Topic/Learning Context

Our Learning Context for this term will be:

Natural Disasters

We will be looking at various natural disasters and extreme weather systems. We will the impact these events have on the people whose lives are affected by them and the impact they have on the economy and the landscape. We will also be learning about the impact Climate Change is having on these systems and what our responsibilities are.

Health and Wellbeing

We will be learning about:

• Friendships, relationships and families
• Physical and emotional changes during puberty
• Body image and self-worth/emotional wellbeing
• Menstruation, reproduction, pregnancy and birth
• Correct vocabulary for male and female body parts including reproductive organs
• Maintaining a healthy body/personal hygiene
• Risk awareness of keeping myself safe
• Parenting and responsibility, caring for a child/baby

Literacy

We will be:

• Learning about persuasive features of texts
• Learning to write persuasively using emotive language
• Learn note taking skills and how to effectively skim and scan for information.
• Continue to improve our written work and story writing skills through focusing on some of the technical aspects of our writing, for example, creating plots, settings and character descriptions.
• Continue to work on comprehension skills during our Reading and Language skills through our class novels.
• Continue to learn spelling rules, topic related words and high frequency words to help develop our spelling.

Core Numeracy

• Continue to develop our Mental Maths and problem solving skills.
• Learn how to identify types of angles and how to use a protractor to calculate the measurement of an angle
• Investigating common units and different ways to measure time/speed against each other.
• Continue to develop our Money skills will focusing on budgets and strategies to solve money problems.
• Working on calculating durations of time and reading timetables

RME

• We will be learning about Christianity and the link between belief systems and how that impacts their outlook on living their lives.

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a good break and are ready for the year ahead.

We have got straight back to hard work here in Primary 7 as time is of the essence before heading off to high school.

We have decided our topic is going to be on extreme weather and natural disasters followed by ecological issues facing the earth and what role we can play in helping.

In maths we have been learning about algebra which we have discovered it is not a scary or difficult as we thought it would be and is actually good fun.

We have been focusing on developing our understanding of information texts by note taking, summarising and creating questions. This generated a great deal of good quality discussions and a better understanding of why these strategies will be important in the future, especially when studying in high school.

Wow! what a bust few weeks!

P7 have presented their own assembly on Enterprise and how much they have learned about budgeting, profit and loss, giving correct change and finding deals.

We loved seeing so many parents there to support us. We also offered tea and coffee and ran a family quiz and a  raffle to start off our fund raising for our end of term celebration.

We then started organising our Christmas Fayre. We worked hard in our teams to create shopping lists after searching for the best deals on the internet. Our teachers bought what we needed and we were able to get started on producing the good we wanted to sell.

The Fayre was very successful! All the pupils were able to come and visit the stalls with their parents and buy what they wanted. Some stall sold out with in half an hour!

We have a rough calculation of how much we earned but we are waiting for the office ladies to double check it for us… fingers crossed we counted right because if we did, the total is phenomenal! watch this space to find out!

We also took part in the Christmas concerts, which we loved as we got to sing festive songs!

This week is just as busy, we have our party tomorrow and our trip to the Money Museum on the mound on Wednesday! Watch out for our updates via Twitter!

We would like to thank everyone for their continuing support and wish you all a lovely festive break when it comes!

Primary 7S

Since our last post we have been super busy ! We have been learning about the pollination and fertilisation of plants, how seeds are dispersed and how animals and birds help the process.

We have also been practicing growth mindset at skiiing. We had so much fun last week and everyone who was there loved it and did really well. We are all looking forward to returning this week for more practice.

We are continuing to work on our enterprise topic and have been learning all about how to add and subtract money, calculate a profit and  cooperation skills.

We have also been practicing our assembly and are looking forward to showing you everything we have been doing to learn about the work of business.

In literacy we have been learning how to use commas appropriately . We looked through all our previous writing and identified when we used them correctly and where we should have used them but didn’t. 

We have had a very busy few weeks back. We have finished off our topic on the Titanic and have moved on to learning about running an Enterprise. We will be learning the different roles people have within business and how to run a succsessful business. We have been watching Junior Apprentice to learn some tips on how to and how not to work with the teams.

We completed application forms, outlining the skills we have that best suit the roles. We have completed our first team building activity by creating the highest tower using only 6 bits of paper.

