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Read to Succeed

 

Julia and Zaynab are the leaders of Read to Succeed. Our aim is to make reading more enjoyable for others by: recommending books, reading books to children and letting them do activities on it, reviewing books, putting up quotes to encourage reading, having a reading record of 10 minutes every time we come into school and after playtime and lunchtime with lots more included!

We have been extremely successful, and reading is becoming more and more popular.

These are some of the quotes we have put up:

“Have you heard, that you’re not a nerd? If you read, you will succeed”- Read to Succeed.

“Did you know that sparrows fly south in the winter!?” Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy.

“The more you read, the more you’ll know. The more you learn, the more places you will go”- Dr Seuss.

 

Primary 2’s Reading Time

 

Every Friday at Golden time we gather up 4 children and read them a book. Here are the names of some of the books: Stick Man, The Smartest Giant In the town and many more. While we are reading the books, we ask them questions about the book, for example what happens next? When we are done, they do an activities that shows that they have been paying attention!

Sometimes in the activities there is a prize. The prize is two house tokens. Every Friday when we do Read to Succeed they always enjoy this.

 

We interviewed two of the children and they said…

Alexander-” I like doing the activities because they are fun!”

Myra-” I like to do the activities and getting read books to!”

 

Skulduggery Has Taken Over

 

Julia and Zaynab were asked to recommend 5 books to our class, and one of them was called Skulduggery Pleasant which was a popular choice in the class…

Mrs Watson enjoyed the excerpt from the book so much that she used it for some comprehension tasks.  We all really enjoyed the tasks and loved exploring the language and all the different writing skills the author used.

The next week two pupils brought in a Skulduggery Pleasant book and they were loving it. So, more people brought in a Skulduggery Pleasant book into school, we ended up doing a full comprehension on the 3^rd chapter of the first book of Skulduggery Pleasant and I think that persuaded them to get a book!

Fun Fact: Mrs Watson, our teacher, bought the first and second book of Skulduggery Pleasant!

Read to Succeed will continue to support and encourage all the children to read and enjoy books and texts of all genres.

It has been another action packed week for our class.  It was a hard start to the week with our standardised test on Monday.

Standardised Test :

We had our maths test on Monday and we are all pleased that we did our best. It was really tricky and we all think we need to do more work on 2d and 3d shapes and tricky word problems.

PE:

We are on our third week of gymnastics and have learned so much.  Lots of us have made super progress and are doing things now that we didn’t think we could ever do like handsprings over the boxes, controlling our jumps from high blocks, putting our skills other to create a sequence and holding our handstands. Matthew and Amber have really helped us develop our skills as they are confident with lots of the skills we are working towards.

Numeracy:

The Classy Calculators have been working on finding the area and perimeter of shapes like rhombus and kites.  They have also been exploring how these come together within 3d shapes and solving some tricky problems to do with 3D shapes.

The Division Destroyers had a busy week revising place value and different mental maths strategies.  They are also continuing to work on the order of operations – some people like to call this BODMAS.

The Rockin’ Rulercoasters have been solving problems using a formula and exploring how letters can represent words within a formula.  It has been good fun and really made us think carefully.

We also worked on collaborating with one another during problem solving – this was great fun and taught us a lot about how we share ideas with others.

Literacy:

We are almost half way through “The Nowhere Emporium” and have enjoyed analysis the different characters within the story.  We have also created a super wall display that shows key objects and characters within the story.  We have also been thinking about our opinions of the story and why we feel certain ways about different texts.

In writing we are working to create leaflets that provide information about something we are really interested in.  Mrs Watson and Mrs Fry are excited to learn all about things like Fortnite and our favourite Netflix shows.

Tough Mudder:

It was a muddy day today (Friday) as we all took part in our tough mudder to raise money for the activity trail.  It was great fun but really messy.

P5 Assembly:

We loved watching the P5 asssembly and were so impressed with all the information they knew about WW2.

Space:

Today we helped Mrs Watson plan our science learning.  We will be exploring Space and she wanted to know what we were wanting to learn about.  It was really good to think about what we already know and what we want to learn about.

Congratulations:

Well done to George and Jonathan who won achievement awards at our assembly last week.

Primary 7 are all tired from the October holidays but, are still working really hard! We hope you enjoyed the October holidays. Also a Happy Birthday Darren!!!

In Social Studies we have started a new topic which is World War 2 and we are all excited to start it.  We all wanted to learn about it, Mrs Watson asked what we wanted to learn about and loads of people said the World War.  We also said things like Egypt and Romans so we have that on our wall to plan for.  We have watched videos, seen power points and we have made a timeline on how World War 2 begin and what Hitler did during that time which we will be showing the class. We worked in groups which is really fun and try hard to only chat about our learning.

