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• New Staff 2026

  We would like to welcome some new staff to our team: Laura Pachocki- Melis Education Business Assistant   Abby Donnelly Equity and Excellence Lead  

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  Largs Early Years

• Risk Radar Hits the Hallways

  Academy9 is now in its second year of delivering the Risk Radar transition event at Grantown Grammar School and this year introduced an exciting new addition. As before, Primary 7 pupils from Grantown, Carrbridge, Abernethy and Deshar Primaries joined us for a morning of Health and Safety focused activities. In response to feedback from last year, we introduced a pupil Health and Safety walk. This gave pupils the chance to explore more of the school and identify potential issues they might encounter when they move to high school after the summer break. It also provided a valuable opportunity to reinforce<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/academy9/2026/02/10/risk-radar-hits-the-hallways/">Read More</a>

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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 …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• 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.” …

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• 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. …

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• 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 …

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