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Productive afternoons in Primary 3/4

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Primary 3/4 have been working hard over the past week on their Interdisciplinary topic “The Titanic”. The pupils were set a challenge to “raise the Titanic from her watery grave” by reproducing the unsinkable ship in their classroom.  The children worked well together to decide upon how they would like to display the ship in their room. They then split into teams and took a part of the display each to work on. The finished product was completely the work of the children. They worked together to establish their ideas, list the resources they required, shared out the jobs and the work and then put all the elements together. Their Titanic display is quite impressive and definitely meets the criteria set in the challenge, by demonstrating their skills, teamwork and creativity.

After all that hard work, it was time to enjoy the sunshine! We took our PE outdoors and practiced some of our races and skills we will need for taking part in our Sports Day that is coming soon. We loved racing each other and had lots of laughs when balancing the bean bags on our heads!

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P6 Cross Country

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Last week Toronto Primary hosted our cluster Cross country event for all P6 pupils.  The sun was shining and all Primary 6 were raring to go. Each pupil gave it their all and put a great amount of effort in to complete the route in great times, on such a warm, sunny day!

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Congratulations to one of our own pupils, Kayla, who came FIRST in the girls category!
We are so proud of her achievement!  Well done Kayla!

Internet Safety

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The digital leaders have recently been talking about internet safety, here are are top tips for staying safe online:

  1. Never share your personal details, eg. age, where you live etc.
  2. Always have parental supervision
  3. Don’t contact anybody you don’t know
  4. Only accept friend requests from people you know
  5. Keep your logins and passwords safe and don’t let anyone know them

Parents, you can also help keep your children safe online by following the advice in the link below:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/public/torontops/uploads/sites/22/2019/03/internet-safety.jpg

Stay safe 4 life!

by Michael, Digital Leader

National Theatre Scotland

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Primary 7 spent Monday of this week working with the National Theatre Scotland. The children took part in a fabulous workshop with games, music and drama. Our P7 pupils have been talking positively about this experience all week and loved every second of it. This has also given them some helpful ideas and hints as they prepare for their World War 2 class assembly in a  few weeks. We would like to thank our lovely friend of Toronto, Sandy who organised this for us. Primary 7 can’t wait to show you what they have been working on!

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Digital Learning

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P5/6 have been developing their knowledge of the digital wold this week, with Safer internet Day as the stimulus.

We were challenged to draw a picture of an apple and then a dog, each within 30 seconds. We could clearly see many similarities between everyone’s drawing of each of these items – shape, form, characteristics, etc. We were then given 30 seconds to draw The Internet. When comparing these pictures, we noticed there were fewer of them entered onto our board and there were very few similarities in our drawings. The apple and dog were physical items that we could see and touch, yet no one could really clearly explain what the internet actually looked like, we use it every day but it is not really a physical object that we can freely see and touch, which makes it a more abstract idea to us.

We also investigated some of the technical language that is used when working with ICT. We were able to match some technical terms with their meanings, helping us to be more aware of our roles and responsibilities when using technology.

Safer Internet Day

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Tuesday was Safer Internet Day, and here at Toronto all classes took part in lessons and activities in which we were able to develop our knowledge.

Our DIgital Leaders worked with a variety of classes on a social media quiz, identifying the age individuals must be engage with a variety of social media. We were surprised by some of the age limits on these, particularly YouTube!

As the Digital Leaders were working in classes, the theme of consent and permission was a hot topic and children were able to discuss their thoughts and give opinions on this and how we can keep ourselves and others safe online.

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New Years Resolutions

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Our first week back after the Christmas holidays was a busy one! What better activity to begin the new year than to reflect on the last year and make plans and goals for the year to come. We remembered all the activities we have enjoyed during 2018, when we were still young P4’s and P5’s! We thought about the things that are still to come for us this year- Lowport, trips, responsible roles, and decided to set ourselves some targets for 2019.

We created this display to share our thoughts and ideas, and help keep us on track.

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