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Introduction
Welcome to the Learning, Teaching and Assessment site created to support the delivery of high quality learning experiences for all children and young people within schools in Aberdeenshire. We are currently working on updating this site and adding new materials. The Northern Alliance Toolkit can be used to support improvement activity around Learning, Teaching and Assessment through five themes: Building a Shared Understanding Environment, Experiences and Interactions Pace, Challenge and Differentiation Learner Participation and Ownership of Learning Effective Use of Data In addition we encourage all of our schools to be accessing Teaching Walkthrus to support consistent, highly effective teaching ...September 2026 – Inspection Round Up
Congratulations to the settings below who achieved or exceeded National Standards at their recent inspection. Follow the links to read the published reports. Busy Bee's Inverurie - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2020380339/328949.pdf Hoodles - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2011289681/328852.pdf Hygge Avenue Childminding - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2025000138/328974.pdf Gillian Anne Junor - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2003002048/328901.pdf Amanda McMullan - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2005091201/328893.pdf Sarah Cook - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2008192265/328872.pdf Links Nursery Balmedie - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2007167228/329233.pdf Donna Cruickshank - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2003052763/329398.pdf Dawn Connah Childminding - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2014324918/329302.pdf Little Oak Childminding - https://ci-web-media-production-bucket.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/inspection-reports/CS2024000188/329278.pdfTending our garden
Latest harvest
Weβre going to be making soup with these.Latest updatesWe Got an Award
Formartine Beginning to Blossom Award We got an award from the Formartine Rural Partnership. They came out to have a look at all the things the eco group have been up to in 2026. A few members of the pupil eco group and our eco parents gave them an enthusiastic tour of the polytunnel and the school grounds. Here is the letter that we got: I am delighted to let you know that Arnage School has been awarded a Silver Gilt Award, achieving an impressive 81 points out of 100. This is a fantastic achievement and is a lovely recognition ...π¨πͺπΏSummer of CLPL πΈπͺ‘π¬
For the third consecutive summer we are delighted to have delivered CLPL opportunities to over 300 participants during our CLPL week. Following feedback, we will continue to consider how best to offer these opportunities throughout the year. This year we delivered, STEM through a Froebelian Lens πͺ‘π§±ππ‘, Zoom in Zoom out π¬π, Outdoor Learning πΏ, Role Play π₯»ππ¦ΈββοΈ, Digital Pedagogy π² π¦, Making Maths count π’ and, enabling environments π. We were also delighted to host Pete Moorhouse who came to Kintore to deliver a full day of Woodwork Training πͺπ¨ to 50 participants and a full day of STEM ...Latest News
Blogs Back Online
As a precautionary measure, the Glow Blogs platform was temporarily taken offline. This decision was made to allow our technical team to apply urgent security updates to protect the platform. These updates address recently discovered vulnerabilities in PHP β the foundational programming language that acts as the βengineβ behind the scenes to make our WordPress […]Glow Blogs Update October 2026
There has been a new release on Glow Blogs, dealing with some issues, updating themes and plugins.Advice β Changing Privacy Levels
There can be a problem with changing privacy levels on a site with a lot of media (photos, video, audio etc.). We are planning a change to Glow Blogs to prevent this. In the meantime we have some advice around changing site privacy. The problem only affects sites with a lot of media. When you […]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. This post provides a fix to one and a workaround to the other.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.
