Welcome everyone to our Term 1 reflection blog.  Here are some of the views of pupils from P7b.

Jessica B : Term 1 was a blast! I loved looking at all the new subjects, being challenged a lot more across the curriculum . In maths calculating the APR rate was a challenge but I liked trying to figure out the answers also fractions it was confusing but I loved it. I liked looking at the global goals also looking at Greta Thunberg she was really inspiring I hope to continue with them.

Elise: Some highlight for me this term were safety in the park, science road show at BHS and maths week.  Let’s start with safety in the park. Safety in the park is a street safety program that teaches 10 – 12 years olds about how to be safe out and about in our community and some other fantastic activities. Some of my favourite activities were the drunk goggles and the road accident scene . Another highlight was maths week. I enjoyed researching about famous mathematicians like Einstein E=MC2 and newton the man who discovered how gravity works and the 3 laws of motion.

Renaska K : This term has gone so quick, I love being in p7! My favourite parts have been learning about the global goals and doing drama. I knew about climate change, but I didn’t really know about the green gas house effect and the global goals. It was so interesting! Drama was amazing we did lots of different scenarios. I was in a group with, Conner g, Grace, and Daisy, it was all so fun!

Grace: In term 1 I became vice captain of Arthurlie I was surprise and shocked I thought I never would be it.  A few wee weeks later we were learning about famous mathematicians and we were to make a poster in our groups we moved around the classroom. Today a person came in and was talking to us about John Muir.  He was talking to us about plants and how they help us every day.  Term 1 was a blast!

Callum: In term 1 I became house captain of Arthurlie. We each did a speech infront of other P7s and P6s. We had a vote and I got the most votes, each Thursday me and my vice-captain collect house points to try and get the end of term reward. I am delighted that out of 4 groups we came second with over 1 thousand house points! Gateside won and got the pizza party in our class, so far I am loving P7 and doing DIY classroom and my teacher is the best!

Abbie: In term one we did P.E and boys from barrhed high school came and showed us some games. They also took control of some activities we had so much. we loved having the boys work with us they were also very nice and good at explaining the rules!  Term one has been so good, I can’t wait for term 2.

Alisha: This term has been a blast and we have learned so much.  My favourite had to be when we got into groups and of three or four to do drama.  One of the best parts was me and Olivia being aliens and we had to turn Cameron into an alien too.  This was so fun because we made an odd alien language that we all needed to speak it was so cool just like the fun games we played like swish and skoosh splat.  I have great fin and learned so much.

Tyler: At the start of the term we learned about landscapes and the features of them, then we worked on APR rate and finance in maths and I found I quite tricky but I feel like a I still improved a lot! During this time practised on drama specifically improve and we started to create our own scripts. Now we have recently been learning about The Global Goals along with Greta Thunberg (I particularly like this). All in all I have enjoyed term 1 a lot and am exited for next term!

Olivia: My highlights of the first term of primary7 are learning about the global goals.  It has been wonderful learning about climate change and learning about how I can help to make our planet healthy. Another thing is I have enjoyed about p7 is on a Thursday we always do drama which is so fun my favourite part of drama is the scenarios because we can express our self and do what we think is right. Another thing is safety in the park I liked learning things we wouldn’t usually learn about things we wouldn’t usually learn about . P.E was also so fun because wo were pushing ourselves to get fitter. The last thing I enjoyed was when me and my best friend got stuck outside which was so fun this year has definitely the best year I have ever had so far

Cameron: In term one we appointed house captains. Everyone from one team would stand up at the once close our eyes and vote by putting our hands up. The first topic was on global goals the global goals is the environmental society which is things that we can do to help the world so it doesn’t end within 80 years or so. We watched a 16 year old girl who left her country to go to the other side of the ocean to say a speech in front of the world leaders about global goals because the world leaders aren’t doing enough to try and save our planet.

