P7 had great fun at their Christmas Party today!

P7 have been working hard to create their Naughty Elf Stories. They then visited Primary One to share their stories. While they were there they also had fun playing a Snowman Drive with the P1s.

On Thursday 12th December P5-7 held a Christmas Sing A Long for the elderly. Each class chose 2 songs which they wanted to sing. We invited elderly residents from the community to come and join us for some singing and tea and shortbread. Everyone had a lovely afternoon.

Primary 7 made short animations with a Christmas theme.

We worked as a team to create our movies. – Sarah

We had good fun creating different characters for our movies. – Mollie

We had a lot of fun making the backgrounds. – Abigail

It was a bit embarrassing when we had to do the voice over. – Cole

We developed our focussing, initiative, working as a team and creativity skills. – Joe M

P7 had great fun outside with the scooters this week!

P7B Newsletter – Term 2

On Tuesday 1st October P7 attended Operation Safety at DGOne. During the day they took part in a variety of different workshops which were all based around the them of keeping safe.

The workshops were presented by the Fire Service, Scottish Ambulance, Youth Work, Scottish Power and Police Scotland.

It was a very informative day with lots of skills developed.

Primary 7 took part in a webinar with DRAX in order to learn all about hydro power.

After the webinar P7 used their focus, collaborating, adapting and critical thinking skills in order to create a turbine which would turn when placed in water. We used Strawbees to construct our turbines. We were all very successful.

On Thursday 3rd October we celebrated International Older Persons Day at Heathhall Primary. We invited elderly residents from Heathhall Community to come into the school and enjoy an afternoon of activities.

P7B decided that they would bake for the event. We made delicious shortbread and provided tea and coffee for the afternoon.

On Friday 20th September P7 attended Dumfries High School to take part in Play in a Day.

They began the day by taking part in a variety of different drama games. The y then went on to learn a rap all about social media.

After that they were split into groups to create a role play based on the dangers of different social media apps.

A lunch time the Sports Leaders led a game of dodgeball for the children.

In the afternoon the children had a final rehearsal before welcoming the parents to watch their production.

Everyone had a fantastic day while developing different skills such as collaborating, communicating, adapting and creativity!