Punctuation using an interactive whiteboard

Dawn Davidson is a teacher at Tullos Primary School and uses an interactive whiteboard with eight of her P7 pupils who are working towards Level D in writing. She is keen to develop resources for literacy and has created her own punctuation exercise using the Easiteach Literacy software. Her pupils take it in turns to come up to the board and use the software tools to add punctuation marks and capital letters and to correct misspelled words.

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Teacher Profile

Dawn Davidson has been teaching for seven years at Tullos Primary School. She is the school’s ICT coordinator and has had New Opportunities Fund (NOF) training and is part of Masterclass. She works once a week with her whole class in the ICT suite. Pupils can also use the three computers in the classroom.

Tullos Primary School is situated in an area of multi-deprivation in south-east Aberdeen. The school was opened in 1950 and now has 280 pupils, 124 of whom have free school lunches. There are 13 pupils with special educational needs and seven who speak English as a second language.

Tullos Primary School has won the Primary School Enterprise Award and an Eco School silver award. In 1999 it successfully bid to become a community school. Its facilities are now widely used by children and adults. The school has 46 computers, with at least two in every classroom. The IT suite doubles as an art room.