Well done, Primary 7V 🙂

We worked very hard today to make our ‘Voices of the World’ November task special ….. and it is!

All the entries from the other schools aren’t in yet, but those that are completed are just super! We had a great time today listening to them 🙂

You can access them HERE  – scroll down and click on the country flags.

 Our entry is below ….. enjoy 🙂

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The jumpcut video shows the great variety of books the P7’s enjoy. They voted for the best cover illustration … it was very close!  

We’d love to know what you think! Do you recognise any of the books? What are your favourite books?

This is Fraser’s winning illustration!

It was ‘Book Week’ in school this week. We had great fun looking at all the great books there were for sale. There were also competitions with book prizes. Primary 7V designed book cover illustrations of their favourite books. Fraser S. won … his illustration was awesome!! Well done, Fraser! 

Meanwhile, Primary 7 made books for the primary 1 and 2’s to enjoy. Click the ‘play’ button below to see how much they appreciated the great stories!

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We interviewed the children to find out what they thought. Click on the ‘weemees’ to listen to the interviews … ‘Spy Mice’ seemed to be the favourite in Primary 1. The children in Primary 2 had a number of favourites!

 Bethany showed us the Voki she made of her interview with her mum about her early years:)

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 Our ‘Parent Night’ evenings are on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The Primary 7 pupils are going to demonstrate how we use our blogs and wikis to help our learning. We’re going to ask all the visiting parents to take our poll!! 

The poll results will be available on Friday of this week 🙂

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Primary 7V are going to find out more about their own history …. with the help of mums, dads, aunties, uncles, grans and grandads!! They’ll share their findings on a wikispaces page. Meanwhile, everyone interviewed a parent or grandparent about their ‘early years’. We’ll upload them to our pbwikis soon. BenC has already managed to put his interview with his mum on to his wiki. Click on his ‘weemee’ to listen … please be patient while it loads 🙂

Here are some radio show reports just after the appalling disaster happened! Please click on the word links (not the icons .. they don’t work). They may take a moment or two to load, but it’ll be worth it to hear the ‘breaking news’!

THE NINA AND SOPHIE SHOW

THE ANNA AND DARCIE SHOW

Our October Task for the Voices of the World project was to produce an Animoto video of the pupils singing our National Anthem. Primary 7 really wanted to sing ‘Flower of Scotland’. It looks and sounds great …. well done P7V!

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You can see all the other entries from around the world by clicking on the link below!

Voices of the World

On Halloween the children from the Nursery took a walk around the school to show off their fancy dress. They looked great!

Our assembly on ‘Internet Safety’ was a great success! The whole school and lots of mums and dads, grans and grandads, and brothers and sisters came along to listen to our important message. We sang the two songs we showed in the videos in the previous post, and there was much more, too!

The videos below show some more of the action from the day!

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 …but it can be ‘cool’ too!! …..

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 We had an unusual day last Friday …. we planned a great surprise party to say goodbye to Mrs Paton. She didn’t suspect a thing! It didn’t seem like school at all because we were allowed to bring clothes to change in to and lots of people brought ‘goodies’ to share!

 It might have started off like a normal school day – but it ended up very differently! 

🙂

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Jaydean decided to continue her ‘Treasure Box’ story by sketching it on Sketchcast.

We tried very hard to add ‘audio’ but it just didn’t work in school (works fine at home)…….. 🙂

Click on Jaydean’s weemee to view her story and her sketch.

Mrs Paton made up a story starter and the pupils were asked to continue it in the same style. Some of them added them to their wiki pages. Bethany illustrated hers and then recorded her version of the story orally. You can watch her ‘movie version’ below. There’s a slight pause between the first and second picture ….. please be patient while the story continues 🙂

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Every year at this time, the primary 7 pupils deliver groceries to the elderly people in our community. Today the weather was not good, but there was a smile on everyone’s face …. the givers and the receivers!

Click on the video below to view the happy faces!

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Bethany and her ‘wiki friends’ are the first in the class to have come up with the idea of  writing a shared story.

It was a great idea and it was lovely to see them present their shared story at our recent ‘Parent Blogging Evening’. I was very impressed that they had even added a colour code to show who had written which part of the story!

You can read the story by clicking on Bethany’s ‘WeeMee’ below.

Meanwhile, Mrs Paton thought of a great story starter and wrote a few opening sentences. She asked the class to continue it. P7V loved planning what might happen next and today some of them shared their ideas on their wikis.

 Mrs Paton has been with us for a few weeks now … she’s been great and we wish her well in her new teaching career.

