Category: Celebrating Success

Success Never Tasted So Good: Adobe Express Celebrations for Kirkhill Primary

Pupils at Kirkhill Primary School have been celebrating the end of term in style with a Pizza Party and Ice Cream Truck, courtesy of Adobe Express, recognising and rewarding their fantastic creativity.

Pupils across P5-P7 have used Adobe Express to share their learning and explore the AI tools for creativity, for projects including creating digital self-portraits, sharing information around upcoming school events, designing persuasive posters, and generating AI images of themselves in their future careers.

Pupils particularly enjoy using the AI tools for generating images and text effects, as well as the animation feature. Staff commented on the ease of the platform, noting that pupils were confidently able to explore and find new tools such as the background remover.

“I love how easy it is to use. Pupils will now ask to use it in lessons to share their learning as well.”

Class Teacher

The Adobe Express School Challenge is running until November, so it’s not too late to join in! Complete three creative challenges with 3 year groups to get rewards! Don’t forget to share your fab work with us too!

Adobe Achievement: Riverside PS win a Pizza Party!

We are delighted to announce Riverside Primary as the first winners of the Adobe Express Pizza Party, in recognition of their dedication to developing and enhancing digital skills and confidence through the use of Adobe Express for learning and teaching.

Staff and P5-7 pupils participated in a range of curriculum-based live lessons, focusing on topics including World Book Day, Road Safety, Anti-Bullying and Anti-Piracy. Pupils are now independently exploring and utilising the features of Adobe Express in their own time. Staff have also highlight improvements in other digital skills such as confidence and success of logging on, driven by their enthusiasm for the platform.

“In Literacy, pupils wrote a setting description, put it into the Adobe AI feature and worked out how they could edit or improve their writing. It really made it come alive.”

P5 Teacher

“Adobe Express has increased their confidence logging in, as they are excited to use it as a fast finisher”

Digital Lead

The Pizza Party was award after successful completion of 3 different Adobe Challenges across a number of classes. Huge well done to Riverside pupils – what an achievement! We can’t wait to see how you continue to use Adobe Express in the future.

Adobe Express is a fantastic creativity tool, available for staff and pupils in P4 and above, through GLOW. As well as a huge range of Live Lessons to get pupils started, Adobe Express offer additional lesson ideas and Teacher and Educator courses too.

If you have an achievement or success you’d like us to share on our Digital Learning Team blog, please get in touch by emailing us at digitallearningteam@westlothian.org.uk

Celebrating Success with St Paul’s Primary School

We are delighted to announce the recent success of St Paul’s Primary School, in achieving their Digital Schools Award Endorsement, celebrating their continued dedication of the use of digital technologies to enhance learning and teaching.

There was strong evidence of how technology is used consistently to support pedagogy… Digital literacy is integrated very well with the curriculum with clear lines of development and innovation.

Digital Schools award Validator

“The award recognises the ongoing commitment to maintaining a high standard of digital education and ensuring a seamless digital experience for learners at all levels. This acknowledgement not only validates sustained efforts but also reaffirms the school’s dedication to self-analysis and development in digital learning and teaching. It reflects adaptability and responsiveness to the ever-evolving landscape of technology and pedagogy.”

Digital Schools Award Scotland

St Paul’s Primary School is the second school in West Lothian to achieve this accolade which is a testament to the great work taking place across the whole school. We look forward to seeing how St Paul’s continue to take forward digital learning in your school. Well done!

Incredible Inventors: Celebrating Digital Innovation

We are thrilled to announce that two talented students from Kirkhill Primary School have been recognised as Runners-Up in the recent #DigitalInventorsCompetition! Their innovative project earned them an invitation to the award ceremony in Glasgow this week, where they celebrated their achievements.

The Competition

Pupils were challenged to research common health and care challenges and come up with ideas that could be transformed into a digital health and care solution.

They designed a heated blanket to soothe the symptoms of Arthritis, and includes space for a medicated gel pad for topical treatment, and a digital chip to connect to an app for wireless control. It is designed to be made using recycled materials, and specifically targets the area of pain, using heat to improve symptoms and reduce the environmental impact of heating the whole house.

Kirkhill Primary School submitted designs from pupils across P6, and also had a second group receive a Special Recognition award for their invention too. This is an incredible achievement to all. Well done to everyone who entered, you are all superstars!

Celebrating Success with Seafield Primary

We are delighted to announce that Seafield Primary School have recently achieved their Digital Schools Award, recognising the dedication and innovative work of pupils, staff and the whole school community.

Pupils across the school use a range of digital devices to access digital tools and resources to support, enhance and share their learning, such as MS Learning Accelerators, online games for consolidation of learning, Seesaw for sharing, MS Teams for collaboration, Adobe Express for creativity and so much more.

The links below, showcase some of the fantastic ways Seafield staff and pupils have been using Digital Technology to support and enhance learning and teaching.

Digital technologies at seafield ps
Digital Award Application Sway

Accredited by Education Scotland, The Digital Schools Award Scotland is a national award to promote, recognise and encourage a whole school approach to the use of digital technology.

We know there are schools across West Lothian who are working towards their validation this session, so look out for more announcements soon!

Congratulations once again to Seafield PS! We can’t wait to see how you continue to use these skills.

Celebrating Success with St John the Baptist


We are delighted to announce that St John the Baptist Primary School have recently achieved their Digital Schools Award, recognising the dedication and innovative work of pupils, staff and the whole school community.

Accredited by Education Scotland, The Digital Schools Award Scotland is a national award to promote, recognise and encourage a whole school approach to the use of digital technology.

West Lothian currently has 40 primary schools, 9 secondary schools, 1 ELC and 1 ASN school who have achieved this award. We know there are schools who are working towards their validation this session, so look out for more announcements soon!

Congratulations once again to St John the Baptist PS! We can’t wait to see how you continue to use these skills.

Celebrating Success: Digital Schools Awards Scotland

We are delighted to share that Croftmalloch Primary School have recently been awarded their Digital Schools Award.

Accredited by Education Scotland, The Digital Schools Award Scotland is a national award to promote, recognise and encourage a whole school approach to the use of digital technology.

West Lothian currently has 39 primary schools, 9 secondary schools, 1 ELC and 1 ASN school who have achieved this award. We know there are schools who are working towards their validation this session, so look out for more announcements soon!

Congratulations to Croftmalloch Primary School!

Meet the Masters: Introducing our latest Promethean Certified Trainers

We are thrilled to introduce our latest cohort of Promethean Certified Trainers, who are excited to share their knowledge and new expertise of the Promethean panels and the ActivInspire software with their schools and clusters.

This technology can significantly enhance learner engagement, ensuring that learners benefit from more interactive and dynamic educational experiences.

Key takeaways and most impactful learning experiences identified by the participants included:

  • Promethean tools available on the panels and online (such as spinner, annotate and timer)
  • ActivInspire tools, tips and hints (such as the use of templates, interactive manipulatives, reveal sliders and overlays)
  • Laptop and Online tools to boost engagement and collaboration (such as MS Whiteboard, floating keyboard, split screen functionality and MS Accessibility Tools)
  • Features to enhance productivity (such as importing and annotating PDF’s, exporting lessons as JPEGs or PDFs to share and ability to use the board separately from the laptop)

Congratulations all, we are excited to see how you take this new knowledge forward in your schools.