In music, we have been learning all about Grażyna Bacewicz, a famous female composer who lived in Poland during WW2. She composed her ‘Overture’ while Poland was under occupation, and weaved the morse code symbol for ‘V’ into her piece, to symbolise victory. Primary Seven have enjoyed learning about this fascinating music, and have created some morse code hidden messages of their own. Can you decode any? Here’s a clue, some of the words include: gas, tank, raid and bomb! Good luck and enjoy!
World War Two
Our topic this term is World War Two. They say it is a very fun experience and hard work. We have learnt lots of interesting new facts and stories. So far we have learnt about the causes of world war two, and used our research skills to create a timeline to show the key events. We have used chalk to draw the flags of the Axis and Allies outside. Here is a Google Slide Show to showcase some of our fantastic learning so far! Enjoy 🙂
Welcome to our blog!
Welcome to our Primary Seven class blog! Here we will publish the fantastic learning that takes place in and out of our classroom . We hope you enjoy!
Newsletter
Here is our newsletter from August 2020.
Fish release – 6th March
Paul the Scientist from the Science Centre brought plastic tubs to transport the fish. Some fish were alevins and some were fry. Every one in the class has at least two fish to release.
We walked ( in the pouring rain) down to Aurs Burn in the ABC park. This was the nearest burn to our school and it will eventually lead into the River Clyde.
We had in total over 120 fish that we had nurtured in our hatchery that we released safely into the wild.
Zak – It was fun releasing the fish. We got to talk to our friends on the way down.
Allanna – It was sad because it was pouring with rain and also we had had the fish for a few weeks .
Sam – It was emotional because we were letting the fish go and the rain was torrential and that made it worse.
IDL – Literacy, Ict , Social Studies
As part of our work on Clyde in the Classroom, P5 have been working on Powerpoint presentations. We have been working in trios to produce Google slides to present to each of the classes telling them all about our project.
First of all we decided our trios. Then we used Google Classroom to complete a table showing what we were going to do our slides on . We worked collaboratively , talking to each other all the time.
Then we worked individually on our slides and then shared them and imported them into one PowerPoint.
We will be presenting to all of the classes W/C 4th March before the fish are released on Wed.
Jayden – The project was interesting – we got to work on our own slides and also work in a team.
Allanna – It was fun because we got to work collaboratively.
Morgan – It was fun to make the slides with all the information we have learned.
Data handling – Fishy Maths
We have been recording the temperature of the water in our hatchery since it arrived on the 21st of January. We have recorded the temperature three times each day to make sure that the temperature was within the correct range – 8-10 degrees.
To help us monitor and analyse the data we used Microsoft Excel to record our data and then used the chart Wizard to create a bar chart of our data . Here is the bar chart Morgan created.
Hollie – It was fun to create our own background for the charts.
Robbie – it was a bit hard to create the chart but also fun to make our own designs.
Clyde in the classroom
On Thursday 31st January Paul , one of the scientists from Clyde in the Classroom delivered our fish eggs. We received 200 brown trout eggs which we put into our hatchery which was delivered on the 21st of January. Since we got the hatchery, we have been trying to keep the temperature at the correct levels – between 8-10 degrees.
Finlay – I was surprised by how many eggs we got.
Kate – The fish eggs were smaller than i expected.
Marlie – I was excited to look after the fish eggs.
Science Centre Trip Friday 18th January
As part of our learning about Clyde in the Classroom, we visited the science centre.
We got to visit the Science Mall and then we had lunch, after that we had more time to look at the different levels in the mall.
After that we went to the theatre to listen to a presentation from one of the Scientists on Clyde in the Classroom. We then had a talk from another Scientist who explained all about the hatchery and how to look after the eggs.
Ava – It was fun, my favourite part was the human sized hamster wheel.
Callum – the trip was interesting , My favourite part was sitting on the upside down couch.
Sam – The trip was amazing. My favourite part was the timed races.
ICT – Numeracy
In maths the circles have been learning about angles, symmetry and transformation. We have been learning about direction and movement using bearings.
We used the Sphero’s which are programmable spheres to demonstrate our understanding of angles and movement. We worked in pairs to programme our Sphero’s .
Marlie – The Spheros are interesting and fun and you could do a lot of things with them.
Robbie – It is amazing how the Spheros work and they are fun.
Cerys – They are really technical but also fun.
