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Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Internet Safety, Nursery, Technologies, Uncategorized

Safer Internet Day

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On Safer Internet Day 2017, P1 were developing their understanding of what is meant by personal information. They were also learning that this information is private and should be kept safe.

SC  I can give examples of what personal information is
I can make choices about the information I share with others

We began by looking at some photographs, and we were amazed at how many clues we could get about something or someone just by looking at a photograph. We started thinking about the kind of information we could see, and realised that we have similar information about ourselves – name, age, address, school etc. In small groups we discussed whether other people, especially people we don’t know, should know this kind of information about us. We decided they should not. This personal information should be private. To consolidate our thinking, we then worked together to sort some photographs into two hoops – personal information that should be kept private, or information that could be shared. Lots of good discussion could be heard as we worked on this task.

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Later, we made an ‘All About Me’ poster showing information about ourselves that we were happy to share with others eg my favourite colour, my favourite book etc. We all remembered not to put any private information on our poster, and we were all happy to show our posters to each other.

Maths & Numeracy, Primary 1, Uncategorized

P1 Counting

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We are learning to skip count.

SC  I can count forwards and backwards in twos

After reading the story of The King’s Socks, we each designed a pair of socks as a birthday gift for the King. We used stripes and spots to create patterns. We also learnt that a pair means there are two of something, and they are the same.

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Next, we sorted a big pile of real socks into pairs. Then we used them to help us count in twos. We counted all the way to 10 and then to 20. Counting back was quite tricky, but we will keep practising!

 

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Internet Safety, Primary 1, Primary 2, Technologies, Uncategorized

P2/1 Internet Safety Day

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As part of Internet Safety Day P2/1 explored 5 different questions:

  • How do we get on to the internet?
  • What can we do on the internet?
  • What passwords do we use?
  • Why is a password important?
  • How can we keep our passwords safe?

We explored the questions in group, and then made a poster. we presented our ideas to the rest of our class.

Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Drama in P7/6

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LI: We are learning to use a range of drama conventions to explore themes such as hopes, fears and desires.

SC: I can discuss what an issue might be.

I can say how a character might be feeling.

I can demonstrate how a character might be feeling.

Last week we used role play to explore issues as a starting point for our story writing.

Children worked in small groups and each group were given a scenario card. The children then had to think about and discuss the characters involved in the scenario, how they might be feeling and how they might demonstrate their feelings through what they say, tone of their voice and their expressions. Once the individual groups had developed their scenes we all got together to perform our drama for the rest of the class. Each group did extremely well in demonstrating their feelings and thoughts through the conventions of drama and the other children were able to guess what the issue was. I’m sure we have a few budding actors and actresses in our class.

Our drama lesson will now help us when we start to write our story about our chosen issue.

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Events, Internet Safety, Internet Safety, Primary 5, Technologies

Safer Internet Day in P5B

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To mark Safer Internet Day 2017, Primary 5B have been learning about the power of sharing images online. We watched a video which challenged our thinking about first impressions of images, and encouraged us to think that there can be more than meets the eye with pictures we see online. We looked at a range of different images and were asked if we thought they were real or fake. This proved to be harder than we thought it would be!

Next, we were given a range of scenarios and asked to react in a freeze frame. We had to explain our reactions, giving real life examples if we could, as well as sharing how these made us feel.


Finally, we took part in a game of Emoji Charades where we had to share a top tip about how to make the internet a better place using only emojis. Can you guess our top tips?

English & Literacy, Primary 3, Uncategorized

Primary 3 design a menu for our Burns Supper!

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Last week Primary 3 created a menu for our Burns Supper. We had so much fun making and tasting Tattie soup and Cranachan that we decided to put it on our menu!

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a menu.

Success Criteria:

Stars writing group-

  • I can give my menu a title.
  • I can make sure my menu has three courses.
  • I can write the name of each course for our Burns Supper.
  • I can use neat handwriting. and correct spelling.

Comets and Rockets writing groups-

  • I can give my menu a title.
  • I can make sure my menu has three courses.
  • I can write the name of each course for our Burns Supper.
  • I can write a description of each course.
  • I can check my writing makes sense.

We created lovely menus with lots of description of the yummy food we will taste at our Burns Supper. Some of us even added some fancy decoration to our menus!

Star writers-

Stars: Liam Logan

Rockets: Ellie Turner

Comets: Euan Scott

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Free Time Friday, Primary 5, Technologies

BYOD @ Free Time Friday

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For the last two weeks, we have been trialling the use of our own devices during Free Time Friday. In the middle area, we have used this opportunity to explore the use of our new Virtual Reality headsets, to create fact sheets about our IDL topic, to use Google Earth to locate volcanoes, and to play Sumdog.

You can see a copy of our Responsible Use contract for Bring Your Own Device here. If you would like your child to engage with BYOD, copies of the contract can be obtained from the class teachers in P5-7.