Take a look at our P7 fun day!
The P7s displayed a competitive edge during bubble football and then showcased their fantastic dancing skills in the afternoon at their party. Lots of happy smiling P7s, we cannot believe tomorrow is their last day at Dunlop Primary.
P7 can find more photos on Teams > Files > P7 Fun Day
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.
P7 had a fantastic day at Craufurdland where they took part in crate stacking, team building and the Tree Top Trials. Myself and all the staff were very impressed with their bravery and team work in all the challenges.
A happy bunch of P7s enjoying their cafe lunch.
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
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:
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.
As part of the P7 to S1 Transition, primary 7 will be working towards a range of badges in their Young STEM Leaders Programme. Take a look at their first experiment using chromatography paper.
Congratulations to our winners! It was such a difficult decision for the judges as they all did extremely well.
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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