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3-5 Planning Update March/April 2025
Over the last 4 weeks our planning within the room has focused on the following outcomes: Health and Well-being – I am aware of and able to express my feelings and I am developing the ability to talk about them. I am learning ways to manage my emotions. Numeracy and Mathematics – I can match objects and sort using my own and others criteria. I can share out a group of objects and can split a whole object into smaller parts. Literacy and English – I describe an object/picture using suitable vocabulary/ I know the difference between numbers and letters/INational Suicide Campaign Launch
The National Suicide Prevention campaign launched today, on Wednesday 16th April 2025. The aim of this campaign is to start Scotland’s biggest conversation about suicide. Here is a link to the home page of the website, and a link to the professional’s page, where you are able to order free assets (both digital and ready to print). There is already a lot of content on the website, including information about supports for yourself or someone you are worried about, but this will continue to be added to in the coming weeks and months. Home – Suicide Prevention Scotland I work in …Academy9 Careers
We’ve been catching up with two of our professional colleagues working on Academy9 to ask them about their careers and how they entered the world of work. First, we have Archie, who has just started his career as a bridge engineer, and then we have Maxine who is an ecologist. Both work on large scale infrastructure projects but contribute in very different ways. As you will see both followed a very interesting path into their respective disciplines. Find out what inspired them into their careers and what advice they would give to someone leaving school. Archie Calderwood, Graduate Bridge Engineer<br><br><a class="more-link" href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/academy9/2025/04/15/academy9-careers/">Read More</a>Create and edit media – learner digital skills toolkit
Learners should understand how digital technology can be used to create and edit media, such as photos, videos and audio. They know how to create media and are able t edit, including cropping, trimming, filtering and prompting. This learning covers Experience and Outcome x-01a. back to digital literacy Where to startContinue reading Create and edit media – learner digital skills toolkit
Reading and writing with digital
George Milliken Mon 14/04/2025 12:50 engage with and create a wide range of texts in different media, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by ICT Texts The literacy and English framework reflects the increased use of multimodal texts, digital communication, social networking and the other forms of electronic communication encountered by children and young people in their daily lives. OECD report on literacy… continuously evaluating the quality and validity of differences sources, navigating through ambiguity, distinguishing between facts and opinions, and constructing knowledge. reading is a daily activity for most people and that education systems …Developing Learners’ Digital Literacy
go to Digital Literacy for Learners This section aims to build on the digital skills for learners toolkit. It offers ideas, guidance and resources for applying digital skills in a range of contexts to be more purposeful and creative.Latest News
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.Featured Images information
We have just added some information and instructions about Featured Images, These are a rather neglected ‘feature’ on Glow Blogs. They are really useful for making your posts stand out on both your own site and when you share them. There are especially useful if you share posts and can enhance your own site by […]