P7 – 16th March 2023

March 16, 2023 by Mrs Johnstone | 0 comments

The P7 pupils have been as busy as ever over the last few weeks, here’s a round-up of what’s been going on.

Literacy & English

Reading and writing has had a focus on non-fiction texts. We have studied explanation texts and reports and followed up by writing our own. This has also linked into our topic on China with last week’s writing about how kites (which are thought to have originated from China) fly.

I.D.L

More interdisciplinary learning followed with the class working in groups to make their own kites with dragon themed designs. There was some excellent team work going on with good talking and listening skills being applied.

Art has also been inspired by China and the beautiful cherry blossoms that you can find there. We used mixed media to create cherry blossom scrolls: blended pastel backgrounds, ink blown branches and tissue paper blossoms which look amazing on our classroom wall.

Numeracy & Mathematics

This week we have been revising our knowledge of what fractions are and using multiplication and division to find equivalent fractions.

S.T.E.M

Over the last few weeks Miss Gibson has been working with the class on the ‘If I were an engineer…’ project where pupils have had to identify a problem and invent something to help solve it. This week they are writing letters to an engineer to explain their designs. There have been a wide range of creative and interesting ideas put forward by our pupils.

Looking back a couple of weeks, the class were challenged to design and build an earthquake proof structure, having read and written about this type of natural disaster as part of literacy. Materials were limited to 20 straws, a base plate and 1m of tape per group. The class rose to the challenge and tried their best. We tested the structures at the end and thought about what worked best or could be improved.

John Muir Award

We have been making bird feeders and planting seeds as part of the conservation element of the award. We used apples and sunflower seeds to make feeders for the playground; hopefully this has helped the birds over the last wee cold snap.

We have planted beetroot, chives, courgette and broccoli seeds and have been keeping the warm and watered beside the window in our classroom.

Next week is the start of ‘Food Fortnight’ and we will also look at Fairtrade.