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

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Maths

This week in maths we learnt about types of triangles and missing angles  it was  a lot of fun.

Literacy

In literacy we learnt all about punctuation and tried to add missing punctuation to some writing. We read about the Northern Lights. It was very interesting. We also started a new book called the Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner. It was funny 

Health and Wellbeing 

In health and wellbeing we had a live lesson all about vapes and their problems  and all the problems for the environment. It was very informative. 

Mr Wilson is now going to teach us on a Tuesday every week.  We had a lot of fun  playing with Kapla and we built a ramp or corner for a car.

PE

In P.E we started a new session. We started badminton and we practised our hits. It was fun, but hard. We did the bleep test in the MUGA, most people found it very hard. In 4 weeks time we will redo it and see if everyone gets a better score. 

So overall a very fun and successful week!

Blog by Ethan and Harley

Our week in P7A

In maths we were doing two and three digit multiplication and we were also measuring different items.

We were also planning lessons for younger years to teach next week. People have planned art and drama lessons. As it is Christmas season the lessons are Christmas or winter themed.

While Miss Ralston was teaching us we were learning about Spanish and how Christmas is celebrated in Mexico. After that we started to learn science. Miss Ralston taught us how to make a parachute.

In PE we played a capture the flag game and octopus. For Thursdays PE we were out in the playground doing fun basketball activities.

Blog this week by Zunairah, Finn and Alexander

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This week we had our final week at Eastwood for P.E with the senior pupils there. It’s been great fun and we’ve all been able to try lots of sports.

On Monday we learnt about Christian beliefs to do with Christmas.

We’ve also been working on our coding skills this week. We followed a tutorial to make a pong game and then some people had a go at using these skills to make a game of their own.

We also worked on making information leaflets or films about the importance of sleep. We used notes we made over the last few weeks to share tips on how to sleep better and why it is important.

It was the present room today. We really enjoyed helping the younger children to pick a present to buy.

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On Friday afternoon we used Scratch to create animations of our names using coding.

It was road safety week so we learnt about road safety and then created some posters for a competition.

In Art we drew hands. We were drawing our fingers and hands and were focusing on details.

We learnt about the importance of sleep. Why we do it and how to get better sleep.

This week it is anti bullying week. We did lots of activities such as watching the BBC live lessons. The theme is make a noise about bullying and we also watched a video about bullying and had to fill out a sheet saying if it is  bullying or hate crime.

We also did the final apprentice challenge which is our current topic. With our groups we made our own product and advertised it to Mrs Rasul, the p7c teacher. Some of our products were a plant that waters itself and gum that never runs out of flavour. 

For the past couple of weeks in writing we have been making our own settings and characters. This week we made our own stories. We used STEAL and character descriptions.

In Maths we learned about fractions .We learnt how to make them equivalent and how to simplify them.

By Maya and Emilia

Hello and happy Friday!!! 

This week we did Heartstart. 

In Heartstart we watched videos and practiced on mannequins. We learnt how to save lives for example, if someone is choking, having a heart attack, has a serious bleed, if someone is unconscious or if they have a cardiac arrest. Angela from Heartstart came in to teach us.  

On Friday we did some photography. We got Lego figures and put them in different places to make cool photos. Back in class we made iMovie trailers using our photos.

In Literacy we looked at STEAL. It stands for speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions and looks. We picked what book we wanted to read and did a STEAL character analysis.  

In P.E we went to Eastwood and got separated into groups and did different sports.  

For dyslexia awareness week we talked about how we are all different and how we all have different fingerprints. We did our fingerprints with ink and paper and talked about what we’re good at.  

Blog this week by Eilidh and Maya

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This week we did…

Maths:

This week in maths we did algebra. It was quite tricky but really fun. We did calculations that look like this 6a+4a-a=???

Writing:

In writing we were practising character descriptions using STEAL

Witch stands for Speech Thoughts Effect on others Actions Looks

We made Halloween themed writing by describing a witch a werewolf or a vampire this was very very fun!

Eastwood:

For P>E at Eastwood we changed around our groups but are keeping the rotations I did tennis this week and Sophie did netball. We are all really enjoying P.E with the s6!😁

Apprentice:

For our Apprentice task we had to sell biscuits. We chose prices and promotions and sold biscuits for tokens.

Last week 

Last week we did a lot of the same this like P.E and maths. 

Outdoor learning :

In outdoor learning we did some measuring of the playground then mapped out a house by drawing with chalk on the ground

Spanish:

In Spanish we learnt about the day of the dead. It was super fun and interesting. We also did a blooket quiz on the day of the dead (which was very competitive)  We have now got lots of interesting facts that you can quiz us on 🙂 

Blog this week by Amy and Sophie B

In writing we describe a setting of our choice. For example, most of the class wrote about a Fortnite map.

In literacy we did comprehension questions from the poem “The Brook” and the questions were really hard! We also did spelling in our booklet on Monday!

In maths we tried out a new way of chimney sums and it was hard to learn it but then once you got the hang of it, it was simple enough.

In P.E on Thursday we went over to Eastwood High School to do our P.E. There were S6/S5 students (the sports ambassadors) where teaching us a sports lesson. The whole of P7 was at Eastwood High School so they split us into groups.

For STEM we were making bridges and marble runs and towers with Kapla. The challenges were to make a bridge made only from Kapla, a tower from just 50 bricks, and a marble run to move a marble 1 metre. 

In the Apprentice we were making a still ad and a TV ad for a company called “No Bovver Hoverboard” . It was really fun and I think everyone enjoyed it! We made our TV ad with iMovie on the iPads and filmed them in the school!

Blog this week by Cormac and Harley!