A huge thank you from Primary 2/1 goes to Ben’s Mum for her fantastic session about how she uses Digital Technology in her workplace as a Scientist.

We were so amazed by the whale bone ear model and all the slides about how she uses Google to help find ways of helping to make people better.

Thank you to Mr Reed who came in today to talk about how he uses all forms of technology in his job . We especially enjoyed the audio conference that he did with Mrs Wallace and Jack and Poppy and we enjoyed hearing Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star being sung by them down the telephone!!

-My book is called pig heart boy

-the author is called mallory Blackman

-Camaron has a faulty heart and needs a heart transplant

– the boy is Called Camaron

-he is 13 years old

WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT !!!!!!!!!

this book is about Camaron needing a heart transplant but the doctors don’t have enough human heart donors and can’t give him one but one day the doctors end up asking his parents if he could have a pig heart cause the where testing pig hearts and sujested that they should try it out so camoran gets a pig heart camarons mum and dad always fight , camaron tries to keep a secret about his heart but he can’t because he told one of his friends , camarons grandma is always there for him when his mum and dad fight / appears so that Camaron has a crush !!!!!!  But in the end the reader never finds out if camarons sibling is a boy or a girl because they are not born yet but I would give this book a 9 ot of 10 because it was actually quite interesting about the heart transplants and that Camaron had to have a pig heart …………

By Katie

Thank you to Eleanor’s dad who came in to talk to us about networks. He gave us a very interesting talk about how facetime works and all of the different networks that you use. We enjoyed how he made this very simple to understand and all of the different props that he brought in.

Thank you!

Today Kate’s Dad came to visit our class for Digital Learning Week. He gave an excellent demonstration about how Facetime/ Skype work and what happens to get it from here to Australia.

Here are some of the things we learned…

Gabrielle didn’t know that Facetime and Skype was lots of photos combined together to make a video and it was made up of 1s and 0s.

Simon learned that Peebles has its own router and so does lots of others places. It takes a picture half a blink to get to its destination. It moves very fast.

Archie learnt that lasers are inside the cables to bring the picture image across the World.

A huge thanks to Kate’s Dad for popping in. We certainly learned a lot.

What did you learn from this visit?

This week we have been busy in school taking part in lots of digital learning opportunities. We have

• taken part in a QR code scavenger hunt
• we worked with the P3/4 class to help them set up Sumdog profiles
• we have had parent visitors who have told us about how they use technology as part of their jobs. Mr Miln came today (Thursday)  and told us about networks and how a video call works, and Mr Reed is coming on Friday to talk about the use of technology at work and when working from home
• We have worked with P7a – we had eleven groups from each class, each with an ‘expert’ who could lead the session, and the groups shared some of their digital learning . The P6’s shared what they know about coding, and the P7’s shared the games they have created and how to make a game.

This week we have started P.L.A.Y. activities again as we really enjoyed this in block two. P.L.A.Y. is when we move around activities learning about different things to do with our topic.

Here is what we have been doing this week…

1. We have created a garden centre at the back of our classroom and we have used maths skills to work out change and amount of money as well as our topic learning to explain to customers what plant words mean and how plants grow. By Gabrielle and Owen

2. We have been writing about waking up in Iceland and have written pretend diaries based on opening our curtains to see amazing views across Iceland. We have been learning how to create atmosphere through details, good word choice and punctuation. By PJ and Toby

3. We have been making Northern Lights as they appear in Iceland. We have been learning about the skill of collage and how to overlap materials to create effects. By Jack

4. We have been looking at large numbers linked to facts in Iceland and we have compared these to other countries around the World who have visited Iceland. By Anna G

5. We have been finding out facts about Icelandic animals using topic books, fact sheets and computer searches. By James

What was your favourite thing in P.L.A.Y. this week?

Me Hala  , Amelia ,  and Hannah did a bake sale today !

It was in aid of the Little Princess Trust , which is a charity that helps people that have got cancer and the treatment they have to use makes their hair fall out,  so they make wigs for children . I donated 15 inches of my hair.

We managed to raise £67.32 and some of the teachers sponsored me as well so in total we raised around £110 which is huge !!!!!!!!!!

By Neve

1. I have been reading a book called A Horse called Hero
2. A Horse called Hero
3. In this book the first thing that happens is they get a Horse. Then the grandpa goes to war

4. Hero the horse he is brown , kind and obedient.

In our class we have made coats of arms . In medieval Britain the knights would of had these. They would wear them in battle or when jousting.

First we made a clay shield ,and then we stuck on our symbol . Some people made their symbol represent them ,while others imagined they were a knight in the middle ages . Then we let them dry for a few days and after that we painted them a base colour of white. The next day we painted them the colours they are now.

It was SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!!!!