Category Archives: Health & Wellbeing

Health & Wellbeing, Home, Literacy, Numeracy, Primary 7, Remote Learning, Technologies

REMOTE LEARNING TAKE 2: DAY 3

Happy Wednesday!

Today is the third day of our remote learning and I must say that I am so impressed with the engagement level of the class.

I love logging on in the morning and receiving comments alongside the register of ‘Good Morning’, so thank you for this.

Also, I really appreciate those who are keeping me in the loop regarding their family situations. It can be extremely difficult and a very stressful situation trying to complete work at home, especially if people become unwell. That being said, please make sure you are looking after your mental and physical health first and foremost. Do what you can, if you cannot get everything completed – don’t worry. I would much rather you did a few things, very well.

We started the day by revising some previous concepts and converting between fractions, decimals, and percentages. The children then learned some new information about adding and subtracting fractions, before undertaking their differentiated tasks.

The Grammar Police were out in full force today looking for the misuse of apostrophes. Interestingly, lots of mistakes spotted on social media and from a number of celebrities.

Ibrahim pointed out that he’s seen someone say “Not many Tuesday’s left until…” and knew that this was incorrect. An eagle-eyed pupil also caught me out for forgetting an apostrophe in my post on the Google Classroom. Was it done intentionally to catch you out, or a genuine mistake by me…?

We also continued with our learning in RSHP this afternoon. As if I would miss out on our favourite part of the week! We thought about what makes a good friend and the qualities that we possess which make us a good friend for someone to have. We completed a google form to assess what qualities we have in 7.27 that make us good friends to others, and what areas perhaps we should work on. Here are the results.

With this information and then we created a wanted poster, showing the characteristics, qualities, and traits of a good friend.

Kara created a brilliant poster demonstrating some things which she looks for in a friend.

As did Zaina,

and Henry

Our final ‘extra activity’ today was a link to Kevin Quantum’s website where we could watch some of his tricks and videos, or have a go at some as there is a ‘how-to’ section. I received a lot of comments saying that people enjoyed this addition to the google classroom.

Thanks again for all of your hard work. Keep it up, I think you’re all amazing, and remember it is a tough time for everyone so be especially kind to yourself, as well as to others.

Over halfway through the week now… time really does fly when you’re having fun!

Health & Wellbeing, Home, Literacy, Outdoor Learning, Primary 7, Remote Learning, Technologies

REMOTE LEARNING TAKE 2: DAY 2

Today is day number two of 7.27’s remote learning experience. I have taken the children’s views from their Jamboard into account and have created an interactive poster for them to show their learning for today.

If we had been in school today, this morning would have seen the start of outdoor learning with Mrs. Kelly for three periods. The class would then have had three periods of either recovery time in the kitchen, or recovery time with me – where we would have hosted the ‘Mearns Film Festival’ to watch your creations.

For this reason, today’s learning has been designed closely to what we should have been doing in school, and we will still celebrate the Film Festival when we return as the children worked so hard on their projects.

It seems everyone enjoyed their learning today! Here is a snippet of what some pupils got up to…

Aatish, Wint, and Zaina completed some film reviews of their favourite moving images.

Ibrahim took his learning outdoors today and created a map of his local area. Very detailed!

Amaya also undertook some outdoor learning and sent a hilarious video of her completing an obstacle course that she designed.

Delisha went outside and investigated which 2D and 3D shapes she could make with natural materials. She also created an amazing animation too! What a busy day of remote learning.

In the image below, you will see that Olivia took part in a scavenger hunt in her garden with a little help from her Mum hiding some rocks for!

Jamie decided to build on his filmmaking skills by planning and producing an animation. Well done Jamie!

Lea has also created an animation which is BRILLIANT but unfortunately too large to upload, so I will post a screengrab of her film instead.

Lucy spent a lot of the day writing and working on her film as well. Unfortunately it is too large to upload the whole thing but here is a little taster of it…

Some people chose to bake as well. I said that I would have a go at the banana bread recipe, as I had some bananas going off, and I didn’t disappoint. Below is my bread in the oven and then once it was out and cooled. I must admit, it doesn’t look great but it tastes amazing. I had to drizzle some extra chocolate on top to make self-isolation a little bit ‘sweeter’!

Jemma baked banana bread as well, she did this completely independently with only a FaceTime to her gran to find out how to work the oven and mixer. Amazing! Jemma also confirmed that it tasted scrumptious.

Here is Olivia’s banana bread mix before it made its way to the oven.

Not everyone made the same thing, Lewis and his family baked some brownies together. I think that’s something that I’ll be trying next time. Sounds delicious.

