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Education City

We are delighted to offer home access to Education City. This is an online resource with graded activities, linked to Curriculum for Excellence levels, which will help reinforce your child’s in-school learning. By allowing access at home, your child will be able to access fun, engaging games. Login details will allow your child to access Education City.com from any device which has internet access. The url is http://www.education.city.com/ Continue reading Education City

National Parent Forum-Focus Group

The National Parent Forum is inviting all parents to give feedback on whether CfE is meeting its / parents’ ambitions and expectations. Please come along if you are free to give your view.

Background from National Parent Forum: CfE aims to achieve a transformation in education by providing a coherent, more flexible and enriched curriculum, assessment and qualifications system from 3 to 18.

The introduction of new qualifications is part of this, with the aim
of reflecting the new style of learning, which places an emphasis on skills and knowledge and tests the understanding and application of knowledge as well as facts.

NPF would like to hear whether parents feel that CfE is achieving these ambitions for parents and children as they embark on their CfE journey.

Wednesday 29th April 7pm- MEARNS CASTLE HIGH SCHOOL

Primary 4/5- ‘Learn a Skill’ afternoons

During this term, Primary 4 and 5 will take part in ‘Learn a skill’ afternoons every Tuesday. Children have been allocated into mixed groups  from across the four classes in their year group depending on which activity they selected. The options were:

P4- Origami, Cookery/baking, Technology, ICT/graphics/making a comic strip

P5- Model making, Zumba, Arts and crafts and Music making.

We were pleased to be able to offer most children either their first or second choice.

The purpose of these afternoons is to facilitate personalisation and choice and challenge and enjoyment – some of the key principles of Curriculum for Excellence. The sessions also allow children to build up relationships with their peers from other classes, as well staff, whilst developing a range of new skills! Feedback from the first P4 sessions has already been extremely positive and photographs from all groups will be posted here and on twitter over the coming weeks. We are confident that your children will find these sessions rewarding and enjoyable.

 

Primary 4b – Beebots!

This is P4b using beebots to help us learn compass points and directions.
We used words such as ‘north, east, south, west, forwards, clockwise, anti clockwise, quarter turn, 90 degrees and right angle turn’ to direct our beebots to the correct destination.