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P7 – Learning Out doors

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Friday was filled with sunshine and a day for learning outdoors! 

We went to the garden to read and really enjoyed using our new outdoor library. Everyone took time to relax and read for pleasure for 20 minutes.  Mrs Ross showed us the birds that had been singing in the garden while we were reading.

We then put our books down and played hide and seek together which we all agreed was a favourite part of our day – even the huge spider in the storage boxes that everyone hid in didn’t stop our enthusiasm. 

Next we decided to take our P.E outside and try out the cricket skills that we have been developing with Miss Wales.  After practising our batting and bowling we had a fun mini game. We definitely have some budding cricketers in P7! We used Significant Aspects of Learning (SALs) to identify skills that we could see while we were watching games from the side-lines. 

We are hoping this sunshine lasts when we visit Dalguise next week!

P7 World Book Day

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World Book Day 

What a great day to celebrate our love of reading for pleasure.

We designed book tokens, took part in a Footy and Booky online national quiz and took part in a book swap.
We designed front covers  to win the wrapped book (we could only read a short blurb from the book and we couldn’t see what the book was) and we read in the hall which had been turned into a reading den.
We then had an online Teams call with Patna Primary to take part in a book cafe where we recommended books to each other and shared what we had been doing as a school and within our community to encourage more reading for pleasure. 

P7 – Scottish Topic

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Robert Burns

This term, our focus for learning has been the life of Robert Burns and Scottish languages and traditions.

We have thrown ourselves into this topic and have been preparing to lead our Burns Supper and Scottish Showcase on the 24th January,

We hae been readin ower mony a verse written by Burns an hae learned a guid few words in Scots. At first, they wer hard tae mak sense o’ but noo we hae the hang o’ a fair number!

We are still learning to recite “Tam O’Shanter” by Burns and we are looking forward to performing this at the Burns supper. Some of us are going to try for the poetry competition on the 31st January.

We got our heads together and wrote our own toast the the lassies and the laddies. We had good fun thinking of things to ‘compliment’ each other about.

Gracie was the star writer this week and she will be reading  her  “Immortal Memory” on Friday.

P7 Book Week Scotland

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We loved spending time this week reading for pleasure and learning about how authors create and publish their stories. 
We loved learning from Inspector Fleming, PC Rae, Hannah Willow and all our Parent Readers. Thank you to everyone who came along and helped share their love of reading with us.

 

It was fun sharing our love of books with younger pupils. 
We even took part in the St Andrew’s Day Reading Record Attempt with schools across Scotland.