We’ve updated our gallery with a selection of new builds we’ve been sent.
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Ibrox Primary take over Pacific Quay
Last week Ibrox Primary visited Pacific Quay, home to BBC Scotland in Glasgow, and had a morning of digital skills fun.
We kicked things off with a bit of Minecraft building and our BBC LAB team helped the P6s make a short film about the session.
We also set up some Virtual Reality sessions which the children (not to mention the adults) LOVED and our 3D printing hub provided by the Mitchell Library was a big hit too.
There are lots more photos over at our specially created gallery, so do have a look at what was going on and check out some of the builds which happened in just a couple of hours.
West Primary built their school!
We have started to see some builds coming in now and this one is a real stand-out. The children at West Primary Minecraft Club have reproduced their school and it’s a stunning bit of work. We were knocked out by the level of detail and it’s clear how hard the team have worked.
Check out more submissions in our ever growing gallery. And if you’d like to find out more about how West Primary approached the project then do stop by their blog.
We can’t wait to get the school on our map which is now taking shape given the quality of builds we’ve been sent.
Cathkin Primary are go
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 🙂
