P7 have had a fantastic first day at Kingswood!!
Here are a few snapshots of our time so far.
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P.A.R.T.Y with P7 week 2
This week with P.A.R.T.Y we were learning about the effects alcohol can have on our bodies and our organs. We had to draw around one of our group members then draw and colour in all the major organs. After that we had to think about the short term effects and the long term effects of alcohol abuse and then present our posters to the class.
Our mocktail this week was green! It consisted of lemonade, orange juice, apple juice and curacao bleu.
P.A.R.T.Y with P7 – week 1
Our topic in Primary 7 this term is ‘Choices for Life’. Throughout this topic we are learning about how to make safe and sensible choices in life as we grow up and move on to high school.
This week we experienced our first of four sessions of PARTY from Youth Alive (Providing Alcohol Related Training for Young people). These sessions are designed to help us to develop our understanding and awareness of how to stay safe when faced with the decision of drinking alcohol.
This week we learned about units of alcohol. We learned how many units are recommended on a weekly basis for an adult and learned about ‘love your liver’ days. We each had to guess what one unit of vodka looked like in a glass before Ali showed us an exact measurement!! Many of us were VERY far off with our guesses!!
At the end of the session we each were given a mocktail to try. This weeks mocktail consisted of lemonade, orange juice and grenadine sugar syrup! Yum!!!
We are really looking forward to next weeks session already!
P7 – Van Gogh Artwork
This term, P7 have been learning about the work of Van Gogh. We looked closely at his artistic styles and techniques then decided to use cray-pas oil pastels to recreate one of Van Gogh’s famous self portraits. Take a look below at a selection of our finished pictures.
Rotary quiz
On Tuesday 19th April, teams from the cluster schools assembled to take part in the annual rotary quiz, hosted this year at Dalbeattie Primary. All children involved were fantastic sports and showed superb general knowledge across all areas of the curriculum. Throughout the quiz the running scores were very close between all 4 teams however our deserving Dalbeattie area winners this year were Kirkgunzeon Primary, who scored exceptionally well throughout. Our team from Dalbeattie Primary worked extremely hard and gained a close second. Well done and thank you all children, staff and rotary members involved.
Mrs Burn and I are very proud of our Dalbeattie team!
Sumdog Competition
Over the past week, P3-7 have been taking part in Sumdog’s local contest. The contest challenged the children on their maths knowledge and finished at 8pm yesterday.
We are delighted that 3 of our classes managed to be daily winners and are thrilled to announce that P4A were the overall winners of the contest, winning 30 free membership subscriptions for next year!!!
Certificates will be issued to all children who took time to take part after the holidays.
Well done everyone!!
P7 French Day
On Monday 21st March, Primary 7 were treated to a full day of fun French activities at Dalbeattie High School as part of our transition work.
We had 4 different activities to take part in. They were:
- Au Voleur! (Catch the thief) – an activity that took us all around the school searching for clues, written on the classroom doors in French, to help us find the missing objects.
- L’animal imaginaire (Imaginary animals) – we had to create an imaginary animal and label it using our knowledge of French vocabulary.
- Les jeux de société (Board Games) – we played a variety of games which tested our French vocabulary.
- Des chansons, et jeux actives (songs and active games) – we sang and practiced lots of songs in preparation for our performances to the parents in the afternoon.
We all had a brilliant day and thoroughly enjoyed the delicious French breakfast of hot chocolate and croissants at break time.
Thank you Mrs Kinghorn!!
P7 High School Transition
This term Primary 7 have been taking part in some transition sessions with Mr Bremner, Mr Donnelly and Miss Stewart from the High School.
Mr Bremner has been teaching probability in maths. We have had a great time sorting skittles and working out the probability of choosing certain colours – we even got to eat them at the end!!!
With Mr Donnelly, we have been learning about the importance of shading and adding tone to our art work.
In Drama, Miss Stewart played some really funny warm up games with us. We loved playing the stage direction game as well as some of the concentration games. In the last session we worked on freeze frames for different scenarios. It was really goof fun!!
P7 Rugby
For the last 4 weeks, both Primary 7 classes have been taking part in a block of tag rugby with John Muir. During the first couple of weeks we took part in a variety of games which helped us to develop our rugby skills and understand the flow of the game better e.g. remembering to always pass backwards and using all the spaces on the pitch. Miss Clendinning was very impressed with how quickly we managed to build up our skills enough to play some short games.
