Today P7 completed their first poem in their new unit of study. We will be building up our skills in applying figurative language (such as simile, metaphor and personification) and will also be looking to be innovative with structure and style. We’ll post more soon!

We have been working hard to improve our Multiplication knowledge as we know that quick, independent recall of this is absolutely vital across MANY different areas of Numeracy and Maths and is such a key building block for us. Some of us came into P7 without having this information at our fingertips and so we tested ourselves in a speed test back in August to see what areas needed development. After Multiplication being prioritised for homework since August, we then undertook another speed test today to see how we’ve progressed. Please take time to ask your child how they got on and if they have any other further development needs in this area. We’ll support this in class too.

Many thanks,

Miss Mac.

Congratulations to the boys in girl in P7 who worked hard throughout their three whole day Bikeability sessions. Tday on the roads near the school they executed some excellent right hand and left hand turns. We’re proud of you and send thanks to the ER team for assisting us! (photos by Oliver)

Today we tackled the latest Deputy First Minister’s Challenge! It called for us to reason logically when working through the stages of the problem. We had to pay very close attention to the wording of the question! Well done, guys!

Here are the first group to complete our Treasure Hunt today! Their knowledge of coordinates was fantastic! We’ll now input our maths answers that were attached to the clues into our Google Form and see how we did! We love learning outdoors and collaborating!

P7 really enjoyed today’s Deputy First Minister’s Challenge related to proportion. We first drew a diagram as our starting point and then as we proceeded through the challenge the children got to know the formula for working out the area of a triangle! That was a tough one today but we talked it out and navigated our way as always!

P7a loved tackling the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Week Challenge this morning! Two of the groups solved it using the guess, check and improve method! We can’t wait for tomorrow’s challenge!

I am delighted to say that Aaron is the recipient of our most recent Student of the Week award! Aaron has worked hard to adopt a positive outlook in class and to turn negatives into positives. He even helps others to achieve this by giving them advice too! Take a look at what his classmates have to say about him in their comments…

When sharing ideas about the focus of our ‘People in Society’ Social Studies topic, the children showed an awareness of the increased profile of the Black Lives Matter movement during our time away from school. We therefore decided as a class that this would be the focus of our first term topic. Take a look at the kinds of things that we are interested in exploring. We are interested in the movement in America but also in the longer term experience of black people in America. We will explore this within our class novel ‘Chains’ which deals with the issue of slavery.

Today we enjoyed our first session of Bikeability and the children displayed great positivity and range of skills. This session took place within the school MUGA but we look forward to applying what we have learned on quiet roads near the school on Friday. Please remember to wear appropriate clothing for the weather when you come to school on Friday, boys and girls!

Thanks, Miss Mac.