We we are continuing to learn multiplication and division skills in particular in written form and how to deconstruct a word problem. We have also been learning about fractions.

We are focussing on developing our comprehension skills by analysing a text and creating questions that demonstrate a deep understanding of the text. 

This week we have been learning to write personal accounts of time of the Titanic. We have been ensuring we have used the correct tense and written it in a diary form.

We have also been learning about how to limit the spread of germs and how to keep our selves safe. We learned about the role of antibiotics and the impact they have had on our lives.

In maths we have been revising addition of large numbers, subtraction using decomposition and multiplying and dividing HTU. We have realised the importance of knowing our times tables to help us with these skills.

We have been working on our presentation skills by creating a design brief for a vessel that can float. We applied out scientific knowledge to ensure our designs would work. We will be applying our knowledge in practice next week when we help the primary 2 classes to learn about properties of floating and sinking.

We have also been working together to create a modern and a traditional advertisement for going on the Titanic. Half of us have been making old style poster and the other half are writing scripts to film  a modern advert using technology. ( more will follow next week!)

This week we have been busy learning about micro organisms and how they impact on our lives. We researched what micro organisms are and found they fall into 3 categories, viruses, bacteria and fungi. We used glitter to demonstrate how easily germs spread and used lavender oil and an “air blaster” to show how far a sneeze carries we then set up and experiment to find out what conditions fungus grows best in and how quickly it grows on different foods. We placed different food types in bags and we are going to observe what happens over the next few weeks. The blackberries are already going mouldy!

We have also been learning about fractions and working out some tricky calculations like simplifying, adding fractions / subtracting and    ensuring the denominator is the same.

In literacy we have been making links with the Titanic topic and have been writing in a personal style. We have designed diaries and are practicing writing in the correct tense to reflect the life of the different classes of passengers.

We have been practicing reading for information, geography skills and improving general knowledge by following the rugby World Cup. By creating a  fact file on Japan and other countries playing in the competition we will increase our knowledge an understanding of these countries and develop our research skills. 

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

General Information:

Welcome to the start of new session here at Redwell. I am looking forward to continuing working with you and your child throughout the year. I’m sure P7 will thrive on the challenges and responsibilities that their final year in Primary will bring. They have already settled into our daily routines and have impressed me with their positive attitudes to learning and working with others.

P7 continue to have two 45 minute sessions of P.E each week, one on a Monday and one on a Friday. They will also have an extra 30 minutes of P.E. with me on a Thursday. The pupils will have Art with Mrs Barron, Food Technology with Miss Robinson or Music with Mrs Pennie every Tuesday, on a rotational basis. A reminder that Golden Time is on a Friday afternoon and a selection of activities will be available. Please ensure your child returns their Golden Time Diary on a Monday.

Topic/Learning Context

After consultation with the pupils, we have decided that our Learning Context for this term will have a history focus and will look at The Unsinkable Ship, The Titanic. We have started to look at the construction of the Titanic and the passengers onboard. We have created biographies for the passengers. Next week, we will look more closely at the class system used during the time of The Titanic.

Through this topic we will:

• Look at the timeline of events in the construction, sinking and discovery of The Titanic.
• Look at floating and sinking objects and use this knowledge to design and construct model boats to float (or sink) in the school pond.
• Research the class system on The Titanic and use ICT to create fact files of different passengers.
• Research the length of The Titanic and other famous ships and use this knowledge to create scaled drawings (1cm to 1m) in the playground using chalk.

Core Literacy

• Continue to improve our written work and story writing skills through focusing on some of the technical aspects of our writing, for example punctuation and grammar, as well as maintain the development of engaging our readers through word choice and descriptive phases.
• Develop and produce a variety of imaginative writing and organise writing with a clear structure and logical sequence ensuring we are referring back to our plan.
• Continue to work on comprehension skills during our Reading, Language and Interdisciplinary activities.
• Continue to learn spelling rules and participate in a variety of activities to promote and help develop our spelling.

Core Numeracy

• Consolidate an understanding of place value – that the individual digits that form a number each have a value and to build and describe numbers in a variety of ways.
• To further work on all multiplication tables and develop memory skills for these.
• To develop our understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages. Currently we have been focusing on fractions: learning how to calculate equivalent fractions, how to simplify fractions fully, find fractions of a product and add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.

Thank you for your continuing support!

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