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Stage 2This session examines how low-energy, low-carbon design shaped the delivery of Currie Community High School and Monifieth Learning Campus, exploring how sustainability goals influenced key decisions throughout the design process. It will highlight the challenges of balancing embodied carbon and LEIP energy targets with cost, comfort, and educational quality, particularly in the context of Passivhaus delivery.
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EdTech StageDetails to follow
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CAMPFIREThis campfire session explores how thoughtful, inclusive design can transform educational spaces to better support wellbeing, equity, and engagement.
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This two-part session explores how school grounds can become meaningful, everyday learning environments. Together, the presentations offer insight from concept to completion: QMU presents the facts, fiction and challenges; Montgomerie Park shares a completed project with honest lessons learned from those using it every day.
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Stage 1Discover how values-led design and student voice can shape school environments that promote learning and well-being. This session blends case studies and research insights to show how engaging pupils and communities in design leads to inclusive, purpose-driven spaces that empower learners and maximise the learning experience.
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EdTech StageThis dynamic session brings together global and national perspectives on how data, language, and co-design can shape the future of inclusive digital learning. Alexandra Feeley, Director at Oxford Languages, will share how rich, high-quality language data underpins equitable, culturally relevant AI-driven EdTech. The session then turns to Scotland’s Learner Profile, an ambitious digital tool co-designed with children, educators, and partners, to capture learning and build skills profiles.
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CAMPFIRE
This session will explore the role of outdoor spaces and grounds in outdoor learning, how they can inspire future land-based careers and help contribute to Scotland’s nature restoration goals. With a panel of experts, case-studies and pupil-insights, we will discuss what our schoolgrounds need in order to attain maximum value in terms of skills development, climate- and land-based careers literacy, health and wellbeing.
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Stage 2Exploring the similarities and differences in designing and delivering schools for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) in England and Additional Support Needs (ASN) in Scotland. Through insights from key case studies - Marjorie McClure School and Beatlie School - the session will highlight innovative, inclusive approaches for supporting children with complex needs.
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EdTech StageDetails to follow
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CAMPFIREUnlock the power of play! This dynamic presentation explores how LEGO Education transforms learning for all ages. Discover hands-on engagement that cultivates essential 21st-century skills, from primary school to beyond.
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Stage 1Details to follow
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EdTech Stage
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CAMPFIRE
This session will cover critical challenges arising from new government legislation on the Education Estate, such as the Building Safety Act 2022.
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Stage 2Drawing on two decades of research from the National School Grounds Survey, Prof. John McKendrick and other partners offer key insights into how school grounds can better support learning, play, nature, sport, climate adaptation, and community engagement. The session will pick up on themes across learning, play, nature, sports provision and climate adaptation in relation to the outdoor learning estate, extending beyond traditional school boundaries and integrating educational spaces into the broader community.
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Stage 1This session will explore innovative and sustainable approaches to campus redevelopment and estate masterplanning, blending heritage preservation with forward-thinking, data-led strategies.
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Exhibition Vist & Lunch
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Registration & Exhibition Visit
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Exhibition Vist & Coffee Break
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Exhibition Vist & Coffee Break
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Exhibition Visit
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Move to Stage 1 for Closing Keynote
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Exhibition Vist & Coffee Break
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Event Partner: Scottish Government
18 November 2025 | SEC
Event Partner:
Conference Programme 2025
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