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Term 1 “Our Community”
In the Autumn Term of 2024 the Primary Class topic was “Our Community”. We looked at what makes Shapinsay a great place to live, and what a community needs. We went on lots of visits, and had a lot of visitors in school. Here is just some of what we did! We went to the Smithy and learned about jobs there. We went to the Shapinsay shop and found out how it works. Liam McArthur MSP came to talk to us about the Scottish Parliament. We visited the Shapinsay kirk. We visited the Heritage Centre. We visited the Fire Station.A Busy Term in the School Library
Science Festival Trip
We had a fantastic day in Kirkwall, learning about comets and space. The children particularly enjoyed the space quilt that was created for the event. They even decided to create their own when they got back to school the later in the week.Orkney International Science Festival 2024
We were lucky enough to have several visits as part of the OISF. We really enjoyed all the activities! Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans from St Andrews University came in to work with us about space. We identified stars using their co-ordinates and made our own constellations. We learned a lot about forensics using the Science of- Latest updates
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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.Widgets in New Site Issue & Workarounds
There is a problem with the display of widgets when editing them. This only happens with a classic theme on newly created sites. It does not affect older sites. When a new site is created it comes with a pre-installed set of widgets. This is theme dependent. When you go to edit the widgets in […]Glow Blogs Update 14 Aug 2024
We are pleased to announce a new release for Glow Blogs, which includes several fixes and updates to plugins and themes. Fixes Embedding Sways: Microsoft recently changed the URLs for Sway embeds, which disrupted the embedding process on Glow Blogs. The developers have now improved this process. We’ve also updated the help documentation to show how […]
