{"id":5478,"date":"2019-11-26T15:13:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:13:20","slug":"digital-schools-scotland-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=5478","title":{"rendered":"Digital Schools Scotland award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am delighted to say that following a process which we have been undertaking over the last 2 years, as part of our School improvement plan, our partnership of trio schools has achieved National recognition in the Digital Skills Scotland awards.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Yesterday I received official confirmation that we have been validated and awarded this, following a lengthy submission of evidence and visit of an assessor.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Dear Ms Sheila Baillie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Following your Digital Schools Award Scotland validation visit by Alan Yeoman, I am delighted to inform you that North Rhins Partnership Schools \u2013 Leswalt Primary \/ Port Patrick Primary and Kirkcolm Primary have been successful in their application to become Digital Schools in Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">On behalf of all the partners involved in the Digital Schools Award Scotland I would like to congratulate the schools on achieving this award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">I enclose the\u00a0validation report which\u00a0summarises the validator\u2019s view of the extent to which the schools addressed the award\u00a0criteria. \u00a0 The\u00a0Digital School Award is\u00a0recognised\u00a0by Education Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">We are confident that North Rhins Partnership will be a pioneer among schools where digitally enhanced teaching and learning is helping our children and young people prepare for living and working in the 21st Century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Kind regards<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">Aoife O\u2019Connor<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> Programme Coordinator<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff\"> Digital Schools Award Scotland<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>This award is recognised by Education Scotland.\u00a0 Only one other school in the whole of Dumfries and Galloway has this award currently.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Thank you must go to all staff and pupils for their hard work and willingness in this work \u2013 they are indeed a \u201cpioneer among schools\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Our team may be small \u2013 but is mighty!<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalschoolsawards.co.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/dsa_logo_sc.png\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted to say that following a process which we have been undertaking over the last 2 years, as part of our School improvement plan, our partnership of trio schools has achieved National recognition in the Digital Skills Scotland awards. Yesterday I received official confirmation that we have been validated and awarded this, following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=5478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Schools Scotland award!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}