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Festive Activities II
In December 2024 we launched our newest edition of festive creative activities. These eight fun activities that can be picked up and completed by pupils either in groups or individually and can be used with any age and stage. They are based on Apple’s new Creative Activities for Early Learners/ Students, and aim to to help pupils utilise lots of interesting core apps on their devices in new and creative ways – with a festive twist!Materials and Practice Guides – T
Those affected by war and conflict or seeking refuge Scottish Government (2022). Ukraine Psychological Wellbeing Advice Pack – Guidance for Services. Beacon House (2022). Information for families seeking refuge from conflict in their home country. (Available in English, Russian Ukrainian) Children who have parents in the Armed Forces – Forces Children’s Education website; Forces Children’s Education (November 2021). Supporting Armed forces families in Scotland: Teacher Toolkit. Centre for Excellence for Children’s Care and Protection (CELCIS) (2022). Supporting child refugees and their families. Falkirk Council interpretation and translation support (updated 2022) Transgender Supporting transgender young people in Scottish schools guidance (Scottish Government, August 2021) LGBT Youth …Materials and Practice Guides – S
Selective Mutism The Educational Psychology Services of Aberdeenshire Council and Aberdeen City Council produced guidance with health partners that can really assist school based practitioners work with children who have or may have selective mutism. Their guidance is available here. Self Regulation Supporting Children to Learn Self Regulation Sensory barriers to learning Forth Valley Sensory Centre Scottish Sensory Centre webpages Falkirk Council Children with Disabilities Team Occupational Therapists have produced the following guide: Making Sense of Sensory Behaviour: A practical approach at home for parents and carers Social Skills Circle of Friends – 2001, Circle of friends Training Pack 2 Solution Oriented Approaches …Materials and Practice Guides – O
Occupational Therapy Service Offending Supporting learners who offend or are at risk of offending Disclosure: What educational practitioners should know Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice website including updates on age of criminal responsibility Online safety Education Scotland (2022). Cyber First Aid Box (Digilearn). The site will ask a series of questions to help families determine the best response to a harmful online incident, including how to approach the subject with children & young people, possible solutions, and the first steps to recovering from it.Latest updatesMaterials and Practice Guides – C
Care experienced children and young people The Independent Care Review (2020) made a number of recommendations, generated The Promise is a commitment to change and re-organise how Scotland thinks, plans and prioritises for children and their families (based on foundations at the heart of this change). ‘Children must be listened to and meaningfully and appropriately involved in decision-making about their care, with all those involved properly listening and responding to what children want and need. There must be a compassionate, caring decision- making culture focused on children and those they trust’ Useful infographics The Children’s Hearing: What practitioners …Materials and Practice Guides – F
Families Cost of Living – Scottish Government (2022) launched a one-stop website which provides information on a range of cost-of-living topics. This includes information on benefits and income, debt, health and wellbeing, advice for businesses, and has dedicated sections for children and families, and older or disabled people. Cost of living crisis – Cost of Living Support Scotland Young Scot also have a webpage with information on new offers, tips on saving money, benefits and links to support. Coping With the Cost Crisis | Young Scot Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder The main advise is to be confident in the schools assessment of teaching and …Latest News
Additional CSS Issue
In the most recent update to Glow blogs we updated the version of Jetpack that we use. Jetpack no longer supports Additional CSS. This is no longer available from the customiser or in the Styles of the Site Editor. CSS already added to sites continues to function. Native WordPress support Additional CSS but not in […]Jet Pack Settings Issue
Some sites with the Jetpack plugin enabled do not have a link in the Dashboard Sidebar. Our developers are aware of the problem and are working on a fix. Workaround The Jetpack settings can be accessed from the Plugins screen: Clicking on the Settings link under the Jetpack listing will take you to the Jetpack […]Glow Blogs October 2024 Update
Glow Blogs has just had a fairly large update. Glow Blogs is now using wordPress 6.6.2. This bring quite a lot of new features, especially to the Block & Site Editor. Quite a few plugins have been updated too.H5P Issue Some content types cannot be installed
An issue with H5P content types has arisen. If you try to install some content types you will get an error. The problem seems to be because the H5P API has been updated but the version used by theWordPress plugin does not now match it.Glow Blogs Tutorial: Class Site
This tutorial shows how to make a class site with Glow Blogs. The tutorial will cover using the block editor, to make a simple class blog.
