How To Survive The Blackout!

We can survive The Blackout!

Primary 7 Room 19 are now experts at surviving a World War II style blackout... from hanging curtains, avoiding 10 shilling fines and counting to 15, to painting white lines on lamp posts, clothing and even cows, their freeze frames tell it all!!

How to put up blackout curtains without getting arrested!

How to avoid attack from those pesky German bombers!

How to avoid walking into lamp posts and injuring pedestrians! 

How to count to 15, avoid the cows and use those headlamp covers!

SLF Lego Rocked!!

We had the best time at the Scottish Learning Festival on Wednesday!  SLF Lego in the morning was brilliant and then we had a great time exploring all of the other stalls in the afternoon with Mrs Russell and Mrs Park.

BPS SLF Lego Team with a very cool robot!

Our morning was split into two sessions; Lego Challenge and either Stop Frame Animation or Green Screen Filming. 

The Lego Challenge was excellent - we got to make ducks, a giant, a spinning top and football goals and fans.  We used the WeDo Lego software to programme our models so that they reacted in a way that was specific to our design criteria.  It was so much fun!!


The Stop Frame Animation challenge let us create a model based on a giant creepy spider and then we continued to reposition and photograph it until our short film sequences were complete - our creepy spidery models liked to eat EVERYTHING!!

The Green Screen filming using iMovie was a favourite with everyone who tried it out.  We got to film ourselves as robots and then make us appear in different images on screen.  We then altered our voices to make ourselves sound even more roboty and we added musical effects.  The finished films are hilarious!!

Overall it was such an amazing day and we are now all very excited about sharing our knowledge of how the WeDo Lego software works with our friends in school.

Mrs Russell has made a little film of our day which we showed to our friends back in class on Thursday.   They were all really impressed!
To watch our film, click play...

We are really proud of our achievements and Mrs Russell said we were a credit to our school.

BPS SLF Lego Team!

Girls' Netball Festival

Well done to all of the Primary 7 girls who took part in the Active Schools Netball Festival at The Allander Leisure Centre on Wednesday after school.  We had enough girls for almost 3 teams and everyone had a great time... even Mrs Templeton and Mrs Russell were desperate to get involved to brush up on their skills for the pupil vs staff netball game in June!! We are looking forward to more netball tournaments being hosted by the local schools in the near future... stay tuned!

SLF Lego!

The BPS SLF Lego team have been getting very creative with our WeDo Lego kit over the last two weeks in school to prepare for the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC on Wednesday 22nd September.

Advertising!
We will be appearing on the RM stand between 10am and 12.15pm at The Scottish Learning Festival and in order to advertise ourselves we had a little competition to design a flier which RM would have printed for us to hand out to passers by on Wednesday! We each created our own flier with a Lego theme and then we got together and discussed which one we thought would represent BPS the best. After much discussion we decided that Lewis' flier would be the winning entry and we have uploaded them all onto the SLF Lego Glow group with Lewis' flier being the one to be printed!

  

Construction!

We decided to create Lego models based around the theme of our World War II topic and last Thursday we completed our model Spitfire plane which connects via USB to the computer to both power the motorised propellor and enabled us to create sound bites which, after much discussion about timings, meant that our Spitfire sounds like it can drop bombs and fire guns!

After this we split our group into two; one group focused on creating extras using other Lego pieces to make a scene from the Clydebank Blitz, whilst the other group got busy on creating an instruction manual on how to build our Spitfire.

Our Clydebank Blitz scene is now complete - it has a large crane like the Titan Crane at Clydebank and it has a ship which we have tried to make look like an old replica sitting in the River Clyde.  We researched old ships and cranes online and that gave us some ideas for our construction.  We think that with the help of some green screen technology (as well as a green jumper sleeve and a green rubber glove!), our Spitfire should be able to fly over our river scene to Clydebank with its propellor spinning, firing guns and this time STOP the Luftwaffe from creating a path of destruction similar to that of 70 years ago!

Instruction Manual!
We completed our instruction manual on Friday there and it is fantastic! We deconstructed our Spitfire and using the same style as a real Lego instruction booklet, we drew each section of the plane, took photos of them and illustrated how it all fits together.  We then used Comic Life to create our own Lego instruction booklet using all of our drawings and photographs.  We have inserted captions as a guide and we are looking forward to seeing if our class mates can build our Spitfire from it too!!

If you would like to see our instruction booklet or try to make the Spitfire for yourself, click on the link below. (It is a large file so please be patient!)

Bearsden Lego Spitfire 

We can't wait for SLF Lego on Wednesday and we are really excited to find out what sorts of animation and green screen technology films we  will be creating too!


Inayah, Jamie, Paul, Lewis, Victoria, Abigail, Tom, Rennie and Mrs Russell!

Termly Update: September 2010

The P7s are really excited about their final year in Bearsden Primary School and want to make it their best year yet!

Topic  The topic this term is WWII.  The classes will be using Reciprocal Reading skills to enjoy the book 'Carrie's War' by Nina Bawden.  An exciting theatre trip has also been planned to see a production of Carrie's War in Glasgow in November.  As part of the WWII topic, P7's RME will be looking at Judaism and Jewish Holocaust.

In Music, the P7s are also going to script, act and film their own music video based on classic WWII songs.

So far we have looked at the events leading up to the start of WWII, Hitler's background, 1939 and 1940.  We have been particularly enjoying researching evacuation and have made our very own gas masks and boxes as well as ID cards and name tags!

PE  Both classes will have PE on Fridays, Room 19 will have an extra PE session on Wednesdays and Room 20 on Mondays.

Election  Our House Captain elections were a great success again this year, with some really fantastic election speeches.  Well done to our new House Captains and Vice Captains and good luck for the year ahead!

Assembly  As ambassadors for the rest of the school, all P7s are expected to wear full uniform, shirt and tie for Friday assemblies.


We are going to have a great year in Primary 7 and we are all very much looking forward to all of the exciting things that we will be taking part in.  We hope to do our very best and end the year ready for our move to secondary school!