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Developing the Young Workforce Week

Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is a programme organised by the Scottish Government  that aims to better prepare children and young people aged 3–18 for the world of work. Last week we held our annual DYW Week in order to share with our children different a range of types of jobs/ carers and the skills, qualifications and values you require to fulfill these roles.

This year we had a range of speakers and visitors from our local community and beyond. We also used a website called Founders4Schools and our contact Arlene Nicol from West Lothian DYW to find people to visit us.

Our visitors included:

  • Mrs Edwards ~ Team Building Skills
  • Mr Walker ~ 35 Cycles
  • Mrs Gent ~ Community Midwife
  • Mr Cecil ~ STEM East
  • Ms Haston ~ Archaeology
  • Alison & Rachel ~ Narnia Hair Design
  • Mr Fish ~ Fire fighter
  • Mr Wilson ~ Postman
  • Ms Szawlowska ~ Carer/ student
  • Mr Mitchell ~ PBC Foundation
  • Kristy & Dawn ~ Dawnfresh
  • Applied Science Students ~ West Lothian College
  • Mr Russell ~ Wright and Maclennan Ltd
  • Jenny Cambell ~ Resilience Engine

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who visited us and helped to make it such a huge success. Ms Haston organised for WL Courier to visit us … So watch this space!

The learning outcomes we explored during the week were:

Nursery – P1:

  • I can communicate with people about the different jobs they do in my community.
  • I can discuss some of the rewards that a job brings
  • I can role play different job roles.
  • I can develop ideas and take part in projects to make things.

P2-4:

  • I can describe different jobs in my community and some of the skills needed for these.
  • I can learn about the world of work from visits, projects and my experiences.
  • I can talk to employers about myself and about their workplace.
  • I can recognise that there are different ways to get a job.
  • I can talk about the types of jobs that interest me

P5-7:

  •  I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
  •  I can explain to others my ambitions/what I would like to do and look for ways to achieve them/that.
  • I can recognise the skills I have and need for work.
  • I can apply my skills to get more information about jobs/careers.
  • I can identify different types of enterprise opportunities and engage in them.

You can find out more about our DYW Week by visiting our blog.

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Primary 2 – DYW Photos

We got to meet lots of interesting people this week and learned lots about the different jobs they do!

On Tuesday, Mrs Edwards came in to develop our team-building skills! We had to work as groups to build different transport using only marshmallows and spaghetti! We then talked about what behaviours worked well for team-work (e.g. taking turns, good listening) and those which didn’t (e.g. people being left out). Thank you for coming to work with us!

Can you guess which form of transport each group made?

We also learned more this week about manufacturing, the different jobs a fire fighter has to do and the role of a midwife. Thank you to Kristy and Jane from Dawnfresh, Mr Fish and Mrs Gent for spending time with us!

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Primary 2

Digital Learning & DYW Week – ‘The Apprentice’ Challenge

What were we learning?

To create a solution for a design challenge.

How would we know if we were successful?

  • We would be able to work as a team to share ideas and make decisions fairly.
  • We would be able to make sketches of our ideas.
  • We would be able to use digital technology to create them.

What did we do?

We were challenged to create a new character for a computer game. We sketched our ideas on our own first, then worked as a group to pick the best parts of each person’s plan. We then used the ‘Cartoonify’ website to practise creating our characters digitally. When we were happy, we worked with Miss McLaughlin to finish and save them. We voted as a class to pick the two teams who would represent us in the ‘Apprentice’ challenge and they did really well at Friday’s assembly.

Everyone did an amazing job – check below to see all of the different characters we created!

 

Primary 2… You’re HIRED!

Check in with us next week to see what we are learning!

Until next time…
Primary 2 & Miss M 🙂

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DYW Apprentice Assembly

This morning we held an Apprentice Assembly to mark the end of our Developing the Young Workforce Week.

Jenny Campbell from Resilience Engine started our assembly by sharing her journey with us which has resulted in her creating her own business.

