We had a fantastic time at our Christmas Party. No one needed any encouragement to hit the dance floor – it was packed from start to finish! We even had a boys vs girls dance off – the dance moves were off the chart! We also squeezed in some party games and Scottish Dances.

Christmas came early in P7 with the surprise arrival of the leavers’ hoodies! We absolutely love them.

The rest of our fundraising for our hoodies will be done in term 3 as part of our Virgin Money enterprise project.

Our hoodies can now be worn as uniform for the remainder of the school year.

Today we had a visit from Owl Magic. We learned all sorts of fascinating facts and got to hold Jazz and Bubbles.

It’s been another busy week in P7 as we get into full swing for the school show, Cinderella & Rockerfella. The stage is up, the props are almost finished and we are working hard on our singing and stage movement.

As well as our show we have been busy with our protractors, measuring angles, identifying them and calculating missing angles. We have also been been practising for Sports Hall athletics.

We had great fun creating our own gingerbread men after watching a clip from Shrek. We then animated our characters using software on our Chromebooks. We love the results. Check them out.

Our second homework focus launched yesterday and is Literacy. Over the next four weeks pupils will be issued with weekly homework as follows:

• Week 1 – Big Talk (issued and in school bags yesterday)
• Week 2 – Reading Challenge
• Week 3 – Handwriting
• Week 4 – Writing

All class talks will be heard on Monday 25th November.  This term’s talk is ‘Me, Myself and I’.  More information in school bags.

As a reward for all their hard work this term P7 are having a Movie Afternoon.  They have voted to watch Goosebumps which is rated PG. If you DO NOT wish your child to watch a PG rated movie, please contact the school by Wednesday lunchtime.

Thanks

Mrs McCaig

As part of our fundraising for our hoodies we are going to run a chocolate raffle.  To support this we are asking if each P7 pupil could bring in a chocolate bar of some kind, if possible.  Please note that it should not contain nuts.

Chocolate donations should be in to school for Wednesday 9th October ahead of the prize draw on Friday.

Thank you for your support with this.

Our times tables homework focus was given out today in class.  This will run for the next four weeks. Pupils are free to choose a different times table each week that they feel they need to work on.  From here they should complete as many of the activities on the sheet as they can throughout the week.

By P7 the expectation is that pupils will know all times tables and have good recall of each.  This will support them in all other aspects of maths, especially fractions, decimals and percentages.  It will also prove to be a huge helping hand as they move to S1.  Lots of practise committing these to memory will be our table focus this session.

We can’t wait to see the improvements everyone makes.

Good luck and have fun.