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P1 Exploring Sculpture-Making
P1W hard at work exploring Artstraws and joining these
with paper, paint, pipe cleaners and fasteners to create 3-D artworks. Exploring the art materials with freedom is the key.
Some of the children worked in teams.
Please bring in messy art clothes as soon as possible. Fun art can be messy!
P6 French vocabulary
P6 have been learning French vocabulary we learned the days of the week and the month. Monday – lundi, Tuesday- mardi, Wednesday- mercredi, Thursday – jeudi, Friday – vendredi, Saturday – samedi and Sunday is dimanche. Those are the days of the week in French. Here are the months January – Janvier, February – Février, May – Mars, April – Avril, May – Mai, June – Juin, July – Juillet, August- Août, September- Septembre, October – Octobre, November- Novembre and December is Décembre. These French words will help us if we ever go on holiday to France and also we can talk in French to our class mates and teachers. Here are some extra words. How are you – Comment allez-vous, What day is it – Quel jour est-il, What time is it – Quelle heure est-il and what is for dinner – Qu’est-ce qu’on mange. We also learned some other words such as can I go to the toilet.
Written by Alicia,Iona and Caitlin
Digital Manipulation
On the 18th of May P6 started to do digital manipulation which means when you take a picture of still life and then turn it to black and white. We took some pictures of outside and then we took some of people. We used an app called Snapseed to change the fond of the picture.
Here’s some examples of some photos we took.
West Lothian Triathlon
Yesterday, over 40 pupils from P5, P6 and P7 took part in the West Lothian Triathlon at Deans CHS. Pupils had to swim, cycle and run through a course laid out by a team of brilliant volunteers, high school students and members of Active Schools and Triathlon Scotland. In all, hundreds of pupils took part throughout the day. By all accounts, it was a fantastic time. The pupils really enjoyed the opportunity to take part in something totally different to what they had previously experienced. Staff and parent helpers were so impressed with the level of determination and enthusiasm shown by the pupils and also the confidence to have a go at something new. Well done to everyone involved. Bring on next year’s event!
P1P get Digital! #NDLW18
As part of National Digital Learning Week P1P have been using digital technologies to enhance their learning accross the curriculum.
We started the week with a fantastic session from P7. We were introduced and shown how to use VR Headsets! We were able to explore emersive virtual tours of castles which linked brilliantly with our Castle IDL context. P1P loved how the VR Headsets made them feel like they were really in different locations. We also used Purple Mash to digitally paint castle related images using different textures.
We have continued to share our learning on our class Sways that you can find on the blog and our twitter. In class, we independently scanned QR codes linked to our Sways to recap and discuss our previous learning experiences. We love looking at pictures from our previous lessons.
The Technical Troopers also visited our class to introduce us to a new app ‘Puppet Pals’. We loved animating the different characters and adding our own pictures and voices to our stories. Some of us were able to record our digital puppets and show it the rest of the class through mirroring on our Promethean Board.
This week we have also continued to develop our reading skills on Teach Your Monster to Read, practise our numeracy and maths on Sumdog and explore coding on Scratch JR.
Digital Learning Week in Primary 6
This week in Primary 6, we have been taking part in Digital Learning Week. We have trying out a variety of resources for practising coding, a key part of the Technologies curriculum. Examples of the activities pupils took part in include creating their own games using visual programming language and designing a new Google logo.
A list of resources is given below to allow pupils to carry on their learning at home. This list is also on the P6 Yammer page.
Carry on coding!
https://www.codeforlife.education/rapidrouter/
Code for Life – Rapid Router
www.codeforlife.education
1: Can you help the van get to the house? 2: This time the house is further away. 3: Can you make the van turn right? 4: You are getting good at this!
Scratch – Imagine, Program, Share
scratch.mit.edu
Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
Learn – Hour of Code
hourofcode.com
Try a one-hour tutorial designed for all ages in over 45 languages. Join millions of students and teachers in over 180 countries starting with an Hour of Code.
https://studio.code.org/s/express
Code.org
studio.code.org
Express Course Learn the basics of computer science and internet safety. At the end of the course, create your very own game or story you can share.
Tutorials for Scratch:
https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/scratch/
Modules – Code Club
codeclubprojects.org
Scratch. Learn how to program your own interactive stories, games and animations.
P7/6 Digital Learning
As part of digital learning week, we had a choice from a range of new digital skills to learn. As a class we opted to improve our coding skills. Our technical troopers Zack and Ben gave us a demonstration and explained to us about different things we could do, when programming games. We had great fun coding new games and pictures.
‘We had fun teaching people things about scratch that they did not already know. We taught them how to properly code things. Feel free to share what you learnt at class at home’. – Zack and Ben
Letter for P7s starting at WCHS in August 2018
A paper copy has been sent home with pupils today too.
JYHS Transition reminder
- For pupils going to James Young High School from August 2018
Thursday 17th May – Health Day. Pupils should arrive at JYHS for 9.30am, dressed and ready in PE kit and suitable footwear. Outside jackets may be required as some activities will be outside. (It is preferable that they arrive dressed in PE kit, although there will be changing rooms available).
Pupils must all take a packed lunch as they will not be able to purchase food from the school dinner hall that day.
The event will end at 2.30pm.
Pupils should make their own way to and from JYHS.
EE2 forms should be completed and handed to Miss Smith (Mid Calder PS PSW) on arrival at JYHS. We will arrange for any medication to be at the school that day too and it will be back at Mid Calder PS on Friday morning.
Thank you for your continued support.
