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Book Bug P2 Room 5
Today in Room 5, our families came in to visit us to celebrate Book Week. They had so much fun exploring their bags and reading with you. Thank you to each and every one of you who came to take part, it is always so lovely to have you in especially to read with the children. Please do not worry if you didn’t make it. And a special thank you to Fraser’s Mum who brought in some books for us to read in class. Thank you also for your permission to share some lovely photographs of you and your children …Building Digital Citizens: My Experience with Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle by a Primary Digital Lead
My decision to engage with Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle regarding digital literacy began primarily when I began to lead my school through the Digital Schools Award journey. This experience revealed the Dunning-Kruger effect in action early in my school’s digital journey – while I started the process full of confidence, I gradually realised how much I didn’t know about what I didn’t know in the digital realm, and more importantly, how I needed to prepare my pupils for challenges and opportunities I couldn’t yet foresee. This recognition of the profound impact digital technology has on every aspect of modern life …Keeping the conversations going: Feedback from Education Scotland’s Community Learning and Development (CLD) Stakeholder webinars
Throughout 2025, we’ve been exploring what the changes at Education Scotland (ES) should mean for our CLD support. These discussions have been extremely helpful in shaping our plans and CLD stakeholders have encouraged us to continue to engage with them as the refocused ES takes shape. In August, we published a discussion paper which summarised the feedback we’d had so far and outlined what we planned to do next. Based on the feedback, our priorities have been to: Support the CLD sector’s contributions across key areas of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle (CIC) Continue to develop our CLD professional learning (PL) …STEM Nation Award Open Days 2026
Building on last year’s successful STEM Nation Award Open Days, our team at Education Scotland is delighted to announce that we are working with a group of inspirational educators to host a series of STEM Nation Open Days across Scotland. … <a href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/stemnation/2025/11/17/stem-nation-award-open-days-2026/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>Latest updatesUsing Images from Elsewhere
The Image block has a nice feature that lets you use and import images from other sites. Of course you should always make sure you are legally allowed to use the image concerned. This may involve crediting the image in the case of Creative Commons images. The image block has an Insert form URL button, and will let you import that image to your Media Library. In this example we will use a Public Domain image (which we do not need to credit) from Wikimedia Commons. I’ve searched the Commons for Glow and found an image I like. On theRoom 1 – 14.11.25
This week in Room 1 we have: Used the INDIs to help us blend our sounds to make words (check the videos below) Answered some of our ‘big questions’ about what makes the world wonderful. We have explored rainbows, flowers and now we are learning about animals. Look at the way we sorted the animals Used number lines in numeracy to help with addition Identified sentences ✅ and fragments ❌. We worked together to fix the fragments. Today we enjoyed celebrating Children in Need. A reminder that we are inviting parents/families in next week for Book Week to spend time …Latest News
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.Glow Blogs Release September 2025
This release contains a couple of improvements and some general updated. The Ability to edit CSS has been restored. There is a new Contact Form Block for Block Themed sites.
