On Tuesday 14th November P7 attended Dumfries High School to take part in a cluster Health and Wellbeing Day.

The children were split into different groups and got a chance to meet children from different schools across the Dumfries High School cluster primary schools.

Throughout the day P7 took part in different activities including working with the school captains, the sports leaders, the school Police Officer, PC McKerlie and different teachers from Dumfries High School.

Everyone had a great day and this gave them all another chance to experience life at secondary school.

In Skills Academy this term we have been looking at design and technology. We have worked as part of a team on different projects. On our final week we brought all of our skills together in order to create a mode of transport for a Halloween character.

We had to work as part of a team to develop a plan for our ‘Witchmobile’ and we could be very creative! We were given a list of resources we could use to build our vehicle but there was certain criteria which it had to meet. It had to be air powered, move independently and have a graphic design logo. Once we had planned our build we then created a graphic design logo on the computer before building our vehicle.

After we were finished we tested our vehicles outside to see how successful they were.

We had great fun and developed lots of different skills.

On Thursday 5th October Primary 7 went to DGOne for Operation Safety. We took a bus to Operation Safety.  When we were there we got split into groups so we could do our activities.

When we were working with Scottish Power they taught us how many volts travel through power lines. We carried out an experiment to see if electricity could travel through our bodies.  They taught us how to be safe around electricity.

The fire brigade helped us with fire safety and water safety.  We learned how to keep ourselves safe around fireworks. We played a game to see what was safe to put on a bonfire. At water safety they showed us how to help someone who was drowning while keeping ourselves safe.

The paramedics taught us the recovery position and how to check ABC. A stands for airways B stands for breathing and C stands for circulation or pulse. They also showed us how to find our pulse.

Youth work taught us about the dangers of vaping and smoking. We had to draw a hand and share things that were important to us.

The police talked to us about social media and the age requirements for different apps. We made a TikTok advising people about the dangers of social media.

We thought Operation Safety was fun and interesting.

We have been carrying out lots of different activities as part of settling into our new class. One of these activities involved going outdoors and creating a stone representation of our family.

Briony from Sustrans came in to carry out a puncture repair activity. We were given the chance to locate and repair a puncture on a bike tyre.

We enjoyed this and hopefully we will be able to use these skills in the future.

Primary 7 have been learning about The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. We discussed the rights that we thought were important to us in school and then we created our own class charter based on these rights.

We also discussed which rights we thought were most important to us. On the Open Afternoon we ranked our rights with our parents to see if we could agree on an order of priority.

We designed our own classrooms based on meeting our rights such as the right to play and rest and the right to a good quality education.

On Friday 22nd September Primary 7 visited Dumfries High School for the day. We were learning all about the risks associated with social media and the right to the protection of our privacy (article 16).

We discussed the dangers of social media and what we can do to keep ourselves safe.

We split into small groups and each group had to create and perform a short role-play scenario associated with different social media platforms.

We learnt a rap all about social media also.

During lunch time the school captains took us to the gym hall for a game of dodgeball.

After lunch we went back to the drama studio to rehearse our play and at 2pm our parents came to watch our performance.  We were all a little nervous but we did really well and really enjoyed our day!

Throughout the day we had a chance to develop our communication, team work, performance and resilience skills.

P7 Newsletter – Term 1

On Wednesday night a group of children from Primary 6 and Primary 7 represented Heathhall School at the Regional Relay Race competition. All showed great determination and sportsmanship throughout and one of our teams competing in the Boys race won a bronze medal in a very tough competition. Well done to everyone who took part! ⭐️🥉

P7 Young Digital Leaders have been visiting every class in the school to work with groups of children using the spheros. Spheros are little electronic balls which you can programme to move and you can code them to carry out different tasks. Everyone had great fun with the spheros!