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The brilliant Kim Jeanes, Colin Lamont, and Morag Shaw (35+ years of teaching experience and Advanced Higher Principal Assessor) have written a brand-new, completely unseen National 5 Computing Science Prelim & Marking Scheme! It is an amazing premium resource designed to save your department hours of time.

117 hours of collective professional learning in a single evening. Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science by collaborating, and driving change from the ground up.

🚨 STACS In-Person Connect Event: Glasgow! (Monday 8th June, 5pm–7pm)

Join us at St Aloysius' College for an evening of networking, practical ideas, and community! Whether you are a Secondary CS teacher, a Primary specialist, or an incoming PGDE student, we have a fantastic lineup of workshops tailored just for you—including the launch of our brand-new STACS Upskilling Platform.

🎁 Plus an exclusive bonus: Every attendee will walk away with a brand-new, completely unseen National 5 CS Prelim & Marking Scheme written by Advanced Higher Principal Assessor Morag Shaw!

Free entry, food, and refreshments included. [Read more and book your ticket]

At STACS, we believe that every pupil in Scotland deserves equity of access to Computing Science. However, achieving this goal depends on one vital factor: Recruitment.

To change this, we need to build a sustainable pipeline of new teachers. The STACS Computing Science Teacher Insight Initiative is looking for schools and departments to host prospective applicants for short, 1–2 day observational visits.

A huge thank you to the teachers who shared their experiences and insights. All contributions shared through STACS were anonymised and fed into national discussions. The Scottish Government is now preparing a report focused specifically on Computing Science, due to be published.

The inaugural STACS Annual Conference which is free to attend, will be held on Saturday 29th November, 2025, at the University of Stirling.