Fun Time Friday: Camera Club
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Fun Time Friday Take 3!
Today we had our third Fun Time Friday of the school year. Fun Time Friday is an opportunity for all our children to select an activity that they are interested in and take part in it with peers across different classes. We had a range of activities to choose from which the children brainstormed at Pumphie Pals last session.
Digital Tinkering in P7
On Monday Primary 7 took part in four different digital tinkering activities. Tinkering means trying things out. For young children, this is the vital play based, exploration and experimentation phase of learning about something. For older pupils and adults it is purposeful exploration and making, often through trial and improvement.
Hour of Code
Children used Hour of Code to develop their programming language develop computing solutions to problems.
Sum Dog
Children used a website to apply and develop their numeracy skills.
Spheros
Spheros are a spherical robot toy. Features of a Sphero are:
- Rolling – Sphero robots can roll at a given speed and heading for a given amount of time.
- Colors – Sphero robots can light up in any color.
- Sensors – Sphero robot’s internal sensors include an IMU and Locator
- Bluetooth – Sphero robots connect to devices such an iPads, iPhones, and Android phones and tablets through Bluetooth.
- Robot Languages – Sphero robots support three ‘onboard’ programming languages. Programs written in these languages are ‘run’ on the robot.
The children had the opportunity to tinker with a Sphero to try and control its movements.
Apps
The children could select one of our media apps to create a book cover for one of their favourite books.
AssessmentÂ
To finish they used an online form in glow to evaluate their learning and the skills they had used.
Camera Club
Pumphie Pals: Digital Learning
Today at Pumphie Pals we discussed four different questions:
- What is technology?
- How do we use technology at school?
- How do we use technology at home?
- What other ways could we use technology to help us learn?
Our Digital Directors will use this information to help their Junior Leadership Team.
Selling Our Harvest Crop
As Friday is our Harvest Assembly, our Partner Partner Group have arranged to sell some of our harvest crop gathered by Club Wild. Please feel free to take some items in return for a small donation to school funds.
Harvest in Our Nursery
Primary 1 Harvesting vegetables
Celebration Assembly Term 1
We celebrated our Term 1 achievements at our Celebration Assembly on Friday.
David Donnelly-Kay, a football coach from from Broxburn United joined us on Friday to tell us about his personal achievements and his career stepping stones. 
The first award we gave our was the Top Scorer Award for each House. They received a book shop gift voucher.
One child from each class was nominated by their teacher for the STEM Superstar Award, for achievements in Science, Technologies or Maths.
One child from each class was nominated by their teacher for the Awesome Author for their achievements in writing. This is a new award this session as writing is part of our school improvement agenda.
The P7 Young Leaders who helped at our recent consultations received a Head Teacher Award.
Almond won the House Points for this term and have decided on a pyjama party on Wednesday.
We watched a video of our Term 1 achievements.
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We also shared a surprise video for World Teachers’ Day.
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