Numeracy and Computing

Numeracy and Computing

Mr C Blair (Curriculum Leader)
 

Faculty News: Numeracy and Computing

Published: 01 February 2015

The Kodu Kup is open to anyone from a Scottish school aged between seven to fourteen years old. Children must be entered by their school teacher as a team of three, forming a mini “game studio”.

Follow on Twitter or ‘Like’ them on Facebook (www.facebook.com/KoduKup) to receive regular updates, including dates of free training sessions!

You can download Kodu Game Lab by going to www.kodugamelab.com and clicking on GetKodu.

Check the information sheet by clicking here

Published: 21 May 2014

If you are having a spring clean and want to get rid of some old video game equipment, why not donate it to the school Computing Department?

This would be greatly appreciated and would contribute to the new Computer Games Development course.

Thanks in advance.
 

Published: 28 April 2014

SCHOLAR are offering a study support session with their Online Tutor for Maths, Margaret Ferguson.

This will take place on Friday 2 May at 1 pm.  Please click here to attend the session - you should sign-in as a guest.

 

 

Published: 26 March 2014

We arrived on Friday evening to a delightful, if slightly stressful, maths relay which sparked the competitive spirit that continued throughout the trip.

The first morning, we woke up to a dusting of snow and wrapped up warm. After lots of cups of tea and breakfast we split into our groups and went our separate ways - some to the zip-wire, some to water walking and the unlucky few to some multiple choice maths! After rotating through all the activities, all very sweaty and dirty, we grudgingly left our lovely instructors and gratefully accepted our lunch of plastic cheese and cup-o-soup.

After lunch we all ran off on our mathematical orienteering challenge from which we all returned in varying levels of mud and water, some missing shoes and many missing the answers to the...

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Published: 07 February 2014

Education Scotland has recently launched the first in a series of new materials to support numeracy at home.

These new materials consist of illustrations with some simple ideas to build numbers into everyday activities. The newly published materials have ideas relating to measurement and money.

Click here to access the website and materials.

Coming soon are materials for the following areas:

  • time
  • information handling
  • mental calculations
  • numbers.