Primary 4/5 Send A Piece of Scotland to Poland

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Mrs Coyle and the pupils of P4/5 have been working very hard on making a book all about Paisley and Scotland.  They have researched history and traditions and documented this in a very special book.  They made it for their new Polish friends from I Zespol Szkol in Gdansk.  Mrs Nicholson took the special book and some gifts for the Polish children to Gdansk.  She took some Scottish flags, some Julia Donaldson books to help them with their English and a school tie.  Have a look at our photo album to see our friends in classes 3 and 5.  They sent us some very special gifts back too. Class 5 sent us a book about themselves.  Class 3 made us spicy cookies and had taken photos of themselves making them.  They also sent us a really interesting book they had made all about Gdansk as well as some stickers and badges.  We were really excited about this project.  We plan to work with our friends again in the run up to Christmas time.  We are thinking about writing an International Recipe book with our friends in Poland and also their friends from Vilnius, Lithuania. 

Trip to Gdansk

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Mrs Nicholson was lucky enough to be selected for the British Council's recent e-twinning workshop in Gdansk.  Here are some photos she took and brought back to share with you.  Gdansk as you can see is a very old town which is steeped in history.  Why not click on the Gdansk link to find out more about it?

First E-twinning Label for St. James's Primary

Primary 1 have just been awarded an e-twinning label for their new International project called "Clothes Show Europe". They will be working with young pupils from Bulgaria, Turkey, Wales and Greece. They are excited about their new project which will run until Christmas time. Keep checking our blog next term to follow our progress.

P4/5 link with school in Gdansk, Poland

Mrs Coyle and P4/5 are currently hard at work building a portfolio of "all things Scottish" to send to their link school in Poland, "I Zespol Szkol". Mrs Nicholson will be taking their package with her when she visits Gdansk at the end of September with the British Council and other teachers from the UK. P4/5 will be working with 16 pupils from "klas 3" (aged 9 years) and 16 children from "klas 5" (aged 11 years). They will be practising their English on Mrs Nicholson when she visits. Our polish link-school has just held a family fair at the local zoo and hosted a visit by pupils from a school in Vilnius, Lithuania. Have a look at the map to see where that is - remember you can zoom in and out of the map. We are looking forward to hearing what our new Polish friends think of our Scottish work.

P1 International Clothes Show

Staff in P1 are currently working with teachers in Wales and other countries to plan our exciting new project starting in October. We are currently working with staff in Welsh school "Ysgol Heulfan". Click on their name to visit their website. We'll be getting to know them very soon! Schools from Romania, Greece, Italy and Bulgaria have also shown an interest in joining the project. They will be starting back school shortly so we wait to hear if any of them take the plunge with us.

Our visitors from India

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We played host to a group of visitors from India recently. They wished to see GLOW, the Scottish schools intranet in action. Ten of our pupils from Primary 2 to Primary 7 demonstrated the many functions of GLOW and how they are currently being used in our school. The children freely answered all their questions and our visitors praised the confidence and technical ability of our pupils. The visitors enjoyed their informative visit and our children took advantage of the chance to work with others from outwith our school community. The visiting team comprised of Shripati Acharya (Sales Director, CISCO Global Organisation), Harpreet Geekee (R & D Director, CISCO Customer Advocacy), Toby Burton (Vice-President of CISCO Global Organisation), John Connell and Jim Buchan (CISCO UK), Laurie O'Donnell (Consultant and former Director of Learning and Technology for Learning Teaching Scotland), Andy Pendry (Technical Adviser, LTS), Lesley Dickson (LTS) and Janice Neilson (Renfrewshire Council).