In P7R we have been learning about Speed, Distance, and Time in maths.

We took our learning outside to calculate our speed by measuring various distances and timing ourselves walking, running, skipping and jumping these distances.
Once we knew our distance and the time it took to travel that distance, we could calculate our speed.

We were curious about how our speed changed due to different factors so we compared our speed going the same distance on the pitch compared to the muga and the tarmac.  It made us think about how speed, distance, and time are not just numbers they’re connected to the world around us.

We collaborated with partners to measure the distances and record our partners times.

A huge congratulations to Abbie Brolls in P7 who represented Heathhall in the Scottish Schools National Swimming Championships. She took part in the 50m Freestyle event and came home with the GOLD MEDAL!
Fantastic achievement Abbie, we are all so proud of you!

As part of Mental Health Week 2025, P7R have been learning all about this years theme ‘Know yourself, grow yourself.’

We discussed that by being self-aware, people can better understand and manage their feelings and overcome any challenges they face.

We made coping strategy wheels that we can use inside and outside of class to help regulate our emotions.

We also took part in some Mental Health Week yoga.

To conclude Mental Health Week, P5-7 organised a games afternoon for members of the community. We all played a selection of games and enjoyed some great conversations!

P7 Pupils had a visit from Briony from Sustrans who spoke to us about air quality. We learnt about air pollution and what we can do to make the air we breathe cleaner.

We then headed out on a lichen hunt to the front and back of the school. We investigated the different types of lichen and came to the conclusion that the air is cleaner in the playground as opposed to the front of the school.

Ask us about the different types of lichen and what they mean!

Another busy term is almost complete!

We started off the term by exploring Diversity. We took our learning outdoors where we created a Diversity web. We used collaboration and creativity to draw around our partner and add in facts about ourselves. We then looked around the circle and drew a line to someone that we had a similarity with. Very quickly we could see lots of similarities between us.

As part of Scooter Week, we had the chance to use the scooters. We used collaboration and  critical thinking skills to create an obstacle course where we were weaving around objects and working on our ability to control our speed.

We went to Dumfries High School for a Health and Wellbeing day where we met some of our teachers for next year, as well as peers from other schools. One of our favourite activities was using our communication skills to guide our blindfolded partner to put pieces of penne pasta onto a piece of spaghetti, and making spaghetti and marshmallow bridges!

We had our Term 2 trip to Lochthorn Library where we used our focusing and curiosity skills to find synonyms and antonyms after learning about these in class.

As part of our French learning all about clothes, we used  creativity to design our very own outfits, which we then labelled in French. We also had a fashion show where we described our outfits to the class. Tres bien P7!

Our teacher was very impressed when a small group decided to create their very own maths game to play in class! This developed creativity, leadership, communication and critical thinking.

We have been learning about the Festival of Light, Diwali. We created our own Rangoli patterns outside in the playground. There was so much creativity and focus involved in this activity.

Our very passionate Rights Respecting leaders, Jack and Callan, took on a leadership role and taught us about one of our chosen articles, Article 14. We all created brilliant posters all about our right to choose our own religion and what this means to us.

P7R chose to learn about Scotland’s involvement in World War One. As part of our learning, we took part in a STEM challenge to create a WW1 trench out of a variety of materials. This activity fostered almost ALL of our Meta-Skills and we had great fun doing it!

To round up our term and get ourselves into the festive spirit, P5 to P7 have been preparing and practising for a Christmas sing-a-long for the community. Everyone did absolutely outstanding and made their teachers incredibly proud! Members of the community who came to watch the performance were full of praise for our very talented young people.

P7R even made shortbread for our guests.

Well done!!

Welcome to P7R!

We have had a very busy start to the term, learning lots of new things and getting to know each other.

We started off the term focusing on developing our Meta-Skills.  The first activity was making bridges using only spaghetti and mini marshmallows. We developed our curiosity by exploring different designs and features, sense making by thinking about where it would be sensible to place the marshmallows and how to strategically place the spaghetti, creativity by exploring the various designs they could use and create a bridge that stands out from everyone else and critical thinking in order to transfer the design into the real thing. They also had to  collaborate and communicate to ensure they were working as a team and everyone had a chance to express their views.

We started learning about Food Chains and microorganisms and as part of this we went outside on a scavenger hunt to find producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers and decomposers in the school grounds. We then made food chains from our findings. We played food chain tig and then created a food web which showed how many food chains are interlinked and found out that if one part of the food chain became endangered, it would have a detrimental effect on the other animals in the food web.

To make the most of the lovely weather, we took our learning of Fractions outside and found fractions of leaves and sticks. We used our previous knowledge of mixed fractions and improper fractions to do this.

It was lovely seeing so many family members at the open afternoon. Everyone enjoyed making stone families together.

P7 Newsletter – Term 1 pdf (1)

P7 Newsletter – Term 1 pdf