The Primary 7s ran an amazingly successful ‘Revive and Thrive’ sale this week.  Not only did they collect in, clean and organise all of the toys, but they also priced up each item individually and then sold them at a very busy sale on Wednesday.  Each class was given a time slot to attend and they had great fun choosing a toy to take home.

On Thursday afternoon we had a production line in progress, preparing our baubles for the Christmas Fayre. The baubles will be personalised by Mrs Cook at the Fayre on Thursday night, but the P7s are allowed to bring in their £2 early to get their bauble made for them on Thursday afternoon in class if they wish.

For our Literacy Open morning on Thursday, the P7s created activities for the P1, 2 and 3 classes to go with their Book Bug and Read, Write Count bags they were being gifted.  As well as creating and resourcing all of the activities, the P7s also went to help in the classes, helping to lead the learning.  I was so proud of how hard they all worked and all of the other teachers commented on how fantastic the activities were.

For PE this week, we practised our Rugby skills from last week. We played 5 pass and then finished with an epic game of dodge ball.

On Thursday we had a visit from Harry from the Cumnock Rugby Club who took us for a very energetic Rugby session. We played tig games to warm up and then Five Pass. We all worked our socks off and there were plenty of red, sweaty faces at the end!

In the afternoon,  we did some Drama and the class were absolutely hilarious! They acted out some scenarios using mime and then we took it in turns to say the first line of Humpty Dumpty in different ways, such as: someone who is tired, a superhero, someone gossiping to their neighbour, someone who is upset etc. It was so much fun and we can’t wait to do it again next week.

At the start of the week we had a visit from the fire service who talked to us about staying safe on Bonfire night.

We had our first Rugby session this week.  Unfortunately, Harry from the Rugby club got the dates mixed up, but Mrs Govans released our very own Mrs Mair from P2, who just so happens to be a Rugby coach, and the P7s had great fun playing outside.

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.

For the past couple of weeks the children have been learning about Worship in RME.  They have looked at the meaning of the word worship and understand that it means to give great worth to something and show adoration and respect.  They considered some of the things that they worship – not necessarily in a religious sense but more in the sense that they worship their family, a specific sports team, or in the case of some pupils in the class, Yorkshire tea!

This week we looked at music and prayer as a form of worship.  The children listened to different pieces of music from a range of religions and discussed how it made them feel and what they noticed about the music.  Today we looked at the reasons people pray in different religions.  We noticed themes of “Hope”, “Love” and “Thankfulness” and this helped us to have a go at writing our own prayers. They did not have to be religious and the children chose who they would write the prayers to.  I was blown away with the maturity of all the pupils, who really engaged in the lesson and put a lot of thought and effort into coming up with their own versions of a prayer.

We have been working so hard on our skipping block and some of the boys have spent a few weeks working on this amazing pick and and drop off routine.

To celebrate a whole term of hard work P7  will be having a movie afternoon tomorrow (Wednesday).  After a very close vote – the winning film is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.  This film is rated a PG.  If you do not wish your child to watch a PG rated film please contact the office before 10am.

The weeks are flying by and before we know it, it will be residential time. So, to help you start preparing please see the packing list below.