Author: Miss Bishop

This week in Primary 7 we have been even more excited as we are getting even closer to Lockerbie and High School!

Science teachers came from Eastwood High School and taught us about microbes; we carried out an experiment using bread. We touched one piece of bread with dirty hands, one after washing our hands, and a control piece which we did not touch. We look forward to watching the bread and seeing what happens!

We have also been visited by an English teacher from Eastwood. We got to watch an extract from a movie and had to write down what we could see or hear and what effect it had on the viewer.

This week has also been National Digital Learning Week.

On Monday, PC Trainer visited to teach us about online safety. We did a game with washing line and pegs to see if different statements were true or not for each of us, for example if we had mobile phones. We also worked in groups to decide if different pieces of information were  personal information or not, and learnt that we should not share any information about ourselves with strangers online. PC Trainer showed us a video which demonstrated positive and negative behaviour on social media.

For our Writing, we wrote persuasive letters to Miss Bishop to tell her why we should use phones in school as BYOD is launching this week. For example, we explained that using phones in class will teach pupils to use them responsibly and that they can be used to enhance our learning, for example carrying out research.

On Thursday we had a chance to use the new VR headsets. It was really interesting to see different landscapes and it looked like you were actually there!

Second week back in Primary 7 and we’ve been getting on with our learning as usual; however we received a surprise on Tuesday – letters about our leavers’ hoodies – yay!

We were excited to go across to Eastwood High School this week to take part in Science lessons. We learnt about electrical circuits and how to draw scientific diagrams of these using the correct symbols. We also had the opportunity to try using a Van der Graff generator which was a hair-raising experience! Some people got electric shocks from this which left us in a hairy situation.

In PE we have moved on from Gymnastics and have been developing our co-ordination skills through tennis.

It is now only 24 days until the residential trip… not that we’re counting!

Here we are again back in Primary 7. We are excited as this is our last ever term in Primary School and we have lots of exciting things to look forward to, like the residential to Lockerbie Manor and the P7 dance. This week we were all excited to meet Mrs Rorison from Eastwood. She gave us lots of information about transitions and routines at High School.

We are looking forward to visits to the High School, and finally getting there in a few months’ time – Ayaan

I’m looking forward to the P7 show – Josh

The leavers’ hoodies are something I’m looking forward to – Shriyans

There are lots of exciting trips and opportunities coming our way in Primary 7, and even further in S1 – Miles

I’m looking forward to making the yearbook and seeing all of our memories together – Fiza

We will continue to keep you updated each week on our blog!

 

 

 

In Writing, we wrote non-chronological reports about the Kindertransport: the Kindertransport was a way to send Jewish children to Britain from Germany at the beginning of the Second World War. We looked at different people that helped Jewish children to escape Nazi persecution and travel to Britain. We got information sheets and made notes then used this for our reports.

Lovelace have completed their angles topic in Maths. We have been learning how to calculate angles and the names of different types of angles; this included complementary, supplementary and alternate angles. Einstein have started learning about percentages. We have learnt how to convert a fraction to a percentage by finding equivalent fractions with a denominator of 100 or 10.

In Science, we have been learning about the Solar system. We have each chosen a planet to research and have taken notes from a variety of sources including videos, research online and an information sheet. We have also been drawing diagrams of the Solar system to demonstrate what we have learnt.

In PE we are working on improving our fitness. We did the bleep test where you have to run a certain distance before the bleep. The girls have enjoyed their first weeks of swimming and have worked on diving down the bottom of the pool, pushing off and have used our favourite strokes as a warm up.

As discussed in class today, your writing on Monday will be from the point of view of the character you have been studying in Wonder.

Your writing will take place on the first day of school and will be written in the first person from your character’s perspective. You can choose what format you would like to write in, for example a poem, play, recount, report or diary entry.

Discuss what type of writing would be suitable for your character. Consider the five aspects of characterisation (STEAL) and how you might incorporate these to give a sense of the character that you will be focussing on.

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We have had another busy week in Primary 7! It is road safety week so we have been taking part in the walk to school challenge. Nearly two thirds of the class have walked to school most days – pretty impressive. As well as designing road safety leaflets on Monday, we have also written poems and paragraphs related to road safety slogans; we also made use of our debating skills in a series of quick-fire mini-debates around road safety issues.

The first of our solo talks were presented this week. Miss Bishop has been really impressed with the effort that everyone has put into these and the ways in which they have been presented. We’re looking forward to hearing the rest next week.

Excitingly, it is Book Week Scotland next week. Stay tuned to hear all about it in next week’s blog!