Castlemilk Family Learning Centre is one of the first 6 nurseries in Scotland to achieve digital schools status
Castlemilk Family learning Centre in Glasgow City Council has become one of the first nursery schools in Scotland to complete a pioneering education initiative developed to encourage digital learning amongst children.
Castlemilk Family Learning Centre was one of just six pre-schools officially recognised by Education Scotland on Tuesday 17 September 2019 for their commitment to promoting digital skills in the classroom. The nursery was joined by more than 70 secondary and primary schools at the largest ever Digital Schools Awards, held at St Mungo’s High School, Falkirk, where a total of 114 schools were officially recognised.
To better equip the next generation, Castlemilk Family learning Centre has been committed to raising their digital skills throughout the whole establishment, introducing online learning journals for parent’s to access from any mobile device. Our full staff team has individually achieved their apple teacher certificates and we remain dedicated to keep up to date with technologies and use them in the best way to enhance our children’s learning.
The extension of the Digital Schools programme to pre-schools follows the successful roll out of the initiative across secondary and primary levels and signals the growing importance for young people to develop digital skills.
To date more than half Scottish schools (51%) have signed up to the Digital Schools Awards – a nationally recognised programme developed in collaboration with Education Scotland and industry titans HP and Microsoft. The education initiative is the most successful of its kind in Scotland and aims to inspire schools to better integrate digital learning into the curriculum.
The Digital Schools Awards programme is driven by a consensus among policy, academic, technology and business leaders that schools play a central role in shaping Scotland’s future as a digital nation. It is also regarded as a vital tool in tackling Scotland’s growing digital skills gap, which currently has a deficit of around 8,000 jobs a year. The presentation ceremony follows the release of figures from the SQA which show a 21% drop in uptake of computing science from 2017 – 2019.
[1] Skills Development Scotland (https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/news-events/2018/november/shortage-of-digital-skills-a-danger-to-the-scottish-economy/)
[2] Times Education Scotland (https://www.tes.com/news/sqa-results-2019-higher-computing-entries-fall-21)
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