Tag Archives: Primary

Building Digital Citizens: my experience with Scotland’s Curriculum Improvement Cycle by a primary digital lead⤴

from @ DigiLearn

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 …

Community readers – The most magnificent thing⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

This blog was active until 2022. It is a great example of a project blog:

This blog records the fantastic reading work which takes place at Kirkhill Primary School and Dechmont Infant School. We love to read and encourage all our families to read and share books for enjoyment as much as possible. While our access to books and ability to share books has been limited over the last eighteen months we have found new ways to celebrate reading.

Community readers – The most magnificent thing | Kirkhill Reads/ Dechmont reads

The blog consists of posts containing videos of different people from the school community reading different books. What a great idea.

Myths and Legends – Port Ellen Primary School⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

Myths and Legends – Port Ellen Primary School

A nice example of a pupil written post and use of embedding google video to show their animation.

What was the mythical creatures called one of them are called penfin and the other is called dogor  the animations were like there was a bad guy and a good guy  who save the day. and they live happily ever after.

Body Smart⤴

from @ Glowing Posts

Being Body Smart is all about movement and 3D thinking. We use our body smarts in sports, dancing and acting.

Some of us move our bodies to think, having our best ideas when we’re on the go. Being Body Smart also incorporates building 3D models with blocks, Lego or junk modelling.

Body Smart – Fishie School Upper Stages

Part of the

Fetterangus P4-7 class blog!

Every student in the class is a contributor and will be adding a post or two during the year.

The idea for the blog was not only to have a go using technology but also to showcase work we’ve been doing on multiple intelligences.

Fishie School Upper Stages – Growth Mindsets. Multiple Intelligences. Perms.

The Christmas Break?⤴

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It’s that time of year when many teachers, pupils and parents feel like they are crawling to the festive finish line, eager for a mince-pie-filled break from all things school related. Yet Christmas is a time jam packed with hidden learning opportunities, spanning every curricular area you can shake a figgy pudding at. Moreover, the … Continue reading “The Christmas Break?”

QR codes in education⤴

from @ DF Scotland Teach

QR codes are all around us, and part of our every day interaction- be it with COVID check-ins, to additional information on foods, to providing survey feedback.

Despite them being so prominent in ‘the real world’ for our learners, in schools they are so often forgotten. So how can we create QR codes and use them effectively in education? Hopefully, this training video will help you to consider this very question: