Last week P7B were lucky enough to get the opportunity to be tour guides of our school when we had visitors from Norway.  Today we worked with our tour guide companions to compose emails to our visitors. We hope to learn how to email them this week.

Preparations for Christmas are already underway in the P7B classroom. This year 7B will be undertaking an events management challenge by organising the schools Christmas parties.  So far we have decided to split into two teams which have team leaders chosen by the class. Our first task was to sit down in our teams and give ourselves a name and decide upon a logo that we can be known for.  So that it was fair we let everyone have their say, put their ideas forward and then we voted.  One group decided to do a blind vote so that the vote was fair.

Our next step is to think about our strengths as a team and create a pitch to Mrs Boyd on what party we should get to manage based on our interests and strengths.

Primary 7B Newsletter

Term 2

2018-19

Welcome back to Primary 7B, I hope you all had a lovely October  holiday and are ready to embrace Term 2 with the same attitude that proved successful in Term 1.   

This term in Numeracy and Mathematics we are going to be looking at ‘Money’ which will link into our Enterprise project of ‘Event Management’ this term.  The boys and girls are looking forward to organising and facilitating the Christmas parties. The pupils of P7B will be learning about an awareness of money and how it is used, coins and notes, exchanging money for goods, money calculations, understanding money in the digital world, understanding risks and rewards and understanding the impact of financial decisions.  

This term in Language and Literacy we will continue to read our whole class novel called ‘ The Garbage King’ by Elizabeth Laird.  In addition to this, reading will also be heard weekly in a group and also individually through ‘ Fluency Tutor’ which is linked to our Google Classrooms.  For spelling we will be learning spelling rules. Each week we will learn a new spelling rule and investigate/learn words which are linked to this rule. In grammar we are going to be strengthening our knowledge and practise the use of different pieces of punctuation for example the semi- colon and parenthesis.  In writing we are going to be learning how to write poetry, instructions and diary entries.

Miss Leitch, from Hazlehead Academy, will be taking the class on a Tuesday afternoon for Science . They will be learning about renewable energy this term.

In RME this term we will be furthering our knowledge of Christianity and the Christmas Story.

Physical Education will be taught twice a week by Mrs Boyd on a Monday and Mr Friel, the PE Specialist,at a new slot on a Friday.  Please ensure that you have a change of clothes/ shoes and all jewellery is removed prior to the lesson in accordance with Aberdeen City Council Policy.  

In Digital Technologies this term we will be exploring how to use the different application of  Google Classrooms. For example, Google Sheets, Google Forms, Google Slides and Google Docs which will support us with our events management topic.

Mrs Boyd

P7B have started their journey towards achieving their Silver JASS Award.

We got our JASS Achievement Files this week and started to make decisions on what our areas of interest will be within the four certificated categories.

We will be doing work for our JASS Awards in and out of school.

Below is a link to the JASS Award website for more information –

https://www.jasschools.org.uk

P7B went on a beautiful nature walk around the school playground this week. We made leaf rubbings with the leaves we were finding on the ground. Afterwards the boys and girls took the nursery children up to our classroom to read them a story and have a snack.

Mrs Boyd brought in some apples from her mum’s garden and we made ‘Apple Crumble’ with it.

We worked together to cut the apples and make the crumble topping.  The best bit was eating it when it was ready.

We worked with Adventure Aberdeen on an assortment of team building activities.

We split up into groups and got a chance to try the different task with our team.

We learned it is important to communicate, be patient and to try and try again if it doesn’t work the first time.

P7B girls got the chance to visit Hazlehead Academy and take part in a female empowerment workshop.

They took part in various activities which included sating nice things about one another, power poses and learning about a female pirate.

Primary 7B went to Techfest to learn more about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

It was hosted in Robert Gordon’s University and we were all very impressed by the modern building.

We got to learn all about the science of rubbish, build a real life swing bridge and take part in sports science experiments.

Primary 7B Newsletter

Term 1

2018-19

Welcome to Primary 7B, I hope you all had a lovely summer holiday and are ready to come back to school and take on the roles and responsibilities of Primary 7.  

This term in Numeracy and Mathematics we are going to be looking at ‘Ideas of chance and probability’.  Through this we will be learning how to use and apply the following vocabulary correctly; probability, chance, good chance, poor chance, no chance, risk, doubt, equally likely, equal chance, even chance, fifty-fifty, biased and random. The progression of our learning through this topic in maths will be simple choice and decision making, predicting and describing likelihood, choice and decision making based on likelihood, probability and applying knowledge of probability.  In addition to this we will be looking at measurement. Through this we will be learning to understand and use the following vocabulary; measurement,standard, metric, imperial unit,millilitre (ml), centilitre (cl), pint, gallon,breadth,edge, perimeter,metric unit, imperial unit,circumference,feet, foot,inches and inch. The progression of our learning will be awareness of size and amount, comparison of size and amount, the concept of area in standard and non-standard units and the concept of volume.  We will then progress to convert our calculations of measurement.

This term in Language and Literacy we will be reading a whole class novel called ‘ The Garbage King’ by Elizabeth Laird.  In addition to this reading will also be heard weekly in a group and also individually through ‘ Fluency Tutor’ which is linked to our Google Classrooms.  For spelling we will be learning spelling rules. Each week we will learn a new spelling rule and investigate/learn word which are linked to this rule. In grammar we are going to be strengthening our knowledge and practise the use of different pieces of punctuation for example the semi- colon and parenthesis.  In writing we are going to be learning how to write non-chronological reports.

Miss Leitch, from Hazlehead Academy, will be taking the class on a Tuesday afternoon for Science . They will be learning about energy this term.

In RME this term we will be furthering our knowledge of Buddhism by learning about the story and journey of Buddha, ‘ The Four Noble Truths’ and the importance of solitude and thoughtfulness within the religion.

Physical Education will be taught twice a week by Mrs Boyd on a Monday and Mr Friel, the PE Specialist, on a Thursday.  Please ensure that you have a change of clothes/ shoes and all jewelry is removed prior to the lesson in accordance with Aberdeen City Council Policy.  

In Digital Technologies this term we will be exploring how to use the different application of  Google Classrooms. For example, Google Sheets, Google Forms, Google Slides and Google Docs.

Mrs Boyd