Bowmore Primary School

In 2019, Port Ellen Primary School received a grant to pilot ‘Resilient Robotics’ on Islay. Building on the success of this initiative, Bowmore Primary School will be extending the project by providing high quality and exciting tech experiences for the lower school and nursery, audiences not targeted in the original ‘Resilient Robotics’ initiative. The activities will be designed to engage children’s natural curiosity and desire to tinker using programmable toys such as Code-a-pillar, Spheros, Rugged Robots, Makey Makey, Dash Robots and Merge Cubes. The school will run the programme as after school clubs, work with mother and toddler groups and go into nursery settings to model how to use the resources to build on children’s digital experiences.