South Ayrshire 1+2

Hi colleagues. I just wanted to update everyone on the work going on in 1+2 across our authority.

Firstly, a reminder of the Development Officers for your cluster.

Belmont – Fiona Gilligan and Lynsey Boyes

Ayr – Gary Laird

Prestwick – Mel Travis

Carrick – Sarah Boyd

Girvan – Hannah Allan

Marr – Morgan Stones / Danielle Duffy (supporting)

Kyle – Danielle Duffy

Queen Margaret – Fiona Normansell

If you have any questions, ideas, suggestions or concerns in regards 1+2 please contact your Development Officer and we will be happy to assist you in whichever way we can.

This session the 1+2 team have been working on many different projects including the Confucius Classroom and transition events.  We have also been updating French planners, creating Spanish planners (still on-going) and visiting our cluster schools. We have also delivered new resources to all of our primary schools too.

Mr Laird

The pupils at Cairn Primary in Maybole have been learning about the Olympics in French. They were reading about Pierre de Coubertin and they were also learning how to say and write the Olympic sports in French.

The children were surprised by how many sports were written the same way in French and English such as le football, le rugby, le golf and le badminton. The older pupils were also able to work out other sports by linking their knowledge of their own language (English) and applying it when reading French. They could, for example, work out that le cyclisme was cycling and that les sports aquatiques were water sports.

Bravo everyone!

One of the Primary 5 classes in Dalmilling Primary has teamed up with a school in Poland and another in Barcelona to take part in an E-twinning project called “European Friends.”  For this project, the pupils have created a PowerPoint of information about themselves, which they have subsequently shared with their project partners. The P5 class were very excited when they were able to read all about pupils from the other two schools and they then used Google Earth to see both schools up closer.  We hope that there will be more correspondence between the three schools soon.

Mr Laird

Over the past 2 weeks, the pupils in some of the classes in Grammar Primary have been learning more family member vocabulary and practicing their counting and maths skills in French! They have been playing a game called 100 points, where each given family member is assigned a total number of points each round. The pupils then had to keep a running total of their points to see whether they reached the magic “cent points” by the end of the game.

Well done to all for the fantastic French counting and the lovely written French too!

Mr Laird