Following Glow Mentor training in Harris in January, two teachers have been working together to bring pupils from Paible(a 5-14 school on North Uist) together with pupils from Sgoil Lionacleit (a community secondary school on Benbecula) using Glow Meet.

Mary Ann MacDonald, a P6/7 teacher at Paible, and Liz MacMillan, a French teacher at Lionacleit, arranged for former pupils of Paible, now at Sgoil Lionacleit, to read eco poems written in French during the school’s climate change week.

‘Having successfully managed this link-up, we decided to take Glow a step further and arranged for Liz to teach our primary 6/7 class a French lesson on pets,’ says Mary Ann.

Liz talked to, and took oral responses from, Paible pupils, as well as interacting with them through the whiteboard.

‘There was great excitement when they would see a big tick appear against their response,’ adds Mary Ann. ‘This was an ideal opportunity to set up links between schools and make the transition from primary to secondary less daunting for our pupils.’

The other components of Glow have also been used by Mary Ann and Liz, for example to share documents, to start and contribute to discussions and to post news items.

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