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Beith Languages Hub Website⤴

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By Amy Guidi           Beith Primary School            North Ayrshire

I have used a Glow Blog to create a 1+2 Languages web site.

This site has been created to support and facilitate Spanish language learning. Pupils have been writing scripts and recording themselves. These have been published on the website as podcasts. Each podcast included relevant links to websites that can challenge and support the listeners further. Pupils have been responsible for every stage of the podcast process.

I received support from a colleague in Braehead Primary School, in Stirling council and I attended a training session with our local Glow coordinator on the use of Glow blogs and how to customize the site.

I have been working with pupils on this project since mid May 2015 and we have four podcasts available for pupils, parents and staff.

This has had a very positive impact on pupils as they enjoy listening to their peers and are challenged to produce the next podcast for the site. Staff and parents are able to improve and practice their Spanish which has been vitally important in providing people with the necessary supports when introducing a new language across the school.beith 2

Staff have a starting point for Spanish lessons and links to tried and tested website, songs and apps. This has boosted their confidence in delivering Spanish lessons.

This is an ongoing project and I will continue to support learners to produce podcasts on a regular basis. All topics that are taught in class will be covered in podcasts. We hope to include movie clips next session.

The website is available to everyone at

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/na/beithlanguagehub/

 

Dunrobin Junior Journalists⤴

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Dunrobin Junior Journalists

Dunrobin Junior Journalists

The Dunrobin Junior Journalists us a Glow blog as part of their project:

We are the Junior Journalists in Dunrobin Primary School in Airdrie. We attend an after school club on Tuesdays, where we work together to produce a school magazine all about the things that are going on in and around our school. We also have our own blog, which we use as our TV channel “Dunrobin News”. We upload video news reports we have made onto this blog and we also post some of the articles from our magazine.

The reason we started this club is because Mrs Whomes applied for an Access to Education grant to improve literacy in our school. She used the grant to buy 16 ipads and some digital cameras that we use at the club. We even get to take the cameras home to make our news reports.

On 15th May, we got to go to Sky Skills Academy in Livingston where we worked in their studios to produce an 8 minute long news programme. It was so much fun and we learned lots about working in the media!

You can read the Dunrobin Junior Journalists blog, and a post about their Trip To Sky Studios.

Dunrobin Primary were enthusiastic participants in the Blogging Bootcamp.

Glow Meets with Bathgate Early Years Centre⤴

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  Making good use of Glow at Bathgate Early Years Centre.

At Bathgate Early Years Centre we use Glow to develop and extend children’s learning through participating in Glow TV events and hosting Glow meets and events of our own in the Early Years Meeting Room (West Lothian Council) . Our families also tell us they find our Glow blog is an effective means of communication and sharing information with them.

 Transition to P1 Glow meets.

Bathgate Early Years centre is associated with many different schools within the area. Meeting with children and staff from other establishments online enables us to build strong links with our associated schools. This gives our nursery children opportunities to chat to the Primary 1 teachers and pupils, many of whom they remember from the previous year at nursery. It is good practice to have a discussion with the nursery children beforehand to find out what interests them about moving on to school. This information can then be emailed to the P1 teacher in advance of the Glow meet to allow the P1’s to prepare their answers.

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Glow meets provide a great opportunity to have ‘all together’ story and song times with P1’s in associated schools, particularly when it can be difficult to travel between establishments. They are also a good way of participating in special events, e.g. watching Nativity performances/ concerts/ assemblies.

Collegiate Glow meets.

Arranging to meet a colleague from other establishments or departments in a Glow meet is a useful means of communication and also saves on travelling time. The Glow meeting room has the facility of allowing you to ‘share your screen’. This has been a particularly helpful resource when faced with technical issues as the I.T. professional can easily guide you through them.

Sharing our learning Glow meets.

Another way in which we can use the Early Years meeting space on Glow is to share our learning with other establishments. When the nursery within our centre had chicks in an incubator, a web cam was set up to watch the every move of the chicks hatching. An email was sent to head teachers in West Lothian, inviting them to share the meeting room link with their staff so pupils from other establishments could also be part of this special learning experience.

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Glow TV Events.

