The grand prix that I have chosen to go to is in Kuala
Lumpa, Malasia.
The cheapest tickets cost me £9.24 and that gave me a 3 day pass but quite far from the track! I don’t think I’ll get a seat but I can stand and wave my flag!
I have booked into the D’Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpar and I’ll be flying with KLM.
I am staying for 4 nights.
This is costing me £531.
Altogether, my trip will cost £540.24
This week I am going to ask you to carry out some research! Use the web links I’ve provided to find the solution!
Puzzle 1 Formula 1 Grand Prix Racing
Choose a race you want to go to. Find tickets, hotel and travel to get there. What is the cheapest you can find?
You can find web links to help you on the sidebar of this blog. They are called F1 info, F1 info 2 and F1 info 3. You will be able to find the cost of tickets, travel and hotels using these sites!
Contact me on this blog if you need help or ask me at school!
Post the answers in your own blog in a way that I will understand your choices/answers!
Good luck!
There are lots of exciting developments happening in education in Scotland. You will all by now, I am sure, have heard a little about A Curriculum for Excellence and the exciting possibilities that this new curriculum brings for children in our schools.
Another equally ambitious project in Scottish education is GLOW, the learning platform for the Scottish Schools Digital Network.
Over the past few years, all schools in Argyll and Bute have been enabled to receive an increased bandwidth that allows the children to participate in lots of exciting on-line learning opportunities. The internet is a wonderful place with many valuable aspects but it is also easy to get lost and waste time wandering around looking for suitable resources or can put our children in vulnerable and dangerous positions with those that mean to cause our children harm.
To help with these difficulties, all of Scotland’s schools have now got access to GLOW which is a schools’ intranet. This means that only those people with a username and password in schools are allowed access.
Each child and teacher in every school has a unique log-in and password that only the child and the teacher know. No one out with GLOW can access this intranet.
This session at Kilmartin P.S. we are beginning to teach the children how to log onto GLOW and how to navigate around this huge community. We are explaining to the children that entering GLOW is a bit like going to Braehead shopping centre. There are many places you can visit for many different reasons. We cannot possibly visit everywhere on our first visit or make use of all of the features so we have been starting by visiting Purple Mash which is an area that allows children to play educational games or do pieces of writing.
The children in P.6/7 have now moved onto the 2nd stage that we have planned which is creating their own GLOW blog. A blog is a personalised space where each child can write about their learning, their hobbies, their projects and do homework tasks.
P.6/7 have now started carrying out homework tasks on their blog and this brings huge potential benefits for them.
1. Using technology will hopefully raise their motivation.
2. They can ask for online teacher support from either Mrs. Johnson or Mrs. Blair
3. They can’t lose the piece of paper that the task is on because the task is written out on Mrs Johnson’s blog
4. They can’t leave their task at home because they post it onto their blog when it is completed.
5. Teachers can give immediate feedback on the task by using the comments button on their bog
6. Parents can read each blog post and also comment
7. Teachers can see who has logged on and started their task and who have not yet done so!
It is hoped that other schools in mid Argyll will come on board with the class blog project. There is a training night for teachers on Thursday 20th January where Mrs. Johnson and Mr Helbert (HT Furnace P.S.) will be training any teachers who want to participate.
Mrs. Blair attended an Internet Safety training course earlier on this session. It is hoped that by teaching the children how to use the internet safely in every computer lesson at school, that we will be helping to protect the children when they access the internet from home.
Mrs. Blair will be teaching the P.6/7 children about internet safety in the summer term and if any parents also wish a workshop then we would also be happy to organise one.
If you have any questions about this new way of learning, please use the comment button to get in touch with me.
These are exciting times and we must make sure that we are preparing the children for the future.
Now that you are able to log onto my blog, we can really get cracking with a super homework task this week!
Up to now, you have just been doing very short pieces of writing in your blog. This week, I want you to try to write a longer piece that you have thoroughly checked over before you post it. I want to see how accurate your writing/typing can be. I am going to accept this piece of homework is YOUR VERY BEST WORK!!!
TASK
In class we talked about the Stone of Destiny being stolen and hidden somewhere in Scotland for many years. I want you to write me a story of at least 300 words with a beginning, middle and ending called, “We Stole Scotland’s Stone!”
When you are writing this story, I would also like you to remember about all the work we have done in class about interesting sentence starters:
1. Words ending in ly at the beginning……eg Interestingly, ….
2. Double adjective beginnings……eg Fast and swift…..
3. ing verbs at the beginning…….Running, ……
Success criteria..What am I looking for?
1. An interesting story with a clear beginning, middle and ending
2. Well checked, with no spelling, capital letter or punctuation errors
3. Interesting sentence starters
Good luck! You can also add pics!
Well done for managing to log into glow and find my blog at home. Fantastic!
For tomorrow, remember to do
Good luck!
I hope that you all enjoy our new blogging adventure! Now that you have discovered the exciting world inside Glow you need to make the very best use of all of the technology you now have available at your fingertips…this IS the 21st Century after all!
I hope that you get used to logging into glow and adding pieces of writing of any sort to your blog. You are able to do this in school or at home as long as you remember your glow username and password. Remember only you and I know your password so make sure it stays that way!
If you haven’t yet tried to log-on from home, have a go as soon as possible. you could even do your homework on your glow blog!
Over the next weeks you will learn how to add pages, photographs, links and clip art to make your blog look more interesting.
Other teachers in Mid Argyll will be able to read your blog and leave you comments about your writing to help you to improve and to give you extra ideas.
I really hope you find having a blog a new and exciting adventure!
Happy blogging!
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