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The VCTs listed below were created by individual teachers who successfully bid for funding from the SQA/Microsoft Partners in Learning Challenge Fund to implement ICT in their classroom or by by teachers who were involved in the Local Authority Innovative Teacher program supported by SQA/Microsoft Partners in Learning initiative. Each authority provided support and direction to their teachers to help them use ICT innovatively in the classroom.
Follow the links below to access the VCTs.
VCTs - Resources 
| Centre Name | Heading | Sub-heading | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aberdeen City | Aberdeen City | WordTalk | Spotlight on a piece of software that enables children with literacy difficulties to engage in language work independently. | Special | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Angus | Aberlemno Primary School | Aberlemno School Museum | For the children to experience the process of planning, preparing and following through a museum open day, in order to share aspects of their learning with family and community members. | Primary | social studies |
| North Lanarkshire | Abronhill High School | Use of SMART Airliner in Science | Use of SMART 'Airliner' to enhance co-operative learning and consolidation group work in the class. The technique involves using small groups to brainstorm certain areas of a topic to be revised, and deciding on the most important points. The 'Airliner' is also used in a quiz format in the class. | Secondary | science, technologies |
| Angus | Andover Primary | Clean Water | Children devise and review experiments to purify water using appropriate language. | Primary | science |
| Angus | Andover School | Our Greenhouse Project | The primary pupils built a greenhouse using plastic bottles.This project raised awareness in pupils of the need to recycle materials and developed teamwork and other skills. | Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Angus | Angus EDS | Making a CD of Pupils Singing | Allow the pupils to experience the process of creating a audio CD. | Primary | social subjects, technologies |
| Angus | Angus EDS | Reading for Excellence | To teach higher order reading skills in the early stages in a more explicit, fun, interactive co-operative way. | Primary | languages, expressive arts |
| Angus | Angus EDS | Angus Western Australia Link | This project was designed to establish links between schools in Angus and Western Australia. Angus the Bear and Campbell the Cow travelled to Australia as part of a Group Study Exchange Trip and partnerships have been established between schools in both countries via an Edublog Website | Primary | technologies |
| Angus | Angus EDS | Writing in French | To write at length about a set of characters based on the Simpson Family contained in the Angus Council Resource Pack in French | Primary | languages |
| Angus | Angus EDS | Tartan Tam | Schools in Angus link up with schools abroad to share their learning via e-mail, blog, etc | Primary | languages, technologies |
| Angus | Arbirlot School | Arbroath Fishing Mural | Children working with a professional artist to raise awareness of healthy eating & locate industries. | Primary | social subjects, creative arts |
| Angus | Arbroath High School | Energy | Pupils are made aware of the need for Energy and the different forms of Energy. | Secondary | science |
| Angus | Arbroath High School | Standard Grade Chemistry Revision | Revising in pairs and groups to embed learning objectives. | Secondary | science |
| East Renfrewshire | Auchenback Primary School | Animation Project | Pupils working with drama specialist to present anti-bullying messages through figure animation. | Primary, Secondary | languages, health and wellbeing |
| Angus | Borrowfield Primary School | Mathematics in Space | Diameter and radius were explored, with a focus on circles and circular patterns. The relationship between radius and diameter was further explored in connection with the class Environmental Studies Topic, Earth and Space. | Primary | mathematics, science |
| Angus | Borrowfield Primary School | Broad Bean Experiments | This VCT explores the Science topic of Living Things and the cross curricular connections with Mathematics. | Primary | science |
| Angus | Borrowfield Primary School | Islamic Patterns | Mathematics lesson linked to RME Topic of Islam | Primary | mathematics |
| Angus | Brechin High School | Black Bag Chemistry | Children gain understanding of compounds and mixtures and the language used to define the two | Secondary | science |
| Angus | Brechin High School | Higher Chemistry | Pupils peer assess key questions for higher chemistry in co-operative groups. | Secondary | science |
