This afternoon Primary 7 were learning what school was like for Victorian children, they experienced a nature drawing lesson and drew with chalk.  Tomorrow we will visit the Victorian classroom at Ancrum Road Primary School and are looking forward to the experience!

This week Primary 7 had their time at the pony therapy this week, they all thoroughly enjoyed this experience and hope to get the chance to do it again.

Primary 7 created some fantastic art during outdoor learning, they worked in groups and used whatever materials they could find, some groups created a rainbow of rubbish and helped to tidy the playground at the same time.

Primary 7 took part in a Chi-Kung workshop on Thursday. Chi-Kung is a gentle Chinese exercise that helps to improve health, increase energy, improve balance, reduce stress and boost the immune system. The class enjoyed the exercises and Gordon that delivered the workshop was fantastic! We will use some of the exercises he showed us in the classroom alongside our mindfulness programme.

Josh is being very brave and having his head shaved to raise money for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Ninewells Hospital. If anyone in the class would like to donate some money to this fantastic cause, here is the link to Josh’s fundraising page:

http://Www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/josh-horne

Primary 7 took part in a workshop this week delivered by the S2 Anne Frank Ambassadors from St John’s.  This was very engaging and the Primary 7’s enjoyed the workshop, particularly the quiz at the end to test their knowledge of prejudice, discrimination and persecution.

Thank you very much to the S2 pupils and Miss Knox.

This week Primary 7 have been learning about inventions from the Victorian Era and the difference these inventions made to the lives of people during this time. They then worked together to create their own inventions and will take part in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitch to convince their classmates that their invention is the best!

This term, Primary 7 have been developing their word-processing skills in a range of contexts and this week they used Powerpoint to create an Instagram profile for Queen Victoria.  This allowed the pupils to create a biography of Queen Victoria and evidence all of the learning they have undertaken in our IDL topic. Great job P7, they look fantastic!

Today Primary 7, along with Primary 3, took part in a Scottish Country Dancing Festival which was held at St Andrew’s Primary. Both classes thoroughly enjoyed the festival and put in lots of effort to learn the dances!

Primary 7 took part in Fit Thursday and enjoyed lots of different activities – hockey, gymnastics, dance, yoga and we finished off the day with a whole school mile run!