Welcome to our latest IDL Blog – apologies for the lack of photos, I’ve had an IT glitch!

We are nearly at the end of Learning Journey 3 – our board games are all created and we are at the finishing touches and testing stages.

The games are all looking great and all of the visitors to the Learning Lab have been so impressed with their development.

We are all very excited to share them with the wider school community.

The Meta Skills we have been learning about this term are Focusing and Adapting. We have been working on our active listening skills and ways to block out distractions. The Adapting Meta Skill will help with all of the transition changes over the coming weeks.

We have now started Learning Journey 4 and will be investigating the history of the local area.  Hopefully by summer we’ll all be local historians!

Hi there and welcome to the first IDL Blog of this year. It’s Mrs Dougall here, as you may know, I have a different role this year and I am now responsible for Inquiry Based Learning across P2, P3 and P4.  This means that I complete Learning Journeys with the children, starting with a problem/question and working towards them finding a solution using teacher and child led learning across different aspects of the Curriculum for Excellence.   I now teach P4a for 3 periods of IDL and on of PE each week and it is so lovely to be part of their continuing Learning Journeys.

 

We started this session with an investigation into Energy. We learned about Kinetic, Solar, Wind and Hydro Energy. Our trip to the Science Centre allowed us to apply this learning in a different setting.

We have also fitted in two short blocks of learning about Meta Skills, these are the skills that we use everyday in our learning and our Meta Skills Lessons help us to investigate the skills, apply them in practical situations and recognise the importance of them in our daily learning. These Meta Skills will help equip the children  for the World of Work.

Our first Meta Skills focus was on Creativity and Curiosity and we are currently focusing on Communicating and Collaborating.  The class teachers work with us to apply these skills in all of our learning.

 

 

 

 

 

Our second Learning Journey was all about Climate Change. We focused on learning about the impact of Global Warming on the seas.

We also had a visit from a Scottish Government Climate change advisor.

We are about to start a our new learning journey and are all so excited.