Today I was invited out to Cathkin Primary to meet the P7s who are taking part in Build It Scotland.
When I arrived the class were already hard at work making adjustments to some of the builds they had started earlier this week. Last week they started off by researching landmarks and gathering images. From there they produced plans of their locations to get a sense of scale, shape and positioning of main features.
Mr Frame explained that they had started off by installing Minecraft on the school PCs but that a recent update had stopped it running. So as not to let the children down, they had migrated over to tablets. The class has three iPads and the children who have a tablet at home can bring their’s in- I spotted a few iPads and some Android tablets too.
Walking around the smaller groups of 2 – 3/4 students I spotted a few Stirling Castles, an Edinburgh Castle and a really colourful Glasgow SSE Hydro.
I spoke to one group who had started off with Nessie in her Loch, moved onto the fountain at the People’s Palace in Glasgow Green but had now settled on Kingston Bridge. Quite the train of thought!
The session ended with a quick peer-to-peer evaluation of some of the work, paying attention to scale and form in particular, and a look at what the next session’s starting point might be.
What a brilliant end to the week. Thanks for having me Cathkin Primary 🙂
