Technology for Excellence

Cedars School of Excellence is running a conference called 'Technology for Excellence'. We have teachers from America, Switzerland, England and Wales visiting the school to learn more about what we are doing with our iPads. Today I gave a presentation on 'Using the iPad to improve writing' and had the opportunity to show off some pieces of work by Primary 3/4.

Tomorrow morning some of the visitors will be popping into the class to see the pupils working on their Keynote presentation on planet Earth.

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Roman Baths

This morning we visited the Roman Bath House in Bearsden.

















(This stone was placed by the Romans 2000 years ago. It only lasted one hour with Primary 3/4)

Pupil of the Week

A brilliant week and some outstanding language week.



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Planning Our Stories

This morning we used the Moxier Collage App to plan our stories. Have a look at some of our ideas.

French

Dr Rankin has been teaching the class the colours in French.










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Happy 7th Birthday Nathan

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Roman Baths

On Monday P3/4 will be visiting the remains of the Roman Baths in Bearsden.

If pupils could bring a packed lunch that day as we may return to school slightly after lunch time.

If the weather is poor on Monday we will reschedule the trip for another week as this will be an outside trip.


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Pupil of the Week

Well done Chantelle. Brilliant work and a great start to life at Cedars.



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We has an excellent visit to the Science Centre today. We visited the Mall and particularly enjoyed the 'Alice in Wonderland' exhibition. Some if the activities made us feel dizzy. The Hubble 3D movie was excellent and the pupils loved seeing all the planets and stars.

Science Centre

P3/4 will be visiting the Science Centre on Monday morning. We will be watching Hubble 3D at the iMax Cinema and we will also be visiting the Mall.

Space Poems

This afternoon the pupils wrote poems about space. They used an App called Type Drawing to make their words in a picture. Here are a few examples.

Awesome Planets

The planets have now been hung from the ceiling and we think that they look great.

Apologies

I had to leave early today as my little daughter was unwell. Due to this I was unable to hear all the reading groups. If possible the children could read the next 6 pages of their book and I will pick it up from there tomorrow morning.


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Saturn's Rings

David and Luke were elbow deep in paste making paper mâché rings for Saturn. We are looking forward to painting them later this week.


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Huge Planets

This afternoon we made giant planets. The pupils worked in pairs and had to find out about the colour of the planet that they were given. We bought giant light shades from Ikea and painted them. Great fun and very messy.

Dip n Doodle

This morning P3/4 visited Dip n Doodle and made Roman plates. The pupils designed and painted their own plates.



The plates will be glazed and then put in the oven. The plates will be delivered to the school on 2 weeks time.

Pupil of the Week

Well done Nathan. Excellent work all week.


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Creating Characters

This morning in creative writing we made a giant game of Guess Who. The pupils were all given a picture of somebody and they had to create a character description for their person. The pictures were then all laid out on the floor. Their character descriptions were read out and the class had to decipher which description matched which picture.

Swimming Medals

Rachel brought in some medals that she won for swimming. Well done Rachel.


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French on Film

Clink the links below to watch the pupils speaking French.
clip 1
clip 2
clip 3

Subtraction

Click the links below to watch Jamie and Rachel demonstrating how to do a subtraction sum (with exchange).

Rachel
Jamie

Our Vimeo Channel

Please visit our Vimeo channel to watch various videos of the pupils.

Click the link below

http://vimeo.com/cedarsschool

Our Vimeo Channel

Please visit our Vimeo channel to watch various videos of the pupils.

http://vimeo.com/cedarsschool

The School Bank

The School Bank officially opened today and many pupils put some money into their saving account. The bank will be open every Wednesday.


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Pupil of the Week

Congratulations Rachel.

Rachel has had a fantastic week. She has produced some excellent work in class and has shown great kindness to others. Well done!

Dip N Doodle

On Monday 12th September P3/4 are going to visit 'Dip N Doodle' in Largs for an art lesson. The children will be decorating ceramic Roman plates. This trip will cost an additional £5 as the pupils are required to purchase the plates that they have made. Money can be brought into school any day this week and given to Mrs Mole or myself.

Thank you,
Mr A :0)

Science Trip

The class had a fantastic trip to the Science Centre today. We visited the Planetarium and then had some time to explore the Mall.