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Anytime Anywhere Learning, Maths & Numeracy, Nursery

Nursery Number Walks

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I can recognise numbers in the environment around me and I can talk about why they are important.

The nursery boys and girls have been learning more about numbers in the environment. At home they worked with their mummy’s and daddy’s to take photos of the numbers they saw at home and why those numbers were important. The children could tell us that buses have different numbers because they go different ways, everyone needs a different phone number and the houses on their street all have different numbers so the postman knows where to go!

The children decided that they wanted to go on a number hunt around the school! They were amazed at how many numbers they found. The children took photos with the ipads and have been trying to recognise the  numbers in the photos now they are back in the nursery. Thank you for all your help when we came over to visit your classrooms boys and girls. We really enjoyed it.

 

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.

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.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Expressive Arts, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 5, Technologies

Touching tales of tsunami survivors

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We are learning to write an interview with a survivor of a tsunami.

Success Criteria:
I can use features specific to interviews including:
-an introduction to set the scene of the interview
-the name of the person speaking on the left, followed by a colon
-relevant and appropriate questions and responses
-a new line for each speaker
-adjectives to describe the feelings and emotions of the survivor
I can use question marks correctly

This week, our IDL lessons have focused on the natural disaster, tsunamis. We learned all about the key features of a tsunami including how it is caused and how it can affect the land and population. We then used our own and the school devices to research the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, collating and sharing our notes on our P5B class OneNote. We demonstrated our developing skills of writing in our own words and using bullet points to organise our notes, as well as learning how to insert a picture into our section of the OneNote.

Now knowing about the devastation that the Boxing Day tsunami caused, we watched an interview with one of the survivors that the film ‘The Impossible’ was based on. We learned all about her terrifying experience then looked at other examples of interviews, learning about the layout and important punctuation that we had to include. We used all of this knowledge to write our own interviews with a survivor of a tsunami.

When we were finished, we presented our interviews to an audience using our drama skills of expression, volume, pace and tone to portray appropriate feelings and emotions of the survivors.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Information for Parents, Primary 5, Primary 7, Technical Troopers, Technologies

Bring Your Own Device Update

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This week, the Technical Troopers met to discuss the use of Bring Your Own Device in MCPS to find out what is going well and what can still be improved. As we are still in the trial phrase of Bring Your Own Device, we have decided to allow children in P5-7 who have a signed BYOD contract to use their own device during Free Time Friday. The Technical Troopers brainstormed the benefits and possible problems that could occur with this, and also discussed the possible consequence of the contract being broken during Free Time Friday.

We decided that all of the details outlined in our Responsible Use contract will still stand. This will be reviewed regularly to ensure that our pupils, staff and devices remain safe. You can see a copy of our Responsible Use contract here. If you would like your child to engage with Bring Your Own Device, copies of the contract can be obtained from the class teachers in P5-7.

In addition to this, and following on from our taster session from Google at the end of last term, we have recently purchased a set of 10 Virtual Reality headsets. These can be used with most smart phones using the ‘Expeditions’ app. Google Expeditions takes children on virtual trips all over the world, allowing them get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks and even visit outer space! This is an exciting new use of Bring Your Own Device that we are looking forward to exploring.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, English & Literacy, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 5, Uncategorized

Horrible Hurricane Histories in P5B

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We are learning to research a significant natural disaster from throughout history.

Success Criteria:
I can identify reliable websites and understand when a website is trying to influence me
I can organise my notes under appropriate headings
I can summarise my findings using my own words
I can use my notes to contribute to a class OneNote

As part of our IDL context, Natural Disasters, this week Primary 5B have been learning all about hurricanes, tornadoes and cyclones. First of all, we learned that the main difference between these weather phenomenons is the location where the storm is formed. Next, we used our own and the school devices to research a well known hurricane in pairs, taking notes on our findings.

We also used our findings to contribute to a class OneNote, where we had to input the cost of damage caused by our hurricane, and the number of lives lost in the disaster. We then used the data handling skills we have been learning in our maths lessons to transfer this information into a pie chart and a bar chart using Purple Mash. We posted our charts onto our Natural Disasters Yammer page.

We then brought all of this information together to write a newspaper article about our hurricane. We imagined that the disaster had just happened and we had been given the job to tell the world about it.


What a whirlwind of a week for P5B!

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Events, Primary 5, Primary 7, Technologies

Google Virtual Reality Expedition

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Today, P5-7 had a very exciting visit from Google Virtual Reality experts who took us on amazing 3D journeys using the Google Expeditions app. As reading is a whole school focus this session, our experience was centred around the life and works of Roald Dahl. We used our Virtual Reality glasses to explore the film set of Fantastic Mr Fox, the place where he used to write some of his books, his old classroom and the crash sight of the plane accident he was involved in. The buzz and excitement about using this technology was electric, and we’re looking forward to using Bring Your Own Device to explore its possibilities in the new year.