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10/03/18
Primary 7 recently received a generous Amazon voucher from Kilmarnock District History Group as a thank you for the class performance at one of their meetings. The children put on an extra showing of their WW2 local history play to all the group members one night in Kilmarnock College where they meet.
The class decided that it would be very appropriate to buy local history books for the upper school to use. We would like to thank the group once again for their kind gesture.
23/02/18
Very well done to Laura Mitchell in Primary 7! The whole class entered a national photography competition called My Place Photography. After some photography tips from Grange Art & Design Department, Primary 7 took to Kilmarnock Town Trail to take their snaps. Laura went one further and went out to take some of her own too. She managed to come third from all the hundreds of entries from all across Scotland with her photograph Caprington In The Mist. I’m sure you’ll agree it is a stunning picture of a magnificent building we have right on our doorstep! Once again, congratulations, Laura!
Feel free to log on to the My Place Photography 2018 website to see all our entries.http://www.scottishcivictrust.org.uk/about/my-place-photography/competition/competition-galleries/primary-2018/
22/02/18
Inspired by recent Winter Olympic sports, Primary 7 studied Friction and made their own downhill slides.
21/02/18
This week Primary 7 enjoyed the Getting To Know You Day at Grange Academy.
This day is organised by all the P7 staff alongside their secondary colleagues to bring the children together in a series of tasks and challenges. They had the chance to meet Miss McBride PT of Transition as well as other teachers. Community policeman PC McKenna also spoke to the future S1. Approximately 210 children attended the day.
The next Transition event is the Science Fair which will take place on the morning of Friday March 9th.
Homework for 23/02/18
Reading: Comic Crew – Island Bound Chapters 7-9
Rapid Readers – Hot Money Chapters 5-7
Book Worms – Run Chapters 5-7
Spelling – Winter Olympic themed words
Maths
Language for 01/03/18 – World Book Day – compile an A4 sheet recommending a book you have read to somebody else. Think about the characters, the theme, the author, the plot etc. A small picture of the cover would work well. It can be hand written or word processed.
12/02/18
Thank you so much to all the Primary 7 pupils who came along to our Burns Supper on Thursday night. We had a wonderful mixture of poetry and music, with lots of mums, dads and grandparents there to watch. It was a great celebration of all things Scottish.
The evening was rounded off with the children being presented with Heritage Hero certificates from Archaeology Scotland. This was in recognition of their work in local history. Not just their Burns work, but their local study of Kilmarnock during World War II; their community links with Kilmarnock District History Group, and using the Kilmarnock Town Trail to photograph some of the architecture in and around the town.
Weel done, weans!
11/02/18
Last week Hannah Paterson, Freya Staddon, Alistair Johnston and Aritra Acharya all represented Gargieston at the annual East Ayrshire Schools Quiz organised by the Rotary Club of Kilmarnock.
Although they didn’t manage to win, they managed a very high score in front of a large audience. Why not try some of the questions they were asked…?
What letter falls between E and T on a keyboard?
What year did the Queen and Prince Phillip marry?
How many degrees are there in a 1/3 of a circle?
How many time zones are there in the USA?
Homework for 02-02-18
Preparation for Burns Supper
Reading : Comic Crew – first 3 chapters of Island Bound
Book Worms – first 2 Chapters of Run
Rapid Readers – first 2 Chapters of Hot Money
(Including definitions of new words from the chapters, at the back of language jotter.)
Spelling – all groups
Homework for 26-01-18
- Preparation for Burns Supper
- All groups: Spelling words – 2 rows plus an activity
- Rapid Readers – Complete the book
- Comic Crew – Chapters 12-14 (complete the book)
- Book Worms – Complete the book
- ALL GROUPS SHOW EVIDENCE OF ANY WORDS NOT KNOWN – WRITE DEFINITIONS AT THE BACK OF HOMEWORK JOTTERS WITH THE BOOK NAME AS A TITLE PLEASE
- Maths – HAM allocated – Estimate the angles
17-01-18
Homework for 19-01-18
- maths (symmetry)
- Bug Club – Rapid Readers should have their book allocated now
- poems etc for Burns Supper
- NO SPELLING HOMEWORK THIS WEEK
Primary 7 please take note that PE days will be Monday and Tuesday each week until further notice. Please bring your kit on these days only – good training for organising your timetable after August next year!
