Category: Interdisciplinary Learning

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P3 DYW

WAL:  about the world of work.

 I can:

– explain the different roles of an increasing number of people in society.

–  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.’ 

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

 

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Health Week & Sports Day

Dear parents/carers,

Health week will take place next week (4th– 8th June), with a whole range of exciting activities for the children taking place in school. On Monday – Thursday, children should wear sports gear appropriate for indoor and outdoor activities, remembering that football colours are not permitted. Children should wear school uniform on Friday. Please ensure they have a water bottle each day.

Sports day be will on the afternoon of Thursday 7th June, on the playing fields beside the school. It will commence at 1.15pm.  Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 10.30am on that day.  Please note, due to health and safety, there will be no access to the school for spectators. Due to photograph restrictions, we ask that you only take photographs of your own child/ children.

Kind regards,

Morag Dickie

Acting Principal Teacher

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Primary 1 – DYW Week

Primary 1 had visitors in class last week for developing the young workforce week.  Here is some of what we enjoyed.

I liked trying on the fireman’s uniform.

I got to put the postman’s hat on.

I enjoyed when the midwife showed us the pictures of babies nappies and their poo!

We talked about what we want to be when we grow up.  Here are some of our ideas:

Ruaraidh:  Fireman

Ben:   Tram driver

Christopher P: Bagpipe player

Karlie: Teacher

Tom: Babysitter

Jake: Train driver

Logan: Archaeologist

Harrison: Rugby player

Danielle: Explorer

Sophie: Midwife

Maisie: Vet

Jacob: Policeman

Iona: Shop keeper

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Developing the Young Workforce Week

Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is a programme organised by the Scottish Government  that aims to better prepare children and young people aged 3–18 for the world of work. Last week we held our annual DYW Week in order to share with our children different a range of types of jobs/ carers and the skills, qualifications and values you require to fulfill these roles.

This year we had a range of speakers and visitors from our local community and beyond. We also used a website called Founders4Schools and our contact Arlene Nicol from West Lothian DYW to find people to visit us.

Our visitors included:

  • Mrs Edwards ~ Team Building Skills
  • Mr Walker ~ 35 Cycles
  • Mrs Gent ~ Community Midwife
  • Mr Cecil ~ STEM East
  • Ms Haston ~ Archaeology
  • Alison & Rachel ~ Narnia Hair Design
  • Mr Fish ~ Fire fighter
  • Mr Wilson ~ Postman
  • Ms Szawlowska ~ Carer/ student
  • Mr Mitchell ~ PBC Foundation
  • Kristy & Dawn ~ Dawnfresh
  • Applied Science Students ~ West Lothian College
  • Mr Russell ~ Wright and Maclennan Ltd
  • Jenny Cambell ~ Resilience Engine

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who visited us and helped to make it such a huge success. Ms Haston organised for WL Courier to visit us … So watch this space!

The learning outcomes we explored during the week were:

Nursery – P1:

  • I can communicate with people about the different jobs they do in my community.
  • I can discuss some of the rewards that a job brings
  • I can role play different job roles.
  • I can develop ideas and take part in projects to make things.

P2-4:

  • I can describe different jobs in my community and some of the skills needed for these.
  • I can learn about the world of work from visits, projects and my experiences.
  • I can talk to employers about myself and about their workplace.
  • I can recognise that there are different ways to get a job.
  • I can talk about the types of jobs that interest me

P5-7:

  •  I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
  •  I can explain to others my ambitions/what I would like to do and look for ways to achieve them/that.
  • I can recognise the skills I have and need for work.
  • I can apply my skills to get more information about jobs/careers.
  • I can identify different types of enterprise opportunities and engage in them.

You can find out more about our DYW Week by visiting our blog.

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Primary 5 DYW challenge

The digital learning/DYW challenge this week was very engaging for our class.  The task was to create a new digital character for a game, either a new game or one that is currently on the market.  As many of our class are interested in careers in gaming, it was a great challenge.  We discussed what we liked about characters in games and then decided if we wanted to work alone or in a small group.

We were using lots of different skills in this challenge that will be important for us in the future when we are working.

We used teamwork, discussion, negotiating, literacy, creativity and  IT skills.  We also had to learn to use new programmes to create the digital image.

Once we had decided on our character, named it, designed it, gave it super powers and agreed what its personality would be like we then had to think of what the characters back story would be – this was lots of fun.

Mrs Andison was impressed at the literacy skills we were using to describe our characters as well as the creativity of our designs.

Thanks to Miss Burton for setting this challenge.

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Primary 2 – DYW Photos

We got to meet lots of interesting people this week and learned lots about the different jobs they do!

On Tuesday, Mrs Edwards came in to develop our team-building skills! We had to work as groups to build different transport using only marshmallows and spaghetti! We then talked about what behaviours worked well for team-work (e.g. taking turns, good listening) and those which didn’t (e.g. people being left out). Thank you for coming to work with us!

Can you guess which form of transport each group made?

We also learned more this week about manufacturing, the different jobs a fire fighter has to do and the role of a midwife. Thank you to Kristy and Jane from Dawnfresh, Mr Fish and Mrs Gent for spending time with us!

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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 🙂

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Primary 4 DYW Week

During Developing the Young Workforce week Primary 4 had some wonderful visitors in to tell us about their jobs.

We loved hearing from Mrs Gent the midwife about babies and how to care for them.

Some of our class were very knowledgable about this subject and gave us demonstrations of how to hold and burp babies!

 

We really enjoyed hearing from Mr Walker about his job building and customising motorcycles. We even got to design our own motorbikes!

Sarah-Jane came to speak to us about her archaeology job too and we were amazed at the types of things she got to do for work! We had a mini dig ourselves and found lots of different things, from pottery to bones!

This week has been really eye-opening and our class had such a great time! We even heard about different scientist jobs during our class trip to Dynamic Earth yesterday which  was linked back to our DYW Week by one of our pupils.

Thank you so much to all our visitors. We loved it all!

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