Bellsquarry Primary School

Primary 4 have been using their Glow accounts and Yammer to start our online learning group. Yammer is a great site, that is closely monitored by our West Lothian IT team, where pupils and staff can share ideas and learning. It’s also a fantastic, safe way to introduce pupils to social media. Here are the rules we’ve created…

– Only say/post things you would happily say or show in front of our headteacher

– Don’t write about anyone else

– Ask questions or for advice/recommendations

– Keep it about learning

– Always re-read your post before you post it

– Remember that everything that goes online stays online

We can mostly all now use an individual log in, create a new password, use the Office 365 ‘waffle’ to navigate to an app we want to use, search for a group, join a group, post a question or comment and use a GIF to support our ideas. As always, there have been a few ICT hiccups along the way but we’ll hopefully all be Glowing very very soon!!!!

Primary 2’s had a very good assembly on Friday ( sorry forgot to take photographs). All the children performed very well. Lauren introduced our little programme, Jack and Lochlan spoke about the stars. Ollie introduced the songs Catch A Falling Star and The Owl. Mattie introduced our Nocturnal Animals and all managed to speak on their separate animals which they had researched for homework. Well done to all the children!

Also thanks to all parents and carers who came to the Christmas Fayre and bought the little oranges and cloves which the children had made. Traditional crafts are nice to have at Christmas time.