Law Primary’s P7 students have been blogging from Loch Insh Watersports and Outdoor Centre this week.
They’ve made good use of digital photos, audio and video to tell the story. Again this has proved very popular with those back home, with plenty of comments from Mums, Dads, brothers, sisters and even dogs. Experience is showing this works well not just for keeping those at home in touch with what the group are learning, but is also a good way to let those in earlier years get a good idea of what the excursion is all about, as we see in this comment from P6C.
P6C were having a look at all your photos, videos and podcasts yesterday and they are mightily impressed - they’re already looking forward to their visit next year.
Could an edubuzz blog potentially be a place where all East Lothian Parent Councils - and Parent Forum members - get involved with what’s happening across the county?
Some time ago we set up the “Parents” blog (http://edubuzz.org/blogs/parents) to support consultation on the draft Parental Involvement strategy (20 pages, pdf, 800KB).
Now that the Parent Councils are up and running, meetings are now taking place of the East Lothian Association of Parent Councils. That raised issues of communications between the individual councils.
- How do Parent Councils keep in touch with what other councils are doing?
- Where can you find links to East Lothian Parent Council web sites?
- Where can you find updates on what’s happening county-wide, such as the Association meetings?
Our current plan is to use the Parents blog as a place to share this information, and hopefully promote the integration of all parents into East Lothian’s leading networked education community. If you’d like to contribute to the site, please get in touch and we’ll help get you started.
Over at SupportForAll, the blog about support for learners in East Lothian, you can read about how a Polish parent is helping in the classroom at Musselburgh’s Burgh Primary.
She doesn’t have much English herself, but is able to read Polish from bilingual books to a pupil who doesn’t speak English.
We purchased bilingual story books and the mum read the Polish version and I was able to echo in English. When she heard the story in Polish, my P1 pupil was really excited and the rest of the class were fascinated. Now that they are a regular event the other children also enjoy these sessions and are beginning to predict what I am going to say based on what has been read and they are able to pick out some Polish words if they are repeated a lot within the story.
