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  • UNCRC April – Earth Day

    Throughout the month of April we had a focus on ‘Earth Day’ linking with the UNCRC Articles 6 ‘The right to life, survival and development’ and 24 ‘The right to food, water, health and environment’. Some experiences we carried out to support this were: Paperless Play – Using the iPads to create digital artwork, drawing on recycled materials such as a cardboard box or old artwork. We also used the paper bags our lunch came in, to design our own bags to use at home. Using cut outs from magazines instead of printing out pictures.  Community Posters – To raise

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  • Donation of lettuce plants 🪴

    Abigail’s dad Donald kindly donated 100+ lettuce plants to Largs EYC families to grow at home.

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  • STEM Nation Award: Frequently Asked Questions

    Thinking about signing up for our STEM Nation Award programme but have questions? We’ve got you covered! This document aims to answer common queries. Register now to get started on your STEM Nation Award journey: General information about the STEM Nation Award – STEM Nation

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  • Digital Learning Lobby

    Welcome to the St Margaret Mary’s Secondary Digital Learning Lobby.  The purpose of the lobby is to provide digital support for pupils, staff and parents in all things digital learning. Please use the links at the top of the page to navigate your way through this website.

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  • Room 5

    What a great week Room 5 had immersing ourselves in our new topic, “Chocolate”! We began the week by looking at the Cocoa bean and its key features, colours, texture and shape. We then used a variety of different paper to create our own Cocoa beans. Take a look at what we created… We then researched the chocolate making process and discovered that there are a lot of steps that need to be taken before the chocolate is ready for us to buy and eat! We used our research to sequence the chocolate making process…

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  • Room 6

    This week in Room 6, we have been learning the ‘ss’ sound. We have focused on words like ‘mess, chess, less’ and  enjoyed writing silly sentences with the words. We have been working hard in our reading groups this week, all challenging ourself to read something more challenging. In numeracy, we have been learning about multiplication and division word problems, and consolidating our 2,5 and 10 times tables to help us with dividing by 2,5 and 10. Today, we came up with different things we can use to help us with dividing. Some of the children used lego pieces, small …

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Glow Blogs Housekeeping 2

On 1 May 2025 we archived older Glow Blogs that haven’t been used for a number of years.  Following this, commencing 28 August 2025, we will permanently delete these from the system to free up space and help improve overall performance. If your Glow Blog is archived but you want to continue using it you […]

Glow Blogs updated April 2025

Glow Blogs has just been updated to WordPress 6.7.2 This has not brought a lot of new features that users will notices but there are improvements in performance, security & accessibility. Most of the improvements to the editor are for the block editor and site editors, bringing some more features to many of the blocks […]

Glow Blogs Housekeeping Announcement

On 1 May 2025 we will start to archive older Glow Blogs that haven’t been used for a number of years.  Following this, commencing 28 August 2025 we will permanently delete these from the system to free up space and help improve overall performance.

How Glow Blogs Are Used

To get an idea of how Glow Blogs are being used we took a visit to the Local Authority Home pages and followed a few links from the Latest Posts. The Posts are below the Word Cloud generated from the titles once we remove schools names and words like school, nursery, etc.

Glow Blogs Tutorial: School Site

This tutorial shows how to make a school site with Glow Blogs. The tutorial will cover using the block editor, along with a classic theme.