{"id":2901,"date":"2025-12-04T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:58:53","slug":"polar-pixel-pals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/2025\/12\/04\/polar-pixel-pals\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Pixel Pals"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"builder-section-text_1276\" class=\"builder-section-first builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-next-text builder-text-columns-1\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_1276-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p>In December 2025, Connected Falkirk&#8217;s Mari-Jane Wilcox led young explorers in this &#8216;Polar Pixel Pals&#8217; festive live interactive lesson.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pupils designed their own wonderful winter creatures and pixel pals using iPads and Apple\u2019s creative tools, explored and used key concepts like counting, symmetry, and patterning to structure their designs and shared their dazzling fun designs to be added to the Connected Falkirk Winter Wonderland Exhibit.<\/p>\n<h2>The Challenge<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2906 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/connectedfalkirk\/uploads\/sites\/2984\/2025\/12\/04200927\/Live-Lesson-2025.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/connectedfalkirk\/uploads\/sites\/2984\/2025\/12\/04200927\/Live-Lesson-2025.png 1260w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/connectedfalkirk\/uploads\/sites\/2984\/2025\/12\/04200927\/Live-Lesson-2025-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/connectedfalkirk\/uploads\/sites\/2984\/2025\/12\/04200927\/Live-Lesson-2025-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/connectedfalkirk\/uploads\/sites\/2984\/2025\/12\/04200927\/Live-Lesson-2025-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1260px) 100vw, 1260px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Live Teams Session<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You can find a pre-recording of the Teams session delivered live with classes below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Festive Live Lesson 2025: Polar Pixel Pals\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VwbvYDhhSVQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><\/b><strong>PLEASE NOTE:<\/strong> If you want to add your Polar Pixel Pals to the <a href=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/gw15wilcoxmarijane\/festive-live-lesson-2025-6lw42o5swyi0tzz2\">Padlet<\/a> for our Connected Falkirk Winter Wonderland, you have until Friday 12th December 2025 at 3.01pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-text_39\" class=\"builder-section-prev-text builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-next-text builder-text-columns-1\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_39-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<h3>More challenges<\/h3>\n<p>You can find the rest of our festive creative activities below. Why not give them a go? Click the embedded content to interact.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Creative Activities for Learners Festive Edition II<\/h3>\n<p>The latest edition of our Creative Activities for Leaners which focuses on festive fun. (Pssst&#8230;Edition I is still available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAFTOyAQW3o\/1Bu4FcIOIefWBzaqMDeK8g\/view?utm_content=DAFTOyAQW3o&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=link2&amp;utm_source=uniquelinks&amp;utlId=hfcf7054b68\">here<\/a>, as is the YouTube playlist for Edition 1 which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DS58SvfORCk&amp;list=PLTlDlqgkminu3-brYSGFX6ojxq5gDGOw6\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 75.0183%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGW0mVGbos\/wZ6MfYBN2rtkEhgxJIkCsA\/view?embed\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-text_82\" class=\"builder-section-prev-text builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-next-text builder-text-columns-1\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_82-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<h3>Festive Activities for Early and First Level<\/h3>\n<p>This free <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/s05d1gbtqgdztzuioe3i9hx6h4bqxxxz\">downloadable Keynote<\/a> contains seven festive activities for early and first level learners. Explore creativity, coding and games which all help to build familiarity with iPad as well as build digital skills and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>You can preview a PDF version of the Keynote below, for best results and access to all activities (including voice instructions to support pre-readers) within the one document <a href=\"https:\/\/app.box.com\/s\/s05d1gbtqgdztzuioe3i9hx6h4bqxxxz\">please download the Keynote file from our Box folder here.<\/a> Find out more details about our festive activities for early and first level learners here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"df_2912\"  _slug=\"2912\" data-title=\"\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumbtype=\"\" ><\/div><script class=\"df-shortcode-script\" nowprocket type=\"application\/javascript\">window.option_df_2912 = {\"outline\":[],\"backgroundColor\":\"#ffffff\",\"autoEnableOutline\":\"false\",\"autoEnableThumbnail\":\"false\",\"overwritePDFOutline\":\"false\",\"direction\":\"1\",\"pageSize\":\"0\",\"source\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\\\/fa\\\/public\\\/connectedfalkirk\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2984\\\/2025\\\/12\\\/04201931\\\/Festive-Activities-for-Early-and-First-Level.pdf\",\"wpOptions\":\"true\"}; if(window.DFLIP && window.DFLIP.parseBooks){window.DFLIP.parseBooks();}<\/script>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-text_185\" class=\"builder-section-prev-text builder-section builder-section-text builder-section-last builder-text-columns-1\" style=\"background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-position: center center;\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-text_185-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<h2>Results<\/h2>\n<p>A massive thank you to everyone who took part in the Polar Pixel Pals Live lesson, or pre-recorded session. Over 300 pupils took part live on Friday 5th December 2025!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every single Polar Pixel Pal creation sent in to us by pupils during and after the lesson has been used to create our very own Connected Falkirk Winter Wonderland. Everyone&#8217;s creativity has made this virtual winter wonderland truly magical.<\/p>\n<p>The completed Winter Wonderland is split into different themed sections showcasing the incredible range of design ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The main scene, Winter Wonderland, contains various different signs which link directly to another specific themed Winter Wonderland scene:<b> Santa&#8217;s House, Penguin Ice Rink, The Snow Ball, Polar Bear Play park and The Winter Market.<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Connected Falkirk logo in any of the themed scenes will act as your quick link back to the main Winter Wonderland page.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you enjoy exploring the Winter Wonderland as much as we enjoyed seeing all your incredible Polar Pixel Pals!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click the embedded content below to interact or view the full thing in Canva <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAG7HRQEnBs\/i15rW9Jm2x6w_oQfGMneXw\/view?utm_content=DAG7HRQEnBs&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=link2&amp;utm_source=uniquelinks&amp;utlId=h586231d26c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ttfmake-embed-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 960px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Connected Falkirk Winter Wonderland 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAG7HRQEnBs\/qt3ED8nM_c9BE7TeVF9Hkw\/view?embed&amp;meta\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" style=\"border: none; border-radius: 8px; width: 960px; height: 540px;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-2\" id=\"builder-section-text_185-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-row\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-3\" id=\"builder-section-text_185-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2025, Connected Falkirk&#8217;s Mari-Jane Wilcox led young explorers in this &#8216;Polar Pixel Pals&#8217; festive live interactive lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10415,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenge-tasks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/public\/connectedfalkirk\/uploads\/sites\/2984\/2025\/12\/04200322\/CF-Website-ArticlesGuides-Banner-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/connectedfalkirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}