Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) parent information session. For those who were unable to attend, here is the PowerPoint that some of our Technical Troopers, Pupil Council and House Captains brilliantly presented. Thank you to those pupils for giving up their time to share our BYOD journey so far.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/aal-and-byod-parent-information
LI: We are learning to use a simple map with a key and symbols.
SC: I understand the concept and function of a map.
SC: I understand the use of symbols and a key.
SC: I can transfer information on a map to reality.
Last week, both Primary 1 classes started to explore positional and directional language, and enjoyed creating and navigating simple mazes.
This afternoon, we went outside to progress our learning in the sunshine. After discussing our prior experiences with maps, we talked about their features and clarified how to use a key with symbols.
In small groups, the children then had to work collaboratively to recreate a ‘funny face’ using a map with a key. This was even more challenging than the children first thought. Only one team member could move one object to the ‘face’ at a time. Furthermore they couldn’t bring the map with them, so they had to analyse the map very carefully before travelling to the ‘face’. Evie pointed out that it would have been much easier if they could just take the map with them!
We hope to apply our new mapping skills to increasingly challenging orienteering games during the next few weeks.
This afternoon P4 have been exploring Yammer, one of the services available from Glow. We have created a secure Yammer Group for our P4 Interdisciplinary Context for Learning – Project Planetarium. In this group Miss Burton uploaded photos from of our learning and we had to comment on our learning. We also uploaded our Tim Peake Biography’s and peer assessed them. We are excited about the possibilities of Yammer to help us share our learning and collaborate with each other.
In the nursery pond we had frogspawn. This has now hatched into tadpoles. We are very excited to discover what happens next. 
There was a lot of excitement in the upper area this morning as the Primary 6s found out their Responsible Roles which they will start in term 4 of P6 and into P7. Each Primary 6 pupil completed a job application form, which were of a very high standard and were then allocated an appropriate role dependent on their skills, qualities and experiences.
The Primary 7 pupils with the support of Miss Burton put together a training session for the new P6 Magical mediators. They started with a job description and an overview of what the job required. We then took part in a selection of community builders which helped us to focus on the skills and qualities needed to be a mediator, and which also put us in the role of the disputants. Following this we went through the 5 stages of a mediation and the Primary 7s showed us a mediation scenario, then we had time to try out our own scenarios with the Primary 7s supporting us. Finally we ended with a question and answer session, the Primary 7 pupils offered a lot of very useful advice.
Thank you so much to the Primary 7s for training us and we are looking forward to our work experience shadowing opportunity in the new term.
Here is the Magical Mediators training video that the P7s made:
A great time was had by all! It was very tiring! Thank you for all the sponsorship money.
This week we all went along to a STEM workshop in the hall. We took part in a series of differ Science experiments and challenges. One of the challenges involved making a bridge out of paper, in another challenge we put mints into coke and watched what happened. We all really enjoyed taking part in the different experiments and would like to thank the STEM junior leadership team for making this possible.
Mr Nelson.
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P5 had a fantastic morning at the Catapluf performance. We danced, clapped and smiled throughout! It definitely gave us the Friday feeling!
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