Today we brought our bikes to school and spent the day in the playground developing our riding skills. Thanks to Lynsey Murphy our Active Schools Coordinator for helping us complete this with Mrs Ross.
We practised the skills needed to develop basic cycle control skills and to gain the confidence to use our bikes more often.
Level 1 outcomes: 1. Demonstrate understanding of safety equipment and clothing 2. Carry out a simple bike check 3. Get on and off the bike without help 4. Start off and pedal without help 5. Stop without help 6. Ride along without help for roughly one minute or more 7. Make the bike go where they want 8. Use gears (where present) 9. Stop quickly with control 10.Manoeuvre safely to avoid objects 11.Look all around, including behind, without loss of control 12.Control the bike with one hand
We all showed excellent confidence and completed all the outcomes and were delighted to receive our Bikeability Level 1 Certificates.
Today we enjoyed a visit from our new Campus Cop, PC Rae.
She spoke to us about the importance of staying safe when using social media and accessing the internet.
We learned about the importance of staying safe when uploading photos, asking permission, age restrictions for social media sites and different online games and what to do if we need to report any inappropriate content.
We worked really hard to write inspirational and motivating speeches to persuade our House Peers to vote for us as House Captains and Vice Captains.
This was a very nerve racking experience and we developed our confidence and resilience to complete this task. All the adults in the school were very impressed with how well written everyone’s speeches were and how confident they were talking in front of their peers.
Although we had some disappointment in the class, everyone dealt with this very well and were supportive of each other and celebrated each others success.
A great learning experience for all the Primary 7s.
Mr Houston then presented the House Captains and Vice Captains badges at the Award Assembly.
We explored the UNCRC Articles and choose the ones most relevant to our classroom.
We discussed who the Rights Holders in our class are and how they would respect the rights of everyone in our class and added our expectations to each article. We also linked these articles to our school values of Respect, Honesty, Ambition and Kindness.
We worked in groups to explore the role of the Duty Bearers in our classroom. Mrs Ross added her statements to our class charter and we discussed what our class would feel like, look like and sound like. We then agreed on our class expectations and signed our charter.
Finally we created our own Among Us Characters to the charter to complete our display.
To prepare for our House Captain Speeches and to learn a little bit more about the names of our School Houses, we completed some research on the laptops.
We learned about John Fulton who invented the Orrery, and was a notable mathematician. Matthew Fowlds who was the last remaining hand loom weaver in the area and died after his 100th birthday. The Dunlop family who were a famous Covenanting Family in the area. John Howie, who was born near Fenwick in Lochgoin Farmhouse which provided refuge to the Covenanters.
We discovered that all of these important Fenwick people are buried in the village. So we decided to go and explore the village and find their memorial stones.
Today we got off to a great start and welcomed everyone back to Primary 7.
We are looking forward to lots of leadership opportunities this year and a busy year ahead of us all.
We enjoyed working with Mrs MacPherson today and she will take our class every Wednesday from 11.45am – 3pm. This term she will be teaching French and P.E in class.
Mrs Ross will be in class for the rest of the week.
Dates for your diary :
Homework will start week beginning the 2nd September. This will be posted on TEAMS like previous years.
Meet the Teacher Wednesday 4th September 3.15 – 4.15p.m
