A second superb day in an Aberdeenshire primary school. This time, at Rothienorman school.

Caroline Denning, ICT Project Officer is going to tell you all about our day.

“What a fantastic day! All of the delegates at our session were totally inspired and motivated by Tim in the first session of the day.  He showed us some of the superb pieces of writing some of his children had produced. 

How many of us remembered his daughter’s name?  Not one and I’m sure some doubted that the children would but Tim assured us that, yes, they would. 

He only mentioned her name once, in passing, but indeed! …all the children did remember Ellie’s name.  Children do have well developed observation skills!

In the second session of the day we all went to work with some children in Noreen Hall’s class P4/5 and some P5’s from Mrs Dorsett’s class.  What an enthusiastic bunch.  Tim had them imagining he was going to shoot all the teachers with darts from his ‘Mr Walker’ walking stick.  Then they all saw colours being blown from the holes in the stick - I think, if we’re honest, we all saw the colours.

When we got into the writing session the children created some brilliant pieces of descriptive writing.  All of the children were desperate to share their work.  We had some pieces read out and the ‘thumbs up’ was given by the rest of the class.  We had the wind chimes described as a ‘fairy battle’ going on round the ‘crispy crumbling rocks’.

The children all actively shared their thoughts and got really excited when they had to choose their most favourite word and ‘dotty sparkled it’.  After a countdown they all shouted out their own choice - they ’splatted’ Tim with words! 

Lastly, with the pupils, Tim chose a boy to take on the persona of the writer in Myst.  He came down to the front and told the class a little about himself.  They began to ask him questions and he very quickly fell into character, down to the rubbing of his chin as though he had a short beard.  He even developed an accent and fell into the role as if he did that every day.

At lunch time we all had the opportunity to share experiences.  Maren from Monymusk school discussed with us how she had been using Myst in her class.  She said her children loved the game and contributed lots to the writing in the class.  She said it was nothing to do with her - it was the children!   Tim wants to ‘bottle’ her.

In the afternoon we all had a wee shot at working through Myst.  We didn’t quite want to stop and the time has flown by - and there’s MORE!”

Caroline

I thoroughly enjoyed today too. A lot of creativity and laughter. Thank you to all of the staff and children today. I can see more Myst Magic happening very soon.

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