Expired – 2019-20 Primary 7.27 Blog

After yesterday’s launch of Primary 7’s Make £5 Grow project, we decided that we’d benefit from some learning about budgeting our money efficiently.

7.27 were given a £2000 budget and had the task of planning which house to rent, paying for food shopping, putting money into savings, choosing entertainment and deciding whether or not they’d like a pet!

They seemed to really value the discount coupons that they found…

 

We now understand the importance of budgeting when planning to make a purchase, can carry out calculations using the four operations and compare prices from different retailers!

As we move through our project we should be able to understand the benefits and risks of using bank cards to obtain money and make purchases, and use the terms profit and loss in buying and selling. (We are hoping to use the term profit a bit more!)

These tasks are invaluable in developing skills for learning, life and work and preparing our children for their future after Mearns Primary.

We will keep you updated with our progress through this project and will hopefully see some of you at the Christmas Fayre on 7th December where we will be selling our products and/or services…

 

 

We had a fantastic time at the Eastwood Council Chambers yesterday and the debate was fantastic!

Excellent arguments were made by both sides and the end result was so close,  by only 3 votes, the motion was carried and the house believed that social media apps should be banned to those under 16.

Well done councillors, reporters and those sitting in the gallery.

 

You were a credit to Mearns Primary!

For the past week 7.27 have been practising and preparing for our debate which is happening on Monday.

In literacy we have been focusing on talking and listening skills, like agreeing and disagreeing and backing our points up with research and statistics.

Today we had a practise for our real debate, chose the councillors and the reporters. It was really great and everyone made valid points. We can’t wait for Monday and will be back again to share how it went!

What do you think… should the minimum age to use social media apps be set at 16?

 

At the beginning of term we headed outside to create diagrams of the human body including the vital organs.  We worked in teams to draw life size sketches.  It was important that we worked together and discussed who was doing what in our groups.  We found it hard as everyone had their own ideas and some started drawing without planning before hand.

When we evaluated our diagrams, we realised that the most successful team was the team that chatted about their plan first before putting chalk on the ground!

In 7.27 we have been learning about the properties and parts of a circle.

We investigated how to calculate the radius, diameter and circumference and took note of our formula.

Then we cut out some circles, found the centers and used our formula and rulers to find the radius, diameter and circumference of each one.

Finally we were taught how to use a compass and we were given an extra challenge task to do. We had to draw circles with specific radius and diameters given. This was tricky but we were able to persevere and tackle the problem!

We then got to colour in our circles and add some snazzy designs.

We self-assessed our work to show something new that we learned and colour coded it to show our confidence level.

Maths is fun!

 

 

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 muffins, brioche buns with jam ,butter, milk, cereal and fruit. Thank you so much to the local shops who donated food to us.

We have been researching and making PowerPoints all 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.

In 7.27 this has really made us think how lucky we are and we hope to have raised some money to add to the £19 million that the appeal has already generated in the past 8 years.

 

We hope you enjoyed the pictures and reading our first blog post.

By Jaskirin and Maliha