I hope everyone continues to stay safe. Let’s see what tomorrow brings!

Well done everyone. Day two – complete!

Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Primary 7

Recovery Project

 

P7 have been delighted to welcome Miss Harrison as our recovery teacher this term. She will be working with half of the class on a Tuesday afternoon cooking, while the other half work with Miss Thomson on a super fun literacy project. After 4 weeks we will swap over. Exciting!

Here’s a snippet of what we’ve been up to in the kitchen and the class…

 

 

 

We will keep you updated with our weekly activities.

Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Primary 7, Technologies

A Day of Discovery

We started our Friday morning in an integrated way with lots of different tasks being undertaken. Some children decided to develop their comprehension by playing games, some worked on their speedy numeracy skills, others did some drawing and crafts. We loved picking our tasks and deciding when we did them.

As we had so much fun this morning we decided to continue this discovery and equity approach through the day. We learned some new skills during writing time and then chose how we wanted to apply them. Some people created blackout poems, others created stories and some chose to write letters and diary entries. We had to come up with our own success criteria depending on the type of text that we were creating.  We will show some of the finished pieces later on.

Here are some pictures of us working on our writing. Of course we used technology to help us!

 

Health & Wellbeing, Literacy, Numeracy, Outdoor Learning

MATHS WEEK PART 3

 

Maths this week finished sensationally last week with us being crowned runners up in the P7 East Renfrewshire Quiz. We were so excited and the tense atmosphere in the class was so exciting!

This week we’ve taken aspects of maths week that we loved and used them during a normal week to make sure that we are all engaged and motivated in our learning. The children were keen to continue the outdoor learning so we went outside to work as a group and decode various ciphers as a treasure hunt activity.

After researching famous mathematicians during maths week we were really interested in Katherine Johnson and the discrimination that she faced being an African-American woman. This got us thinking about the Black Lives matter movement and also the women’s rights campaign and women’s suffrage.

We chose an area that interested us, researched it and produced a piece of writing. We generated our own success criteria depending on what type of text we were creating. Some of us made posters, me leaflets and others wrote newspaper reports.

Alesha continued to impress us by writing out pi to 100 decimal places! Well done!

We explored budgeting and worked as a group to make sure that our  fleet had enough equipment.

 

We we are very much looking forward to the October week and a well-deserved break. We have been working so hard in P7 to recover learning and relationships that suffered during our months in lockdown. We are learning and progressing in fun, engaging ways and everyday we try out best to meet our potential! Keep up the great work 7.27.

Health & Wellbeing, Primary 6, Special event

Anti-bullying week

This week is National Anti-bullying week.  Today, we attended class P726’s assembly on Anti-bullying and followed it up with a class discussion.

We discussed what bullying means and what the difference between bullying and the kind of conflict we sometimes have with school friends in the playground.

Then we thought of strategies we could use if we are being bullied or know of anyone who is being bullied.

Finally, we designed our own Anti-bullying posters to show our understanding of what we’ve learnt.

Health & Wellbeing, Home, Special event

Debib week

This week was Def Week at Mearns Primary school.  We would like to purchase a defibrillator for the school as part of our goal as a First Aid school and are currently fundraising  to help us achieve this.  Defib Week will help us raise money through a sponsored whole school Zumba class as well as educating the children, staff and their families in how to perform CPR.

The week kicked off with a visit from Jamie from St Andrews First Aid.  He brought along his training mannequins to demonstrate how to administer CPR.

Next, Leon from the Red Cross came to our classroom to discuss general first aid techniques and how to offer first aid without a first aid kit.

The recovery position.

You can cool a burn with more than just water if its not available. Lucozade!

On Thursday, Lewis the First Responded brought in his defibrillator in with him and showed us how to make a 999 in an emergency.

Finally, the week was rounded up by a Zuma session in the Street to get our hearts pumping.

 

 

Health & Wellbeing, Primary 6, Special event

STV Big Breakfast Appeal

Today we had a big breakfast in our classroom.

The reason we had this big breakfast is because we are raising money for the STV appeal to help children in poverty.

Our breakfast included a wide selection of fruit, a choice of cereal and milk, and rolls filled with potato scones. Thank you so much to the community partners who donated food to us.

From the STV Big Breakfast Appeal website, we have been learning about poverty in Scotland and we found out that 220,000 people live in poverty and often have to choose between heating their homes or eating. The appeal has been in existence since 2011 and have helped to raise £19 million for children all over Scotland.

We also participated in a Plickers quiz to test our knowledge of the appeal and the importance of breakfast.

If you would like to give a donation, there is still time to give to the appeal via ParentPay.