Friday 25 March 2016

Edinburgh Science Festival Robots Preview for P6!

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/pop-up-science-robots

Grateful thanks to Brian Davison, Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University's School of Computing, and his students for fantastic robot workshops on Thursday 24th March for each of our three P6 classes.

Excellent feedback from pupils and staff ahead of the team's Edinburgh International Science Festival free workshops next week at the National Museum, and wonderful to link up with the University. Remember to say hello to the team if you get a chance to visit, P6.

Drop in sessions open to all ages.


Pop-Up Science: Robots

Monday 28 — Tuesday 29 March

Join us in this hands-on activity making LEGO® robots perform simple tasks using the Scratch programming environment. The drag-and-drop interface is easy to pick up with no experience – even parents can do it! You can also have a play with pre-prepared robot-based activities – robot sumo, anyone?
Presented by Edinburgh Napier University

Information
Age:
All Ages
Time:
10:00 –17:00 (drop-in)
Venue:
Hawthornden Court, National Museum of Scotland
 




Wednesday 23 March 2016

P6 Euroquiz Edinburgh Runners Up!







An outstanding result for Emil, Elissa, Sergi and Sam at the Edinburgh Euroquiz event held at City Chambers on Wednesday 2nd March. After some very challenging rounds of questions, the top two teams progressed to a head-to-head final round and our P6 team secured a highly commendable Second Place, only one point behind the winning team in a very exciting finish. Huge congratulations to Gylemuir Primary School who took the Edinburgh title this year and will progress to the Final. Thank you very much to families for supporting, to Mrs Nowell for accompanying and to Monika Wantoch, City of Edinburgh Council, for organising the event. Monika submitted a report on the event to City of Edinburgh's Bright Futures website. Well done, P6! Euro stars!




Friday 4 March 2016

P6A Stop Motion Animation

The children in Primary 6A have been working in groups to retell the story of Tam o' Shanter. They began by drawing the characters and backgrounds that they would need then they used the iPads to create stop-motion films. A few groups went on to record sound on top of their videos. Everyone worked really hard and they should be very proud of their results.
Here they are:





















Well done Primary 6A!

Note: Unfortunately there is one missing at the moment but it will appear here soon!