This video shows pupils from Edinbarnet Primary School playing some playground games which are played in Scottish Schools.
Category Archives: Edinbarnet
Edinbarnet at Scottish Learning Festival
Pupils and Teachers from Edinbarnet Primary delivered a presentation at the Scottish Learning Festival. Visitors to the West Dumbartonshire Council stand were shown how pupils create computer games using a program called ‘2DoItYourself’ on their Toshiba Netbooks. Many of the games were designed to help other pupils learn Gaelic. We hope to have some sample games on the blog soon so watch this space …………………………….
Gaelic Audio Recordings
These audio recordings have been made by Mrs Kerr who teaches in Edinbarnet Primary School.
They have been divided into topics and each recording is made up of a series of paired words, the Gaelic word followed by its English equivalent.
Clothes – Clothes
Colours – Colours
Days, Seasons and Months – Days Seasons Months
Family Names – Family Names
Food – Food
Pets – Pets
Phrases – Phrases
Place Names – Place Names
Time – Time
Weather – Weather
Animation of Eilidh Drawing
In this animation, the drawing of Eilidh is animated to an audio sample of a young American girl talking about the Crazytalk software.
Animation of Calum drawing using CrazyTalk
The crazytalk software was used to animate existing still drawings.
In this example the cartoon drawing of the primary pupil, Calumn has been animted in time with a spoken message which was recorded by a pupil.
Flash Game – Gaelic Numbers 0-8
In this game, you need to match numbers with words. The difficult part is that the words are in Gaelic.
The game is based on a card gamed called ‘Pairs’ or ‘Pelmanism’.
You turn over two cards which you think match. If you match a correct pair of cards, they will disappear otherwise they will turn back over and stay as part of the game.
The game is finished when all the cards are gone.
Click here to start.
Flash Game – Gaelic Quiz
In this short quiz, there are 8 small pictures.
Behind each picture is a question anout it and you had better know your Gaelic!
Click here to play a Gaelic Quiz.
Edinbarnet Dancers
These dances were performed by pupils from Edinbarnet Primary School during the visit by teachers from El Prat de Llobrega.
