Miss Grainger is collecting newspapers for a project she is doing with her P1/2 class. If you don’t need your newspapers once you have read them, please drop them off at the office. Thank you.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Easter Camps 2015 Cults Lawn Tennis Club
Using Education City at home on i-pad
We are delighted to say that we have been advised of an app to use to allow your child to access Education City at home. The app is called Puffin Academy. When installed select Education City.
Copies of our recent Inspection Report
Copies of our Care Inspectorate report are available to view in the Nursery Section. The reports are in Russian, Polish and Arabic. Hard copies are also displayed on the Nursery Parent Noticeboard. Thanks.
Free Microsoft Office for all Aberdeen City Pupils
FREE Microsoft Office for all pupils and teachers via Glow
Through Glow all pupils and staff in Aberdeen City schools have access to the latest versions of Microsoft Office for free. This includes Office for Windows, Mac OS X and iPad and Android tablets.
- Office 365 ProPlus is the full version of Office and includes student favourites like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Outlook and more.
- Office 365 ProPlus is a user-based service and allows each student to install on up to five PCs or Macs and five mobile devices.
- Office 365 ProPlus can be installed on home and personally-owned devices.
To download your FREE Microsoft Office Pro Plus
- Click this link to download your free Microsoft Office Pro Plus software
- When requested, log into Glow using your Username and Password
- You will be taken to the software download page. This will recognise if you are on a Windows or Mac based computer.
- Click the Install button to download your software.
- Run the installation – at this stage you do not have to enter any activation codes.
- When you first run the software you may be asked to enter your activation email address. If you are a pupil or a teacher this will be your-glow-username@glow.sch.uk (i.e. gw08lovecharlie@glow.sch.uk).
- The activation screen will take you to the standard Glow login page – here you enter your username and password and login as normal.
- Your software will be activated and will be ready to use.
App based versions of Office are available from the Apple App Store for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) and from the Google Play Store for Android devices.
For further guidance please contact learntechteam@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Our further inspection letter
Our further inspection report from Education Scotland.
Click on the link.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/Images/BraeheadSchoolCEV240215_tcm4-853374.pdf
Celebration!!
On Wednesday 25th February we will have a visit from Dr Alasdair Allan, Learning, Science and Scottish Language MSP Member (SNP) following the publication of our report. He will have a chance to tour the school, speak to pupils and staff. We are delighted that he has chosen to visit us here at Braehead and look forward to showing him the progress we have made.
Regards
Diane Duncan
Head Teacher
Braehead Nursery Care Inspectorate Report
We are delighted with our recent Nursery Care Inspectorate Report. Please click on the link below to access it. We are currently waiting for copies of this report in other languages. When these arrive, they will be available to read from the Nursery.
Free Eye Examinations
Click on the links below to find out about free eye examinations. These letters are in different languages.
parents eyecareletterLithuanian
Congratulations to Greg (P6)
Well done Greg! He designed a medal for the Aberdeen Youth Games competition. Greg’s design has been chosen to go through to the next round of the competition. Good luck!
