Last week Primary 7 created their own Word Goals, this is a word that helps them focus on an area in which they wish to improve, grow or do more of.  As a class we talked about possible words, such as perseverance, focus, patience, responsible and lots more.  Each pupil completed a planning sheet and they had to brainstorm 6 possible word goals for themselves, they then chose one of these and completed a speech bubble for the wall outside our classroom.  We then made a Bitmoji of everyone to go alongside their goals, they look amazing!

This goal can be shared with someone at home and each pupil can discuss the action steps they can take to meet their goal.

Primary 7 have enjoyed spending some time with their buddies at the Pod and visiting Menzieshill Library.  They  also helped Primary 1 to make their New Year’s Resolution and talked about how they can work to achieve these.

Primary 7 have been revising fractions and took part in a quiz relating to finding fractions of a quantity, next we will be learning about improper fractions and mixed numbers.

There is a fantastic website that can be accessed at home and the children can select areas of numeracy that they wish to focus on. The website is:

Super Maths World

Primary 7 spent time this morning with their buddies and together they finished creating a tree decoration that they started yesterday.  They then spent time on the laptops playing some games.

Primary 7 enjoyed a disco in the hall this afternoon with some of the other classes.

Primary 7 are continuing to work in their co-operative learning teams for different curricular areas and this week have been working in these teams during some literacy lessons. The focus has been on talking and listening and learning how to agree and develop using Voice 21 sentence stems. Next we will learn how to disagree politely and challenge other viewpoints.

Primary 7 won Beat the Teacher last week and they chose Free Time Friday in the afternoon. They spent time using the Kapla, drawing on the tables with the chalk pens and using the laptops to play Minecraft Education.  Well done P7!

Next term, Primary 7 will have a student teacher in our class.  Miss Sangster will be with us from the end of February until May and last week spent a week in class getting to know everyone. On Friday, the class took part in a few getting-to-know-you activities and they are looking forward to having her back next term.

Last week was our last visit from Mrs Christie. We have had four lessons from Mrs Christie,  teaching us the ways in which to create an effective story – we will now work on creating our own stories based on our Titanic topic.

On Friday, we had four lucky winners of the literacy quiz and each won a chocolate Santa! Thank you Mrs Christie!

This week Primary 7 and Primary 1 have been spending buddy time completing literacy activities for the Book Bug Event next week. They read the third book, looked for ‘wow’ words and then created their own spell!