There are high expectations for homework. Friday must be handed in by Friday at the latest. Feel free to put your completed work in the homework tray during the week. Any incomplete Bug Club will be done during Golden Time.
Group points can be gained with signed homework some weeks – you just never know what week that will be!
Prefect / Captain badges should be worn at all times. Be proud of your badges!
14th September
We enjoyed a tour of Kilmarnock today looking at the places we had been learning about during our WW2 topic – The Grand Hall used for Italian prisoners of war, Culzean Crescent where houses were bombed and destroyed, the memorial to the 4 civilians killed in 1941, the war memorial and finally old photographs in The Dick Institute.
03/11/17
Primary 7 walked up to Grange Art & Design Department to meet Miss Sharpe for her to share some top tips on capturing that perfect photograph. She talked about perspective, focal points and the rule of thirds.
Then they took those tips out into the town centre taking lots of great photos. Everyone will soon choose their favourite photo to enter the national My Place Photography run by The Scottish Civic Trust.
09/11/17
Miss McKenzie from the Music & Drama Department is visiting every Thursday morning to teach P7 songs to be sung in a concert in Grange in December. All the P7s heading to Grange in August will form one big choir.
11/11/17
Congratulations to all the Primary 7s who put on a fabulous performance this week based around Grammar School; Kilmarnock and events around the world during the WW2 time. They delivered their lines so well – everyone taking on at least a small part. Well done! Thanks also to some of the P5s and P6s of Base 4 for coming along to support us with the songs.
Over £170 from ticket sales will go to Poppy Scotland. Thank you!
13.11.17
STEM Homework Task.
Mrs Cameron is working with us for the next 2 weeks. We are looking at flight.
Here is a research/information task to help you with tasks over the next fortnight.
You’ll be learning about how aircraft fly this week. I would like you to do some research on the different types of aircraft that are out there at the minute and also have a look for different concepts for future aircraft. (a ‘concept’ is an idea that hasn’t been fully designed or built yet).
Here are a couple of links to the NASA website as a starting point.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/Features/leaptech.html
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/flight_2025.html
Some other companies that currently make aircraft are Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Cessna. You could google ‘future aircraft concepts Boeing’ for example and see what these companies are sharing with the pubic.
Things to think about’ are the shape of the aircraft, what are the engines like, what do the engines run on.
15/11/17
Primary 7 enjoyed an excellent visit to Woodward as part of their STEM fortnight activities on Flight.
After an interesting talk on what the company does, the children broke into groups for a tour of the site. This was followed by a break for water and snacks they provided and 4 activities based on what they had seen and told about.
It really was a fantastic visit and huge thanks go to all the staff at Woodward for making us so welcome!
The final photo is Ben’s skin magnified x220! This tool is used when working with hairline cracks on an aircraft part.
16/11/17 Maths during STEM fortnight
We sharpened up our Maths skills with some revision of fractions, decimals and percentages using games.
12/12/17
Last month Primary 7 pupils wrote their first pen pal letter to an English speaking school in Spain. This was made possible by a former pupil of Gargieston who is now a teacher in the school, contacting us and coming in to visit when home in Kilmarnock.
Well, the first letters back arrived in the post today and there was much excitement in our class!
We learned about all sorts from their favourite films and foods to Spanish customs and cuisine. Our children were not impressed at the thought of octopus and potatoes!
Now, we have made Christmas cards to send back and will pop in another letter before the Christmas holidays.
Pantomime and pen pals 🙂
20/12/17
Well done to all the Primary 7s who came along to the evening performance of the Grange Education Group Concert. The P7 Transition Group Choir sang beautifully and it was lovely to see everyone in their Primary School sweatshirts mixing with their future peers.
Thank you again to Miss MacKenzie and Mr Ramsay for visiting the school and teaching us these songs.
