Jessie Porter nursery: sharing and collaborating through Glow
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Overview
Jessie Porter Nursery School in Dundee is a pre-school centre catering for close on one hundred children aged three to five years. Jessie Porter was recently recognised by HMIE as providing a “positive, supportive and purposeful learning environment” where well planned use of ICT features to “promote links across the children’s learning”.
In this cookbook, Jo Bell, an ICT Staff Tutor (Early Years / Primary), describes how she worked with Jessie Porter to develop a Glow Group aimed at showcasing the work that is going on in the nursery, strengthen Nursery / Primary transition links and to share how they are planning for and developing the Curriculum for Excellence in the early years.
Video Clips
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| How Glow is used at Jesse Porter In this video, Jo Bell talks us through how Jessie Porter uses Glow to showcase not only the work of the children but also how the centre is developing its approach to Curriculum for Excellence.
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5:20 |
| Displaying video in Glow The fantastic work that is going on at Jessie Porter is showcased through video clips displayed in Glow web parts. This video clip will take you through two methods of displaying video in Glow.
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5:55 |
Ingredients
What was used to develop the Jessie Porter Glow Group:
- A Glow Group
- Documents web part for storing planning and evaluation documents
- Text editor web parts to display video and images
Impact
Particular strengths of the centre
Use of information and communications technology (ICT) to promote links across children’s learning.
Are staff and children actively involved in improving their centre community?
Priorities identified for improvement are evidently having an impact on children’s development and learning. The nursery shares their good practice with other nurseries and schools through their GLOW group.
HMIE April 2010
The Jessie Porter Nursery School Glow Group serves to showcase the work that is going on and acts as an aid to Nursery / Primary transition. Through the Glow Group membership, the planning and evaluation documents used by the nursery staff are available not only to the P1 teachers of the associated primary schools but also to the staff of early years establishments across Scotland. Dorothy McHattie, Head Teacher of Jessie Porter, is rightly proud of the work that is going on at Jesse Porter and in the era of Curriculum for Excellence is delighted to be able to share what she and her staff are doing through Glow. Moving forward, Dorothy is keen to incorporate Glow into the children’s evaluation of their learning and to further develop parental access to the Jessie Porter Glow Group.
Follow the links below for cookbooks on how Dundee’s ICT Support Team is providing Glow support for early years practitioners:
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| Supporting Early Years staff in Dundee through Glow |
| Glow top tips for early years staff in Dundee |