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Category Archives: Technology
P1b use the Beebots
Today p1b made a map of the school and navigated our little Beebot to different places. We used our knowledge of counting to 10 and positional language to help us control the Beebot. We really enjoyed this activity and can’t wait to do it again! 
Inventions in the 70s
Primary 5 enjoyed researching inventions from the 70’s in class today. They worked in groups using the iPads to research and make notes. They then used their notes to make fantastic posters!
P2 LEARN ABOUT TENS AND UNITS
During maths time, some of the children worked in their group to solve maths counting problems using a fun game on the SmartBoard. They learned to count the tens and add the units.
To play this game at home, the link is: http://www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/index.html
P2 INVESTIGATE OLD AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
As part of their Decades topic, the boys and girls had a discussion about the technology we use and looked at some photographs of older technology from the year 2000 onwards. They were able to compare the similarities and differences of these devices and sorted them into old and new.
The children thought it was funny when they found out that when rewinding a video tape, people had to wait a while for it to get back to the beginning!
Primary 3 having fun with the new Ipads!
Primary 3 had an opportunity to try out the new apps on the new IPads. Once the children had finished all of their work they had fun exploring the new apps. The popular apps were Spelling City and Puppet Theatre. We are looking forward to using them next week to help us with our topic research about the 1990s.
P2’s Millennium Bugs
Have a look at how some of our fantastic Millennium Bug creations turned out!
This week, our writing lesson will be an imaginative story about the mysterious Millennium Bug.
P2 and The Millennium Bug
Primary 2 have began their topic of learning about the years 2000-2015.
Today in class, they discovered about The Millennium Bug!
This was when people thought that all the computers in the world would stop working or CRASH when the year changed to 2000 and they nicknamed it, “The Millennium Bug.”
We in Primary 2 know that it wasn’t a real bug like a spider or a beetle, but we imagined what we thought a Millennium Bug would look like and planned a drawing of it on our whiteboards!
Some of our creations had lots of arms to crash all the computers in the year 2000!
K’nex West of Scotland Final 10 June 2015
Beth and Jack participated in the West of Scotland K’nex Challenge at University of Glasgow today. We were first to arrive at the beautiful Hunter Halls so we helped the organisers set up the equipment. The challenge today was to create a fork lift truck. Our team achieved the brief and were pleased with their results.
Unfortunately we were not placed this time but we were delighted to find out that Beth and Jack had reached the top 26 of 8266 pupils who participated in the challenge! 254 schools entered and only 13 schools were represented in the West of Scotland final today. Well done to our team who celebrated with an ice cream!
Congratulations to the winning team from Lainshaw Primary, East Ayrshire and the runners up from Newington Primary, Dumfriesshire!
K’Nex West of Scotland Final 10 June 2015
10 June is a big day for our K’nex team, Beth and Jack.
They will participate in the K’nex West of Scotland final, held in University of Glasgow tomorrow.
This highly effective team have already achieved so much by winning the Chryston Cluster challenge, then becoming runners up at the Area Final (featured in the photograph above) so they are already true winners as far as Glenmanor are concerned.
We all wish you well tomorrow and with your talent, fantastic teamwork and growth mindset, the sky is the limit!
