A very exciting week!

We’ve been at Eastwood for some science lessons, started working on our show, and today we had our colour run!

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This week in Science with Mr Wilson we made models of wind turbines that we had designed.

We continued our work on discrimination and civil rights looking at the Bristol Bus Boycott and the debate around statues.

We also had some fun in the woodland on Friday, featuring dance moves, building and attempted tree climbing.

We’ve had a very busy week in P7. A trip to Newton Mearns Baptist Church for Easter Code on Monday, designing windmills with Mr Wilson on Tuesday, Eastwood P.E and then the Lord Provost debate on Thursday, and making chain reaction machines for STEM week on Friday.

Here’s some photos from our trip:

This week has been World Book Day (a whole week at Crookfur!)

We were inspired by Grand Designs to create some new designs for the ultimate book corner.

We visited the P2s and read them the books that we wrote and illustrated.

We did a live lesson from the Literacy Trust and Premier League. We answered book and football questions.

We all got to visit the Crookfur Book swap and get a new (second hand) book.

We used iMovie on the iPads to create videos of us reading our books. Some people tried to make some tie in games on Scratch.

At the woodland this morning we re-created some scenes from books. Can you guess what the books are?

Maths

In maths we were learning about volume. Volume is the space an object takes up. We did an activity with Kapla. We got into partners and tried to make shapes like cubes and cuboids. We had to estimate the volume then our partner would measure it to see how close we were.

Literacy

In literacy we did a Martin Luther King comprehension and we focused on his I have a dream speech. We got a copy of his speech and highlighted all of the powerful vocabulary and statements.

We also continued work on our children’s books for World Book Day. 

PE

In PE we went to Eastwood to have netball or rugby/football tournaments. We were split into teams and we played 5 games and the team with the most points in the end went to the finals. 

This morning in PE went out into the muga and played a new game. There are two teams and there is a line down the middle. There is a ball in play and the team with the ball is trying to throw the ball over the line. If the ball hits the ground the nearest player to the ball is out.

Blog by Morven and Daisy

Maths

This week in maths we did negative numbers like -5 -7

This was good because we did a fun game with bingo balls and a board game in which you had to get 3 in a row to get a point.

Literacy 

This week we did some work on our books. We are getting through quite well. We also did comprehension.

IDL

We started a new topic about Rosa Parks and why she was protesting. We went around the room and looked at different pictures and said what we thought about them.

P.E

In P.E we did gymnastics. We looked at some jumps and how to do them safely.

Writing

We started making children’s stories for world book day.

Science

We did a taste test of sour, bitter, salty and sweet flavours. We saw that the sides of our tongues were more sensitive than the middle.

 This last 2 weeks in p7a we did lots of things.

Literacy

In literacy this week we did lots of things, one of them being that we got new books. There were 4 different books. We got to each pick what book we wanted, then read a bit of the books, then answered questions on them. We shared what we had learnt with a group.

 Maths 

In maths we did something different but fun. We did the one million paper challenge which is where you got a stack of 500 pieces of paper and had to work out how tall one million pieces of paper would be.

Open afternoon

We had a busy time with the open afternoon last  week because we showed our parents  our topic of the suffragettes by being in small groups and moving to different groups in the class .

Internet safety

This week the digital leaders came into are class and showed us a presentation all about how to be save of the internet it was fun and helpful .

Overall it was a very fun week.

Blog this week by Ethan.

Writing

This week in writing we did a newspaper article about Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Standardised test

This week on Monday and Thursday we had our standardised test and we did reading and maths, in maths we did mental maths and written questions. I thought some of the questions were hard but I think everyone did well.

Maths 

In maths we were finding the areas of triangles and composite shapes.

Art 

This week in art we got Scottish things and mixed them with Chinese things. I drew an Irn Bru character holding noodles.

Blog this week by Murdo and Matthew

This week in P7A:

In maths we focused on percentages. We changed fractions into decimals and percentages. We also calculated percentages of amounts using calculators. We found out that if you divide any number by 100 you will get one percent then you can times it by the percent you want! We also did some data handling looking at some pie charts and line graphs and figuring out the amount of people that chose what on the graphs!

This week in writing we were writing news articles on our previous writing about what we didn’t do over the Christmas break.

This week in Literacy we were looking at some Robert Burns poems for Burns Day. Our task was to translate some Scots language and answer some questions about the poem.

In PE we focused on fitness. We were going round different stations such as fast feet going through ladders on the floor, we also had a jumping station where we focused on long jumps. There was another activity where we did 30 seconds of squats then swapped to our partners, there was another station that was similar to that where we did 30 seconds of star jumps.

In Outdoor learning we were looking around for any new shoots or growth in the trees and plants! We discussed signs that things are coming back after winter.

This week we got our new topic and it’s about the Suffragettes. We will look at other protest movements later on.

Blog this week by Finn and Sam.

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Maths

In maths this week we were finding percentages of amounts. We also converted percentages to fractions and decimals. 

Literacy

We did some comprehension on a newspaper article and also, we did some writing on the 5 W’s (who, what, when, why, where) in a newspaper article.

PE

Thanks to the ice we had to do indoor PE with Joe Wick on Friday. We are working on our fitness.

We did badminton on Thursday. We did some rallies and played a few matches.

Health and Wellbeing

We learnt about the importance of staying hydrated, what the body needs water for and some tips for drinking enough water.   We made posters on how to stay hydrated and learned some interesting facts as well. For example, 20% of the water you need comes from solid food.

House Spirit Afternoon.

Later today we are having a house spirit afternoon. We will be doing some arts and crafts to make our house banner.

Blog this week by Olly and Zunairah