We recently completed our latest Mission from the Children’s Parliament. It was based around Safety and Security. We revised what ‘data’ is, the different ‘types’ of data there can be and how it is used in AI systems.
We then thought about our rights and how this relates to safety and security with AI. We talked about online gaming and the importance of keeping data safe to protect their right to play and privacy. We discussed sharing locations online and talked about safety in relation to this too.
Our next task was to try to guess the identity of a mystery YouTube channel user based on their recommendation homepage. They had to consider what this person may like, where they might live, how old they are etc… For this activity, we needed to think like AI and to have respectful and fair ideas about this person. We are hoping to hear more about the mystery user when our Investigators have their online call next week!
Our final task was a craft based one. We each got a wooden house to decorate. The outside needed to reflect information they’d be happy to share with the world! Within the inside of the house, they were to write, draw or symbolise pieces of information that should only be shared with family and friends.
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It’s been a week full of active learning and creativity this week!
In Art with Ms Burr, the children have been painting butterflies from the rainforest. They have been thinking about the colours they see in nature and recreating this in their work. They have been working with concentration and care. We have also created beautiful Christmas card designs which you’ll be able to see when you visit for your parent appointment shortly!
In Topic work this week, Mrs Henderson found an active way to help illustrate how food webs work.
We had another visit from Gregory and Frances from the Children’s Parliament who came to meet our new P4/5 pupils who have joined our class and introduce them to the work they do and to begin talking about AI. There were, as always, some great ‘Getting To Know You’ games and we spoke some more about the UNCRC.
We were delighted to receive our MCP lanyards!
Getting To Know You Paper bag introductions!
Group work is at the centre of all that we do in the Children’s Parliament. In groups, we had to choose an animal and think of statements about it that would allow the rest of the class to guess our creature. We had to agree on the animal and statements before ordering these from most difficult to easiest.
In groups, we drew around a life-size body and wrote inside it about the kind of person we’d like to be and our hopes and dreams and how we’d get there in the future. Again, team work, discussion, listening and sharing was needed to make this task a success.
Then we started to think more about AI and where it can be found in daily life. We also recapped on how data is collected for AI and introduced our new pupils to the ‘Cleaning Up The Ocean’ online game.
On Thursday, Gregory returned to help us think more about fairness in AI. He gave us a challenge! A school has over 300 pupils and for the upcoming day trip to the Golf Course, there can only be 100 children chosen! Who gets to go? We were introduced to coding using ‘Python’ which uses simple words and numbers to instantly sort and analyse data.
The challenge was to build an algorithm that decides who gets to go on the trip by using a points system. Points had to be allocated under certain headings – pupils who are always late, those with best behaviour, age of pupil, those performing best in a test etc. When the numbers were input, the computer made the decision for each pupil as to how many points they were rewarded.
After a list of names was produced and we found out who the 100 tickets would go to, we then heard about some of the personal stories behind the pupils. This made us realise that selecting pupils in this way was unfair and sometimes, you need to know more information. Our investigators will pass on our thoughts at their next online meeting.
Thursday afternoon saw us drumming with Joy again and I was so impressed with how quickly the class have built up some complicated rhythms and combining these together. I love watching the concentration on the faces as the pupils follow Joy’s lead!
Friday saw us learning about the Spanish Armada and the wreck of the El Gran Grifon which sank off Fair Isle in 1588. This gave us some background knowledge before listening to music from this period of time from the Chroma Music Group.
The afternoon saw Nora and her violin and Rory with his accordion, creating music with others pupils while we learned a dance in the hall. It was a war dance between the Spaniards and Elizabethans. It was a very different and enjoyable Friday afternoon!
Over the past few weeks, P4/5 have been working together to create our class charter. We looked together at the Articles listed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and picked out four that we felt were important for our class. We chose Non Discrimination…Be Ourselves, Be Respectful, Be Safe and Be Healthy.
Our next job was to identify our responsible behaviours under each heading. Once agreed, we voted on a theme to display our charter and the most popular idea was a Rainforest theme!
It would be really great if you could spend time talking through the responsible behaviours we have decided on at home too.
Be Ourselves
We understand that we all have similarities and we will respect our differences too.
Be ourselves…don’t change being you for other people!
Take interest in everyone and what they like to do.
Include everyone!
Be Respectful
Be kind and fair to everyone.
Listen to all ideas, even if different from your own.
Talk in a polite way to everyone.
Treat others how you would like to be treated.
Be Healthy
Keep our brains active and our ideas healthy.
Let staff know how we are feeling.
We will notice if our classmates are struggling and help.
Be active!
Be Safe
Use equipment at school sensibly.
Wear a seat belt on the bus.
Follow all the school rules.
Treat others with care.
The Duty Bearers were also given a set of responsibilities too. The children felt these were important to include.
Encourage us.
Help us to sort out any problems we have.
Help us in a small group if we find something tricky.
Take us to new places and let us try fun activities indoors and outside.
This week saw our final online call with the Children’s Parliament, Alan Turing Institute and our fellow pupils at Oakwood, Doune and St Mary’s. It was a very positive call where achievements were recognised and celebrated. The Investigators had to think about what they had got better at by being an Investigator, what surprised them about their time as an Investigator and what they were most proud of. They then had to be creative, showing their thoughts in drawing form. (See Self Portraits below)
Sharing our ideas and thoughts during the meeting this week.
The Investigators for 22/23 are now in discussions as to how they can support the new Investigators for the next school year. We are currently thinking about who this could be and how we can involve past, present and incoming pupils in our AI work in the future. There are some exciting plans afoot so please look out for more details in August!
If you have not had a chance already to view the final report for the year, please see below.
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Mrs Henderson and I would like to thank you all for the amazing support you showed us at our class Assembly today! It was so lovely to have our families in again to share, and celebrate, our learning. We are so proud of the Draatsi class for their hard work and continued enthusiasm throughout the year, on what has been an exciting opportunity. We hope that this came across in their presentations today. Please look out for the Children’s Parliament video that will be shared with you shortly. As well as footage from the AI Summit, there will be clips and interviews that our pupils took part in when our class was taken over by Gregory and his team.
If you have any feedback following today’s Assembly, we’d love it if you could leave us a comment.
Sorry for only a few photos. I was too taken up with enjoying the moment! P4/5/6 … you have done yourselves very proud!
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