Literacy

Reading

Pupils will read The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke and apply the six reading comprehension strategies (prior knowledge, metalinguistics, visualisation, inference, main idea and summary).

Writing

This term we will focus on the genres of persuasive and discursive writing. Pupils will continue to develop their tools for writing (grammar, punctuation and spelling) and apply this consistently across all writing contexts.

Listening and Talking

In line with their John Muir Award, pupils will deliver a speech on an area of environmental sustainability. This can be an area of their choice. A letter will be sent home with more information.

Numeracy and Maths

We will continually revise and consolidate areas of prior learning as well as focusing on application of skills in problem solving contexts. Additionally, we will have a large focus on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. Below is a list of some key areas within fractions, decimals and percentages we will be looking at:

• Show where any fraction, decimal fraction or percent lies on a number line
• Convert between simple fractions, decimal fractions and percentages
• Find fractions of a quantity
• Equivalent fractions
• Simplifying fractions
• Converting between mixed and improper fractions
• Comparing and ordering fractions with different denominators
• Solve problems using percentages

I.D.L

This term we are making the most of the outdoors and working towards our John Muir Award. We have explored our local area and taken part in a range of activities so far this term including pond dipping and den building. Moving forward, we will be learning about geocaching, including hiding our very own around our local area. As part of this award pupils will then use digital technologies to share their knowledge and experiences.

We have also been focusing on Inheritance for Science which includes lifecycles of plants.

Young STEM Leaders

P7 have made a start to their Young STEM Leaders programme which is being led virtually by Stewarton Academy. To find out more about this programme, click on the link here: https://youtu.be/dL_73uZXDps

Health and Wellbeing

Since coming back, we used the context of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse to create discussion on emotional and mental wellbeing and created some lovely watercolour art pieces off the back of this. We will also have a focus on P7 to S1 transition.

Over the next couple weeks, we will have our Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood fortnight – more information on this can be found by accessing the parental information booklets within the ‘Useful Documents’ section of the blog.

Over the past month, Primary 7 have been preparing for their Rosemary Thompson speeches. The children were asked to prepare and then deliver a 4-6 minute speech on a topic of their choice in front of a panel of judges (Mrs Wilson and Mrs Nouillan). This speech was also live streamed to the Primary 6 class through Teams.

All children did an incredible job and we are very proud of all of them. Well done P7!!

Today Mrs Ward had a chat to the Primary 7 class about transitioning to Stewarton Academy. We were also taken on a virtual tour of the school.

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This week P7 took a trip down to the Millennium Woods to collect a wide variety of leaves. Once we returned to school we used an identification key to categorise our leaves. We then used EXCEL to create graphs displaying the number of each type.

Lastly, we created autumn land art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. Take a look at some of our creations and a new friend the P7s found and named Dobbie.

Today, primary 7 took part in East Ayrshire’s Annual Youth Conference which was delivered live through Teams. This conference included three workshops: Celebrating Diversity, Your Council Your Voice and Lockdown Mental Health. P7 had excellent contributions to the conference. As part of the final workshop pupils had to create a positive slogan that will spread happiness or motivate someone. They only had 20 minutes to complete the challenge. Take a look at some of our creations.