Mr Duncan came to our class to teach us about autism.  He shared his experiences of living with autism.

He told us about the behaviours of people with autism and how to treat and support people with autism.

He gave gave us Dojo points for answering well. 

We worked in groups to find litter and pick it up. We recorded what we found using tally marks and Miss Brooks is going to send this information to the council.

We found lots of plastic wrappers in our school grounds and even glass bottles.

We scouted the upper playground and the lower playground.

Then, we went to to the pitch and scouted for more litter.  We managed to collect 6 black bags worth of rubbish!!

Coding

On Monday, Mr Kennedy and Miss Piolie came to teach us how to code.  They are computing teachers from Holyrood.

We learned new vocabulary:

An algorithm  is a set of instructions.
Debugging is when you fix an error in a programme.

Coding is giving directions or instructions to a person or computer programme for them to move.  We gave instructions to angrybirds to get to the pig.  It was fun and we learned lots. #CODING   #UNLOCKINGCODES    #GAMERS4LIFE

Animations

We were teaching Primary 1 how to create animations using the Stop Motion app on the iPad.

Primary 1 had created scenes of the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and made the characters using clay.

We got into groups of mixed P1s  and P6s. 

First we used the stop motion app to take pictures of the story.  After, we had taken pictures of the storyline, we added audio of the different parts of the text.  We showed the Primary 1s how to add features such as pausing and using a frame.

Hafsa and Muhammad went to the Digital Showcase and presented about what we do for digital learning in our school!  Everyone was so impressed by how knowledgeable they were. 

What an amazing trip to Kelburn Castle and Countrypark on Wednesday!!
Kelburn Castle is such a unique castle because of its graffiti art.  The castle was designed by Brazilian and Glaswegian artists.  It’s also known as the fairytale castle and belongs to the Boyle family.

Whole school trips are so much fun because we get to go on trips with our friends from all over the school and our brothers, sisters and cousins.  Some of us went with our parents which was fun too.

We saw chickens, geese and an angry alpaca. #NOTLAMAS
Manahil saw the chickens and felt bad that she eats chicken all the time.
Zainab wanted to eat the chicken!!

We climbed, swung and played outdoors.
Some of us got some serious rope burns. #OUCHAMINA
Mr Stewart was pushing us all on the swings and making us fall into the mud.

Then, we explored The Secret Forest. It was magical.
Some of us got lost a few times and got stuck in a house.  We were terrified so we started screaming.
There were secret waterfalls and we had to step on the stones so as we didn’t get soaked!!
Zeenat’s the queen of the castle. #QUEEN

Too much fresh air for Hussain …

On Thursday, some of us went to Clydesdale Cricket Club for a cricket festival. 

We played cricket against 3 other schools – Holy Cross Primary, St Brigids Primary and Cuthbertson Primary.

St Albert’s Bears tied in their first game against Cuthbertson and we won the rest of our games.

St Albert’s Cheetahs won their first game against Holy Cross but lost our second game against Cutherburtson. #BOO

St Albert’s Tigers won all of our games against Holy Cross and St Brigids. #WINNING

It was a super fun day and we were exhausted after it.

What a great start to the month of May!

We were lucky enough to go on the Glasgow City Tour Bus with the P6 pupils from Sandaig Primary and see lots of famous sights in Glasgow.

#WINDY 😂😂

Can you name these famous places? 

We filmed each other describing the famous Glasgow landmarks using iPads. Here’s Rio filming Haidar at St Mungo’s Cathedral.

As well as seeing the sights of Glasgow and filming shots for our European Championship films, we also got to the know the kids from Sandaig Primary better and made new friends. 

Fareed had too much fresh air and excitement for one day …

We were very lucky to work with Ben on Friday and create our own stories based on what we saw in our sensory garden.  We used our surroundings and our imagination to come up with our own stories which we then told to each other.

After we shared our stories, Ben lit the fire and told us an amazing story about a grandson, his grandmother and a chestnut.

We are working with the P6 pupils from Sandaig Primary in Balarnack to create a film for visitors coming to Glasgow for the European Championships. 

On Tuesday, we met the Sandaig pupils and took part in some activities that helped us get to know our new friends. We can’t wait to get to know them more over the next few weeks 😊😎

In Term 3, we earned 2000 Dojo points as a class so as a treat, we watched Wonder this afternoon.

We set the classroom up like a cinema, making sure everyone was comfy.

We will post our reviews of the movie in the comments.