To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Ben Lawers took part in an investigation into Fake News. We looked at how to spot Fake News and which sources of information a reliable. We also had a go at creating our own Fake News stories, to see if we could fool our classmates.
This term in Bluebell, we have been looking at how we can build our resilience through purposeful play and discussions about “bounce-backability”. This week we tested our resilience by trying to lift a plastic cup without touching it.
We had to lift a cup by only using string and an elastic band without touching the cup. To be successful, everyone had to work together and try different strategies until we found one that worked. It was very tricky but when we worked together we managed to do it.
It was such a fun activity to do together.
This week we have been learning about Fairtrade and cocoa farmers for our explanation writing. We learned about a group of farmers called the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, which consists of approximately 65,000 farmers.
We learned what Fairtrade is and how it works. Fairtrade gives different farmers (for example banana, coffee and cocoa farmers) a fair price for their products. We made lots of notes about the different stages of cocoa bean farming and worked in pairs or independently to make a colourful and informative leaflet. We also used our genre targets to make sure that our writing followed the correct structure, used complex connectives amongst other things to make our writing as informative as possible. We also got to taste some Fairtrade chocolate and bananas to compare them to non-Fairtrade products.
All in all, it was very fun and interesting to learn about this topic.
Please note that the online surgery tomorrow evening has been cancelled. The next online surgery will be on 18th April.
Dundee clan have immersed themselves in all things non-fiction. We have been looking at non-fiction books and texts and exploring the features of these compared to fiction books. We have begun learning about how to write an information report and explored examples of this type of text finding out about the purpose, the sections that make up an information text and what the purpose of these sections are. We will continue to explore this over the weeks ahead. We have also started our new class novel ‘Rivet Boy’ which is based in the past, at the time of the construction of the Forth Rail bridge which links to our IDL learning about the Victorians and engineering.
We really enjoyed learning about jobs that children did in the Victorian times. We learnt about the types of jobs they were expected to do for little money and with no safety laws. We were very shocked at some of the information we learnt. We had a go at putting ourselves in the children’s shoes by taking part in a ‘Hot-Seating’ Task. This is where the children pretend that they are a child from the past and the rest of the group or clan ask questions about what life is like for them in the Victorian times and what it is like to work. The children were very believable in their roles and got a real feel for what it must have been like for children in those times.
We have also really enjoyed learning our example information report text about ‘firefighters’. We used visual pictures to support us learning the text and came up with some amazing actions to go with it and we all were able to say the text. The whole clan loved learning this and are looking forward to learning more about this type of writing and having a go ourselves.
Aberdeen Clan are learning to compare our modern lives with the lives of children in the Victorian era. We learned that many children had to work to support their families during this time and we looked at the different jobs a Victorian child may have had to do. We then each had a chance to sit on the “hot seat” where we had to act as though we were a working child from the past and answer questions from our peers. We loved getting into character but we agreed that we would rather be in school!
Dundee clan have been learning about how to stay safe online. This week we took part in a live online lesson by BBC Teach for Safer Internet Day. We became digital detectives and explored the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence. The aim of the lesson was to support us in navigating our online world safely.
We learnt about:
Keeping our personal information private.
How to report concerns about content and contact, identify and assess risks and take steps to reduce them.
Use digital technologies to search, access and retrieve information and be aware that not all of this information will be credible.
Know how to ask for help when we need it from people they trust.
Be aware how to keep ourselves safe and secure
We were very surprised to learn that not all information on the internet is true. We have to look-out for fake sites and information and now know to check information to ensure it is correct.
We created online posters to display our top tips to help others.
Hello Folks!
In Stirling clan we have been exploring how to keep ourselves safe online.
We set out the following goals:
We discussed how we use technology and the internet and voted for our favourite things to do, gaming and watching videos came out on top!
We then watched these clips:
Sharing Pictures (6 minutes)
Playing Games (9 minutes 15)
Both films available here: Jessie Friends videos (thinkuknow.co.uk)
This prompted a clan discussion around what rules we could have to make sure we are always safe when using the internet. We came up with the following rules:
1
People you don’t know are strangers.
When you are online or playing a game people are not always who they say they are.
2
Be nice to people.
Be as nice as you would be if you were in school or playing together.
3
Keep your personal information private.
Don’t tell people online where you live or the school you go to.
Never take a photo of you and send it to a stranger, even if they ask. Photos are also private.
4
If you ever get that feeling in your body that tells you something isn’t right, maybe you feel a bit worried, then tell an adult you trust.
We decided we wanted to create posters to remind of our rules in a fun and interesting way. We chose some posters to stay in our clan and then delivered other posters to P1-3 for them to use in their ICT areas.
Aberdeen clan celebrated Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 6th February. We watched a BBC Live Lesson which focused on technology of the future and provided an insight into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We were amazed by the concept of driverless cars! We made notes and then created posters to share our new knowledge.
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