Primary 7, your final day of primary school is here and not a bit like any of us thought it might be. I am so glad you all were able to come into school yesterday, what a fantastic last day you had.

I’m sorry for everything you’ve missed out on in the past few months 🙁 Hopefully things are a bit more ‘normal’ for you starting high school in August. Keep following the rules as best you can, so that this can happen.

You have been a fantastic P7 and I will miss you all very much. I hope you can look back on your time at St Ninian’s with happy memories and know that you will be missed.

Have a lovely, safe summer and here are the P7 memories I shared with you all yesterday 🙂

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/ESWWfhPrfzxMv5poSCNrGhMBaGwcEOMXiMtg8AkjffJPQA?e=HCNcrq

Lots of Love, Mrs P xx

Good Morning Primary 7 🙂

I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend! I cannot believe we have reached the last week of term and the last week of Primary 7! Although it is not the normal week we would be having if we were all in school, I am very happy you are all coming in on Thursday 🙂

This week I will not be posting daily numeracy and literacy tasks, if you wish to do some of these tasks you can use the suggested tasks and websites that were on the blog last week.

Tasks for this week (not compulsory) 

– Memories

Think about the past 7 years and think about your favourite memories, jot them down in any way that suits you – you can draw them, use bullet points and write them down or you could even write an extended piece of writing.

–Message to your buddies

Write a message to your P1 buddy, this can be in any format you wish – a drawing, a card or a letter.

-Sumdog Competition

There is a Dundee Sumdog Competition that I have entered the class into, it started on Friday 19th June and runs until 25th June.  https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

–Virtual Tours – take a virtual tour this week!

THEME PARKS – 

Universal Studios, Orlando, United States
Go on a city walk or travel through the production centre.
https://www.xplorit.com/orlando-florida

LegoLand, Florida, United States
Visit LegoLand and navigate with the park map. Enter the Lego Movie World and ride the dragon in VR.
https://www.visitorlando.com/en/things-to-do/virtual-tours/legoland-florida-resort

MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES –

Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Click on ‘launch virtual tour’ under each photo to visit the Louvre Museum.
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne#tabs

National Museum of the United States Airforce, Ohio, United States
Experience a virtual, 360-degree, self-guided tour of the National Museum of the United States Airforce by following the arrows or using the controls along the bottom of the screen.
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com

British Museum, London, England
Visit the British Museum. Explore more than 60 galleries including the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery. Double tap the touch pad to move forwards. You can also scroll along the different areas of the museum at the bottom. Click on the information cards to find out more.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5192048,-0.1274951,2a,75y,172.87h,89.26t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFyBuFtvu6FeVvVVc5–uiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Have a great time at your transition visit and I look forward to  hearing all about it on Thursday! Mrs P 🙂

Hello Primary 7,

Although times are different and we are not spending the final few weeks of Primary 7 as we normally would, we can still work on some tasks that we would have been doing in school. I have put together a selection of tasks related to your transition to secondary school and you can work away on these this week.

1 – Top Tips for Secondary School

Read this document:  https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/EZ3C8qAa2AhLoT07pYgzRnQB25sgZSPd-RJyr6xBHpfLww?e=Sg26Qf

TASK – Using your knowledge and experience of being a Primary 7 and being a buddy and a prefect, can you create a similar ‘top tips’ for the new Primary 7’s – these can be shared with them in August when they start P7.

Think about how you felt when you started P7, the achievements you have made and challenges you have overcome, what words of wisdom would you share?

This can be done in any format you wish – on paper, a word document, a PowerPoint, a video, you can be as creative as you wish! Please email me with your finished Top Tips for P7 🙂

2 – Travelling to your new school

Think about how you will travel to your new school.

• If you will take a bus to school, have a look at bus timetables and plan your journey.  Dundee Bus Timetables:  https://nxbus.co.uk/routes/dundee/
• If you will walk to school, plan your route and if possible maybe you can walk the actual journey beforehand.
• If you will be getting a lift to school, find out from whoever will be dropping you off what time you will need to leave the house.
• If you will be travelling home by a different method than in the morning, plan this too.

3 – New Home

Check out your new home! Look at the website of the secondary school you are going to, find the following:

• School Handbook
• Uniform
• Extra Curricular Clubs and Activities

St John’s RC High School: http://stjohnshigh.ea.dundeecity.sch.uk/

Harris Academy: http://harrisacademy.ea.dundeecity.sch.uk/

High School of Dundee: https://www.highschoolofdundee.org.uk/

4 – Transition Workbook

Complete this Transition Workbook which has various tasks and activities  – you do not need to print it, you can write things down in a jotter or on paper.  You could also download it and save your own copy and then edit it with your answers.  (Please note that slide 7 has a timetable with questions to answer, this is not your actual timetable!)

