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<\/a>Shawlands Academy has a long history of using the Games to create exciting learning experiences for their pupils. Amongst their accolades are their participation in Glasgow\u2019s bid for the Youth Olympics, submitting the winning design for the official Glasgow 2014 Tartan and being part of the Queen\u2019s Baton presentation at Buckingham Palace last October. Now the school is determined to get the whole school and its community inspired to engage with the Games by implementing an extensive cross \u2013curricular, whole school programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lourdes Secondary School and Shawlands Academy have both joined the award winning secondary schools now to hold the Game On Scotland Plaque for using the Games as an inspiring context for learning. The teacher leading the initiative at Lourdes, Kerry McSween, says: This is an excellent and fun opportunity for the pupils to be actively … Continue reading Two more Secondary schools to receive the Game On Plaque<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7454,7256,8280],"tags":[8193,1345,12478,12483,12484],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award","category-game-on-challenge","category-game-on-scotland-plaque-game-on-challenge","tag-ambassador","tag-awards","tag-game-on-challenge","tag-holly-cram","tag-plaque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/Game\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The teacher leading the initiative at Lourdes, Kerry McSween, says: This is an excellent and fun opportunity for the pupils to be actively involved in their learning. The projects are giving the pupils the opportunity to learn about different countries and cultures in a more inspiring and motivating way, whilst giving them the opportunity to learn and enhance their experience of the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n