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IDL – The Business Apprentice

Last Friday, we presented our inventions to Mr Flood for him to vote for his favourite product.

Literacy – Inference.

This week we focused on inference. We made inferences from a range of different pictures. This influenced lots of discussions from the class.

Topic – World War II

This week we started our new topic on World War II. In pairs, we researched key events of World War II and we put them in order onto a timeline.

For writing this week, we created a persuasive text based on WWII. Also, we created our own propaganda poster using the persuasive language that we have developed through our writing.

Today, we researched countries that were Axis and Allies Powers during World War II. We then used a map to plot the Axis and Allies Powers.

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Numeracy – Data Handling

This week we continued to look at different graphs. We revised bar graphs and started focusing on line graphs and pie charts.

We gathered data from the class to then display on different graphs.

We also took part in a ‘Data Escape Room’ live lesson! We enjoyed working together using our detective skills to solve the problems.

IDL – The Business Apprentice

This week we continued working on our inventions from last week’s task. We have created adverts, logos and a PowerPoint presentation to showcase our ideas.

Today we presented our ideas to Mr Flood for him to vote.

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PE – Eastwood High School

We are continuing to build on our sports and teamwork skills at Eastwood High School.

Each week we have had the opportunity to try new games with different sports.

IDL – The Business Apprentice

For our final task, we have been working in our teams to come up with a new invention!

Each team has created a new product to meet a specific target audience. We have been writing a pitch, creating a PowerPoint and designing a logo to showcase our ideas.

Next week we will be filming and editing an advert to go along with our new product.

We are looking forward to presenting and advertising our latest inventions.

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Hi readers,

Here is what we got up to during our first week back at school!

Numeracy – Data and Analysis

This week we started a new focus on Data and Analysis. In pairs, we created a survey to ask our peers to answer. We gathered information to then populate a tally chart.

PE – Eastwood High School

We are continuing to build on a range of sports skills at Eastwood High School. It has been great working in our teams on a new skill each week.

IDL – The Business Apprentice

This week we prepared resources for our stalls for a sales task. We thought of creative ways to sell biscuits for tokens.

Today, we were advertising and selling our products to the other primary 7 classes. Take a look at our stalls!

French

We continued our French revision this week and researched countries that spoke French. We found out that French is the official language in 28 countries!

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Numeracy

We continued to build on our skills within measurement and time. As a class, we achieved lots of new records for our multiplication square challenge.

As a finishing task, we were given a challenge to identify which number doesn’t belong in the box. It created lots of discussions and it challenged our thinking skills.

Literacy

This week’s writing was inspired by the story of Alma. We participated in lots of tasks that helped support our writing, such as highlighting figurative language in a text based on the story.

IDL – The Apprentice

This week our task was to film and edit our adverts for the “No  Bovver Hoverboard”. We had lots of fun working in our teams to come up with creative ways to make our adverts engaging. We used iMovie to incorporate sound effects and animations throughout our adverts. Our adverts were then sent to P7c to vote.

Art – Tim Burton

Our Art this week was inspired by the artist Tim Burton. We created a character using charcoal to sketch and create a shaded effect. They have turned out great and we are excited to add them to our art gallery.

STEM

This week we joined up with the other Primary 7 classes to work with Mr Atkinson to study the growth of our plants. We worked in our teams and used our measuring skills to help with the plant growth. Take a look!

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Literacy

This week for literacy we looked at the character Alma. This helped us to identify and explain features of characters. We summarised the story and looked up definitions of words that relate to Alma. Additionally, we completed a theme chart that explained when each theme was presented in the video clip. The themes included rebellion, temptation, consequence, curiosity and innocence. Next week, we will continue working on tasks relating to Alma.

Numeracy

On Wednesday, we started our lesson participating in an “Esti-Mystery” task. First we had to estimate how many tops were in the jar and then we were given a set of clues to narrow down our options. This promoted group discussions and thinking skills.

We also built on our skills through measurement and time. We completed a range of tasks and activities. One activity was an area dice game which supported our skills in measuring the area of a rectangle.

IDL – Apprentice

In our teams, we started planning our adverts for the ‘No Bovver’ Hoverboard. We created a storyboard and an advert design to help with the planning process. Next week, we are going to film our adverts and edit them. We are very excited to see how they will turn out!

Climate Ready Classrooms

On Thursday, we took part in an online workshop with school across the council. We explored biodiversity, climate change and what we can do to look after our planet.

STEM

Today we planted maize seeds for the Glasgow University Seed Lit Project. Everyone had a role to participate in a debate. The debate had a focus on using organic and inorganic types of fertilisers.

