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May 4th, 2012

Going Sport Mad!

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow, Glow TV, Pupils, West Lothian

Thursday 10th of May 2012 @ 13:45

Join this exciting event to preview the Bank of Scotland National School Sport Week and London 2012 World Sport Day with the London 2012 Mascots Wenlock and Mandeville!

With a little under 100 days to go until the London 2012 Olympic Games begin, Mid Calder Primary School in West Lothian will be hosting a very special Glow event designed to give schools ideas on how to have their very own celebration events around Bank of Scotland National School Sport Week and World Sport Day.

As well as suggestions for fun using the flags of competing teams, the London 2012 Mascots Wenlock and Mandeville will be making a special appearance to introduce their very own dance routine that celebrates the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games!

Bank of Scotland National School Sport Week, delivered in partnership with sportscotland – the national agency for sport, uses the excitement around the upcoming London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to inspire school children to try more sport. From 11-15 June, schools across Scotland will be staging their own Games, Torch Relays and celebration events. Following the week, schools also have the opportunity to get involved in celebrations that will welcome the World to the UK for the London 2012 Olympic Games when World Sport Day, presented by Bank of Scotland takes place on 25 June.

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December 2nd, 2011

Glow Meet-ing with Mrs Claus: Engaging Literacy in Early Years

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What do you do when Santa’s too busy to talk to you? You hold a Glow Meet with Mrs Claus of course! That was the idea that Margo Kerr in West Lothian had last year.

Margo is currently seconded from her nursery post at Kirknewton Primary School and is working as the Early Years ICT Development Officer within the West Lothian Council ICT team. Margo’s remit is to provide curriculum support to the Local Authority’s standalone nurseries.

Margo administers the West Lothian Early Years Glow Group, which is open to all Nurseries and Primary schools.
Last December, Margo was keen to use Glow as part of nursery and school Christmas activities and came up with the idea of having a Glow Meet with Mrs Claus.

To find out more read the Cookbook here.

November 29th, 2011

Écoutez! Using Glow Learn to support listening practice in Modern Languages

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The Modern Languages Department in James Young High School in Livingston, West Lothian, is always looking for ways to provide pupils with innovative and interesting resources and activities that will help them develop their language skills.

Sophie Martin and Amanda Lyons have been using Glow Learn this year as a means of sharing resources with pupils.

Sophie and Amanda have created Glow Learn courses to share resources with their Advanced Higher German and Higher French classes respectively. As well as using Glow Learn, they also created a Glow Group for each class. You can find out more about the Glow Groups in the following cookbooks:

To find out more read the Cookbook here

November 23rd, 2011

A RIGHT wee blether – What Did You Do?

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Early Years, Events, Glow Meet, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Pupils, West Lothian

Have you and your class been taking part in a RIGHT Wee Blether? If so why not join our Glow Meet and share with us what you have been doing?

We all hope you have enjoyed blethering with your 2 to 5 year olds. In this Glow Meet you will see Tam Baillie, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People in Broxburn Primary and Nursery talking to staff and children about how they took part, join us to show us your wee books about him and tell us your stories!!

We will also be looking at some of Our Wee Stories which have been returned to the office and if we’re lucky the blether bear will be there too.

So sign up and join us in Glow TV on Thursday 24th November from 11-12pm.

November 4th, 2011

Story Telling in Early Years using Glow Meet

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Margo Kerr was teaching in her nursery post at Kirknewton Primary School and working as the Early Years ICT Development Officer within the West Lothian Council Early Years Team. Margo’s remit was to provide curricular ICT support to all Early Years practitioners (nursery – P3) within the Local Authority and to drive forward and support the implementation of Glow within the Nurseries.

There are five standalone Early Years Centres and eight Nursery Schools in West Lothian. Since these Early Years establishments are not attached to a school, they do not have access to a school Glow establishment site. West Lothian therefore asked to have a separate, single Glow establishment created for the standalone Early Years establishments. The staff in all of these nurseries had their Glow accounts provisioned within this establishment, which is called ‘West Lothian Early Years’ to enable them to all work together.

Margo was keen to provide a place where the Nursery staff could communicate and collaborate and so created a Glow Group at Local Authority level. It was created at this level to enable all nursery staff, from both the standalone nurseries and those attached to schools, to be able to access the Group if they wanted to. Margo tells us a little bit about this and how she introduced staff in the standalone nurseries to the Glow Group:

To find out more read the Cookbook here

October 21st, 2011

Using Glow to support an Authority-wide In-Service Day

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In West Lothian, one of the recent In-Service days was used to give all staff the opportunity to engage with the new plans and forthcoming arrangements for assessment. In order to ensure that all staff from every school had access to the same information and resources about this, the Local Authority decided to use Glow to support the day’s activities.

The day was planned on a cluster basis, with teachers from each Secondary and its associated Primaries working together in the Secondary school, along with staff from Nurseries, Special Schools and Outreach Teams. It began with the Director of Education and Cultural Services, Gordon Ford, speaking to every member of staff, via Glow Meet:

Read more in the Cookbook here

September 23rd, 2011

Daily Quote - Glow Meet with a dragon!- Early Years Fairyland topic

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“All staff, pupils and parents absolutely LOVED this Enchanted Forest topic! The dragon really came to life through GLOW for the children, which was a super way to end such a fabulous project!”

Teachers from Primary 1 and 2 at Windyknowe Primary School, Bathgate, West Lothian

Find out more by visiting the Glow Cookbook here

June 28th, 2011

Glow Light Image 27.6.2011

Lesley Dickson

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West Lothian Council

Julia is in P5 at Our Lady of Lourdes Primary in West Lothian, her teacher says that she loves Glow and regularly post to the class and school blog and uploads pictures to her class page. She completes her spelling and maths homework in Glow and emails Glow challenges to her teacher.

On a Sunday Julia can’t wait to see what the Glow Light picture will be and she decided to design her own Glow Light image after Health week in school.

April 28th, 2011

Edinburgh Book Festival Preview

Jennifer McDougall

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 : Categories Curriculum for Excellence, Events, Glow Meet, Literacy, West Lothian

Our 2011 Glowing Thursday’s programme begins again on Thursday 5th May at 11am with a preview of the Edinburgh Book Festival. Join us live from Linlithgow Academy in West Lothian to hear more about what’s going to be hot at the Book Festival later this year and also hear from primary and secondary pupils about their favourite authors and what they are looking forward to seeing at the festival.

Sign up and join us from 11am on the Glowing Thursday page.

April 3rd, 2011

Glow Light Image 04.04.2011

Katie Barrowman

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Play the Shape Game

West Lothian Schools took part in a ‘Play the Shape Game’ project and uploaded their wonderful creations into a Glow Group so that everyone could marvel at their creativity. This picture represents a selection. To see more visit the Play the Shape Game Gallery Glow Group.