Digital Lead. ASN Teacher / class cover. Passionate about making learning vibrant and career-relevant through technology and music!
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined March 2013
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A huge well done to our Code Club Leaders who have now finished running our Nursery-P3 Mini Coders Club and have completed their Level 2 Young STEM Leader’s Award in the process. youtu.be/9-Jy71oZusc?si=fFb_… Special thanks to @Digital_Xtra @SSERCDigital @SSERCprimary
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Come to this great webinar on promoting #digitaltechnology for girls. It even features our very own Girls’ STEM Club! #proudtobeSouthmuir @SchoolAngus @SSERCSTEM @VEXRobotics @DigitalXtraFund @microbit_edu @Raspberry_Pi eventbrite.co.uk/e/closing-t…
Completed @EducationScot Into Leadership Course, working with @SouthmuirP Girls' STEM Club for my research on engaging girls in Tech. tinyurl.com/2sp6syt5 From being an
@IBM Sponsored Business Studies Student 34 years ago... it's been a great journey. @DigitalXtraFund
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Delighted to have our Girls’ STEM Club featured in the online Courier this week! tinyurl.com/bdh7v8yp Thank you @DigitalXtraFund @CGI_UKNEWS @ScotSTEMAmb @SSERCprimary @WonderWorkshop @DigiLearnScot @VEXRobotics @Raspberry_Pi @SSERCSTEM
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MEET MICRO:BIT V2 (23rd Sept) - Enthuse funded course: bit.ly/3Oi4L4N
PL developed to introduce micro:bit V2 and gain confidence, before promoting tools to take your CS learning and teaching further.
A V2 club pack is also included in this fully funded PL opportunity.
So proud of them all. It’s been a great learning journey for staff too!
Delighted to have our Girls’ STEM Club featured in the online Courier this week! tinyurl.com/bdh7v8yp Thank you @DigitalXtraFund @CGI_UKNEWS @ScotSTEMAmb @SSERCprimary @WonderWorkshop @DigiLearnScot @VEXRobotics @Raspberry_Pi @SSERCSTEM
Can’t wait to see what our coders will do with this new coding dance competition code.org/coldplay from Code.org
KR Phillips retweeted
About time I pulled together my next blog post!
8th Feb is @safeinternetday and I've created a list of some of my favourite activities and resources that are perfect for exploring #onlinesafety #cybersecurity #digitalcitizenship with young people 🔍💻
tanyahowden.com/post/safer-i…
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We are very pleased to announce applications are now open for @DigitalXtraFund's seventh round of grant awards! Schools and organisations across Scotland can apply for up to £5,000 for tech initiatives that help drive digital skills amongst young people.
digitalxtrafund.scot/round7-…
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Meet Jenny ( @MrsRSeaview ), a class teacher at SeaView Primary School in Scotland 🏴, who is providing a space for children to explore code and digital technologies.
#MyCodeClub
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Delighted to be leading the way in encouraging girls into more STEM roles and coding. @FutureScot_News featured our Girls' STEM Club in their latest newsletter. tinyurl.com/3bus7yb5
@DigitalXtraFund @CGI_UKNEWS
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Many thanks to Stuart Mills, CEO of @STAR_Dundee for supporting our Girls’ STEM Club tonight with a virtual Careers Insight talk about Software Engineering roles in space projects. Great to have a local connection! @DigitalXtraFund
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Our Girls’ STEM Club, enjoyed their end of term Strictly Come Dashing Competition, coding the @WonderWorkshop Dash and Dot robots to ‘dance to Christmas music! Many thanks to @CGI_UKNEWS and @DigitalXtraFund for Judging and Supporting our project.
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SPS Girls’ STEM Club have enjoyed learning to code with @WonderWorkshop Dash & Dot & @codeorg supported by @DigitalXtraFund The girls have also enjoyed careers insight talks from @CGI_UKNEWS, @ScotSTEMAmb and @4JSTudios @ChromaVentures. youtu.be/oInXH-eNL1M
@DigiLearnScot
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Many thanks to Kayleigh from CGI Glasgow for an interesting and informative presentation on Cybersecurity to our Girls’ STEM Club. This was part of our initiative supported by @DigitalXtraFund
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Superb CPD from @SSERCDigital on @VEXRobotics ! Can’t wait to get started with our VexGo kits, purchased with funds from @DigitalXtraFund Many thanks to our P6 & P7 STEM club girls for building the CodeBase Tobit for me this lunchtime!!
Who / what inspired me to be bolder / braver with ICT use? 1. An inspirational course at @CALLScotland 5 years ago on ‘Using apps to engage the disengaged learner’ 2. A local Digital Teach Meet 3. DigiTay ICT Conference #digilearnchat – at Kirriemuir, Scotland
Teacher leadership is about passionately inspiring, listening to and supporting others to achieve their potential, for the good of the school community and pupils. #EdScotTLP – at Kirriemuir, Scotland
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Also congratulations to P5 Team 6 for being runners-up in the @pfizer_uk Beat the SuperBugs Challenge! Many thanks to @DoInkTweets and @AppleEDU for their great apps.#ProudtobeSouthmuir youtu.be/-8w1gIjHtwE