Practitioners from across Falkirk have collated examples of how they are using digital tools for distance learning. The document contains examples from primary and secondary educators and the tools and strategies that they are using to engage learners. Victoria Primary School Westquarter Primary School Maddiston Primary School Drumbowie Primary School Carmuirs Primary School St Marys …
St Mungo’s High School in Falkirk have produced a Sway illustrating what distance learning looks like in the school. “We have shifted the emphasis during this period to digital applications that can be accessed and engaged with easily using a smart phone or tablet. We have also moved more towards creating videos as a way …
This year we received an Education Scotland CLPL grant to train staff in digital skills; for part of the project we have been learning computer science and technology to do with robotics. A grant from the DigitalXtra fund has also allowed us to purchase robotics equipment from early years up for the cluster, and has …
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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 …
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 …
Glasgow Education Services CREATE was set up in 2016 to raise the profile of expressive arts and creativity as a means to raise attainment and achievement across the curriculum. Our focus is on supporting schools to think differently and creatively in order to equip children and young people with the knowledge, skills and attributes they …
Digital Registers at Mearns Primary Our class teachers set a question on the assignment tab asking if the pupil is present or not. This allows the SMT team to easily see who has engaged with the learning that day and who has not. They followed this guide made up by one of our teachers: Members …
The Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts from across Scotland have shared examples of how they are using Office365 within Glow in their settings. These examples come from across the breadth and depth of the curriculum, from all over the country. Remote Learning Stories O365 Glow If you wish to know more about the MIEE programme in …
To date 81% of teachers and 41% of pupils now have 1:1 managed iPads through our Connected Learning Programme. The deployment has now restarted remotely firstly to teachers which will be followed by remote pupil deployment. All iPads are managed to ensure safe usage by pupils at home. In response to the imminent closure of …
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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