{"id":9924,"date":"2020-06-19T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T21:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2020-06-19T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T21:34:15","slug":"end-of-week-11-of-digital-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverbank.aberdeen.sch.uk\/blogs\/blog\/2020\/06\/19\/end-of-week-11-of-digital-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Week 11 of Digital Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Another week has flashed past and we now have only two weeks left before we start the summer holidays or should that be non-holidays! Who knows what we will be allowed and not allowed to do as, slowly but surely, we work our way through the various stages of leaving lockdown!<\/p>\n

It’s been a truly rushed off our feet week for all staff at Riverbank but especially Mrs Ironside. Lots of new documents have been coming our way giving us instructions, guidelines and advice on everything you could possibly imagine and probably things you would never even think of.<\/p>\n

School will definitely look completely different as all soft furnishings, soft toys and rugs are removed from classrooms in order to make everything as hygienic as possible. We don’t want places where viruses can lurk!<\/p>\n

In the coming few weeks, we will provide parents and carers with more information about how our pupils will return to school in August. Things have kicked off with our young learners having been told which classes they will be in and arrangements have been made for them to visit a Google Meet with their new class teacher.\"\"<\/p>\n

For the nursery and new Primary 1 pupils, virtual meetings have been arranged for parents.<\/p>\n

We are still waiting to receive certain guidelines and information from ACC and we will share everything as we know what is expected of us and what is happening.<\/p>\n

All our pupils’ report cards were sent out last Friday, by email. A number of parents did not provide us with an email address or have changed their email address and so we still have quite a few report cards which we have been unable to deliver. If you haven’t received your child’s report card, then please contact us by email and we will arrange to get the report card to you.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the pupils have been toiling away in their digital classrooms and I have been provided with another selection of work for us to share with you.<\/p>\n

Our first offering this week comes from Miss Bush’s P5B class.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a\u00a0spelling<\/strong> task the children were asked to draw a picture of their spelling words. One pupil completed a book review<\/strong> of A Diary of a Wimpy Kid.<\/p>\n

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In the\u00a0Arts and Crafts\u00a0<\/strong>we had a young lady who made a lovely item as a Rainbow Time activity and we saw some pupils try to replicate the famous concentric circles of Wassily Kandinsky.<\/p>\n

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Mr Probart’s P6P\u00a0<\/strong>has offered up a drawing by Patrycja Kolodynska.<\/p>\n

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This reminded me of the work of LS Lowry!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our next contributors are two young gentlemen, Charlie Thomson<\/strong> and Yichen Jiang<\/strong> from P4L – Miss Littler’s class.<\/strong> These two chaps were carrying out maths work on 3D shapes. <\/strong>Charlie and Yichen took a different approach to the work with Charlie finding his 3D shapes in the home before photographing his items and adding them to his worksheet. Yichen, on the other hand, found his 3D items online and copied and pasted them into his worksheet. Well done guys!<\/p>\n

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Yichen found his examples on line. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Our next piece of work is a video. This was sent to me by Mr Flanagan of P2F<\/strong> fame! Remembering that this is a Primary 2 pupil what he did was pretty amazing. Sadly, I cannot name him as I’m not allowed, for security reasons, to have a name and a face together. But we know who he is and I’m not sure if we have a budding scientist, doctor, engineer or inventor on our hands. Mr Flanagan asked the class what they would like to learn about and our young man decided that we should learn about how the heart works, and here he is showing how the heart moves blood from the lower chambers, to the upper chambers and then onto the body! Wow!!!<\/p>\n