Primary 7 Safe Taysiders

Primary 7 attended Safe Taysiders yesterday which was held at Baluniefield Police Station.  Pupils were learning safety lessons for life and were put to the test to see how they would handle a variety of emergency situations.

Special scenarios were staged by representatives from the emergency services and other Community Safety Partnerships agencies. These are tailored to test the reactions of the young people and educate them about to what to do if they are ever faced with a real emergency situation.  These scenarios included dealing with fire, internet safety, anti social behaviour, stranger danger, electricity dangers, drugs and alcohol, flood dangers and safe travel.

Primary 7 Creating a Growth Mindset Culture in our Classroom

Primary 7 have been discussing growth mindset and what it means to us in our everyday lives. Eight words were written down – dedication, success, risks, mistakes, perseverance, effort, courage and creativity – and they had to write what the word means to them or draw a picture to illustrate what it means. Everyone discussed that mistakes are the way to learn, they allow thinking to happen and they are central to the learning process, great job Primary 7!

Primary 7 Drama

This term we are reading Wonder and an important theme of the novel is bullying. We created a role play in a drama lesson in which we were presented with a letter from a boy who could not cope with what was happening at school. In groups, we came up with ideas to explain what might have happened to the boy at school and turned this into a role play.