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BGE, Digital Technology, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy

Week beginning 28th November

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This week has included lots of fun and lots of learning. As usual we worked together with 7.27 to improve our badminton skills playing a variety of fun games to improve our hand eye co ordination as well as our racket skills.

On Thursday we enjoyed an online Google assembly all about internet safety.

Our Dutch Delights gastronomy group had a very successful session in the kitchen enjoying creating our own planned recipes to produce a marvellous six course tasting menu.

And of course Wednesday was St Andrew’s day. Those of us who enjoy a school lunch were treated to a great Scottish style meal by the dinner ladies and in class we spent time researching and creating posters at about this special day in Scotland.

 

We really enjoyed analysing poetry this week, beginning to understand how complex poetry is and just how important imagery is. We also created some of our own poems.

 

 

 

BGE, Health and Wellbeing, Mathematics, Outdoor learning

Week beginning 21st November

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This week our first group created their own six course tasting menu which has been successfully planned, ordered (within budget), prepared and cooked after some tremendously dedicated effort and strong team work. Here are some photos of us during this week’s cooking session. Huge thanks to our parent volunteer, without your help this would not have worked out so well.

We engaged in some great collaborative learning tasks week as we explored and reinforced our understanding of fractions together.

 

Although Friday morning was chilly we had a great outdoor session playing one of our own recently created games. It was a great success enjoyed by all after the creating team adapted and improved the rules following feedback from the rest of the class.

BGE, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy

Week beginning 14th November

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We were lucky this week to enjoy a marvellous treat when. We visited the cinema as part of the Intu Film Festival. Thank you to all our parent volunteers who accompanied us and helped look after us. Without you we wouldn’t have been able to go on this trip.

in the kitchen this week the other half of the class had their first session learning how to separate eggs and finely chop herbs. It was a huge success with no wasted eggs and some delicious food for us all to enjoy together at the end!

BGE, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy

Week beginning 7th November

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This week all of our parents were involved in Parents’ Nights where they discussed our learning and development with Mrs Kelly. Many thanks to everyone for attending and engaging in this important time for your children.

In class we enjoyed listening to some fabulous solo talks based on our future careers.  It was amazing to hear all about all the different careers each of us are interested in. It was also impressive to hear how flexible everyone is too, who knows where our futures lie….

Our first group session took place in the kitchen this week and it was a huge success. We learned how to safely and finely chop herbs and how to separate and egg. The result of our hard work was a very tasty dish of crispy cauliflower with a garlic and herb dip. We did have a little bit of a failure with our home made mayonnaise, but fortunately the school kitchen had a wee bowl of mayonnaise spare, so it all worked out in the end!

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

Week beginning 24th October

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Despite it being a four day week after the October holiday, we managed to pack a lot in!

Here are some of the activities and learning we’ve been involved in this week:

M&M theatre company presented us with Sleeping Beauty. Thanks to the PTA for funding this.

Our Spark Park fundraising sports event was great fun, we completed all the challenges and were lucky enough to have lots of pupil volunteers from Mearns Castle who helped it all run really smoothly.

Miss Hunter was invited to visit our class on Wednesday as we wanted her to see how well we were working in teams to improve our reading skills as we played ‘Reading Race’ in the classroom. She was really impressed and said we should definitely try to share our method with others to help them improve their skills in reading carefully and answering questions in a more in depth way.

Our Mearns Masters Showcase took place on Thursday. We invited the Primary five classes to our computer arcade and they played the three level games we created in our coding masterclasses. Everyone had a great time and the P5s were really impressed with our games.

Friday saw us outside on a rather chilly and wet morning to play some more of the games we created ourselves a few weeks ago. Everyone enjoyed their chance to teach and learn new games. We also took part in some peer assessment and worked really well on offering suggestions for improvements on each of the games.

 

 

BGE, Digital Technology, Health and Wellbeing

Week Beginning 3rd October

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After an incredibly busy week last week in Lockerbie, we had a calmer start to our week with PE, some personal reading and some writing tasks related to our week away. We also enjoyed creating some art work and music for our Fresh Prince of Bel Air performance and moving towards completing this term’s Mearns Masters coding challenge.

Thursday saw us attending our 5-7 Leadership Assembly where we celebrated leadership in all its forms across the school. Many of our class received certificates and badges to start them off on this special and final year of leadership for many of us in Mearns Primary. We also had an opportunity to think about leaders we knew and what qualities and skills they possess that make them successful.

Committees and groups were announced as well as prefects, house captains and vice captains and also head pupils. Here are some photos of us being presented.

 

And finally a photo of all the 7.28 pupils who have leadership responsibilities this year.

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.