On 18th November, the whole of Stenton school visited Dunbar Grammar science department for a lesson on Electricity. Veronica Brunton, headteacher of Stenton Primary, initiated the link up and will liaise with the science teachers to build on the success of this week’s visit. Read all about it and see the photo gallery at http://edubuzz.org/blogs/stenton/
Find out what East Lothian’s Arts Service are offering for 2009/2010 in their new catalogue.
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If you can’t see the viewer above, the leaflet’s also available to download here: Arts-education-booklet (560KB, 24 pages, Adobe PDF)
Inside you’ll find:
To book any activity please complete and return the booking form to: Arts Service Admin, East Lothian Council, Brunton Hall, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh EH21 6AF or fax to 0131 653 5265.You can also request a booking form by emailing artsservice at eastlothian.gov.uk.
For more information please contact the Arts Service on 0131 665 9900.
Glow will be unavailable for the four day period from Sat 18 Jul to Tue 21 Jul inclusive, to enable the support team to carry out maintenance work.
If you need to use GlowMail, it will be available on Mon 20 Jul and Tue 21 Jul, but you’ll need to access GlowMail directly via https://webmail.glowscotland.org.uk rather than via the portal.
Remember the European Parliament elections that took place on 4 June in 2009? Ever wondered what the European Parliament is all about? Here’s your chance to find out.
Following the giveaway of some materials to secondary schools, we have a very few left over. Teachers from any East Lothian school are very welcome to drop us an email if they would like some.
Here’s what we have:
Educational items
Promotional items
The last 4 items on the list could be used as rewards for participation in some relevant activity.
If you are a teacher and would like to request any of these items, please email cdora@eastlothian.gov.uk with your name, your school, and the items you would like. First-come, first-served. Good luck!
How could you make a bedtime story into a must-see event for parents? Ormiston Primary School found that one way was to have it read live from Australia - using a web videoconference.
The event was attended by a horde of pyjama-clad children, who enjoyed hot chocolate while they listened to the story and watched pictures from the book appear on screen. Large numbers of parents wanted to make sure they didn’t miss out, and also squeezed into the classroom. The story was read by a teacher from Ormiston State School in Queensland Australia, which has linked with Ormiston Primary to develop reading by use of a web site where book reviews and recommendations can be shared by pupils. You can read more, and see some more photos, over on the Ormiston school site.
Today Sanderson’s Wynd Primary School have used YouTube in school to view a video, made by Edinburgh University, of their engineers taking part in the December First Lego league.
The video has also been embedded on their school web site, where it can be easily found by parents. Since YouTube was recently made available in East Lothian schools, it has proved to be a valuable learning resource.
If you’re an edubuzz blogger and you’d like to embed a YouTube video on your site, just use the toolbar button that’s a yellow circle with a letter “A” on it to paste in the video’s web address and publish as normal.
In June 2008, Common Ground Mediation consulted with parents and carers about how well we are doing in meeting the educational needs of children and young people with additional support needs in East Lothian.
The views of parents and carers informed the report ‘Evaluation of implementation of the Additional Support for Learning (Scotland) Act’.
You can read the full report of the audit at: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/supportforall/a… or contact Lisa Shine on 01 620 827167 to arrange for a copy of the report to be sent out to you. 2004′
The next stage of this consultation process is to invite parents and carers to tell us what you think are the main areas that we need to improve on and what actions need to be prioritised.
So if you are a parent or carer of a child or young person who receives or needs extra help with learning, we want to hear your views. Please come along to one of these consultation sessions:
Thursday 5th Feb, 6.00 - 7.30pm in Conference Room 1,
John Muir House, Haddington
OR
Weds 18th Feb, 6.00 - 7.30pm in Lounge Room,
Brunton Hall, Musselburgh
If you would like to attend, please contact Morag Steven, Common Ground Mediation on 0131 664 9324 or 07760 486 465 or email: morag@commongroundmediation.co.uk
It would also be helpful to give us any other information you feel we should know including any access, dietary or other requirements prior to the event. If you can’t manage to attend but would still like to have your views included please contact Morag Steven on the number above.
Download “What you think matters” flyer for parents and carers (4.4MB, MS Word)
The planned extension of last session’s “Guitar Hero” transition project from Musselburgh Grammar and its feeder primaries to the whole of East Lothian gets a mention in today’s Edinburgh Evening News:
It was so successful it is now being rolled out across almost all primary and secondary schools in the county.
Pupils used the themes in the game as the basis for art, music, PE and English projects. They then shared their work with children who had come from other primary schools.
They introduced the project to help ease the transition for primary seven pupils moving up to Musselburgh Grammar School. (Link)
You’ll find more on the use of Guitar Hero to provide a context for learning on the Learning & Teaching Scotland ICT in Education site.
Twitter, if you’ve not already encountered it, is a service worth knowing about. It’s like really simple blogging, but, with each post limited to 140 characters, is used more for conversational updates. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service, instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific.
It’s used by a wide range of people and organisations, from 10 Downing Street to Stephen Fry to quite a few of the online education community. How might schools use it? Here are some possibilities:
Now you can display your latest Twitter updates (or anyone else’s) using a widget on your edubuzz WordPress blog using Rick’s Twitter for WordPress plugin. Just activate the plugin and configure your Twitter widget(s).
That 5-minute Glow Guide was, er, not quite a full 5 minute’s worth. I guess the upload had got interrupted, so the screencast video cut out before the end. It works now, so there’s no need to lose sleep worrying if it all ended happily. (Flash movie, 14MB)
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