Author: Findlay David

Written by Digital Leaders – Findlay Thorburn

P1-7 travelled to the Academy for a Bubbly Maths workshop session today.

Bubbles the clown used string loops to make bubbles of different diameter.

We practiced using our handy body measure to estimate a metre length. Ava lily is the perfect metre from her left shoulder to her opposite right arm outstretched.

We were shown how to visualise and estimate how many metres the hall was in length, breadth and height.  Ruby was asked to count out the number of metre length balloons it took for each dimension.

Bubbles used a square of metre length balloons to let us see a ‘square metre’.  We then used a cube made out of metre length balloons to see a cubic metre.  This helped us to estimate how many it would take to fill our hall.

As we had arrived before anyone else, we got a special session where we estimated how many of our class we could fit into the metre cubed balloon shape.  We managed to fit all 12 of us present into the shape!

Bubbles created bubble shapes using open sided 3D shapes.  Again, we had a sneaky, close up view of this before the other schools arrived 🙂

Ms. Whorlow and Bubbles used a metres cube of string dipped in bubble mix to create a bubble to cover pupils in a bubble case.

Throughout the session we learned to make ‘marvellous mistakes’ that help us learn.

Here is a link to the Bubblymaths website:

https://www.bubblymaths.co.uk/

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On Friday the 28th of September, P.C. Wilson came to talk to P4-7 about her job as a police officer. First of all, she talked to us about what you would use the police for.  Examples are in the event of a car crash, a robbery, people being threatened, teenagers fighting etc.

Some other advice that she gave the pupils, was if  you are going to the fairground make sure to go with an adult.

P.C. Wilson told the pupils that one of the things that she has to do is that if a bomb was to wash up on a beach she would have to block it off and make sure no one gets hurt.

We learned how to make a 999 call in an emergency.

P.C. Wilson explained all the different charges that someone could get if they commit a crime. She told us that the legal age for responsibility is 8!

She went on to talk about how drug taking can cause poor mental health and that we should look after ourselves.

We know how important it is to be responsible and to not break laws and how we can help other in trouble by contacting the police.

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By Digital Leaders Findlay Thorburn P7 and Rose Santangeli P4

P4-7 had our first workshop sessions on Soundtrap with Mr John Dinnin. We learned how to use it to make our own music.  We used loops and instruments to make music track.  We shared them with  each other and asked each other to tell us if they liked our music.  We will get another 3 workshop days with Mr Dinnin.  Have a listen to Sophia’s music.

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Written by Digital leader Rose P4

Click play below to listen to music made by Sophia.

P4 -7  have been doing their coding course on code.org and they have also have been giving a robotic mouse instructions to find and collect cheese through a maze made by the pupils.  We are working with how to create and debug instructional algorithms as part of  learning about instruction texts in our language topic.

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Post by Digital Leader Findlay Thorburn

 

 

Findlay, our experienced digital leader, has been showing the new digital leaders how to upload photos to a computer from the digital camera. The new digital leaders have been learning how to create and publish a blog with their glow accounts.

Our new digital leaders are Findlay, Lillie, Maya and Rose.

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Blog posted by Findlay T – P7

  

The children have use the skills that they have learned from their amazing trip to Logan Botanic Garden to take magnificent photos of their favourite part of nature in the school playground and also at Logan Botanic Garden.

I’m sure you will agree that there are some very pleasing images achieved using Digital Technology

 

Written by Findlay Thorburn P6 – Digital Leader