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P3 DYW
WAL:Â about the world of work.
 I can:
– explain the different roles of an increasing number of people in society.
–Â explain what some jobs involve.
Last week for DYW week, we had talks from Dawn Fresh Manufacturing, a Midwife and Mrs Slzawlowska. We learned about their jobs and what they have to do at their work. We wrote about our own ‘Dream Job’ and what we would have to do at it.
Olivia P’ I would like to be an Engineer and build a flying machine.’
Layla ‘I would like to be an artist and paint paintings to sell to people for their homes.’
Kieron ‘ I would like to be a builder and work on a construction site driving the machinery.’
Liam ‘ I would like to be in the Army and protect people.’Â 
In pairs/trios, we also designed and created a digital character for a video game as part of a whole school challenge. We voted as a class and the two winning teams were Eve, Ryleigh & Eilidh and Rachel & Mitchell. What do you think of our designs?
We all enjoyed learning more about the world of work and taking part in the challenge.
P3
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 🙂
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.
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!
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.
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).
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.
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:
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)
- Â 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.
Primary 4 Digital Learning Week
We are learning to use Writer’s Craft.
I can continue the story using similar vocaublary and grammar.
I can end the story in a choice.
For Digital Learning Week in Primary 4 we worked together to create a “Choose Your Own Adventure” story with lots of other classes in West Lothian.
We were sent the beginning of a story written by 2 other classes and we had to continue the story up until the next choice.
We began by reading the story together and discussing the tense and some of the different features of the story. This would help us to write more continuing on later.
We then worked in groups to brainstorm some idea which we could use for our story. Groups worked really hard together and were so imaginative!
We then came back together and shared our ideas with each other, choosing little bits from everyone’s ideas to create the next part of our story. We had to end it in a choice however, as it was to be passed to two other classes the next day and finished by them.
We are still waiting to recieve the finsihed stories all put together in one PowerPoint so we can read our own story and even choose our own path through the story.
We can’t wait!