| Angus | Brechin High School | Standard Grade Maths Revision Blog | Revision blog set up to support pupils. | Secondary | mathematics |
| North Lanarkshire | Cardinal Newman High School | Using iPods in a Bi-level Class | Managing the teaching of 2 distinct groups on different levels of course. | Secondary | technologies, ICT |
| West Dunbartonshire | Carleith Primary School | ICT Animation | The children planned a short story sequence, made models and then working together used these models to create a short animation film | Primary | expressive arts, technologies |
| Angus | Carmyllie Primary School | Practical Maths - Contextualised Play Activities | The children will learn maths skills through play activities.The children will work co-operatively in teams to complete maths/play activities.The children will link their maths skills to real-life contexts. | Primary | mathematics, expressive arts |
| Angus | Carnoustie High School | Co-operative Learning in CDT | To work as a team, and assess own and other teams' work.To produce a product based on an everyday object and present the product to the rest of the class. | Secondary | technologies, expressive arts |
| Angus | Carnoustie High School | Seed Dispersal | Pupils were directed to internet sources of information about seed dispersal and presented this material as a PowerPoint presentation. Examples of their work are demonstrated in this project.. | Secondary | science, technologies |
| Angus | Carnoustie High School | Developing Social Skills | Project was trialled with one class .Behaviour improved in terms of number of referrals and on task attitude. The project was extended to all classes in S2 | Secondary | social subjects |
| Angus | Carnoustie HS | Using learning style groupings in a seed dispersal lesson | Using pupils own assessments to determine learning styles. | Secondary | social subjects, science |
| East Ayrshire | Cumnock Academy | Use of ICT to enhance P7 Transition | Pupils using IT skills to create presentations aimed at new S1 pupils. | Primary, Secondary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Dundee City | Dens Road Primary School | Using ICT toys to ease transition in Primary 1 | ICT toys were introduced into the P1 classroom to help transition for pupils moving from Nursery into Primary 1.To create a fun environment where they are using familiar toys to build confidence and therefore support learning. | Nursery, Primary | whole school initiative, technologies |
| East Ayrshire | Doon Academy | Non-fiction circles | Pupils (in small groups) read texts and present their interpretation to whole class. | Secondary | languages, technologies |
| Aberdeenshire | Drumblade School | Nursery Assessment on Interactive Whiteboard | Use of class voting system in a nursery/primary context to develop formative assessment in early years. | Nursery, Primary | whole school initiative, languages |
| West Dunbartonshire | Dumbarton Academy | Podcasting | Pupils recorded the theory content of the Computing course.The completed work was then available in mp3 format for pupils to listen to. | Secondary | technologies |
| East Lothian | Dunbar Grammar School | Geocasts - 21st Century Geography | Supporting Geography revision through podcasting.Most podcasts contain images. | Secondary | social subjects, science |
| Dundee City | Dundee ICT Team | Measuring the Impact of ICT in Children's Education | Project evaluates ICT practice in early years settings and informats the effective planning of staff development to follow on from the Early Years Masterclass initiative. | Nursery | whole school initiative, technologies |
| Dundee City | Dundee ICT | Shape Walk | Nursery children went on a walk in the area around the nursery. They were looking for shapes they recognised. They took a digital camera with them to record what they saw. | Nursery | mathematics, technologies |
| Dundee City | Dundee ICT | Children using Digital Cameras | Nursery children learn how to use the new Digital Blue Snap! Education Camera to take photographs and print them. | Nursery | technologies, expressive arts |
| East Ayrshire | East Ayrshire Enterprise in Education | Paper Bag Story Challenge | Encouraging literacy and story reading/telling in early primary. | Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Angus | Edzell Primary School | Thinking Maths | To improve pupil's understanding of maths by talking and working in groups. Young pupils solve practical problems in groups by talking and making explicit their thinking. | Primary | mathematics, expressive arts |