Children at Bathgate Early Years Centre are keen to take part in the exciting events on Glow TV. Previously we have enjoyed tuning into ‘World Book Day’ events and ‘Meet the Author’ events.

More recently we learned about dinosaurs when we took part in National Museums Scotland’ ‘Dinosaur Discoveries’ Glow TV event and also chatted to an astronaut about his experience as commander of the International Space Station!

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https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/beyc/2015/03/31/beyc-space-station/

 

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/beyc/2015/02/26/dinosaur-discoveries-on-glow-tv/

 

Early Years Centre Blog.

In addition to updating our centres blog with newsletters and policy information our parents/carers and families enjoy regular updates on the children’s learning and interests in nursery. After consultation with parents, they agreed it would be helpful to understand what the children were learning from the activities and opportunities on offer and can now access Curriculum for Excellence outcomes on each post.

 

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/beyc/

GPS Sensational Sevens⤴

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This is a wonderful class blog from Gourock. The pupils and their teacher blog about a wide range of activities, using images and video expertly.

Hello and welcome to Gourock Primary School’s P7 Class Blog Inverclyde. Check back regularly to see what we have been up to! This Blog is updated by P7 pupils and Mrs Hunter. Follow us on Twitter: @MrsAndreaHunter

 

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Gourock Primary Sensational Sevens

Barassie Nursery – pm Travelling Ted Blog⤴

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Not the original Travelling Ted blog, but this is an idea worth repeating:

Welcome to Travelling Ted’s Blog

Look through our blog to see all the places Travelling Ted has visited. Find out about all the things he got to do and all the things he saw on the way

My Island⤴

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My Island.

An interesting looking blog from a Primary Learner, Emma describes here blog:

I live on the lovely island of Islay on the west coast of Scotland.  We have lots of lovely wildlife, beaches and people and places to visit.  I go to port Ellen Primary School and every year primary 5-7 carry out an Endeavour project.  This is an extended project that must be ambitious, challenging, have new learning and be shared with others.  Last year my Endeavour project was on cooking, and I made lots of different foods in the school kitchen.  This year I am going to be travelling around my island and finding out more about it.  I will write about my experiences in this blog with the help of my teachers and parents.  I want to learn all the different things there are to do on Islay that I enjoy.

Nats Cake Blog⤴

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Here is a lovely blog from a P5 pupil sharing her passion for baking for her Endeavour Project. This is a great way for pupils to develop their literacy and technology skills, allowing them to write about something they are truly interested in and giving them an audience for their work.

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In school i will be doing stuff all about cakes and showing you some stuff about baking.On the 25th November I started my blog, i will be talking to you at least once a week just talking to you about different cakes, i will show you me baking all sorts of different cakes and i will be showing you some how to videos. I will also be showing you the ingredients and measurements.

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Head Teacher’s Blog⤴

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Mr Clark is the head teacher of Stane Primary School in North Lanarkshire below he explains why blogging is the tool for them.

03012014_182054_0 I chose to use the Blogging tool as I had some familiarity with it and I wanted a tool that the staff and pupils could use which would be simple and straightforward.  Previous systems for creating school websites required a fair bit of technical knowledge, but once set up, the Glow Blogs are very easy to use.

I wanted to use a system that would also fit with the appearance of the pre-existing school website and the Glow Themes had enough customisation to allow me to create a theme that matched.  I use ‘Suffusion’ as it allows greater flexibility with appearance and widgets.

I keep my own Blog, which I use to share news and information to parents, and to promote the achievements of the school.  All of the classes and nursery contribute to the Teacher and Pupil Blog, which allows class teachers to share specific learning, or special events with the parents easily.  I wanted a shared blog as I think it is better to have one blog which is well populated than lots of separate blogs which are not used regularly.

The parents enjoy keeping up to date with the school news and particularly like seeing photographs of their children engaged in learning.  Many parents who work say that it gives them access to information that they miss by not being able to visit the school regularly.

At the moment, pupils work with their teacher to create Blog posts together, but our aim is for older pupils to be involved in writing their own blog posts.

To have a look at Mr Clark’s Blog click on the link below.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/StaneHTBlog/