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  • Term 4 Dates for the Diary

    Term Four –Dates for the Diary Date Event 14th Apr 25 School Opens for all Chief Officer Visit 16th Apr 25 Swimming Lessons begin for all P5-7 pupils 17th Apr 25 RRS Silver Accreditation Visit 17th Apr 25 Easter Assembly – Rev Hugh Stewart 18th & 21st Apr 25 Mid-term holiday – Easter Weekend 22nd Apr 25 Cuach na Cloinne – All Weather Pitch, Stornoway – All P5-7s attending, GM5-7s all playing. 24th Apr 25 Bikeability Level 2 Training – P6 pupils – Stornoway 25th Apr 25 13.30 – Autism Eilean Siar Sponsored Bog Slog (whole school attending, parents welcome)

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  • Creative Writing Competitions

    English classes have recently been busy writing poems and stories for various competitions. Many thanks to our S6 judges: Blair Mackenzie, Anthony MacInnes, Brooke MacDonald and Isla Beaton. S1 Class ‘Animal Poem’ Competition Winners! Mrs MacIntyre’s S1 class entered the ‘Animal Poem’ competition with house points to be awarded for the prize-winning poems. Here are … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>

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  • Reading Schools Club

    Our book of the month. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Recommended for 12 up The hunger games is an action adventure novel, full of tense moments in which teenage girl Katniss Everdeen gets picked to play in the hunger games. This is a yearly event where 24 teenagers 2 from 12 districts are put in an arena to fight to the death for the Capital’s (The evil rulers of the country) entertainment. Now she will have to fight for survival or die trying.

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  • Inspiring Talk by Former Student Paul Morrison

    We were delighted to welcome back former student Paul Morrison to Sgoil Lionacleit as our inspirational guest speaker to S3 German, Gaelic and Gaidhlig students. Paul shared his incredible journey with languages, from his studies in Edinburgh and Oxford to his current PhD in Slavic Culture at Harvard. Paul spoke passionately about the importance of learning languages and how they have shaped his career and life. He also shared fascinating stories from his time in Moscow and Barcelona, where he worked. Our pupils had the opportunity to ask Paul questions about his experiences, gaining valuable insights into the exciting opportunities

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  • S3 German Class Penpal Exchange with Unterägeri, Switzerland

    Since August, our S3 and two S5 German students have been exchanging letters with penpals at a school in Unterägeri, Switzerland. They corresponded in both German and English, learning about each other’s daily lives, school routines, hobbies, and interests. The students also discovered that their Swiss peers are particularly passionate about floorball, and everyone enjoys … <a href="" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text"></span></a>

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Glow Blogs updated April 2025

Glow Blogs has just been updated to WordPress 6.7.2 This has not brought a lot of new features that users will notices but there are improvements in performance, security & accessibility. Most of the improvements to the editor are for the block editor and site editors, bringing some more features to many of the blocks […]

Glow Blogs Housekeeping Announcement

On 1 May 2025 we will start to archive older Glow Blogs that haven’t been used for a number of years.  Following this, commencing 28 August 2025 we will permanently delete these from the system to free up space and help improve overall performance.

How Glow Blogs Are Used

To get an idea of how Glow Blogs are being used we took a visit to the Local Authority Home pages and followed a few links from the Latest Posts. The Posts are below the Word Cloud generated from the titles once we remove schools names and words like school, nursery, etc.

Glow Blogs Tutorial: School Site

This tutorial shows how to make a school site with Glow Blogs. The tutorial will cover using the block editor, along with a classic theme.

Glow Blogs & Bluesky

There are a few ways you can use Bluesky in Glow Blogs, we have added a tips page: GLOW BLOGS & BLUESKY.