| Moray | Forres Academy | Modern Languages and mp3 players | Supporting MFL revision through the use of podcasting.Good use of pupils' own spoken language in materials. | Secondary | languages |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Glentrool School | 50 Glorious Years | Small rural school project to engage community in celebrating 50 years of school through digital media, created by pupils | Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Angus | Grange Primary | Upper Primary Maths Problem Solving | Encouraging pupils independence in problem solving. | Primary | mathematics |
| East Lothian | Gullane Primary School | Alien Animations | The pupils made a short story about an alien, created that character as 3D plasticine models, then animated the story, adding sound or music. They then created a CD or DVD, and marketed the product, advertised it, and organised a premier. | Primary | languages, expressive arts |
| West Dunbartonshire | Highdykes Primary School | Podcasting | To introduce pupils to the concept of storyboards and to enable them to record and publish their own podcasts relating to an environmental studies project. | Primary | technologies |
| Fife | Hillside School | Podcasting in the Classroom | Using podcasting to give youngsters access to important information about sensitive issues and allow them to be creative | Special, Secondary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Aberdeenshire | Inverurie Primary School | Developing teacher and pupil skills in using digital video | Project involved ICT coordinator and teachers/pupils in 11 primary schools acquiring skills in use of digital video | Primary | technologies |
| Dundee City | Jessie Porter Nursery School | Using ICT to support transition from nursery to primary | A Dundee Nursery School created interactive, multimedia presentations of and by children in their pre school setting to be passed on as CDs and hardcopies to primary schools, parents and careers to support the transition from the pre school setting to the new primary school. | Nursery, Primary | whole school initiative, technologies |
| Angus | Kirkriggs Primary School | Co-operative Learning in Maths | Pupils worked co-operatively to solve mathematical problems by analysing all the information available. Pupils then presented their findings and explained their thinking to their peers. | Primary | mathematics, expressive arts |
| Glasgow City | Knightswood Primary School | Modern Languages in the Primary School | Using TaskMagic software to allow P6/P7 pupils to create their own revision materials for French language using digital resources. | Primary | languages, expressive arts |
| Scottish Borders | Langlee Primary School | Beebots and Robots | Nursery and Primary 1-3 children using ICT robots for control. Learning about shape, position, movement and using ICT interactively | Primary | science, mathematics |
| North Lanarkshire | Learning and Leisure Services Computer Centre | Video Conferencing and Probationers | Using video conferencing to support the development of professional knowledge and understanding of probationer teachers in Computing. | Secondary | whole school initiative, technologies |
| North Lanarkshire | Learning and Leisure Services Computer Centre | Mind Mapping | In the study Higher and Advanced Higher students in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology built up mind maps in conjunction with SCHOLAR course materials. | Secondary | science, technologies |
| North Lanarkshire | St Dominic's and St Edward's Primary Schools | Learning Spanish at Primary level using Videoconferencing | Use videoconferencing to promote links between primary schools in North Lanarkshire. Teachers will be trained in the use of videoconferencing software and adopt appropriate learning and teaching methodologies and strategies to deliver the Spanish curriculum. | Primary | languages, technologies |
| Angus | Liff Primary School | ECO Audit | Co-operative lesson involving groups of children in reviewing their school's work in relation to Eco schools. | Primary | health and wellbeing |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Lockerbie Academy | Standard Grade Ipod Nano Gen 3 | Create a 3D model of an ‘Ipod Nano’ Generation 3. | Secondary | technologies, expressive arts |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Lockerbie Academy | Inventor 10 - Constraints | The objectives of this lesson are to teach the pupils in the use of the constraint tools offered by Inventor 10. | Secondary | technologies, expressive arts |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Lockerbie Academy | Inventor 10 - Boat Project | The pupils build a wooden boat as one of their projects.By following this folio they will be able to create a 3D model of their wooden boat using Inventor 10. | Secondary | technologies, expressive arts |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Lockerbie Academy | Inventor 10 - Berol Marker Pen | The pupils will be able to create a 3D model using Autodesk Inventor 10 software. | Secondary | technologies, expressive arts |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Lockerbie Academy | Inventor 10 - Pyramid Game | The plan for this project is an introduction to Autodesk Inventor software.By the end of the project pupils should have a good basic understanding of Inventor. | Secondary | technologies, expressive arts |