Our judging  panel consisted of John Sexton (West Lothian Digital Learning Team), Arlene Nicol (West Lothian Developing the Young Workforce) and Jenny Campbell (Resilience Engine). The panel had a tough job of selecting the winners of our ‘Digital Character Challenge’.

The presentations from each class were very impressive, demonstrating how confident and creative our children are.

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/dyw-apprentice-assembly

 

Congratulations to Connor and Jessica in P1 who won the P1-3 competition!

and Oliwia in P6, who won the P4-7 competition!

PUSCPS would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made our DYW Week so successful!

We also dressed up as careers or jobs we would like to have wehn we grow up. Our visit from Barry walker inspired Katy to dress up as him, and Abbie even dressed up as Miss Burton!

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P7 Digital Learning Week

Learning Intention:

To create, capture and manipulate text and images to communicate experiences, ideas and information in creative and engaging ways.

Success Criteria:

I can capture and collate images in a creative way.

As part of Digital Learning Week, P7 have been busy working on their yearbook. The children had to locate and select the images that they would like to appear in their yearbook to create paired pages about themselves. They have also been locating and selecting images to create some gallery pages of P7 learning events and experiences.

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Primary 5 Digital Learning week

This week we have been using our digital expertise to research in Science and Maths.

We have been learning what the benefits of renewable energy sources are

We found out that they are cleaner for the environment, they create jobs, save money, don’t add to greenhouse gas emissions, won’t run out and make us less reliant on other countries to supply us with oil.

We have been investigating different types of triangles and their properties.

We learned that equilateral and isosceles triangles are the most commonly used triangles in engineering (Murron).  We also found out that the triangle is the strongest shape and that is why it’s used in bridges and buildings (Owen and Liam).

 

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Share a Story

As part of Digital Learning Week P1m took part in an early years collaborative story.

We received the story on Wednesday then we had the exciting job of creating an ending for the story that other classes in the authority had created.

We worked in pairs to decide what we thought should happen to the characters who’d got lost at the zoo.  There were lots of fantastic of ideas and we managed to bring most of them into our ending before we saved it onto the online group. We are looking forward to receiving the finished story soon.

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Digital Learning in P1

We are learning about different emotion words and how they can be expressed.

I know … different emotion words

I can … show some of the body signs that may match emotions.

I can share my learning using digital technologies.

P1 used a new app called ChatterKid this week to show their learning about emotions.

Here are some examples of what we have done so far:

https://vimeo.com/271329762

https://vimeo.com/271329861

https://vimeo.com/271329905

https://vimeo.com/271329980

https://vimeo.com/271330066

https://vimeo.com/271330117

 

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Digital Learning Week – P3

WAL: to use technology to follow and record directions using words, signs and angles.

I can:

  • suggest & record instructions for a programmable toy (Bee-bot)
  •  suggest & record instructions for a Sprite (2D image)

Last week we had lot of fun using technology to enhance our learning in Maths.

Bee- bots – we played with the Bee-bots to learn how they worked and then we recorded directions. We got our Bee-bots to make squares and rectangles.

We used the ‘Turtle Program’ on https://www.j2e.com/jit5#turtle. We recorded directions for our Sprite (2D image of a rocket) to get it to travel in a clockwise direction around all the planets. The extension activities were to program the rocket to go anti-clockwise, to add an extra Sprite and to use the advanced program.

What we thought – Dylan ” I enjoyed adding a second sprite and programming it. It felt like I had a magic power because I could make them both move.”

Olivia “i enjoyed getting the Bee-bot to make the shapes.”

Connor L ” I enjoyed recording the directions for my rocket and seeing it move on it’s own”

Emily “I enjoyed adding another sprite because it felt like a challenge.”

The class are keen to use both the technologies in the future especially the website https://www.j2e.com/jit5 as it has lots of other exciting activities to explore.

 

 

 

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