In school p7 we have been reading and writing short stores. A short stories that we read called the Examination is a story about a young boy called Richard that lives in an oppressive state. In the oppressive state when you grow to the age of twelve you have to get an I.Q. test to see how intelligent you are. When Richard takes the test he get killed because he exceeded the test. After reading the short story, p7 then wrote a book review on the Examination. We sructured the book review by answering questions like ‘how was the story structured’ and ‘what do you think about the opening’ also questions like ‘what is the theme of the book’ and ‘can you describe the setting of the story’ also ‘what do you think about the ending’. I found the actual story was great but I most enjoyed how the story is so unpredictable and twisted at the end. Writing the book review, I found it most interesting because it makes you read in between the line to find out more about the story.
Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
In class, p7 have been learning to convert fractions, decimals and percentages, we have been focusing mainly on fractions and decimals. Fun Fact: If in a decimal, a number is repeated lots of times, like 1/3 is 0.33333333 etc. you would write 0.3 with a º above the 3.
We have learned lots more, like :
1/4 is 0.25 so 2/4 would be 0.5 you would keep doubling until you got to 4/4 which is 1.00
1/2 is 0.5 which is equivalent to 2/4
1/5 is 0.2 so 2/5 would be 0.4 .
1/6 would be 0.166
1/10 would be 0.1 because there is 10 10ths in 1
We have also been learning to convert percentages to decimals for example:
20% as a decimal is 0.2 as a fraction is 1/4
25% as a decimal is 0.25 as a fraction is 1/5
50% as a decimal is 0.5 as a fraction is 1/2
75% as a decimal is 0.75 as a fraction is 3/4
80% as a decimal is 0.8 as a fraction is 4/5
100% as a decimal is 1.0 as a fraction is 1/1
These are just some of the vast array of fractions, decimals and percentages in the known world. Hope you found this intreaging and interesting. hopefully you have learned something new.
By Anwen and Izzy 🙂
P7 Science
P7 have been doing a lot of science lately for there topic about water. They have been learning some very good scientific words. They have been doing experiments using evaporation. Evaporation means a change from liquid to steam or vapour. They recently did an experiment to make clean water when they put vinegar, flour, sugar, baking soda and water in a cup and mixed it. Then we cut a big bottle in half and placing the cup in the bottom half and placed the top half on and the water in it would turn to steam and go to the side of the bottle and run down to the bottle and sit at the bottom as pure water. They also did another experiment when you put sand, water, bicarbonate of soda and vinegar in a tub and put a cup that is lower than the rim. Then you cover it in cling film tightly and tape it, then put a small rock above the cup and it will evaporate. They are all enjoying this topic so far and love the experiments they did.
By Annie & Beth
World Book Day
On Thursday 5th March it was world book day, everyone had to bring in their favourite book and dress up as their favourite character. We dressed up as Sarah Midnight from the book Dreams and Tilly from Magic Spirit. The first thing did was reading one of our favourite sentences from our book. In the morning some of the p7’s had to go and read to the nursery, we read them their favourite book. While the rest of us played games answering questions about books. We then read a short story in our reading groups called Examination Day as part of World Book Day. It was a really great story. Overall we had a great day and everyone looked great in their costumes.
By Emily and Jodie 🙂
Disability Discrimination
This is our power point on Disability Discrimination. We have been learning in class all about discrimination so we chose to do this one! By Emily and Jodie P7 🙂
What are those dinosaurs doing…….?
Check out P1/2’s new blog…..Adventures with Dinosaurs to find out what these dinosaurs are up to! Follow the link from the Learning Blog.
Eco Update
Wednesday 21st January
- Welcomed by Oliver
- Not Present-Jasmine, Ciara and Anwen weren’t there.
- Discussed Paula’s visit. We read her assessment form and put it in the notice board.
- Progress on action points. Litter police needs to get started back up again. Fairtrade tuck is getting started up soon. Water wasting is going to be getting measured and recorded.
- Fundraiser at Christmas- Sold some bags.
- Action Points- Eva- Litter sign for the pitch. Mirren- Suggestion box. Annie & Rebecca- Water fountain poster. Torin & Eva- Pen mark on water bottles. Anwen & Eva- Fairtrade tuck.
- Date of next meeting- next term with new eco moniters.
We are going to be getting all of our action points done and start them up.
By Annie Farrell
P1/2 prepare to blast off
P1/2 have just finished building their Space Station and are looking forward to their trip into space. They have been been busy with their astronaut training – fitness and fine motor skills using different gloves, tweezers and litter pickers so that they can conduct space repairs in the Space Work Module (with tumble drier pipe and gloves!). The astronaut food is ready and we are just waiting for our spacesuits to arrive…….
Robert Burns Day
Every year our school has a Burns celebration and all the classes in the school take part to learn a Scottish poem and also some of the main Scottish country dances. We enjoyed learning Strip The Willow it was so much fun. On Wednesday 21st January all the classes got assessed and in all the classes only six people got through to the finals. Then on the Thursday each of the finalists took it in turn to say it on front of three judges. On Friday 23rd January we had Burns Lunch and then everyone’s friends and family came up for a ceilidh where we also found out the results of the poem!!
Here Are The Results:
P7-Adress To The Haggis 1st Elizabeth Macmillan 2nd Abbie Morris 3rd Annie Farrell
P6- Twa Corbies 1st Bronagh Newman 2nd Ross Thompson 3rd Mirren Brown
P5- My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose 1st Struan Colthart 2nd Ruaridh Macdonald 3rd Natalie Logan
P4- Oor Dentist 1st Rowan Morris 2nd Matthew Campbell 3rd Rebecca Morris
P3- The Brickies On The Building Site 1st Ellen Brown 2nd Holly Mckechnie 3rd Alexander Mctavish
P2- Sair Finger 1st Katherine Borthwick 2nd Dearbhla Newman 3rd Charlotte Rose and Millie Hollyoake
P1- Owe You Canne Throw A Sanne 1st Ricky 2nd Ciara 3rd Phoenix Davey
Overall we had a great time!!
By Emily and Jodie
Visit From Maggie Bell
Today Thusday 22nd Januray I had a visit from a lady called Maggie who makes bags. As part of my Endeavour i am making a bag from scratch and she was going to come in and talk about different bags. She taught me how to make handles and how to put lining in the inside of my bag. Also she showed me some of her bags which has giving me some ideas. Thanks very much !!!
By Jodie 🙂
