Amazon is partnering with Fire Tech to offer free Amazon Future Engineer robotics workshops to primary schools across the country.

Category Archives: Primary ICT

The workshops are designed to spark students’ interest in STEM and computing by letting children get hands-on with Ozobot robots and showing them how real-world robots work. Students will code […]

SQA currently has a survey out to gather views on internal assessment of coursework in Computing Science (and other Technologies subjects). The URL is: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VVNLMXJ We’ve been told by SQA that the […]

XP2016 in association with Skills Development Scotland Digital World are offering school students, P5 – P7 and S1 – S3, the exciting opportunity to take part in a free software […]

There is a great item on the work of the Royal Society of Edinburgh/BCS exemplification project, lead by Jeremy Scott, in the Communications of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). […]

A formal public consultation around the development of a Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy for Scotland was announced at the Scottish Learning Festival. The consultation will run until 17 December […]

We are thrilled to announce that the FIRST LEGO League will be happening in Scotland again. The 2015-16 season is sure to excite, now with five tournaments being held in […]

We’re still working hard confirming the last couple of sessions for the amazing programme for the CAS Scotland conference on 22nd November but I can’t wait to tell you about […]

Our new Raspberry Pi competition is challenging entrants to invent something that will help people live healthier lives. The scope for innovation is huge and gives entrants the opportunity to work on […]

Computing At School Scotland Annual Conference  Saturday 22nd November 2014     “Very enjoyable day and well organised” “Lots of teaching ideas” “The industry keynotes were really inspiring” “Q. What was good […]

There are many competitions and clubs available to schools and young people. I thought I’d collate a list about the ones I know about so you can plan it into your […]