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Today is a special day! 🎂🎉 It's the birthday of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the most creative visionaries of Glasgow in the 20th century. Let's celebrate! 🍰

Hats off to all those who sat their this week!

Preparing for upcoming exams or know someone who is? Our Learner Hub has lots of useful resources to support revision.👉 bit.ly/SQA-learnerhub

Here's next week's exam schedule.

Best of luck to all my students next week 📖📚📝❤️

🙌 Good luck to all candidates across Scotland who are gearing up to take their next week! 🗓️

start tomorrow! A massive good luck to all learners - almost 130,000 of you will take National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher exams in the coming weeks.

Here's next week's timetable - you can find more resources at https://bit.ly/SQA-learnerhub

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Deuchainnean SQA a tòiseachadh a màireach! Gur math a thèid leibh uile – bidh faisg air 130,000 agaibh a suidhe Nàiseanta 5, Àrd- Ìre agus Àrd- Ìre Adhartach anns na seachdainnean a tha romhainn.

Seo clàr-ama an t-seachdain sa tighinn – faigh tuilleadh ghoireasan aig https://bit.ly/SQA-learnerhub

Today, 27 years on from the tragedy at Dunblane Primary School, we continue to remember all the innocent victims. 16 Primary 1 children and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, were killed that day and many more were wounded physically & emotionally. This year, and every year, they all remain in our thoughts.

Man, 30, completes encyclopedia of animals he started at nine Josh Gabbatiss began survey of all living creatures more than two decades ago with corals, worms and jellyfish

Irish Mother and Baby Home survivors tell their stories in new podcast "Redacted Lives," a new podcast from Irish news site The Journal, tells the stories of the women and children who lived in Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes.

⚽ Street Soccer - North Lanarkshire ⚽

Street Soccer is for 9-16 year olds and encourages young people to improve their health and well-being in their communities through football.

Youth Workers will be on site providing other activities, chat and support.

The sessions are now running until 25th November and will take place between 7pm - 9pm at venues below.

Tuesdays
Castle Way, Cumbernauld, G67 2DD

Wednesdays
Shiel Gardens, Shotts, ML7 5JL

Thursdays
Craigend Drive Coatbridge, ML5 5TH

Fridays
Logans Road, North Motherwell ML1 3WE

North Lanarkshire Council

We are all set up for this evening’s awards night. We hope to see you all there at 7:30pm. If you can’t make it don’t worry, we will be live-streaming the night too.

Ever wondered why some abbreviations are so weird? Well, wonder no more… 🤔 💭

Marlon Brando did not memorize the majority of his lines for his role in the 1972 film, The Godfather. Actor Robert Duvall is wearing a large cue card placard for Brando.

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On this day in 1971: 66 Rangers fans lost their lives in the Ibrox disaster. A few weeks later, both sides of the Old Firm came together to play a game to raise funds for the victims’ families.

George Hackenschmidt: The Father of the Bench Press and Hack Squat | BarBend The Russian Lion, George Hackenschmidt, was an early 20th century strength pioneer who helped develop the way we bench press and train today.

The day the Stone of Destiny returned to Scotland On St Andrew's Day 1996, Scotland had a date with the Stone of Destiny as symbolic stone returned home.

This map of all of the sunken Japanese ships of WWII is mind blowing.

On this day 150 years ago: Journalist Henry M Stanley found Scotsman David Livingstone, who had been missing in Africa for six years and presumed dead. He greeted him with the classic line 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume?’

Livingstone was a medical, Christian missionary and explorer whose main motivation was the abolition of the African slave trade. He was the first European to travel across Africa, but not the first to get lost there! This brilliant statue of him is outside Glasgow Cathedral, the city's oldest building.

Long before color-sensitive film was invented, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took 3 individual black and white photos, each with a filter (red, blue and green) to create high quality photos in full color. This self portrait is over 110 years old!

Sign the petition 👉

Spectators trying to get a glimpse of the Treaty of Versailles being signed, 1919.

The GTA Remastered Trilogy Is Your Chance To Fly The Dodo, The Worst Vehicle In Video Game History With a remaster of Grand Theft Auto 3 on the way, I really hope Rockstar doesn't fix its infamously tricky to fly plane, the dreaded Dodo.

Iñaki Williams: ‘My parents crossed the desert barefoot to get to Spain’ Athletic striker tells Sid Lowe about his parents’ remarkable journey to Spain, turning down Ghana and playing a record 203 league games in a row

Arnold Schwarzenegger at his prime. Mr. Olympia 1975

Publication of exam timetable for session 2021/2022;

https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/41619.html

Timetable 2022 Download the SQA exam timetable for 2022 - National Qualifications

And onto the next one...

Got some great new work to show you all soon 😊

Art is for everyone. Sully ❤

We are supporting Show Racism the Red Card Scotland's Month of Action, where we'll be sharing resources throughout the month.

Racism has no place in Scottish football or society.

So ladies and gentlemen THIS is Mars! 🤯😱

From NASA - This panorama, taken on Feb. 20, 2021, by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, was stitched together from six individual images after they were sent back to Earth.

Credit
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
Edit: Hugh Hou (the 360 sky experience was added for use on Oculus Quest 2)

Notes from the outer regions… Having lived in London for over 20 years now I’m always careful not to bring back too much of the local currency when I return from trips home. I’m referring of course to the regional banknotes produced by Danske Bank, Ulster Bank, First Trust and Bank of Ireland. It’s a well-worn rant that mo...

Captain Sardar Ishar Singh was the first Sikh to be awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery, when the convoy he was protecting was attacked by tribesmen in Waziristan in April 1921.
His tribute and story is now on the Armed Forces Memorial Wall - if a member of your family has ever served in our Armed Forces and has passed away please ensure they are remembered and honoured on the Wall. It only takes a few minutes to complete a tribute. Lest we forget.
Go to: https://www.veteransfoundation.org.uk/memorial-wall/