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/EVJ1Q7my9mFDv6pGOS5ZxEYBc3fP2mu9etdU8O2BMDfyZA?e=pNGoAr

Hello Primary 7 🙂 Here are the literacy tasks for the week, as I said in the previous post you do not need to complete all tasks, simply choose the tasks that are of interest to you and remember you can also look through all of the previous posts and complete some tasks you haven’t already done or use some of the websites that have already been posted.

LITERACY TASKS

1. WORD OF THE DAY – Complete as you have done previously with WORD, MEANING, SYNONYMS, ANTONYMS & UP-LEVELLED PARAGRAPH. The words for this week are – HINDER, TRIUMPHANT, OPAQUE, CYNICAL AND ADVOCATE. 

2. SCHOLASTIC ARTICLES – Read an article/s of interest and create some of your own literal and inferential questions based on the article.  ADDITIONAL TASK – Complete ‘Continue the Learning Journey’ for the article.

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-6-9-week-4.html

3. WONDEROPOLIS – Please go to the Wonderopolis website (QR code is on the grid) and choose a wonder of interest.  Complete the following in your jotters as you have done previously (remember there is a template in your Home Learning Pack)

New Vocabulary – what new words did you see? Write them down and then find out the definition.

Summary – Write the most important information from the article.

An Inference – What can you infer from this article?

https://wonderopolis.org/

4.  POBBLE 365 – Select a picture and then complete some of the activities – if you select the Pick a Day tab at the right hand side of the page you can look through various images.  https://www.pobble365.com/

5. FIRST NEWS – Log into First News and read some articles, take part in debates and complete some of the related activities.  https://ihub.firstnews.co.uk/pupils

6. Authorfy 10 Minute Writing Challenge

Use this website to choose a creative writing challenge that is of interest to you, there are a range of authors and illustrators to choose from. Be as creative as you like!  https://authorfy.com/10minutechallenges/

7. BOOK OF HOPES – This book, edited by Katherine Rundell has contributions from over 100 children’s writers and illustrators and includes words and pictures to comfort, inspire and entertain children.

Read Book of Hopes here for free:  https://issuu.com/bloomsburypublishing/docs/thebookofhopes_interactivepdf

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/

Hello Primary 7 🙂 Here are the numeracy tasks for the week,  you do not need to complete all tasks, simply choose the tasks that are of interest to you and remember you can also look through all of the previous posts and complete some tasks you haven’t already done or use some of the websites that have already been posted.

NUMERACY TASKS

1. GENERATE YOUR OWN BOARD NUMBER using the Mathsbot Question Generator  https://mathsbot.com/questionGenerator

The page will look like this at the top and you can choose how many groups of questions you get. You can start with 1 group of 5-10 questions then build up to more.

Question Generator – I want 1 group containing  10  questions per group.  Then select a topic from the drop down box – for example Arithmetic: Four Operations then choose the level of difficulty (0 being the easiest and 10 being the hardest).  Then select the time limit – start with 10-15 minutes and then click on Create Questions.

2. COUNTDOWN  – Can you reach the target number? The challenge is to use the numbers available and the four standard operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target.  Each number can only be used once but it may not be necessary to use all the numbers.    https://nrich.maths.org/6499

3. MATHS CALENDARS  –Please use the Maths Calendars for some revision and further challenge.

Good Morning Primary 7 🙂

I hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend! This week there will be one numeracy post and one literacy post – please choose from the suggested tasks and activities.  There will also be a transition activities post that I would encourage you to do as I think it will be helpful for you all.

Please also spend time this week learning the words to the leavers’ song that was shared on Teams. If you haven’t sent me a photo of yourself in P1, please can you send me a photo this week as I am putting together a slideshow. If it is easier for an adult at home to send me the photo my email is ddspaton810@glow.sch.uk. Thanks to those of you who have sent in a photo already.

Please remember to email me with any queries, I am in school this week but will reply in the afternoons.

Have a good day!   Mrs P  🙂

Friday 12th June Literacy Tasks

TASKS – Word of the Day, Spelling Test, Blether Station Cards

TASK 1 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the literacy jotter that is in your pack.

