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St John’s Animated Encyclopaedia: Beetles

This animation was produced by pupils in P4N in St John’s Primary School in Ayr and looks at beetles. The pupils learned about how beetles were used in the past to cure some skin conditions. They worked together to produce the script and developed the animation in a group of 4 in a one-day workshop [...]

St John’s Animated Encyclopaedia: Octopuses

This animation was produced by pupils in P4N in St John’s Primary School in Ayr and looks at the octopus: its habitat, eating habitats and ability to camouflage itself. The children worked together to produce the script and developed the animation in a group of 4 in a one-day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.

St John’s Animated Encyclopaedia: Arachnids

This animation was produced by pupils in P4N in St John’s Primary School in Ayr and looks specifically at arachnids. The children worked together to produce the script and developed the animation in a group of 4 in a one-day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.

St John’s Animated Encyclopaedia: Worms

This animation was produced by pupils in P4N in St John’s Primary School in Ayr and looks specifically at worms. The children researched the topic and worked together to produce the script. They then developed the animation in a group of five in a one-day workshop with Radio Lingua Schools.

The Animated Encyclopaedia

Over the next few weeks the children of P4 and P5 in St John’s Primary in Ayr will be taking part in a number of animation activities, leading to the development of the St John’s Animated Encyclopaedia, supported by Radio Lingua Schools. Currently P4 are working on animal habitats, and P5 are learning about parts [...]

Winter Olympics language lessons

Radio Lingua Schools has been working with Gavinburn Primary in West Dunbartonshire, supporting their innovative Winter Olympics project. Pupils in primary 3 and 4 are working on a project based around the theme of the Winter Olympics and each class has taken on the role of one of the participating countries. The pupils have been [...]

Newshounds – St John’s Primary News Project

Over the past few weeks, a pilot group of primary 6 pupils from St John’s have been developing their journalism skills, reporting on what has been happening in the school in the past month. This is part of a larger project in the school which will see all of the primary 6 pupils involved in [...]

Practising Primary Spanish with Garageband

In the early stages of learning a language, learners have a limited range of vocabulary and it’s often difficult to find interesting and motivating ways to practise the few words and phrases they have learned. This was exactly the experience of teachers in St Mark’s, Irvine, and Radio Lingua Schools designed a workshop around providing [...]

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Mandarin Animations – In the Jungle

The group working on In the jungle chose had been learning numbers, so they decided to build their animation around the numbers yī èr sān sì wǔ (一二三四五) or “one, two, three, four, five”. The pupils involved in creating this animation wrote their scripts based on the phrases they had learned while following the Radio Lingua [...]

Mandarin animations – Volcano Land

The group working on Volcano Land chose to build their animation around the phrase wǒ huì shuō pǔ tōng huà (我会说普通话) or “I can speak Mandarin”. The pupils involved in creating this animation wrote their scripts based on the phrases they had learned while following the Radio Lingua One Minute Mandarin course over four weeks.
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