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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.
Book Week Scotland Reading Focus
In the lead up to Book Week Scotland all our classes are having a reading interdisciplinary book or author focus.
Peep at PUSCPS
Christmas Fair
Families Learning Together: 22/11/18
P1 – P7 families please check your school bag on Monday or Tuesday for an invite to our second Families Learning Together session this term.
Book Week Scotland @ PUSCPS Nursery
Book Week Scotland @ PUSCPS
Primary 2S – Book Study
As part of our book study, Primary 2S are enjoying reading The Twits by Roald Dahl. Mr and Mrs Twit hate everything — except playing mean pranks on each other!  This week we have written about our own prank that we would like to play on Mr or Mrs Twit and made our own worm spaghetti, just like Mrs Twit gave to her husband for his dinner. No worms were harmed in our worm spaghetti though – we used clay!
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Primary 4 Poetry
The book we have been studying is George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl. The children have explored the techniques used by Roald Dahl in poetry and compared them to William Shakespeare. They then used tone, pace, volume and gesture to present the poems to a class audience in small groups.
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