WORD OF THE DAY – SURREAL

In your jotters, you can set it out like this:

WORD:  Surreal

Meaning:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Uplevelled Paragraph:

TASK 2 – SPELLING

Ask someone at home to test you with the spelling words from Monday:

Green Book Words –  existence, frequently, immediately, mischievous, nuisance and opportunity.

Blue Book Words Unit 11 – replace, recycle, rewrite, refresh, rebuild and reheat.

Red Book Words Unit 7 – stickiness, cheekiness, chattiness, sleepiness, spiciness and happiness.

TASK 3 – Blether Station Activity

This is another transition activity that we would have covered in class, use these Blether Station cards as a discussion task with someone at home or call a classmate and work on them together.

https://glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ddspaton810_glow_sch_uk/ESVXhYbZUbpEjkKshxRXbsEBGr5EsWb-Ryf6HMmZ6M6jbQ?e=oq9smN

Friday 12th June – Numeracy Tasks

Good Morning Primary 7, here is today’s Board Number, remember you do not have to do the extra, this is simply an extra challenge.

Once you have finished, please use a calculator to correct or ask someone at home to correct your work.  Remember, you can also use the inverse operation to correct your work too. For example 28472 x 6, once you have the answer, to use the inverse operation to correct, simply carry out a division calculation using your answer divided by 6 (the answer to this division calculation should be 28472).

TASKS – Board Number and Bitesize Lesson

SPICY

254890 – 154808

75896 + 4896 + 847

15899 x 9

89622 ÷ 9

HOT

2546669.08 – 1528284.189

584933.058 + 254896.18 + 9548.008 + 69.55

763 x 28

762764.94 ÷ 9

EXTRA – Convert these decimal numbers into fractions and percentages (revision from previous lessons):

0.22          0.65             0.35          0.8              0.74                0.07              0.55

TASK 2 – Fraction Revision 

This is the last of the fraction, decimal and percentages lessons, remember you have your Maths How To jotters at home and can add to it.

Please follow this link, watch the videos and complete the activities:

Finding percentages of an amount (there are a few methods here, use whichever you feel most confident with):   https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvxnv82

Thursday 11th June Literacy Tasks

TASKS – Get Spelling, Word of the Day, First News

TASK 1– GET SPELLING BOOKS  

(Green Group is finished all units but if anything is unfinished please complete).

– RED AND BLUE BOOKS:

Please complete Dictation and Four in a Row  – ask someone at home to help with reading out the sentences and the words for Four in a Row, or you can call one of your classmates and work together!

Please complete Choose the Right Word then any pages/ Special Focus you haven’t completed.  (Special Focus pages up to the unit that you are currently working on).

ALL GROUPS – Ask someone at home to test you on the spelling words from Monday.

TASK 2 – Vocabulary Word of the Day Task. The template is in your home learning pack, PLEASE DO NOT FILL THIS IN (as there is only one of them) but use it as a guide and do the task in the literacy jotter that is in your pack.

WORD OF THE DAY – DESOLATE

In your jotters, you can set it out like this:

WORD:  Desolate

Meaning:

Synonyms:

Antonyms:

Up-levelled Paragraph:

TASK 3 – FIRST NEWS – Log into First News and read some articles, take part in debates and complete some of the related activities.  https://ihub.firstnews.co.uk/pupils

Thursday 11th June – Numeracy Tasks

Good Morning Primary 7, here is today’s Board Number, remember you do not have to do the extra, this is simply an extra challenge.

Once you have finished, please use a calculator to correct or ask someone at home to correct your work.  Remember, you can also use the inverse operation to correct your work too. For example 28472 x 6, once you have the answer, to use the inverse operation to correct, simply carry out a division calculation using your answer divided by 6 (the answer to this division calculation should be 28472).

TASKS – Board Number and Bitesize Lesson

SPICY

4578996 – 1249569

84571 + 64892 + 496

154896 x 8

36544 ÷ 8

HOT

864599.008 – 459999.188

1547896.008 + 251499.07 + 4896.244 + 948

489 x 94

438316.64 ÷ 8

EXTRA – Write the equivalent fraction and decimal of these percentages (revision from yesterday):

25%           50%               22%           38%           4%         63%

TASK 2 – Fractions Revision 

We are continuing with revision of fractions, we covered this in class just before school closed therefore it would be a good idea to revisit and complete some fractions tasks.

Please follow these links, watch the videos and complete the activities:

Order and compare fractions, decimals and percentages:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrkw2fr