{"id":984,"date":"2015-11-17T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/?p=984"},"modified":"2015-11-17T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:46:34","slug":"primary-4-learn-about-law-order-at-bantaskin-ps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/2015\/11\/17\/primary-4-learn-about-law-order-at-bantaskin-ps\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary 4 learn about Law & Order at Bantaskin PS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_4651\"<\/a>Yvonne McBlain visited Primary 4 at Bantaskin PS\u00a0on 16th November, to hear about their Green Street and Friendship Street\u00a0Storyline work. Mrs Russell’s class helped Yvonne write this blog post, and took\u00a0some of the photos too. Mr Davidson’s P4D class\u00a0held\u00a0their court hearing during the visit – they were all desperate to hear the verdict!\u00a04R will visit Falkirk Sheriff Court on 17th November and then stage their court proceedings back in class. \"DSCF6599\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u00a0have been busy creating a street of houses in our classrooms. Each group in\u00a0our class created a “typical” Falkirk 8 year old character, then made up a whole family to live with them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our\u00a0families needed\u00a0houses, so\u00a0we designed\u00a0 homes which were just right for them. We got letters asking us to do different jobs. When\u00a0 an elderly couple from Malawi moved into the empty house on Friendship Street, 4D had to come up with ways to make them feel welcome in their new country.\u00a0Another letter said that the council had given\u00a0us a piece of land near our street, and that we had to design and make\u00a0a community garden on it. \"IMG_4654\"<\/a>Primary 4 used their tiling skills to create a tiled centre-piece\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0 garden\u00a0using squared paper. The gardens had to be Eco-friendly – Olivia\u00a0said that\u00a0eco-friendly is “putting everything in the right bins”, Caitlin said “eco means don’t waste anything”.\u00a0We learned how to tile a hexagon shape, and when our gardens were finished,\u00a0we displayed them and organised a\u00a0Grand Opening tea party to celebrate. The next day\u00a0we were “outraged” to discover that\u00a0\u00a0our community\u00a0gardens had been vandalised!\u00a0 Who would do this terrible damage? Why would they do it? The\u00a0pupils discovered clues – a bottle of black paint, some fingerprints, and\u00a0apples with bites taken out of them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"DSCF6588\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Children in both classes learned about Law and Order in our country by investigating the crimes of vandalism which took place in their community\u00a0gardens (SOC 1-20a). Their storyline included a visit to the local Sherriff Court, and the storyline letters they received, highlighted skills and knowledge they would develop during this interdisciplinary work. The letters helped to engage the children in their learning and made it accessible to them. The pupils also developed their understanding of the impact of vandalism on real people because they experienced it through their make-believe storyline. Storyline is often valuable for this reason in helping children to develop sound values and attitudes which contribute to their development of the four capacities. \"DSCF6615\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Click here<\/a> to see a version of this storyline plan which was developed\u00a0by Yvonne and primary 5 teachers at Ladeside Primary School a few years ago. It has proven to be a valuable way to link or bundle, specific Social Studies and Health and Well Being experiences and outcomes with elements of Learning for Sustainability.<\/p>\n

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Yvonne McBlain visited Primary 4 at Bantaskin PS\u00a0on 16th November, to hear about their Green Street and Friendship Street\u00a0Storyline work. Mrs Russell’s class helped Yvonne write this blog post, and took\u00a0some of the photos too. Mr Davidson’s P4D class\u00a0held\u00a0their court hearing during the visit – they were all desperate to hear the verdict!\u00a04R will visit …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4360,4361,4338],"tags":[835,4022,4369,4343,2155,2469,4183,4348,4356,404],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-inspiration","category-interdiscriplinary-learning","category-sharing-practice","tag-citizenship","tag-connected-learning","tag-contexts","tag-experiences-and-outcomes","tag-global-citizenship","tag-health-and-well-being","tag-international-education","tag-primary-idl","tag-skills-for-life","tag-social-studies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}