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Pedagoo Friday – Look Out Sir Alan Sugar!

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Never mind  The Apprentice! Sir Alan Sugar needs to look out for our S1 pupils with their fantastic business minds and tenacious work ethic! Mrs Chalmers’ S1 class have been working for weeks on creating their own toy including design, manufacturing, marketing and publicity! They pitched their products to a panel including Mr Scott, Mrs Burton and Mr Campbell who were mightily impressed and did not revel in the hard task of choosing a winner.

CMFK created a fab night light!

 

Turkey Toys effort 🙂

Rocket Boys with their toy rocket

MCESFK created a toy car.

Best Group Award went to the girls for their turtle game – complete with handmade turtles! (Miss Gilligan thinks they were robbed – handmade turtles?! WINNER!)

Overall winners were the Bueno Group for their ‘Night Light Pillow’ – now holding pride of place at the front of Mrs Chalmers’ room. Judges were impressed with not only their idea and execution but their marketing and pitch showing a fantastic use of persuasive devices! Bueno, girls! (See what I did there?)

Annual Burns’ Museum Trip

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Our annual Burns’ Museum Trip in preparation for our Burns’ Supper on Wednesday 6th February 2019, took place on Tuesday 27th November. Pupils from across S1 and S2 participated in a variety of activities including a Tam O’Shanter drama and public debating workshop. Pupils were so enthusiastic and engaged – everyone who worked with the pupils (and even members of the public who chatted with them) complimented them on their participation and brilliant behaviour. Well done Burns bairns!

 

We are delighted to share with you a lovely email from an ex-teacher who was visiting the Museum alongside our pupils. We are so proud of our young people and how they represented themselves, the school and the community!

“Hullo there…I would be grateful if you could pass this on to your head teacher….I am a retired teacher and was visiting the Burns museum yesterday. It soon became obvious that there was school visit going on and as an ex-teacher I duly was watching the kids. I was impressed by their attentive nature to the exhibitions on view and the conversations I had with some of them. All were polite and well mannered, I even ended up helping a few identifying some of the ‘personalities’ on view. Indeed their presence enhanced the day for me…
Yours aye Scott Murray
ex-Alva Academy….”