Stories and Technology | St Albert's P4/5

Hello 🙂

It is digital learning week this week in St Albert’s and we have been working hard with all things technical and otherwise.

Plus, the sun has been shining all week so we have spent most of our time outside!

We started the week off with a maths lesson in the back playground. We can now identify fractions within shapes and match them with equivalent fractions.

We have also been working towards our social enterprise of publishing a book of short stories. To do this we will have to raise some money. We brain stormed some different ideas of how to do this.

“We would love to throw cream pie’s at the teacher’s faces for £1 each!”- Ahsan

“We thought of holding a pupil auction where teachers can charge money for us to do jobs”- Rayan.

“We would like run some stalls.”-Neha

As part of our social enterprise we worked with Primary 1/2 twice this week.

On Wednesday we went into the front garden next to the infant playground and wrote stories about the cool tadpoles in Miss Kinloch’s class that are turning into frogs.

Then on Thursday morning we collected all of our stories with our partner and decided which one was the best. We used our digital skills to type up these stories using an I-pad and air dropped the final products to Miss Kinloch.

We had another amazing session with Ben and Sarah our storytellers.

They took us to the enchanted garden and played some games. We showed Ben and Sarah our personalised story bags and we all became dragons searching for humans.

After that, we sat round the fire pit and Ben showed us different objects from inside his story bag.

He had a metal shoe, a stinky sock, a golden goose, a bird whistle, a badger skull, a golden kettle, a cow bell, a pocket watch, a glass bottle, a pomegranate, a sea shell, a large rock, a burned out photograph and a deer’s antler.

He challenged us to work in pairs and create a story using the object we were given.

Finally we worked as a class and told the story of “Pappa Rappa” the golden seagull by telling the story one sentence at a time and passing the seagull around the circle.

Our homework for Ben next week is to bring something small from home that could tell a story and live inside our own story bags.

Our final adventure from this week was our trip to the Tramway Theatre to learn about all things digital! We went into the main art gallery and we saw a visual exhibit about a statue who has been living for thousands of years and has seen wars, history and all sorts of unhappy things. This makes him feel sad and alone. He talks about his time alone through a variety of different speakers which are located all around the room. Opposite the statue is a projector and a screen where different images were displayed throughout his tales.

This exhibit uses a combination of visual, printing, audio and light technology. The speakers are in different areas such as inside the statue and behind the screen to make you feel as though the sound is surrounding you. The statue itself was made using a 3D printer that uses plastic. A painter then worked on it to make it look as though it was made of stone.

The piece was scary and people even got so frightened that they moved seats to be beside Miss Webster.