March | 2018 | 7S Cults Primary

P7S Class Blog

We have had a very busy time with regards to visits and visitors this term and are extremely grateful to everyone who has supported our learning experiences. Our Open Day is on Friday 23^rd March 9.15-10.30am and 2.00-3.15pm. We very much look forward to seeing everyone who can manage to come.

Mrs Stewart

Class Debate

We really enjoyed our latest class debate about whether or not advertisements persuade people to buy things they can’t afford. On the day of our debate, there was a special visitor in school to watch our debate. Both teams had two speakers with Amnah and Ryan-arguing for the motion and Eryka and Aidan-arguing against the motion. The leaders were Niamh and Jamie Baghurst! For the debate, we all made posters and leaflets. We found fabulous facts to put on our posters which we found at school and at home for homework. Everyone put forward a great argument and the end result was a draw!

WW2 Workshop

On Monday the 5^th of February, we had an amazing workshop from Mr Paterson and Dr Brown to teach us about the impact of WWII in Aberdeen. First, we watched a powerful video about what happened when a bomb hit people’s homes. Next, Mr Paterson showed us some photos of bombed places in Aberdeen and what they look like now. He also told us about the main targets in the city that the Germans were planning to bomb and why. After that, we went to different research stations to learn more about WWII in Aberdeen. There were a lot of stations, so most people only got a few completed within the time.

Visit from NSPCC

On Thursday the 15^th of February, Heather from the NSPCC came to talk to our class about children’s rights and how to stay safe. A good way to remember the Childline number is to act out the numbers with your hands. Heather showed us some videos from real life problems that children have. One of the activities that we did was completing a quiz in groups. When we were in our groups, we had to discuss the questions. All the groups got the right answers! Near the end of the workshop, we completed sheets which had book marks with the NSPCC number on it. After that, we made fortune tellers and you had write about things that make you feel safe. Heather also brought a speech mark toy called Buddy to motivate us and remind us to speak out!

Sporting achievements

Sophie M. and Ihsan have made some super sporting achievements! Sophie achieved great success with her ice skating. She didn’t skate in one team, she skated in two! Sophie did a fabulous ‘Show and Tell’ to the class, showing pictures and videos. We all really enjoyed seeing this and think she’ll go far with her skating!

Ihsan also had great success in his rugby tournament. Ihsan showed both of his trophies to the class, one of them was very big and the other one was smaller. He won the smaller trophy in Edinburgh at Mackie Academy. The second trophy Ihsan showed the class, was the bigger one which his team won at the Deeside tournament at the rugby club. Ihsan won these trophies last year, but the whole team only got the trophies for a week each. It was Ihsan’s turn last week. So, well done Sophie and Ihsan we are all really proud of you both!

Visit from Mr Gerard Vlaar

This term, we have been learning about World War Two. As a very special treat, Mr Vlaar came in to teach all the P7s about his experience as a young child during the War in Holland and how hungry they were during that time. He told us what he remembered about where the planes dropped bombs. Mr Vlaar had some interesting stories to tell. There were some scary parts, like when his brother got lost in another part of the country! We all really enjoyed his visit, so we decided to make him a thank you card. We didn’t feel like that was enough, so we gave him some presents. Mrs Stewart bought a cake, some chocolates and a box of biscuits because Mr Vlaar told us stories about how serious the lack of food was when he was a child. He ended his talk on a happy note when he told us that when he first tasted bread after the War, he thought it was cake!

Thank you so much, Mr Vlaar!

Electromagnetism Workshop

On Friday the 23^rd of February, we went to the Aberdeen Science Centre to learn about electromagnetism. While we were there, we were filmed by Roy Stewart who is a fabulous cameraman! It was very exciting! During the workshop, we all went in groups and carried out different experiments with magnets and discovered how magnets are made and when they were invented. After the workshop was done and we had our lunch, we got to try out different experiments at some stations. Some were quite challenging and some were quite easy.

At the Science Centre, they have this room called the Theatre Room and the audience sits in seats and watches the staff do different experiments. When we went, we were the only class in the theatre room so it was amazing to see and take part in the cool experiments. For the different experiments the instructor, Bob, needed some volunteers, so he asked some people to go up to the front. The first experiment was with a plasma ball and it was very cool. The next experiment, was seeing through things with a special torch that you usually wouldn’t see. Thank you to all our volunteers! Thanks also to Aberdeen Science Centre and Mr Stewart from all of us here in 7S. We had a great time!