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As part of Digital Learning Week P4 have been learning to create bar charts using Excel from data gathered about types of housing. This linked to our Interdisciplinary Learning Topic on our local environment through maths and technology. The children have explored different ways to record data, they have carried out surveys and then used the data to create the bar charts using Excel.
Some examples of our Excel bar charts.
On Friday we had a digital dress down day to celebrate digital learning week. Well done to everyone who took part, we raised £48.90 and Breich raised the most!
As part of Digital Learning Week we invited our families to join us for some digital learning. Thank you to everyone who came along and joined us.
What were we learning?
To learn how to use an algorithm.
How would we know if we were successful?
What did we do?
Primary 3 also have been issued Listening & Talking homework – a letter went home in your child’s bag on Friday. Information is also below – if there are any issues/questions, please let Miss McLaughlin know!
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
As part of Digital Learning Week, P6 have been developing their coding skills using a coding website called Scratch. We wrote code for multiple ‘sprites’ to create an animation for Digital Learning Week. Using code, we were able to make the sprites change position, colour, size and shape as well as make sounds and add speech bubbles.
You can view examples of our coding work below.
https://vimeo.com/336417826
On Wednesday we had a visit from a DevOps Engineer at CloudReach. He told us about his job, the skills he uses in his work and possible routes into a job such as his. Many of us were inspired to think about computer engineering as a possible future career.
Yesterday, we enjoyed sharing what we had learned on Scratch with our parents. We also planned our slideshows to present our learning within Science on the water cycle in a digital form.
This week as part of our digital learning, primary 2 took part in Scottish Book Trust’s “Author’s live.” The Author, Emily Mackenzie read her story, “There’s broccoli in my ice-cream” to us on a live feed from Edinburgh, then showed us, step by step how to draw a character from her book. It was great fun!
We also had a chance this week to experience using the green screen app. We listened to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, made masks of the characters and then had the opportunity to recreate scenes from the story with a green screen background.
Primary 1 had great fun this week preparing for Digital Learning Week. We first decided which sea creature we were going to make and then used either paint or felt pens to create them. When everything was ready we photographed our pictures using ‘Chatterpix’ and then brought them to life using the animation tool.
https://vimeo.com/336385496
This week at nursery it has been Digital Week
“I was seeing what everyone was doing. I like using the computer and the iPad” Lucy.
During digital week the children have been taking turns to use the iPad to record their learning. The children have had fun using the iPad’s, the laptop, Smartboard and the light board.
Pop in and Play
It was lovely again to share our learning with our friends and family this week. We have had mum and dads, Grans and sister and brothers come into our nursery to visit us this week.
We even had 2 new children join the nursery for our story about Kipper
Part of our improvement plan for this session was digital learning, so we used digital learning week to showcase our new skills and equipment. Today we had an assembly to celebrate our achievements!
Thank you to Shona from Sky who came along and shared her digital journey with us, reminding us that their are lots of careers for girls and boys in computing.
Thank you to our Digital Directors for presenting at assembly.
Here is some of the learning we shared.
https://vimeo.com/336385496
https://vimeo.com/336417826
We have been very busy developing our digital skills in P5. We have been redrafting our imaginative writing using Microsoft Word. In topic we use Google to research Munros, Corbetts and lochs in Scotland. and then, in groups, we created powerpoints to share the information. We used Microsoft Excel to develop our skills in data handling to create 2D charts to compare the heights of Munros and Corbetts.
We were very lucky to get a coding workshop this week and also we had a visitor from a Develop Ops Engineer from Cloudreach.