Welcome to p7b’s class blog
Sorry it has taken a few weeks for our Weekly Blog team to get up and running.
Our first week back was a great adventure, we went to safety in the park. Safety in the park is a programme which teaches 10-12-year-olds about how to keep safe when we are not with our parents. We completed 11 different activities explaining how different occupations keep us away from, danger! We met Police Officers, Fire Fighters, Scottish Power employees and Community Officers. Here is what some of our p7’s thought.
Renaska: I found it very fun and entertaining as there was a lot of activities for us to do.
Connor G: It was a very enjoyable experience for me, and I would love to do it again.
Overall safety in the park was a very delightful experience for everyone in our class.

On our second week back, we had a vote on who we wanted our house captains to be. We had to write speeches if we wanted to run for house captain or vice-captain and then let our houses vote. P6 were able to join us in this, it was a test of our confidence, but the speeches were superb. Then on the Friday we had our first house assembly and found out who our house captains were? Here’s what our captains and vice captains think.
Grace: I was shocked when I got vice-captain of Arthurlie and I am loving the job so far!
Olivia: I felt chuffed and nervous about being vice-captain of Dealston and I love the job already.
Laurie: I like being vice-captain and it is already been amazing so far.
Tyler: I am very proud to be house captain of Grahamston.

On our third week we went to BHS for BAE science road show for the P7s that are going into S1 next year. It was about how phone calls travel to another phone and how sound and light waves work in the 21st century. We were in the hall with pupils from BHS, Cross Arthurlie and Carlibar. It was so interesting and great to be at the high school.

Maths
We have 3 math groups the classy calculators, division destroyers and the rockin’ rulercosters. The classy calculators have been working on finance, calculating APR rate and Exchanging money. The division destroyers have been working on place value with decimals. The rockin’ rulercoasters have been working on word problems and how to use the four number operations. Here is what some people think maths has been helping them with.
Renaska, classy calculators: It has helped me learn about more currencies. It has also helped me understand how to work with APR rate.
Riley, division destroyers: It has helped me understand how to work with decimals and place value.
Daisy, rockin’ rulercoasters: working on my maths has been helpful because it has helped me become more confident with multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.

Literacy
We are working in two groups at the moment. We have been writing letters to Mrs Black raising awareness of how our school could be more eco-friendly. We identified some issues we can see within the school and then wrote a letter explaining how we could fix the problems.
In social studies we have been learning all about the Global goals and how we, even though we are young, can make a difference to our planet. The Global Goals have been made to try and get everyone working together to make sure our fragile planet is well looked after and everyone in it is treated fairly and with respect. It links with our rights respecting school plan and is really interesting to learn about.
In health and wellbeing we have been leanring about resilience and how to be mindful even when times are tough. We have also been exploring fitness and have enjoyed having the BHS young leaders at our Wednesday sessions.
We have loads more to share but will do that next week.
Thanks for reading, we can’t wait to share our learning with you next week.
Jessica and Elise – Blog Team

We are now Primary 6b and we would like to welcome you to our blog.

We are now in the senior school and we have lots of new responsibilities.

We are buddies to the Primary 1 pupils and so far we are finding it very enjoyable but tricky at times!

We are looking forward to going swimming this term, Bikeability in term 3 and some educational trips.

We will keep our blog up to date to let you see what we are getting up to in Primary 6.

Using the software programme I Can Animate , we re created the story of Robert the Bruce and the spider. We then used Movie Maker to add credits and titles to turn our animation into a movie.

Elise- I was able to help lead the learning by helping others.

Darryl – I found this tricky and had to work with a partner to get this done.

As part of our learning in Social studies we did some research into tartan as it is a Scottish tradition. We learned how tartan is made today using complex weaving equipment and we investigated how tartan was made in olden days using a hand loom. We researched our family tartan and designed our own tartan by weaving with paper.

We then created our own interactive tartan design by mixing 6 colours. We experimented until we found a design we liked. We copied our design onto a Word document using Paint so that we could print out our own design.

Tartan Renaska

Callum – I liked seeing all the different patterns that people had designed.

Alisha  – The paper weaving was a bit tricky but it was also fun too.