November already! Primary Seven are working hard and making great progress in all areas.

 

Literacy

Pupils will be working on Bug Club texts within their own level and accessing the online resource to enhance their learning. We will focus on summarising and predicting and justifying our views and responses.

As part of our upcoming Highland Clearance topic, we will look at persuasive writing and newspaper articles. We will be using our knowledge of the topic to plan and detail extended pieces.

We are continuing to use our active approaches to spelling and transferring these skills into our everyday tasks.

Talking and listening will be covered through our topic work using persuasive language and debating.

Numeracy

Primary Seven are finishing our percentages topic moving towards place value, deepening our understanding of column and quantity value this will lead into our addition topic.

We will finish our shape topic and look at measure estimating, justifying and carrying out practical investigations.

Health and Wellbeing

As our Wonder topic draws to a close we will look at decision making and how the choices we make impact on ourselves and others. We will cover playground behaviour, peer pressure and phone safety.

In PE we will cover gymnastics and social dance, preparing for the Christmas party season!

Religious Education.

Whilst learning about Christmas we will explore the different characters within the nativity, focusing on their individual viewpoints.

We will also continue on our Pope Francis Faith Award exploring Fortitude and Understanding.

Expressive Arts

We will use our topic of Highland Clearances as a focus for our drama this term.

We have been taking part in a workshop programme with the help of the Dean Park looking at historical instruments and designing our own.

The children will complete a home task this term focusing on creating a croft using their knowledge of this era.

We will create a class frieze to celebrate Christmas.

 

We will make another visit to St Joseph’s this term familiarising ourselves with our new friends and future learning environment.

Over the past two weeks primary 7 have explored  our thoughts and opinions focussing on  religion and science . First we looked at  the idea of ‘God in Nature’, we created art work to demonstrate this and have researched biblical stories which demonstrate a relationship between science and religion. We have enjoyed many thought provoking class discussions.

We continued on this theme by researching Charles Darwin and his ‘Theory of Evolution’. We researched, summarised, planned and created a formal report on his work. The children have massively enjoyed this topic and have been enthusiastic and engaged throughout.

“It’s been Brilliant” Gemma.

“Lots of interesting ideas” Isla.

Primary 7 have been discussing bullying. We have talked about different forms of bullying, for example verbal and physical bullying. We have discussed what bullying is, ‘a repeated action over a sustained period of time, that cause fear, hurt and undesirable emotions for the person being bullied’.  We have discussed the difference between random naming calling or fall outs between friends and bullying. We are encouraging children to think before labelling events as bullying.

We have been talking about this in class and in our Assembly and are encouraging children to ensure they treat each other with kindness and respect. In addition we have reiterated the importance of reporting issues to an appropriate adult at the time the event occurs.

As a school we will continue to develop positive relationships and have open and honest discussion surrounding this subject.

Curriculum Overview Term 1