| East Lothian | Longniddry Primary School | Anti-Bullying Film Project | Pupils made films about strategies to deal with bullying, as part of anti-bullying week.They then used technology creatively to produce an informative and educational video. | Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Aberdeenshire | Luthermuir School | The Three Little Pigs | Pupils learning of French reinforced by creation of animation using French language. | Primary | languages, technologies |
| East Lothian | Macmerry Primary School | Solar System | Primary pupils worked in groups to find out information about a chosen planet; used a variety of sources to produce a piece of work with text and graphics about the chosen planet. | Primary | science, technologies |
| East Lothian | Macmerry Primary School | Eco School | The children took photographs of Eco School Activities and made a slideshow to show to the Eco School Assessors. Green Flag status was achieved in September, 06. | Primary | technologies, health and wellbeing |
| East Lothian | Macmerry Primary School | Enterprise Activity - Christmas Cards | The children worked in groups of two to produce Christmas cards using i-photo | Primary | technologies, expressive arts |
| Angus | Maisondieu Primary School | Moving Image Education | Pupils produce a version of the school handbook in DVD format, with new pupil arrivals (peers) as their target audience. | Primary | expressive arts, technologies |
| Angus | Monifeith High School | Rugby Posts | The students were split into the groups of 4 and were giving a ruler, a metre stick and a picture of school's rugby posts.Each group was then challenged to calculate the height of the actual posts. | Secondary | mathematics |
| Angus | Montrose Academy | German Blog Site | Using a blog to communicate with pupils and display their work. | Secondary | languages, technologies |
| Angus | Montrose Academy | Alcohol Challenge | Using Critical Skills approaches in the classroom to make young people aware of the dangers of alcohol. | Secondary | science, health and wellbeing |
| Angus | Montrose Academy | Book Maps | The lessons involve using mind mapping software to 'map' out a book. Using an interactive whiteboard pupils start creating blooms relating to areas of the book, like characters or setting. This is developed on the whiteboard by the pupils using 'mind genius'. | Secondary | languages, technologies |
| Angus | Montrose Academy | Standard Grade Biology, Ear Challenge | Using skills and problem solving to judge the direction of sound. | Secondary | science |
| Angus | Montrose Academy | Teeth for Life Challenge | Promotion of good dental health & hygiene. | Secondary | social subjects, science |
| South Lanarkshire | Mossneuk Primary School | Interactive White Board and mental maths | Using Interactive Whiteboard to undertake and promote interactive and mental mathematics in the infant stages. | Primary | mathematics |
| Angus | Muirfield Primary School | P5 Electronic Dinner Register | The whiteboard is set up for children to take responsibility for compiling the dinners for that day. Children save the daily flip chart to appropriate drive on server and account for monies. | Primary | whole school initiative, technologies |
| Angus | Muirfield Primary School | P1 Creating Story Books | To create a joint story based on The Very Hungry Caterpillar.The children used clip arts, scanned images and word processing text and handwriting mediums to create books. | Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| East Lothian | Ormiston Primary School | Extreme Learning - WikiSpaces | The children used the digital equipment and ICT resources individually and at home.The children developed their own projects according to their own levels of expertise, and different curricular areas as the projects developed. | Primary | whole school initiative, technologies |
| West Dunbartonshire | Our Lady of Loretto Primary School | Pop Art - Andy Warhol Style | Pupils learn about the life and style of the artist Andy Warhol and then learn to use a digital camera and editing software to create their own art work in his artistic style. | Primary | expressive arts, technologies |
