{"id":5677,"date":"2019-03-20T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2019-03-20T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:02:21","slug":"tinkering-in-primary-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/2019\/03\/20\/tinkering-in-primary-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinkering in Primary 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is tinkering?<\/p>\n

<\/strong>“Tinkering is about making things or fixing thinks with basic tools.\u00a0It is a hands-on practical activity, that\u00a0 children just love.\u00a0Why do children love it? Because they’re using real tools – not toys – real tools.\u00a0They’re being trusted to follow instructions, work safely and make fun things!”<\/p>\n

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Primary 1 have added a Tinkering table to their classroom this week and today had their first delivery of electrical equipment to explore. We used a range of tools to open up a DVD player and even stripped the wires down to see what was inside. There was lots of great team work and discussions going on! If you have any broken electrical equipment, tools, nuts and bolts or any other loose parts that you could donate we would be very grateful.<\/p>\n

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What is tinkering? “Tinkering is about making things or fixing thinks with basic tools.\u00a0It is a hands-on practical activity, that\u00a0 children just love.\u00a0Why do children love it? Because they’re using real tools – not toys – real tools.\u00a0They’re being trusted to follow instructions, work safely and make fun things!” Primary 1 have added a Tinkering … Continue reading Tinkering in Primary 1<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/stdavids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}