Mrs Brown | Heathhall School

We have been working very hard during our first term in Primary 7.

Since the holidays ended and we returned to school we have been developing our skills in maths, literacy, health and well being and art.

Interestingly we have been working on multiplying by 2 digit numbers while learning the formal method and the bar modelling method.

Also in P7 we have been identifying different types of angles within the classroom and in our outdoor learning. We have been developing our skills when rounding to significant figures and using this to estimate calculations. During Maths Week Scotland we worked on a variety of problem solving activities and completed different daily challenges. Spectacularly we came 44th in the National Sumdog competition for Maths Week Scotland!

We have been learning how to up-level our descriptive writing by adding adverbs, adjectives, connectives and sophisticated vocabulary.

Reading this term is based on a book set during the war called ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’. We have completed many activities based on this book including questioner, clarifier and visualiser.

We practise different spelling each week so we can get full marks in our spelling tests. We are all trying to improve our minutes in our reading by reading more of our accelerated reading books at home.

During P.E we took part in different orienteering tasks as well as that we have been learning how to read a map. Recently in P.E we have been working on football while practicing ball control among other skills. Energetically we have been developing our stamina while trying to run continuously for 15 minutes.

On Tuesdays Colin from the Oasis Centre comes to work with us to develop our mental wellbeing. He is teaching us skills in resilience and how to relax our mind.

On a Friday Mrs McNay has been teaching us about different nutritional requirements.

Enjoyably we have developed our artistic skills when creating our tree art. We had to develop our blending skills when creating a stunning background. We have also linked our art with our outdoor learning when creating a sunburst through weaving and pressing flowers to create our own bookmarks.

During ICT we have been looking at our personal Blogs and how to develop these.

It has been a very busy term but an enjoyable one where P7 have worked very hard!