Mrs Stewart’s Message
As we move towards the end of term and the school year, we are now concentrating on our P7 Show. It is a fantastic team effort-the creativity and commitment being shown by the children is outstanding! Thank you so much for the invitation to the 2018 P7 Leavers’ BBQ. It is a privilege to be invited and I’m really looking forward to going.
Mrs Stewart
Trips to Cults Academy
On Thursday the 15th and Thursday the 22 March, our class went to the Academy for our transition visits. Everyone in the class was very excited! When we got to there, we got told to go to a room where we met a man called Mr Sutherland who was the pupil support teacher of a house called Cairn. After the introduction of what life is going to be like at the Academy, we got put into groups. Both the groups got told what subjects they were doing that day. The subjects you do is drama/music and social subjects, the other subjects you do are maths and science. Everyone found the experience amazing. We loved it and we can’t wait to go to the Academy after the holidays. (We’ll tell you about our recent two day visit in our next blog.)
Substance Misuse
On Thursday the 29th of March our class had an amazing talk from PC Crawford. PC Crawford came to talk to us about drugs and how you can use them very wrongly and everyone was very interested. What we had to do was, we got given a box which had fake drugs in it. On the back of the box they said what they were and what it could do to you. Everyone got to look at them and we all found it very interesting!
Jemima-Football Final
On Saturday the 18th of May Jemima went to the DANONE national finals in Coventry. She felt nervous and excited. Jemima and her old school football team won the group stage and proceeded to the semi-final. The score for the semi-final was one all and, after extra time, it went to penalties. Fortunately, they were successful and won the penalties. In the final, it was 1-0 and the goal was from our super star Jemima! Well done!
Buddies
Every Thursday we do paired reading with our P1 buddies. Our Buddies come through so we can read stories of their choosing. We have now decided to write a story of our own for them. We are really enjoying writing and getting our imagination juices flowing! We are also really enjoying illustrating the pictures and showing the characters’ emotions!
Amy and Olivia-7S Lifesavers
On the 14th of May Olivia and Amy did a talk about their life saving skills. They did two parts- one part was about lifesaving in water and the other was lifesaving out of water. Amy and Olivia showed the class what position to put someone in if they have fainted. The class also got to see their certificates and medals. We loved it and are very proud of Olivia and Amy.
Three good things a day
Every day at the end of school our class focus on the positives of our day so we say three things we liked about our day e.g.-
- We enjoyed ICT
- We liked the game we played at lunch
- Golden time was fun
Saying these three good things helps our class to think happy thoughts and remember positive things in school, not the negatives. Just remember to smile and have fun!
Dalguise (Please see photos on Mrs Johnstone’s Blog)
On Monday the 21st of May, the three P7 classes went to the traditional place for residential visits, Dalguise. When we arrived at school, everyone was ready and very excited! After we said goodbye to our parents and were on the bus, that’s when the real excitement began! When we arrived at Dalguise we got shown around, like a little tour. We met our ‘Groupies’ called Nancy and Ella who were in charge of our school. After we unpacked we had lunch, the food there was so good. Then, we did our first activities. For groups 1, 2,3,4,5 and 6 it was either problem solving or vertical challenge, but for group 7 it was Trapeze then problem solving. On Tuesday, we had breakfast then everybody went to their activities, The activities on Tuesday, were Canoeing, Trapeze, Zip Wire, Tree Climb, Orienteering and Vertical Challenge. Most people liked all of these activities. On Wednesday, we did Raft Building, Hike, Challenge Course, Tree Climb and Giant Swing. All of these activities were great and everybody loved them! On Thursday, our last day the activities were, Giant Swing, Burn Walk, Climbing, Hiking and Challenge Course. These activities were amazing and probably the best ones for our last day!
While we were at Dalguise we did evening activities. Our first evening activity on Monday was Campfire. On Tuesday, our evening activity was Capture the Flag which was really fun! On Wednesday, our activity was Passport to the World which was something that our year had never played before. On the last night/ Thursday night we did a disco which was fun and energetic! Usually the evening activities lasted from 19:15-20:45.
Overall, Dalguise was amazing and we loved it so much that we would definitely go back! Next year’s P7s will love it!
By Niamh, Eryka and Sophie M.
