Category: Interdisciplinary Learning

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P2C Number Talks

This week P2C trialled a new app called Kahoot!  We have been learning different strategies to subtract  this term and are gaining confidence each week.  We worked with a partner to talk about the problem and come up with a strategy. We then used the app to answer the questions in a whole class challenge. The game gave us ‘team talk’ time before we could answer.  We  shared our strategies with the class and could see when we were successful or talk about our mistakes.   We then created our own subtraction quiz  and will challenge other teams next week!

 

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P6’s Ten Top Tips for Staying Safe Online

As part of our Safer Internet Day focus, we have been discussing the importance of consent and caution when posting photographs and videos online.

We came up with our 10 top tips to help you stay safe online.

  1. Keep social media accounts private.
  2. Remember that you can change accounts to private at any time.
  3. Ask permission before sharing photographs/videos of anyone.
  4. Don’t share inappropriate photographs/videos – remember that you are responsible for anything you choose to share online, even if you didn’t create it.
  5. Don’t share personal information online.
  6. You can cover your face with an emoji or blur it out if you don’t want it to be shown in a photograph you share.
  7. Be careful who follows you online – make sure you know who someone is before you accept a follow/friend request.
  8. Remember that you can block anyone who you think is a stranger or who behaves in a way that you do not like.
  9. You may wish to have a public account that has no personal information and a private account that you use to share with friends.
  10. Delete anything that you no longer want online – this list might help you work out what is wise to keep online and what is not!
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Club Wild – It’s never too cold for Blood Orange Sorbet!

We like to make and taste things at Club Wild. Mostly we use what we can find growing seasonally in the school garden or round and about in the orchard and hedgerows, but what could we find that grows at this time in the season?

Sarah-Jane told us that at this time of year she always thinks of citrus fruits,  making marmalade and of blood oranges.  Blood oranges are only available for us to buy in our supermarkets for a very short period between late January and March so we decided to try using them to make a simple blood orange ice  sorbet.

First we cut the oranges in half, some of the colours were amazing. The red pigments that we could see are the same anthocyanins that  are found in red autumn leaves. We squeezed the juice from the oranges and saved all the pips to plant later. Sarah-Jane boiled some sugar and water and then added it to our juice.  We gave it a quick stir and then popped it in the freezer.  In the morning, mashed together, our beautiful pink sorbet was ready. Gillon thought it was delicious and Huriyah gave it a definite thumbs up.  Even though it was so cold outside, it’s never too cold for our sweet and refreshing blood orange sorbet 😊.
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Pupil Council Watch Annie at Kirkhill PS

Some of our Pupil Council had the opportunity to visit Kirkhill Primary and watch their production of Annie. They really enjoyed the experience and thought the show was excellent! Miss Burton also received an email from Miss McLaren, the Head Teacher at Kirkhill to say:

‘Your kids who came to the show were amazing … their behaviour and manners were exemplary and were an absolute joy to have in the school. I hope they enjoyed it.’.

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Club Wild – RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch

Last week Club Wild joined schools up and down the country to take part in the RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch. The Schools’ Birdwatch started in 2001 and since then 2000 schools have been involved with 90,000 pupils getting out their binoculars to become real citizen scientists.

Over the last few weeks we have been getting things ready. We had great fun making bird feeders out of recycled bottles and cartons and we also made an information dial to help us identify our garden birds. We hung out our bird feeders in the wildlife area in the thicket of trees at the front of the school and making sure that our bird feeders are filled up regularly, we could hear and see that the birds were visiting the feeders.

On the day we carefully set up our bird hide in the thicket of trees, using camouflage netting to hide behind and waited patiently and very quietly. The birds soon came in numbers and it was great to see our usual friends of blue tits, coal tits, great tits, sparrows, wood pigeons and a robin. The birds loved our recycled feeders and we noted that most of the birds went for the seed rather than the fat balls. It is great get so close to the birds.

Back in school we submitted our results to the RSPB who will gather together all the data from the Big Schools Birdwatch with the data from the Big Garden Birdwatch. We can compare our results to last year and see if we notice any differences.The RSPB uses the data to monitor long term bird populations and the analysed results are published in March. The annual birdwatch is as great thing to do.

 

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