Day: October 29, 2024

This afternoon, P6/7 joined a live lesson working on the use of Adobe Express. Each pupil worked on an iPad to create a multi-media collage with a spooky theme. They selected a background, added design elements, assigned animations to each object and layered sound effects over the top! What fantastic results!

The pupils then screenshot their work and emailed them to me (another handy computing skill) for me to upload them to the blog. You can’t quite get the full multimedia effect of sound and movement – but it does give you a glimpse of just some of the super computing skills in use.

Well done all – superbly spooky stuff 🙂

 

Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Jack and Linea from the Children’s Parliament back to talk about Sustainability.

Today’s focus was on our ‘campus’ and how we use our school building. This ties in with the Scottish Government’s aim that by 2030 they want to make sure that…

• all schools are eco friendly in how they heat, power and use materials at school.
• all spaces can be used to learn outdoors within,
• all spaces respect children’s rights.

The pupils were set the task of re-creating the school campus using anything they could find in the classroom – not easy but they worked together and did so well! They then needed to write down how each area is used and how eco-friendly these areas are. We linked our school campus back to the UNCRC Children’s Rights Charter so that we could see these rights as they are put into action. This gave us lots of things to talk and think about.

We are doing lots already to make our local campus as sustainable as it can be, but we know there are lots of steps we could take to improve. Some of these things we would need to help to put into action – but Jack and Linea said that all our opinions are important and they’d take all ideas back to the Scottish Government.

Another great session! We are looking forward to our next session next month too 🙂