Welcome back Primary 7 to a very exciting and busy term for us.
Firstly, a great big thank you for my very generous gift card everyone! It was a lovely surprise to come back to in January and I will look forward to a shopping trip to Silverburn this month!
I have added some posts from December to see lots of the fun activities that took place over the festive period!
This month we look forward to hosting the Burns Supper and Scottish Showcase and we are busy preparing for that day, learning poems and songs written by Robert Burns.
We are lucky to have coaches from Kilmarnock Rugby Club coming to deliver 4 x PE sessions throughout November.
Today Adam taught us how to throw the ball from our “pocket”. We learned lots of games to practise this skill. We all thoroughly enjoyed this first session and we can’t wait for next Friday.
We have used the cut willow in our garden to try our hands at willow weaving. We have been practising this skill over the last two afternoons and are very proud of the willow wreaths that we have created to sell at the Christmas Fayre. Here is a sneak preview of what we will be selling after we add some Christmas touches.
On Thursday we entered 2Primary 7 teams in the East Ayrshire Schools Cross Country Competition. We were very proud of our super ambitious runners! They ran 1400m with determination and speed. Well done to them all! There were some busy washing machines after this muddy event!
Today we started our first STEM Lab using the new school Vex Go kits. We learned how to build with the kit and designed our own machines first. Mrs Ross and Mrs Conetta were very impressed with our creativity and build skills.
Working in groups, we then followed the step by step instructions to build or Base Robots. We then practised using the drive mode to move our robots around our table. After some trial and error using different driving styles it was time for competitions. We built our racing track and raced each others robots through the slalom. Well done to Olivia our racing winner this week!
We are looking forward to STEM Lab 2 next week where we will be learning to code our robots.
We have been learning all about the Fenwick War Memorial in our village. We walked along to look at it, record the names that are on it and take photographs. We then returned to class and drew line drawings and made a list of the names to carry out some research about the men who are named from WW2.
We invited Mr Stewart Finlay from the Kilmarnock Branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland to talk to us about the 9 men who are recorded on the War Memorial. Their regiments, where the were killed and where they are buried.
We learned that 2 of the men have War Graves in our local cemetery and we have decided to visit them on Remembrance Day to leave flowers and a poppy.
Stewart also brought along his medals and some jackets worn by veterans after the war in the 1950s. Stewart shared his knowledge with us and stories of his life in the army.
We had a fabulous day of learning with Mr Wilson who came to teach us how to be Sports Leaders. We developed skills that we will be able to use throughout our lives. We took turns delivering coaching sessions and working together to plan lessons.
Thank you Mr Wilson for giving up your time to work with us, we had a fantastic day!
As promised, here are our final Anderson Shelter models. We enjoyed sharing our learning with our Primary 1 buddies and telling them all about life in WW2.
