Category Archives: Primary 7 20/21

Citizenship, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

John Muir Discovery Award

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This session Primary 6 and 7 have been working towards the John Muir Discovery Award. As part of our journey the children have had the opportunity to experience pond dipping, geocaching, orienteering and learnt more about the history of Dunlop.

The John Muir Award is a fantastic way to encourage our young people to become more aware of their surroundings and it was lovely to see all of the primary 6 and 7 children having fun and learning more about nature.

Primary 6 created ThingLink presentations to showcase their experience, click on the links below to have a look at some of the work they produced.

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1446489011269926914

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1444320706606137347

We are incredibly proud of all of our pupils and delighted to say that the have been successful in achieving their Discovery Award. Primary 6 will continue on their John Muir journey as they move into Primary 7.

Primary 7 20/21

P7 Transition Day at Stewarton Academy

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Primary 7 had an exciting visit to Stewarton Academy yesterday where they received their new S1 timetables and found out their classes. They also lead a STEM activity as part of their Young STEM Leaders Programme. P7’s excellent presentation skills were highlighted and they should be extremely proud of themselves.

P7 also took part in a Kapla challenge to see who could work as a team to build the tallest tower. This was a close call but the girls won the challenge.

Literacy, Primary 1 20/21, Primary 2 20/21, Primary 3a 20/21, Primary 3b 20/21, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

Dunlop Primary Sketchnote

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In November 2019 Dunlop Primary and ECC were inspected by HMIe. We received a fantastic report which highlighted some of the amazing practice within the school. After the initial report was published Mrs Wilson was contacted by our lead inspector, as after some reflection he felt that our Literacy should be highlighted as excellent practice, and to reflect this Education Scotland got in touch to create a Sketchnote and blog. This will be showcased nationally in the Education Scotland newsletter and website.

As a staff team we are immensely proud that our school has received the recognition we feel it deserves. This has been a real team effort and a reflection of strong support that staff, parents and children continue to give each other.

I am immensely proud to have been part of this journey and am looking forward to where we go next.

Miss White

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Primary 7 20/21

Primary 7 – Term 3 Learning Targets

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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.

Primary 1 20/21, Primary 2 20/21, Primary 3a 20/21, Primary 3b 20/21, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21, Useful Documents

Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood – Parent Information

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Please find below the link to the Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood parental information letters.

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Citizenship, Primary 1 20/21, Primary 2 20/21, Primary 3a 20/21, Primary 3b 20/21, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21, Staff

Mrs Wilson – An Inspirational Head Teacher

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On Friday, the whole school came together outdoors in a Covid safe way to let Mrs Wilson know what she meant to us, how we appreciated her hard work and commitment to Dunlop and to wish her well on her new and exciting chapter.

Mrs Wilson was the kindest, most nurturing, upbeat person you could ever hope to meet and we were so fortunate to have her lead Dunlop Primary School and ECC for seven years.

Mrs Wilson supported many children and staff over the years, and she was a trusted and valued colleague and friend to us all.  We will all miss Mrs Wilson, and of course, we will miss her assemblies from her garden shed.

We presented Mrs Wilson with lots of gifts as a token of how much she meant to us and then she took a walk of honour around the park to say goodbye to each child.

Thank you Mrs Wilson for being our Head Teacher and for always working so hard for Dunlop Primary School and ECC.

You are an inspiration!

https://www.fischy.com/songs/you-are-an-inspiration/?token=1620039275

Take care Mrs Wilson and don’t forget to wave to us when you are walking Tilly and Toby!

With kind regards, Mrs Nouillan and everyone at Dunlop Primary and ECC

Literacy, Primary 4 20/21, Primary 5 20/21, Primary 6 20/21, Primary 7 20/21

World Book Day 2021 – P4-7 Extreme Reader

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This week saw  Dunlop Primary celebrating World Book Day! Although P4-7 are still at home we didn’t want to miss out on all the fun. We asked the children to do a bit of Extreme Reading and they certainly didn’t let us down! Please watch the attached video to see what they all got up to!