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29 January – places still availableEducation Scotland Curriculum Improvement Cycle (3–18 Sciences): Upcoming Webinars
The Curriculum Improvement Cycle (CIC) for 3–18 Sciences is well underway, with significant progress already achieved through the valuable engagement of practitioners across Scotland. Last year, the Education Scotland science team hosted four webinars, providing updates on the CIC and consulting on key aspects of the process with colleagues across the wider network. We are keen to continue hearing from as many practitioners as possible, ensuring that your expertise and perspectives directly inform and shape a forward-looking sciences curriculum. We are pleased to share the dates of three further webinars planned for early 2026: Wednesday 4 February, 16:00–17:30 Education Scotland …Continue reading Education Scotland Curriculum Improvement Cycle (3–18 Sciences): Upcoming Webinars
Magma Shared iPads Session
Joe from Magma Maths will be hosting a twilight session on 3.45pm on Thursday 5th February 2026. This session aims to support teachers in P1-3 in ways that Magma Maths can be used with the shared iPads. Link will be shared ASAPWhat is Trauma Informed Practice?
Course title – What is Trauma Informed Practice? Course content – An introduction to raise awareness of what trauma is and how trauma impacts children’s brain development and behaviour. The introduction will begin to look at what children who are impacted by trauma need in order to thrive. This introductory session is suitable for staff who have had no formal training in trauma informed practice. Course Aims – same as content Target Audience – Nursery (ELC) practitioners, support workers, EYOs, SEYOs, private and voluntary provider staff.Latest updatesGTCS Fitness to Teach Panel Member Recruitment
Following our letter to Directors of Education sent in August 2025 regarding Fitness to Teach scheduling issues, we are reaching out again to our key contacts in local authorities to make you aware that we are currently recruiting new Fitness to Teach panel members. We are asking for your support to share this as widely as possible across your schools and other relevant key areas, and to reassure any applicants that their release time will be facilitated. To provide further context, we thought you may find the following information useful: Our panel pool is currently comprised of 41 members: 14 …Continue reading GTCS Fitness to Teach Panel Member Recruitment
SEEMIS Webinars January 2026
The following webinars are scheduled to take place in January and have been added to the SEEMiS website. Guidance on accessing the website can be found here. 1 16 – Admissions & Leavers 12/01/2026 9:30-10:30am 2 27.1 – Pupil Records – Part 1 12/01/2026 11am-12pm 3 27.2 – Pupil Records – Part 2 12/01/2026 1:30-2:30pm 4 3.1 -3.2 – COS Subjects & Students 13/01/2026 9:30-11am 5 3.3 – COS Options 13/01/2026 11:30am-12:45pm 6 3.4 – COS Classes 13/01/2026 2-3pm 7 35.1 – NAMS – Create & Manage Applications 14/01/2026 9:30-10:30am 8 35.2 – NAMS – Nursery List 14/01/2026 11am-12pm …Latest News
Advent in Glow Blogs
A couple of example sites both have a different primary age activities published every day. 25 examples of the H5p plugin. Example of using the Draw Attention plugin.Canva Embeds in Glow Blogs
Canva embeds are now supported in Glow Blogs.Fixed: PDF Issue
The PDF Issue that recently developed on Glow Blogs has now been fixed. PDFs can now be uploaded as expected without any workarounds.Glow Blogs Update 30 Sep 2025
Glow Blogs has been updated to WordPress 6.8.2. This update is mostly a behind the scenes one, you might not notice much difference.Fixed: PDF problem
An issue with pdf uploaded to Glow Blogs has recently developed. Our developers are looking at the issue to create a fix. The issue is that pdfs uploaded to Glow Blogs are ‘truncated’ to one page. We hope this is fixed soon. There are a few workarounds you can use in the meantime.
