Today we created these fact flap books all about Queen Victoria.
We used tessellation skills to draw 7 hexagons and cut them out to look like a flower with attached petals.
We did a line drawing sketch of Queen Victoria in the centre of our flowers using a portrait found online.
We brainstormed facts we knew about Queen Victoria and shared information with each other!
Lots of skills development from across the curriculum on display here!
Our P7 boys did a fantastic job on Friday representing our school at the East Ayrshire Council Junior Youth Conference. The conference focused on the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, and how our learning links with our rights.
They used menti to answer questions and put forward their opinions and now have lots of ideas to take forward our Rights Respecting Schools Silver Award!
We used an extract from the WW1 novel “War Horse” to create these blackout poems for Remembrance day. Pupils circled the words and phrases from the text to create a poem to be read from top to bottom. They are so effective!
We have been researching some of the names found on our school WW2 memorial board using the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.
This activity has allowed us to give more context to Remembrance Day and work as detectives to find out more information about the names on the board that we walk past every day.
Next time, we’ll all pause a moment and remember the sacrifices made by these men from our village.
We have been enjoying learning about the COP26 event in Glasgow and really interested about the climate crisis. We watched a clip from David Attenborough’s “Frozen Planet” and discussed his impact statement about melting ice caps:
We created these polar bear images in response to the climate crisis, using water colours and black markers.
This links with Article 12 from the UNCRC “Every child has the right to have a say in all matters affecting them, and to have their views taken seriously”.
We had a fantastic virtual visit from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert from “Zoom Through History” to kick off our learning about the Victorians.
We took notes about what Queen Victoria and Prince Albert told us, and we brainstormed what areas of Victorian life we’d like to learn more about.
We were so happy to be invited to the EAC Children and Young People’s Climate Conference via TEAMS today. We joined with other primary 7 classes across the authority to listen to speeches and take part in question sessions using the interactive presentation app, MENTI.
The 4 main themes for today’s conference were ENERGY, WASTE, TRANSPORT and ENVIRONMENT. The council also launched their new Clean Green School Award which our 2 Class Climate Reps and House Captains, Aiden and Mason, will be taking forward.
At the end of the afternoon, all children were encouraged to make a Green Pledge; something they will strive to do to help with the climate crisis. Here are some of our pupils sharing their pledges:
Well done to the boys who before the holidays had been working collaboratively on this flags of the world jigsaw!
I think all our geography has improved and we had lots of team spirit!
As part of our learning around “The Boy At Ghe Back Of The Class” by Onjali Q Raúf, we investigated attitudes towards refugees both in the news and in popular culture.
We read Bill Bilston’s poem “Refugees” which when read from bottom to top has a different meaning from reading top to bottom.
We used our class colours of the world pencils and crayons to create drawings of an Afghan refugee girl, and wrote the poem inside her Hijab.
P7 have been learning about the upcoming COP26 Climate Conference in Glasgow in November. We have been investigating “The World’s To Do List”; the Global Goals set out by the United Nations.
In teams, pupils had to decide which 3 of the Global Goals were the most important, justify their opinions and how they could tackle their chosen goals.