| Dumfries & Galloway | Park Primary School | Producing a DVD to promote our school | Using DigiBlue video cameras to create school DVD. Supports literacies, collaboration. Strong community engagement. | Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| Angus | Rosemount Primary School | Maths in Context | Pupils were given challenges and asked to solve them in co-operative learning groups. Groups were given roles and tasks were set, solutions were evaluated. | Primary | mathematics |
| North Lanarkshire | St. Aidan's High School | Auditing 5-14 ICT Curriculum | In order not to duplicate work completed by other departments in the school or by associated primary schools, it was decided to audit current practice and develop a themed approach focussing on the 5-14 outcomes for Information and Communications Technology. | Secondary, Primary | technologies, whole school initiative |
| North Lanarkshire | St Andrew's High School | Co-operative Learning using an online Learning Environment (Marratech) | Teaching Higher Computing Course through video conferencing (Marratech). | Secondary | technologies, health and wellbeing |
| West Dunbartonshire | St Andrew's High School | Problem Solving | Using PowerPoint to present mathematical puzzles and problems. | Secondary | mathematics, technologies |
| West Dunbartonshire | St Andrew's High School | Treasure Hunt | To encourage group work, problem solving, and recall of previous learning. | Secondary | mathematics |
| North Lanarkshire | St Andrew's Primary School | Video Conferencing in Modern Languages | Using videoconferencing to promote links between secondary and primary schools in North Lanarkshire and Mallorca and appropriate learning and teaching methodologies based on co-operative learning techniques to deliver the Spanish course at both primary and secondary level. | Secondary, Primary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| East Renfrewshire | St Cadoc's Primary School | Digital Video in the Primary Classroom | Pupils creating a health promotion DVD for school use. Supporting literacies and promoting team working. | Primary | health and wellbeing, expressive arts |
| Inverclyde | St Stephen's High School | Mobile Video Production in Religious Education | Pupils created podcasts and web materials about the religious life of their school and community. | Secondary | whole school initiative, religious and moral education, school community links |
| East Lothian | Stoneyhill Primary School | Victorian Christmas CD | Pupils extended their studies of the Victorian period, by researching songs, and music from the period, then creating a CD for sale. | Primary | social subjects, expressive arts |
| East Lothian | Stoneyhill Primary School | Digital Imagery as Oral Fluency Stimulator | Nursery children, in a free choice setting, opted to come to the computer in turn, to describe and comment on a series of pictures. They were then asked very open ended questions, and stimulated to create a story about the picture. | Nursery | expressive arts, languages |
| Aberdeenshire | The Gordon Schools | Addressing gender issues through immersion in ICT | To address gender issues, improve motivation and enhance the learning experience for boys through ICT. | Secondary | mathematics |
| Aberdeenshire | The Gordon Schools | Real World Maths - Creating an Observation Deck | Motivating boys taking Standard Grade maths through a practical construction project | Secondary | mathematics |
| East Lothian | Tranent Primary School | Christian Creation Story | The objectives of the project were to both teach, and to explore the Christian Creation story, and use ICT to enhance the learning, embed the concepts, and support the presentation of knowledge to the rest of the school. | Primary | religious and moral education, expressive arts |
| West Dunbartonshire | Vale of Leven Academy | Online homework | The teacher makes up the homework task and uploads it to a web server. The pupils log on to the online homework website from home (or school), complete the task and the system marks the homework and gives an instant result. | Secondary | technologies, whole school initiative |
| Angus | Webster's High School | Vedic Maths: Maths or Magic ? | Pupils are able to carry out otherwise difficult mental calculations using Vedic Maths techniques. | Secondary | mathematics |
| Angus | Webster's High School | Fossil Fuels | To give pupils an understanding of the problems associated with the use of fossil fuels. | Secondary | science, health and wellbeing |
| Angus | Webster’s High School | Windfarm or Not? | Pupils should be aware of reasons why locals agree / disagree with the building a wind farm on Ark Hill. | Secondary | social subjects, science |
| Angus | Webster's High School | On2feet | Mentors support and encourage fellow pupils to gain confidence and remain in education. | Secondary | social subjects |