BGE Art & Design pupils have been producing amazing Lockdown Animations!

One of Fortrose Academy's Pupil Support (Guidance) teachers, Iain Hogg, developed the following website: https://fortrosetransition.weebly.com (below)

It has videos from subject teachers, FAQs and a virtual tour of the school (thanks to Jamie Pond and Plexus Media for developing this aspect). This was sent out to P7s week beginning 8 June, so they could explore before joining us this week, for ‘Virtual Transition Week’.

A P7 Transition Google Classroom has been up and running over the past session. This week, departments have put together lessons and posted them on the Classroom, so pupils can experience some of the discrete subject work, as well as “meeting” some of the staff. Opening assemblies took place on Monday morning – first with SMT and then the Support team, and then there will be a closing assembly on Friday. Here’s the programme:

Two autistic students from the ASN department at IRA were involved with Product Design students from the University of Twente, Holland in a learning project that ran from Feb- April 2020. The partnership involved IRA students having weekly meetings with student groups in Holland on Google Hangout, in order to give them an insight into the difficulties that they faced at school - that were unique to being autistic.

The project ‘Designing for Specific Users’ of the second-year Industrial Design students of the University of Twente finished in April 2020.

Under normal circumstances, there would have been an exhibition in which the developed solutions were shown and demonstrated, but due to the Corona Virus, an online alternative was established. On the following website the work of all student groups in Holland is shown. IRA pupils and PSA/ teaching staff provided support to two of the project groups.

Jelle Van Dyke, Assistant Professor at the Research group for Human Centred Design at the

Faculty of Engineering Technology [University of Twente] was delighted to work with Scottish students and hopes to do so again next year.

Re-connect series to support health and wellbeing for pupils, staff and parents.