We were so honoured to have a visit from the University of Georgia today! We felt very privileged that they wanted to come and visit our learning environments and meet our pupils. We spent some time planning the visit, so that we could showcase our many successes.
As always, Miss Connolly beamed with pride as she listened to the children greet our visitors in a variety of languages, share their experiences of our pupil groups, and share their learning.
We got them some traditional Scottish treats to taste and try...we think they liked them!
Our visitors were sung to in Gaelic, and were welcomed in Spanish, Gaelic and English. I think they were suitably impressed with our children's Language skills.
We then had some children from the Edinbarnet Editiors, John Muir Group, Eco Group and STEM ambassadors share their roles and responsibilities within the school. They spoke confidently about what the vision and aims of their pupil groups were and gave descriptions of their work so far.
Primary 3 showcased their learning of George's Marvellous Medicine. They covered all curricular areas through their novel study. Our visitors were really impressed with their facts, live science experiments and raps!
We then visited Primary 1 to have some fun with Learning through play. The children were developing their phonics skills this morning by choosing how they wanted to learn. They were impressing our visitors by challenging themselves to create sentences and questions with their phonics sound of the week. However, they didn't limit themselves to writing them, they built them with snap letters, and even created them with sparkle foam!
Our last stop for our visitors was to be taught some coding by our Primary 5's. Primary 5 are confident using scratch and taught our visitors how to build a games using code. I was amazed by their professionalism, patience and explanations.
Our only complaint about our visit was that it went so quickly, we ran out of time! We are very grateful to the University of Strathclyde for linking us with our visitors from the University of Georgia. We hope this is a connection which will continue to grow.
