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.

We took part in a STEM webinar hosted by the Tree of Knowledge.  We learned that STEM isn’t about being the smartest person in the room. It’s about being curious, having the right mindset and wanting to learn new things.

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.

For this week’s homework the P7s have to complete this logic problem.  It is due in on Friday 6th March.

We are still waiting on quite a few of the sheets to be handed in from last week.

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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A wee sneak peak of P7 from photo day… stay tuned for the official photo.

On Thursday we had fun taste testing different Scottish and Finnish snacks and we compared them and rated them out of ten.  We sampled Tunnock’s Teacakes and Shortbread from Scotland and Kex Bars and Choco TV Mix from Finland.

The Teacakes were a clear favourite. The Choco TV mix was very popular as there were so many different flavours in the pack although we discovered the white Lakrifun sweets were actually liquorice, which was an unwelcome surprise for some!

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.

We had a visit from Miss Naismith from the RBA this week. She is one of the guidance teachers and she came with some senior pupils to talk to us about things like the different subjects and how the timetables work.  The Primary 7s listened so well and asked some great questions too.

As part of our Scottish topic, we have been looking at bridges such as the Forth Road bridge.  We were set a challenge to build our own bridge and see how much weight it could hold.

We also finished off our Scottish Castle 3D models.  Don’t they look fabulous?