Problem Solving at Neilston Primary School, East Renfrewshire

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Problem Solving Challenges and Tutorials At Neilston Primary, we are creating instructional videos to set daily problem solving questions for our primary six and primary seven pupils.  Using existing resources, we prepare a PowerPoint to set the question and a separate PowerPoint explaining the solution. Principal Teacher, Andrew Howie, then uses online recording tool – Loom, to …

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Pupil and Parental Engagement at St Mark’s Primary School, East Renfrewshire

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Increasing Pupil and Parental Engagement at St Mark’s with Twitter Tweets by StMarksPrimary1   In St. Mark’s, we have been working hard to increase parental engagement and maintain relationships with our families during school closure. Twitter has been a great tool for us to celebrate the achievements of our pupils and stay connected to our …

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Photography Competition at Hillview primary School, East Renfrewshire

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  Photography Competition  During this period of closure it is more important than ever to have families involved. Our photography competition invites all our stakeholders to enter and be part of something creative. The final exhibition will be online but we hope to host it in a virtual art gallery using artsteps.com and allow our visitors …

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Online Learning at St John’s Primary School, East Renfrewshire

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Online Learning at St John’s Primary School  St John’s, in Barrhead, have created their very own free-to-use website for teachers, parents and pupils to support learning from home during isolation periods of the Covid-19 outbreak.  https://sites.google.com/view/homelearningsite   The purpose of the site is to support pupils and families by offering a wide variety of:  Daily Challenges Activity …

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A Selfie in Isolation! North West Community Campus, Dumfries and Galloway

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A Selfie in Isolation by Jamie McKie, Primary Teacher from North West Community Campus in Dumfries and Galloway. A Selfie in Isolation, an activity shared by Nicola Orr (@MrsOrrCPS) on Twitter has been used many times by teachers across the country.  Her resources can her found here. Due to everyone being in lockdown, we’re experiencing …

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