This week we have been learning and creating …

Decimal Fractions to 3 decimal places; understanding the place value of the three places after the decimal point. reading and writing the values of decimal fractions correctly; partitioning and ordering decimal fractions.

Strategies to help us get out of the learning pit – ask you child about the 5 B’s.

Learning about writing in past tense.

Writing, on the computer, a recount of our skiing lessons (in past tense of course). The class were keen to continue this activity over two days in order to complete the task as best they could. The pictures below show how engaged they were in the activity:

Learning more about the Titanic disaster.

Writing a diary entry as a Titanic passenger, starting from the day before the ship departed from Southampton.

In introduction the three types of micro-organisms.

And much more.

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 demonstrated 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 Wednesday and one on a Friday. They will also have a further 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. Golden Time is on a Friday afternoon. 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. In the coming weeks, 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.
• 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.

The mindmap below (created by 2 from the class) summarises our learning this week.

The pictures below give a glimpse of our time skiing at Tillicoultry ski slope.

Getting Ready.

 Having fun.

 Improving our skills.

A mindmap of the week’s learning, created by two of the class. Need to work on memory skills … seems they forgot a few things 😉

… and greetings.

That’s us now into our 3rd week of the our new school session. P7W have settled in really well. The class have responded very well to their new role as responsible P7 role models through the various jobs they have to do getting lots of positive feedback from many round the school – a great start!

Please keep an eye on the school Twitter feed for up-to-date as-it-happens action from this class and the rest of the school.