morag.macdonald

Since my last post I have been for an interview for a seconded post. I will soon become an Early Level Peripatetic Teacher, one of four to cover Argyll and Bute. The position will involve working in Pre-5 units initially, supporting children and staff. I will be immersed in active learning and look forward to the challenges ahead.

The pupils at school have been busy creating slideshows using KidPix Deluxe 4. They are delighted with their early results and incredibly engaged in the activity. ComicLife is now available for Windows and our authority has licences for it so I shall install it onto the PC’s tomorrow.

I had problems getting the Promethean software to work on our newer iMacs. I installed Version3 and still had problems, eventually after a couple of phonecalls to Promethean have managed to get two more of our classroom IWB’s up and running…… at last.

Today Primary 1 were with me in the computer suite. They are all developing super mouse skills and two even managed to cope with the trackpad on the laptops. One of our pupils with additional support needs works on the whiteboard using the pen, and was literally jumping up and down with delight at what happened when she used the 2Simple Paint program. The others were on KidPix and I love to watch the way they share their discoveries and immediately offer support to show how they did it.

We then went onto look at PoissonRouge, my absolute favourite website for Early Years. The children were enthralled by the number activity and as I put a match to each firework and set it off there were squeals of delight. The children then took it in turns to complete an activity…what fun learning!