UNESCO Digital Library How could digital help with this? Forms can be used to create quizzes that: are self-marking providing immediate feedback link to resources to support or extend learning, such as videos or texts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B3bjOfhyOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg6h8VRQZjs

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  • Accessibility

    Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) is Scotland’s long standing, national commitment to provide all children, young people and their families with the right support at the right time, so that every child and young person can reach their full potential. The Scottish Government (SG) published Statutory Guidance for education authorities on planning improvements for disabled pupils’ access to education. It provides advice on how education authorities and schools can meet obligations to improve access to education required under the Equality Act and the Education (Disability Strategies and Pupils’ Educational Records) (Scotland) Act 2002. Appendix D of the guidance<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/technologiesandinnovationearning/2026/09/14/accessibility/">Read More</a>

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  • Making support for ASL visible – Free posters

    A group of three older teenagers stand outside their learning setting. They are talking and smiling.
    Enquire have created a range of free posters highlighting where to find more information and seek support around additional support for learning.   Designed to be downloaded and displayed in spaces where young people are, a series of free posters posters direct to Reach, Enquire’s website for children and young people, aiming to help young people better understand their support needs, rights around support for learning and what help could be available.  A set has also been developed for professionals looking for more advice and information on supporting young people and their families in their setting, and delivering support for learning.

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  • H5P Interactive Video Problems with YouTube Videos

    There are two problem with some H5P interactive videos. both are the result of changes in YouTube behaviour. 1 The videos play but audio only In this case the content appears but the video can’t be seen. You can fix this by updating the Interactive Video Module. This can be a bit complicated, but this method has worked for me Those steps have fixed the issue from me on two sites. On one of my site where I have hundreds of pieces of H5P content the rebuilding took around 20 minutes. I went for a cup of tea! 2 YouTube

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  • Room 1 – 11.9.26

    This week in Room 1: – Our focus was on space with our book this week Aliens Love Underpants! We created our own space scene and can identify planets in space, and we designed our own underpants to hang up in the classroom, thankfully no aliens have stole them….YET 👽 – we went on a shape hunt outside to find as many 2d shapes as we could! 🟧🟠🔶 – we had a great time during our free play! Check out the amazing Lego creations! We also love cars in room one so worked on designing a road for them. – …

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H5P Interactive Video Problems with YouTube Videos

There are two problem with some H5P interactive videos. both are the result of changes in YouTube behaviour. 1 The videos play but audio only In this case the content appears but the video can’t be seen. You can fix this by updating the Interactive Video Module. This can be a bit complicated, but this […]

Glow Blogs Update 27 Aug 2026

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 […]

Glow Blogs Start of Session FAQ 2026

A few quick tips and some information that might help at the start of this new session.

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 […]

Theme Retirement News

Three themes are being phased out: Yoko, Agama, and Make; Don’t use them for new sites; Existing sites are unaffected for now – no action needed; Plenty of notice and guidance will be provided before anything changes for current users