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Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Week beginning 12th September

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On Wednesday we joined with the rest of the school in a commemoration assembly for Queen Elizabeth who sadly passed away last Thursday.

We then went outside and spent some time learning about scale and created some scale pictures of the Queen having studied a profile picture of her from a stamp. I am sure you will agree we made a tremendous job using sticks, stones and cones to create these.

In the afternoon we enjoyed some jam sandwiches, shortbread and a wee chat about our experiences of the royal family before starting on some grid art and pop art pictures of Queen Elizabeth.

Writing

We worked in groups to investigate how to enhance descriptions in our writing. We used pictures to stimulate discussion and created some fantastic pieces of writing as a result. The buzz in the class as we worked together was immense.

Star writers from last week were proud to receive their certificates and we heard one of them read out her story to us too.

 

PE

Outside for PE this week we started sharing some of the games we have been creating in our groups. We worked on stamina and accuracy this week and really enjoyed teaching and learning from each other.

 

Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics

Week beginning 5th September

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This week has flown in! Here are some of the things we have been up to this week

Maths games

Learning is always so much more fun when we do it with others and play games as we go. Mrs Kelly introduced us to Tarsia cards and we also used some challenge cards and played hit the button to improve our speed and accuracy with multiplication tables.

Group reading

After reading the first few chapters of our class novel Holes, we worked together to analyse the setting, the characters and some of the techniques the author used to engage us in the story.

Announcement of prefects

Miss Hunter came round our classes this week and announced the prefects. She said it was a really tough decision as there had been so many worthwhile candidates. Fortunately there are lots of other leadership roles available in Primary 7 and lots we can create for ourselves too, so those who didn’t make it as prefects have plenty of other things to aim for!

Congratulations to our new prefects pictured below.

Health and Wellbeing, Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Week beginning 29th August

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Another fabulous week in primary seven has flown past!

Here we are enjoying some outdoor time learning to follow instructions and create pictures marking different types of angles with different natural materials.

 

Here is a photo of our star writers for the week.

We did well completing homework this week and we have discussed how to make it even better, neater and more meaningful next week too.

 

Digital Technology, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy, Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Week beginning 22nd August

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Well  what a fabulous first full week back we have had!

We started our week enjoying some fun lessons focussing on children’s rights and creating our class charter, then Mrs Short worked with us on the topic of growth mindsets.

On Wednesday we were really fortunate to have a visit from the author,   , who encouraged us to draw some of the characters from her books. Later in the day we learned about how to punctuate dialogue correctly and created som short pieces of writing using this skill.

Thursday was a bright and sunny day for most of the time, so after some digital learning in the morning, we headed outside for some orienteering and maths work before beginning to make some wind chimes while focusing on developing our teamwork and creativity skills.

Outdoor learning

Lots of learning outdoors

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We started off our outdoor session today with a word game using lots of vowels and consonants. Who knew we could create so many words with only a few letters and special golden question marks?!

We then moved on to practise our skills in observing, recording and analysing.

Finally we worked on a magic square challenge. We didn’t quite get it completed but we learned a lot about teamwork as we tried. 😊

Outdoor learning

Leaf collection, analysis and rubbing

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Following on from our lesson last week watching The Promise and thinking about colours and leaves and trees, we decided to go outside in the search for some oak leaves as well as many others.

We really enjoyed collecting the leaves, then focusing on their colours, sizes and textures. We started making some patterns outside, but the weather wasn’t kind, so we headed in and created loads inside. The whole class were entirely silent as we worked on these beautiful creations!

We then played a tree identification game on the woodland trust website and finished off the morning by using oil pastels and producing some delightful leaf rubbings.

Outdoor learning

The Promise

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We listened to the story The Promise by Nicola Davies and Laura Carlin. We also watched the animation of the story which was launched in Scotland on that day, Monday 26th October.

After watching we had some really interesting discussions on how the story made us feel, the importance of nature and life cycles. We then went on to write some beautiful poems and create some fun pictures with bright paper.

Here is the link to the website where you can watch it again and maybe try some of the other activities mentioned.

https://www.thepromise.earth/

Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Quadrilateral investigations

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We spent time today learning all about quadrilaterals and their properties including details about the types of angles they have. We learned that every quadrilateral has four sides and the sum of its internal angles is 360 degrees.

We wondered if every quadrilateral could be split into two triangles and we had great fun making all the shapes and working out that they can. 😊

Outdoor learning

Lots of learning outside!

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What an incredible morning we had oozing with learning! First we warmed up with some shape name games and making different four sided shaped with Mrs Kelly’s new rainbow sticks. After that we moved on to a game to revise our understanding of place value. Finally we moved on to learning how to use orienteering punches and got very out of breath running around searching for the correct numbers to punch our cards. We rounded off with another shape categorising game.

There were certainly lots of happy faces as we headed back indoors for lunch.