Argyll and Bute Council Community Services: Education

Welcome to the new Education online area for Education in Argyll and Bute. These pages have been developed for the purpose of providing information on the work of Education and access to a range of resources that are used for administration and curricular purposes. Information on individual schools is available on the Argyll and Bute Council Website.

Argyll and Bute's Quality Improvement Team will make a major contribution to their areas of responsibility and future plans include links to the services and resources currently being developed for the Scottish Schools Digital network (SSDN). It is essential that this site is of use to you and if you have any suggestions on how we can improve it, please let us know by emailing web.master@ea.argyll-bute.sch.uk.

About this website

Statement about this website from Cleland Sneddon - Executive Director and Councillor Dick Walsh - Council Leader.

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Glow FAQ

Glow is a national schools intranet, providing pupils and teachers with an online facility allowing for joined-up working the length and breadth of Scotland.

Click here to view frequently asked questions relating to Glow in Argyll & Bute.

Argyll & Bute's latest Education News

This section of the website will contain up-to-date information on a range of issues that are of high importance and interest to school staff and managers. In turn, schools are invited to submit articles related to projects and events that would be of interest to others. Click here to view a news archive of recent articles.

Glow Maintenance Notifications: We are continuing to investigate the issues with our Portal web servers as our highest priority. We are monitoring and are taking action as soon as we see any issues, hopefully minimising any impact.

If you are experiencing any issues, please do continue to report them to the Glow National Helpdesk. If you paste the following URL in your browser and report the output to us when you call it will help us resolve things more quickly.

https://portal.glowscotland.org.uk/_layouts/identify.htm

Account and Services Manager Support through Glow: ‘Glow is re-launching the online training facility for all Account and Services Managers (ASMs) across Scotland. Sessions will be delivered as workshops and drop-ins whereby administrators can access the training Glow Group and participate in sessions delivered by a Glow technical consultant. This year’s sessions will be held fortnightly and the aim is rotate the days and times to accommodate as many users as possible. The group itself can be found from the following link ASM Support Glow Group or via the Glow Help group from the National Site. The site is open to all ASM and Staff users and all local authority and school ASM’s are welcome to join in via Glow Meet. Any particular questions outwith the sessions can be posted in the ASM Discussion Forum contained within the Glow Group. Details of the first two sessions are listed below: Friday 3rd September (11am-12pm) - New Glow Services discussion + Drop-In This first session of the new school year will have an update of the changes that have happened over the summer within Glow and any impact this may have for ASMs. This session will be delivered via the Glow Meet room within this page. Hope to see you there.. Wednesday 15th September (2pm-3pm) - Drop-In session Session to cover any ASM questions you may have. ...more

ARGYLL AND BUTE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN IN NATIONAL AWARD FINAL: An Argyll and Bute Council employee has been nominated as UK School Librarian of the Year 2010.

Shiona Lawson, who works at Rothesay Academy on Bute, has been named on a shortlist of six school librarians from across the country who have reached the final of the prestigious competition. ...more

Anti Bullying Week: National Anti-Bullying Week 2010 takes place from Monday 15 to Friday 19 November, and is designed to raise awareness of anti-bullying initiatives among children, young people and adults across the UK and Ireland.

To mark the event Respect Me is launching a national competition based around the theme, 'what bullying means to me'. Schools and youth groups across Scotland will shortly be receiving their competition packs and the deadline for all entries is Friday 8 October.


HERMITAGE ACADEMY RECEIVES GLOWING REPORT : An official inspection of Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh has praised the school for all aspects of the education it provides.

The report by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate (HMI) - published today – found every area of school life to be either ‘very good’ or ‘good’. None ...more