Our P6 and 7 Sportshall athletes went to the Gytes on Wednesday to compete in the local competition. All the children represented Kingsland very well and we came a close 2nd to Priorsford. Both schools are now through to the next round, which will be in late January. Well done to all of you for your fantastic sportsmanship.
As part of our work for Book Week Scotland a couple of weeks ago, Primary 7A made story cubes for the Primary ones. Last Thursday we worked in groups with pairs of P1 pupils to use these story cubes to make up fantastic tales together. We had lots of fun and then acted out the stories and finished off by reading some books together.
P7 are now going to use the ideas from P1 to make their own books to share at a later date.
Among this week’s highlights for P7A were making story cubes for the P1s, creating rainforest animals out of clay and our Prefect Break where superb sporting attitudes were demonstrated by all participants.
What was your best bit of the week?
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P7A have had quite a creative week this week. We collaborated on an image for the Whole School story about Harry the Hedgehog and are really pleased with how it turned out. Each individual part of this image was created on our own iPads using Sketches School and then we used Instant Alpha in keynote to remove the background so the images could be layered on top of each other to create one big picture.
We also made some fabulous mixed media artwork of rainforest macaws. We used glue spreaders instead of brushes to add texture to the feathers and then added detail with coloured pencils, oil pastels or felt pens.
1) Name one thing you have found challenging this week. What did you do or what do you still need to help you tackle it?
2) Name one thing you have worked hard on this week. Why are you proud of it?
We’ve had a great week in P7A and everyone has been really settled and working hard!
We’ve continued our learning about Rainforests, learned about Remembrance, tried some new trick and tips for getting the most from our iPads and began work on Division and Pie charts.
We decided to do our individual reviews in a different way this week so here are a few of our Sketch Notes with some of our highlights:
One of the highlights for P7A this week was watching the live streaming of The Lorax from The Old Vid on Tuesday. This was a special screening for schools linked to COP26 and we enjoyed watching it.
We also created a special Goodbye assembly for Mrs Ward which we shared with all the classes. This was another Dr Seuss related task as we re-wrote the words to one of her favourite stories and illustrated it using the Sketches App and ideas from Dr Seuss characters. The finished product was uploaded to iMovie and also made into an ebook for Mrs Ward to keep.
We also worked in groups on presentations about rainforest plants this week. It was really fun to collaborate on the same Keynote file on our individual iPads and then create one shared piece of work which we could present to the class on the Smartboard.
We couldn’t do gymnastics on Thursday so Mrs Little taught us a new game in the MUGA called Hula Hut. It was a cold day but we kept active to stay warm!
Time for Reflection:
Friday 29th October was a day of fun Halloween themed activities in P7A complete with:
The upper stages teachers got into the spirit and dressed up as characters from the Teletubbies! They certainly brightened up a dreary, wet day!
It’s been a short but busy week!
We had our Live Coding lesson on Tuesday and have been continuing working on our App designs each afternoon. We now know how to link icons to different slides in Keynote to make our Prototype ‘work’ like a real App. We’ve used some other coding apps too and Mrs Little had a very exciting evening chatting about Coding with Tim Cook from Apple!
We have also been working on some illustrations for a special project – more information on this soon.
What an afternoon! Kingsland were delighted to host Paul and Andrew from Inspire Learning for a Live Lesson on Coding to begin our learning for Europe Code Week. All of the P4-7 classes joined live from their classrooms along with at least 60 other classes from Primary Schools across the Borders!
The theme for the day was designing an App that could be used by many people with Inclusivity as a key focus. After Paul talked us through the initial part of the task, P7A and Mrs Little were delighted to share some of their ideas LIVE on with all the other pupils and schools. A HUGE well done to all the pupils who spoke and shared their work.We gave a big shout out to all the other classes at Kingsland who we know were also producing some great ideas and were rewarded with a huge cheer!
Then it was time to get down to the task properly. We learned how real App designers Prototype their ideas before they get to the coding stage. We did this using Keynote on our iPads and are looking forward to learning how to add hyperlinks in our next lesson. There is a competition across the Borders for the best Prototype Design which excited a lot of pupils!
Highlights of the week:
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