P5 Make Bat Boxes
→ Campie Primary School | Fri May 18 09:26:10 +0100 2012

Bat Boxes On Thursday the 17th of May Mr Chapman (Paul Chapman’s dad) came into Campie to show both P5 classes how to create bat boxes. We asked the Mr Thomson to put some tables in the dining hall so we could make the bat boxes on them. The equipment we had was a screwdriver and some [...]

Travelodge Management Apprenticeship Programme 2012
→ Careers Blog | Fri May 18 09:23:37 +0100 2012

More details here and please note you must be 18 by 31 August to apply. More details here

Positive about opportunities Curriculum for Excellence will bring
→ Engage for Education | Fri May 18 08:44:48 +0100 2012

Professor Petra Wend discusses Universities Scotland's report on Curriculum for Excellence.

Links for 2012-05-17 [del.icio.us]
→ edu.blogs.com | Fri May 18 07:00:00 +0100 2012

• Born Creative | Demos | Publications
  In a series of essays Born Creative brings together the experiences of creative practices in early years education, to show the importance of cultures, environments and networks in the enrichment of the early years learning and interrogates the role of leaders, policy and parents in creating them.
• Phil Libin of Evernote, on Its Unusual Corporate Culture - NYTimes.com
  Workplaces of the future?
• Clay Shirky on the relationship between physical space and creativity - Boing Boing
• Audio slide show: Pullman porter and family patriarch - latimes.com
  At 100, Lee Wesley Gibson is nearly the oldest surviving former Pullman porter. He is one of thousands of African Americans whose lives were transformed by working for Union Pacific Railroad. Gibson was married to his wife, Beatrice, for 76 years until she died in 2004.

What’s the purpose? What are our values?
→ pedagoo.org | Thu May 17 20:30:07 +0100 2012

I was delighted to discover Pedagoo. Scotland badly needs a dose of teacher activism. CfE is a golden opportunity to transform classroom practices in Scotland’s schools, but it is threatening to become a damp squib, as many teachers worry about the risks of innovation and play safe. Developing more active forms of pedagogy is a [...]

New! An Easy Image Widget and Custom CSS
→ Harris/Lewis French Trip 2006 | Thu May 17 19:51:55 +0100 2012

We are happy to announce the release today of two new exciting features for our Pro and Edublogs Campus users! Easy Image Widget Have you ever wanted to add a badge, photo, or other image to the sidebar of your blog? Before now, it took pasting in some HTML code to get it to work [...]

Numeracy across the curriculum
→ P3b Kirklandneuk Primary | Thu May 17 19:43:58 +0100 2012

One sunny day last week we went outside with Room 7 for P.E.  We estimated how many times we could do various activities in one minute.

Then we tried out all the activities for one minute and took a note of our results.

We had to run round a circle for a minute.

Then we had to see how many star jumps we could do in a minute.

Hopping and skipping came next!

Catching the ball was hard in the sun!

Jumping was next.

And finally counting how many throws of the ball we could do in a minute.  At least it was cooler in the shade!

Finally we had a rest and looked at our results.

We had a great time outside in the sun and some of our estimates were better than others - but they will be even better next time!

Andy Warhol style
→ P3b Kirklandneuk Primary | Thu May 17 18:20:10 +0100 2012

We have been looking at some of the work of Andy Warhol. He was born on August 6, 1928 and died in 1987.  He was an American and a leading artist in the pop art movement.

We decided to make some self-portraits in the same style.  First of all we traced our photos.  Then we copied them four times onto one piece of paper.  Next, we coloured them in using either fluorescent felt tipped pens or crayons.  Finally we went over the lines in black felt tip so that they would stand out.

Here are the final results!

P3 and P1 IT
→ Aberlady P7 | Thu May 17 15:10:12 +0100 2012

Today P3 helped P1 do a word document. And yesterday we showed them our power points about the Brain.They liked them.It was fun doing them. And today P1 and P3 made a good team. Some were finished and some were not. I liked them all. THE END P3 and P1 IT on PhotoPeach

IT with P1
→ Aberlady P7 | Thu May 17 15:00:30 +0100 2012

Yesterday P3 showed P1 the Human Body Power Points. P1 did not know how to put clip art and text on Word and Power Point so today we did IT with P1 to show them how to put in clip art and text on Word about the brain! IT with P1 on PhotoPeach