Author: Mrs Mooney

L.I.

To explore the term ‘online identity’.

S.C.

I can discuss my online identity and how I present myself online.

As part of Internet Safety week, P4 explored who they are online.  This included through profile pictures they have chosen, usernames, or the characters or avatars they like to use in games and how they choose what these look like.

Pupils completed an identity wheel to record how they represent themselves online without using their names.   The wheels were then shuffled and redistributed to allow pupils to explore how safe each method was.

For Maths Week we have been learning about area.  The children have been learning to count squares and parts of squares to find the area of a 2d shape.  Pupils then drew a plan of a Celtic roundhouse onto squared paper and counted the squares to find the area, before adding more of the internal details to their plan.

We were also lucky enough to have a visit from Sarah-Jane who came in to talk to the children about her experience of excavating a Celtic roundhouse.  The children were able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of The Celts during discussions with Sarah-Jane and were also able to ask questions.  They had the opportunity to look at photographs of excavations and explore the different types of materials and artefacts that would have been found.

On Friday, during together time, a group of children decided that they would create a club of their own called the Creativity Club.  They created a chant for their club and performed it together.  They also thought about sustainability and decided to create pictures using pencil shavings from sharpened pencils based on an activity that had been done at a group attended by one of the children.  The boys decided to draw pictures of aliens.

In Primary 4 the children explored the Rights of Children and considered which ones were more relevant to a classroom environment to include in our class charter.  They also reflected on our school rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe in order to generate ideas for what the pupils would agree to do and what the adults should do to ensure that everyone’s rights were met.  The pupils contributed ideas for how the charter would be displayed, then a vote was held to vote for their favourite idea.  The idea with the most votes was a rocket with astronauts.  However, we still had a problem with how to display their names.  Fortunately, they quickly came up with the idea that the astronauts could have flags with their names on them, like the ones used on moon landings.