In P.E we are trying hard to get fitter and improve our fitness and beep test score.  We are following Joe Wicks who is really cool.  We turn out the lights in the hall and put on the disco lights. Mrs Watson picks cool songs and we all work out. It is exhausting but we do stretches and play a game called Rock, Paper, Scissors which we all enjoy playing! We also played capture the flag which we enjoyed so much!

In Health we have started Mindfulness which is peaceful and makes us feel calm. It helps us focus and only think about the things we can control of in the moment and makes us tired too.

This week in writing we made our own horror story which could even an adult sleeping with their teddy bear. We really enjoyed it because we could chose the storyline nevertheless we used the laptops.

Happily in literacy, David Williams have been reading a awesome book called Hitler’s Canary. Tom Gates and Jeff Kinney have also started a new book called Friend or Foe. Of course we did comprehension.

In maths the classy calculators have been learning the parts of the circles, which is circly good. The division destroyers have been continuing angles and learning more about time. Finally, the rocking rulercoasters have been practising decimals, multiplication and division.

Well done to Stevenson who won the house reward – they stuck to the school values and clearly have been trying really hard. Good job Stevenson kids.

We also had so much fun at the Strictly Dance Day with the STV appeal and danced the day away.

Primary 7 hope you have an extraordinary weekend and Happy Friday!!!! J

By Abhay and Julia

This is the 5^th week of Primary 7 and it has been a miraculous start and has been challenging for everyone.  The work is getting tough and we also have a lot more responsibility in the school.  We have a rota for perfecting and our jobs are all different, some of us have to look after the younger children who have hurt themselves we are wellbeing prefects.  Others have to monitor the lunch hall and help children if they are unsure about what they have to do.  This is mostly the new P1 children as this can sometimes be a hard part for them but they are all doing great!

We are all so proud of Zain for climbing Conic Hill and raising £145 for the Betty Cunningham trust. We are all so happy for Zain and for his effort.  He chose to do this himself and he has really inspired us all to do more for charity.

Recently it was Usman’s birthday so happy birthday and we hope you had a wonderful one!

This week the whole school had an art competition which the school values had to be in. It was a wet play and P7 leaders helped the younger pupils compete this task.

We are continuing to learn all about the United Nations Global Goals and are sharing this message across the school.  We will lead the house spirit afternoon in a few weeks and teach our peers all about it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 7^th September P7b  Class Blog

We have had a brilliant start to Primary 7 with our fabulous teacher Mrs Watson. Firstly we want to say happy birthday to Saffi and Azaan. Dylan and Lily welcome there new dogs into their family. Dylan got a beagle and lily got a poodle.

We would like to congratulate our new House Captains, Vice-Captain and Senior Prefects.

Stevenson: Ella and Oscar

Livingston: Molly and Fatimah

Fleming: Millie and Adam

Slessor: Zamin and Abi

Senior Prefects are Carys, Matthew, Ross and Sophie and the whole of Primary 7 are prefecting if they volunteered for it!

In Social Studies we are doing Global Goals and we started trying to raise money for the Betty   Cunningham trust and have great idea’s. We have been thinking about how fortunate we are with our clothes and homes. We sent a letter to through the website on how we want to help.  The trust is about a charity supporting kids in Malawi who need help in a village called Kaponda. Our full class wants share this charity so you can help to. For John Muir we are trying to get our explorer award and we are going to Loch Lomond for a trip which relates to John Muir. Later on this year we are going to learn about Ancient Egypt and Greek Gods, we decided to study this as a class.  Mrs Watson asked what historical times and events we were interested in.  We will also cover some parts of WW2 which we are looking forward to. We are also learning about Climate Change and Global Warming. We tried to find ways we can stop global warming. This is very important and a lot of the jobs needing done are up to us.  We will work hard to solve problems, think and create.

In writing this week we wrote a letter to persuade the government for a plastic bottle deposit. We want this to happen to reduce the amount of plastic being thrown away and harming our planet. Hopefully they will listen to us and do something to help reduce plastic waste.  Our class reader is now “7 Professors Of The Far North”. We recommend you read it. It is an enjoyable novel and is full of adventures. We have been focussing on our punctuation and also trying to think more deeply about hidden meanings in texts.

In maths we have all been revising place value as we found this tricky especially when working with decimals. We also need to work on angle work especially using protractors.  This is something we all agree on. We are also looking at the 8 compass points!

In RME we are exploring the world 6 religions which are: Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Judaism. We were learning why people follow a religion.

by Abhay and Julia