It’s been another busy start to the week with our enterprise projects in full swing.  ‘Mr Cleans’ and ‘The Calm Girls’ have been hard at work washing cars and delivering bracelet making workshops.  ‘The Pencil Wielders’ have also been busy running their art classes and the results have been fantastic!

There is a buzz around the school with everyone getting involved in activities and trying the tasty treats on offer.

Next week the Candy Kings will run a school tuck shop at play time with a range of sweets on offer.

Keep your eyes peeled next week when we plan to evaluate our success and announce our profits!

Our Virgin Money Enterprise is well underway. ‘Crumb and Get it’ and ‘Sweet Boutique’ have been busy fulfilling customer orders whilst our remaining businesses are finalising their marketing materials and budgets.

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates as the week rolls on.

The homework this week is linked to our Data Handling topic. Worksheet sent home today and is due Friday 13th.

This week we have been hard at work on our Virgin Money businesses. We have started our logo designs and budgeting. We’ve had a few obstacles to overcome with location and access to facilities but we are ‘pivoting’ and taking our businesses in other directions.

We also enjoyed the book swap for World Book Day and created our own picture books which we will read to the infants next week.

We finished up our data handling in maths and are now over half way thought our novel, Divided City.

PC Shirkie also visited our class to talk about Internet Safety. He gave us lots of information on how to stay safe online.

This is week one of our Numeracy homework block. Worksheets linked to previous learning will be sent home on a Monday to be returned on the Friday.  This block will run for three weeks. Any questions please contact the school office.

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It’s been another busy week in P7. This week we started our photography topic. We explored what makes a good photo and went outside to practise taking some landscape and portrait photos of our own.

We also had a trip to the Science Centre where we  explored all three floors and a trip to IMAX to watch the animal kingdom documentary. A few of us got some jump frights as reptiles and sharks came our way thanks to the 3D glasses

On Thursday we put our cooking skills to the test by making a delicious pot of lentil soup.  We chopped up onions, peeled and grated carrots and sliced leeks to add to the lentils and vegetable stock. Our patience was rewarded in the afternoon when we got to tuck in to a tasty cup of soup, complete with a slice of soft white bread to dip in.

Our adventure may have been cut short due to Storm Bram but we still had a ball! We crammed so much into day two including the chance to explore brand new caves, navigate tight crawls and hear spooky stories in the darkness. We did some bush crafts, using flints to light fires and toast marshmallows, then we hit the beach to wave jump. It was an adventure from start to finish. Check out our videos (keep your eyes peeled for the wellie shot!)

It might be wet but the weather hasn’t dampened our day! We arrived safe and sound ready to start the first challenge – bed making! We saw some fascinating techniques getting duvets into their covers and fitted sheets onto the mattresses. Before long it was time to unpack and head for lunch. After refuelling we headed on a walk around the grounds before a giant game of tig in the park. We puddle jumped our way back to base for dinner and are now heading out for our night time of beach combing for rocks, exploring the castle grounds and then settling down with a hot chocolate and a film before bed!

P7 Talking Homework – November 2025

Title:  My Dream Future

Pupils have been given a project to prepare and present a short five-minute talk all about their hopes and dreams for the future.  You should include as much detail as possible and can include a range of different subjects such as:

• Dream job, where you’ll live, family, friends, hobbies, pets, cars etc – the list is endless

You can chose whatever you would like to use to enhance your talk e.g. PowerPoint (saved on GLOW), posters, photographs, props.

You should practise your talk at home so that you can confidently present it to the class, you might want to use notes on paper to help you remember your talk. Remember it’s important that your talk lasts the full duration and that you make good eye contact with your audience.

All talks will be assessed using the school’s Talking & Listening criteria, which is also available on Glow.

Talks should be ready to be present the week beginning Monday 17^th November.