You can read Monica’s version of how the story might continue by clicking on her ‘WeeMee’ below.

Thank you to all the mums and dads …..     (and grans and grandads, and brothers and sisters, and aunties and uncles!!!) for coming to our ‘Blogging Evening’!

…. But most of all THANK YOU to Primary 7 …. You were all ‘mega stars’ and you made the whole event great – I was so proud of everyone of you!

Here’s a wee reminder!

 Primary 7V are involved in an exciting new project called ‘Voices of the World’! Every month we have to complete a task. For September we all made a Voki to advertise the project. Our one is below.

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It’s run by Mrs Tonner from the High School of Dundee. This is what Mrs Tonner says about the project:

‘Voices Of The World is an exciting project that will use the voice and sound rather than the written or typed word. All too often we ask children to communicate at a distance using text rather than voice. VOTW will hopefully prove that we can unite and learn from one another using our voices in the simplest way possible. I am looking forward to this challenge ahead of us which will surely motivate our children to learn about other cultures through the use of the voice.’

You can visit the wiki to see all the countries involved so far, and listen to everyone’s message. Just click HERE!

We’re finding out about our local community and a few weeks ago we wrote letters to the new Shore Restaurant in our area. We had some questions that we wanted to ask. The manager invited some of us to come along. You can watch the interview here. Darren, our Cameraman, did a great job (but it’s my fault that I didn’t realise the light from the window would make the video so dark – sorry Darren!)

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After the interview, we showed Craig some of the pictures of the Shore Restaurant that we have been sketching with our Art teacher, Mrs Williamson. It’s a lovely building and our charcoal drawings are looking great so far …… so great that we’re to be allowed to put some of our completed artwork on display in the restaurant! We’ll take pictures of them for our blog once they are framed!!

These are some pictures from our visit. We haven’t put any on of the front of the building .. we’ll post these alongside our completed sketches soon!

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On Tuesday evening, we’re having a presentation and workshop evening in school so that the parents (and other family members) of the P7 pupils can learn more about how we use our Blogs and Wikis.

To help us prepare for this, we invited some members of Falkirk Council who are involved in working with parents to come to school and we asked them to tell us a bit about what they do. 

Listen to the Vokis below to find out who they are and what their jobs involve!

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We wanted to find out more about why it’s important to involve parents in our learning. You can listen to our podcast below …

BUT ….. can you please click on their name link and not the little icon (it just doesn’t seem to work)

Please be patient while it loads ….. because we think it’s worth the wait!

Thanks  🙂

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 These ones are more successful … well done primary 7V!!!!

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The pupils read some Aborigine Dreamtime stories then illustrated them. We uploaded them into ‘Voicethread’ so that they could retell the stories. Some pupils worked very hard at this, but I’ve put it together wrongly and can’t fix it!! I know they’re all waiting for this post, so here goes …..

There are 3 slides.

The first one is by Chloe and FraserM.

The next slide shows Jaydean talking about ‘Guthi, Guthi’ which is really Darcie’s illustration about ‘Minawee’. On the same slide, Darcie then tells the real story behind her illustrations!?

The last slide is Jaydean’s ‘Guthi, Guthi’ illustration – but with no voice because Jaydean has already talked about it on the previous slide ……  SO SORRY EVERYONE 🙂

They’re still great – well done all !! We’ll post more on Monday – in the correct order, hopefully 🙂

(press the little ‘go’ arrow to begin – you can view the slides more closely by clicking on them)

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Primary 7V now have their own wikis. Wikis are different from Blogs, because they’re designed to be shared with others. P7V have invited a few people that they trust to share their wiki. They’re all very pleased with them so far!

Nina sums up the feeling of her classmates when she wrote this on her Wiki ‘Front Page’

‘Hello,my name is Nina and this is my pb wiki.I am very excited to have a pb wiki. This is a chance for me to show my work.’

Most have created at least one new page because they were asked to write a report on the events leading up to the interview with Master Bailey. … and what a SUPER job they’ve made of these!! Nina’s can be seen by clicking here

Click the ‘Badges’ below to go straight to Ainsley, Maryam, or Fraser’s Wiki (to open in a new window, ‘right click’ on the mouse)

   Or why not go to our ‘Wonderful Wikis’ page to read even more!

Meanwhile ……

 we’ve been contacted by Webbliworld who asked us to review their website. We’ve only had a quick look, but it certainly has the ‘thumbs up’ so far! Check out the reviews on Rhianne, Ben C and Anna’s Blogs …. or visit our ‘P7 Blogs’ page to read all the reviews 🙂

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 The interview with Master Bailey!

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