We were all ready to come back to school for the second half of Primary 7! We were looking forward to seeing our friends and keen to start some new areas of learning.
We concluded some science lessons based around our Space topic by looking at relative motion and the scale of the planets. This linked in to some of our work in numeracy and mathematics.
By using our model planets we had to calculate the correct scale to position our models around our sun. This was trickier as the smaller the scale, the closer the planets became and we could not place them on top of each other. It was interesting to learn about the movements in the planet and Einsteins theory of relativity.
On Wednesday we had visitors in to talk to us about the ‘Make it h’app’en’ competition where we get to design our own app. There will be a winner picked from the school who will get to work with some software engineers to make their app, it will then be put on the app store to be bought by people around the world! We will be planning and thinking about our ideas over the weekend.
This term we have switched our DYW groups in to our third pathway. The design and manufacturing group have been planning some very interesting products whilst the life skills group got to make and try their own hummus. The learning about sustainability group are continuing to build on the hard work of the previous groups and developing our woodland area and lastly the digital technology group are excited to do some animation and programming.
In literacy we have a selection of new reading books that share the same theme, war. The Zeus group have started reading ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ and are really moved already by the emotions and experiences they are discovering. The Apollo group are reading a non-fiction biography about Adolf Hitler, we have a lot of questions about how he managed to become so powerful and why the war happened. The Poseidon group have a fiction book named ‘Under the Bomber’s Moon’ that tells the story of a young boy named David who is searching for his dog on a night of enemy bombing. All groups have worked hard and produced excellent work relating to their texts, Mrs Norman is very proud.
It has been a busy but tiring first week back. It was rounded off nicely by the winning house afternoon reward, well done to Fleming and their house captains for all their hard work. We are looking forward to all the exciting opportunities we have over the next term, including swimming at Eastwood with Mr Brown, and Miss Gordon is coming to work with us for a few weeks too.