Growth Mindset

To finish off our series of lessons on Growth Mindset, we created posters for other classes! These posters included inspirational quotes and illustrations.

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Maths

This week , our maths lessons focused on Maths Week Scotland. We looked at maths story books and participated in a range of activities linked to each book.

Bean Thirteen

We first looked at the story book “Bean Thirteen” which focused on factors, prime and composite numbers. We all practiced identifying factors, prime and composite numbers using a hundred square.

Also, in pairs, we solved maths riddles that were placed around our classroom. We tried to solve as many problems as we could within 10 minutes.

IDL – Apprentice

Since this week was Maths Week, in our teams we created a story book based on the maths book “The Maths Curse”.  We created a range of maths problems within the book.

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here is what we got up to this week in P7a!

Maths

We revised Area and Perimeter, where we participated in a Scavenger Hunt. We measured sinks, jotters, desks and other items within our classroom using the skills we have learned.

Also, majority of the class have achieved a new record for our multiplication square challenge!

PE

In our final lesson of gymnastics, we played “The Floor is Lava”,  where we used gymnastics equipment. We practiced our skills that we have developed and also used our teamwork skills!

We also continued with Hockey this week. We played lots of matches against each other to build on our skills. We played “Tents and Campers” as a warm up exercise. This was a game that we all really enjoyed!

IDL – The Apprentice

We got given a task by Sir Alan Lord to create a chocolate bar and logo in our teams. The chocolate bar was called Blazin’ Raisin and we came up with catchy slogans for the chocolate bar.  Our chocolate bar wrappers were sent to P7b, where they voted for their favourite wrapper design.

We are looking forward to our next challenge!

Literacy

For writing this week we looked at STEAL to describe characters. We wrote about vampires, werewolves and witches. We created lots excellent writing with lots of examples of  powerful vocabulary.

Technology

We used the micro:bits again this week and followed a step-by-step video. In pairs we used the micro:bits to create a design and used inspiration from the video that we had followed. We have really enjoyed using them and building our confidence with creating new designs.

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PE

On Wednesday, we made up some routines using the skills we have developed and learnt in gymnastics. At the end of the lesson, we got into partners and practiced some leap frogs and we created some pyramids!

We also did some fitness with Mrs Lamont where we played Fitness Bingo! It was challenging but so much fun.

Numeracy

We worked on circles where we completed a worksheet that was based on radius and diameter. We also challenged ourselves by completing a multiplication square in 10 minutes. Lots of us got a new record this week!

Writing – Character

This week for writing we looked at the “show not tell” technique, where we used powerful vocabulary to discuss a characters emotions. We worked in pairs to identify and highlight powerful vocabulary that authors have used within their writing.

For our writing, we looked at three scenarios and used what we learned to write about a character’s emotions.

Apprentice (Topic)

We got into our teams for our new Apprentice topic. We discussed a team name and created a logo. We also completed a challenge in our teams where we created a house only using 4 pieces of paper. We are really excited to continue this topic and work in our teams to participate in a range of tasks.

Technology

With Mrs Lamont we used the micro:bits to do a coding challenge. When you clicked “A”, it went up by one. However, when you clicked “B” the counter went down by 1. We also needed to add in background music and when the counter got to 20, it had to show the words “full”. When you click A and B at the same time, the screen goes blank and the music stops.

STEAM

We learnt about organic and inorganic fertilisers. We made a presentation to discuss how they both work.

Growth Mindset – Brain vs a Calculator

This week we were placed into teams and discussed if our brains are better than a calculator. We came up with points that were for and against which started a mini debate in our classroom. Everyone was very engaged and shared excellent points!

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Writing

On Wednesday, we looked at 3 different structures of poetry. They were Limericks, Cinquains and Haikus. We created a short piece of writing for each of them.

PE

On Wednesday, we used a volt for gymnastics. We jumped off the volt demonstrating a range of jumps. This included a straight jump, straddle jump, star jumps and full turns.

On Thursday, we went to the Muga and practiced dribbling and passing. We split up into 4 teams and played matches against each other.

Art

We each created a personality island based on the movie ‘Inside out’. We drew different islands of our personalities and decorated them with aspects based on us.

Maths

With Mrs Lamont, we looked at circles. This included the circumference, diameter, radius and sectors. We solved questions about them and we calculated the height and the length. Also, we used only circles to design flowers.

Today, we were split up into 5 teams where one person was nominated to memorise a problem solving question and then recite it back to our teams. We then worked together as a team to solve the calculation.

Humanism/Drama 

We have been learning about Humanism and how we need to be kind to one another. We were split into groups and created a scenario based on kindness. Each group then presented back to the rest of the class.

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