It’s hard to believe it’s the 1st of December: this term is flying by! We’re delighted to be getting the Christmas tree decorated and the Advent calendar up in P7.

This week we also celebrated St.Andrew’s day through Interdisciplinary Learning. We found out about who St.Andrew was through an outdoor scavenger hunt where pupils worked together to find clues in the playground and read them to answer some quiz questions.

We also had a research challenge to find out about a Successful Scot. Pupils were asked to use the internet to locate information, make notes and then create their own PowerPoint about their given Scot. Then everyone shared their learning by presenting their slideshows. We found out about: Sir Andy Murray, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Nicola Sturgeon, Alexander Fleming, Katherine Grainger, Nicola Benedetti and William Wallace.

We also enjoyed some Scottish themed art by designing our own tartans using gouache paint to create patterns from horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. We will use these to make some Scottish silhouette pictures.

Our topic on World War 2 continued with us learning more about what it was like for children at this time. Did you know that during WW2 millions of gas masks were given out in Britain and children would practise putting them on through regular gas mask drills at school; everyone was encouraged to carry their mask with them at all times.  We put our technology skills to the test by making model gas masks.

In Numeracy, we have continued working on multiplication of decimal numbers. It would be very helpful if pupils regularly practise the times tables at home. There are lots of games to help with this on educationcity.com and Topmarks.com.

Have a lovely weekend when it arrives!