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Around 2000 Primary 7  children from all the Falkirk schools are taking part in this exciting event. It was our turn to go along on Friday this week.

The SET fair is supported by INEOS and is part of the My Future’s in Falkirk  initiative. It was a very busy day:

Build a Bug Workshop

We became an electronic engineer for the day when we made our fully electronic Jitterbugs.

Wood Technology Workshop

Here we made our own kites

 ’Who wants to be a Scientist?’ Workshop

Here we learned about the many exciting careers that can develop from taking science subjects in High School

K’Nex design challenge

Problem solving and team work were at the forefront of this activity. We were challenged to use the K’Nex kits to design and construct a distillation tower. We had to stick to the strict guidelines … and teachers were not allowed to help!

We captured some of the moments in this video:

 Our February task for Voices of the World was to present the numbers 1 – 10 in our own language. We were also introduced to Photostory3 and managed to get it downloaded to one of our networked computers this week.

We had great fun with this task! We worked in small groups to come up with our number representations .. thank you AllStars for the idea

The groups had to come up with an ‘audio idea’ to accompany the visual representation of the numbers, and then we voted for the best one. Darren’s group had the most popular rap …. what do you think?

Googlevideo is sometimes not available in our schools, so we’ve made an alternative  ……luckily our video is very short – so using photobucket was ok this time

The children of Primary 7V were let loose this week with our new Canon 350D digital camera. Their task was to photograph ‘the coolest things in school’.  This is the focus of our new Photo-a-day challenge.

We used Photostory 3 to help make this video. Thank you Mrs Tonner from our Voices of the World project for introducing us to this great resource:) 

Miss Law asked Primary 7V to choose what they wanted to write about this week ……. and they came up with some great ideas!

Some P7’s decided that they wanted to share their writing on their wikis today. We didn’t have much time in the computer suite, but a small snippet of their writing is included below.

Click on their ‘weemees’ to be transported to their PBwiki spaces

 Chloe is writing a playscript called ‘Mystery Book’. She’d love to see the finished script acted out!

Rebecca’s story is called ‘The Tunnel’. If you like a good mystery story, this one is for you

Nina’s writing piece entitled ‘Yesterday’ – brilliant title and great introduction!

Maryam’s ‘Evil Teacher’ epic ….. I’ve heard the whole thing – it’s scary!!

Bethany’s ‘Daisy in Candyland’ promises to be a great read

 Primary 7V have some great posts recently! For example, Anna posted:

I have decided to do a thing weekly called ‘quote of the day’! I will find some inspirational quotes from celebs or someone i know and post them.What do you think?  Anyway here is my first one

‘Somewhere along the line i made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark side all the time.Now i look at everything i have and think how lucky i am’-Michelle Pfeiffer

And there’s more from Anna

Here is another really inspiring quote…

‘All your dreams come true,If you have the courage to pursue them’ -Walt Disney

You can visit Anna’s blog by clicking on her weemee

Ainsley has been blogging about her love of drawing…

“I just love to draw pictures , it’s really fun. I am quite good at drawing. Last night i drew Eyore , i tried to draw Winnie the pooh and piglet but that didn’t work out , i drew pluto , donald duck and daffy duck. I stuck some of my pictures on the wall in my bed room but i couldn’t put all of them up because i ran out of blue tack.”

You can visit Ainsley’s blog, too – just click on her weemee!

Some of Primary 7V have been blogging about their hobbies. You can read their posts here. You can also click on their ‘Weemee’s’ to visit their individual blogs.

  Bethany has been writing about her interest in drawing.

“Miss law is the student that is in our class at the moment and she is really cool! She has great ideas for work and likes to draw. We started up a drawing club when she came as she is such a brilliant drawer and we want her to help us and give us some tips! Its quite fun and sometimes people come out with some pretty good pieces of art work!”

She’s also considering taking up photography after our visit from John. She wrote:

“……even just having photography as a hobbie would be good, taking pictures of anything. I think that being a photographer would be quite expensive though so i dont know how much I would be willing to pay just for a hobbie!”

 FraserM wrote a great post about his hobbies. He wrote:

“I have quite a lot of hobbies but my two favourite are probably guitar and football. Football is my favourite hobby. I play football at the park with my friends and I also play with a football team called Gairdoch United. I play defense and I don’t score many goals. I used to play up front and then midfield but now I play defense.

 My other hobby is guitar. I’ve been  playing for about five years. I play the guitar below.

Its a black statacaster. I got it last year for my birthday from my Uncle Andy, Auntie Fiona, and my two cousins Kirsten and Kieran.”

Rhiann loves to perform on the stage. She wrote:

“At the Falkirk childrens theatre that i’m in. We are doing Treasure Island. I auditioned for one of the principal parts but I got in the chorus instead. Oh well it doesn’t really matter if i’m not a principal. I could maybe try another time. Anyway i’m a sailor in the chorus which should be quite good because there is pirates as well as sailors in the chorus. I would rather be a sailor anyway because they are cleaner than pirates and i would say they are easier to play as a part. So i can’t wait to see the costumes and to do the show in April, it’s going to be great. In May there is a Big in Falkirk show they do every year so i’m going to be going to audition that and hope i get into it. I don’t know what show they are doing for it be it should be good. At christmas we are doing Oliver which is a really gd film so i can’t wait to audition for that either. All the shows that they are doing this year sound really gd and i hope i get a main part as one of them. lol I think  The Falkirk childrens theatre is a gd theatre to go to. “

 Sophie just loves Art. Everyone in class is always amazed by her wonderful pictures! She wrote:

 ”My hobbie is art. In art there are lots of different things to do such as drawing cutting sticking colouring and more.

The benefit of my hobbie is that I can hang my art work on the wall and make my house look nice. The person involved with my art work is my art teacher. You need equipment for art for example paint brushes, paper, scissors, glue and more. The best feature about art is the way in which you can express your feelings in a creative way. You could also sell your paintings for money.

I would recommend my hobby to others because no matter what skill level you are, you can make something fabulous and feel a real sense of acheivement!!”

We’d love to know what others do in their spare time. Leave a comment and let us know!