Well done to all the Primary 7 pupils and parents who took part in “Bag Packing” at Morrison’s on Saturday 13th January. We managed to raise a huge £641.87! More fundraising will have to take place to cover the remaining cost of the bus, so if anyone has a good fundraising idea, please let us know.

P7A Newsletter Term 3

Well done to all our teams who took part in the Junior Enterprise Game.

Party preparation!

Primary 7 enjoyed a visit to Ab-Safe. They learned about the different dangers within the home, outwith the home and online.

Group 2 have been enjoying skiing lessons on Tuesday mornings. Some pupils are staying in school to complete various team building activities and others are mountain biking. The aim is to improve problem solving skills, co-operation, team work and resilience.

P7A Newsletter Term 2

Primary 7A have been learning about various movements within gymnastics. They have developed different rolls, jumps and balances. To challenge the pupils there were asked to complete a course to combine all the skills which they have learning over the past few weeks.

Primary 7A were asked to solve this problem from their novel ‘The Garbage King’;
Dani and Mamo are desperate for clean water. They have found a well however it is too deep for them to access the water. Can you create a pulley system to help Mamo and Dani?
The pupils found out that the more pulleys that were added the less effort would be required to move the load (the water). When a single pulley was added to move 600ml, 600g of effort was required. When a double pulley was added to move 600ml, 300g of effort was required. When a triple was added to move 600ml, 200g of effort was required to move the load.

P7A were creating higher order thinking questions based on Blooms Taxonomy to challenge their own and others thinking. They created questions based on; remembering, understanding and analysing. All the pupils demonstrated a deeper understanding of the text and were able to justify their own ideas and build onto others.