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Farm to Fork
This week, we explored the food production process that begins at the farm and ends up on our plates!
We built our knowledge around the different stages, such as:
In pairs, we became Tech Detectives to identify technological elements from a variety of packaging.
We then created infographics to display our knowledge.
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Eid Celebrations
This week, we explored the celebration of Eid and the traditions involved.
Mosques Around the World
In pairs, we researched a range of different mosques around the world. We presented our findings on Google Slides or created a poster.
Islamic art – Tessellation
With Mrs Lamont, we followed a step-by-step video to create Islamic designs and patterns.
Finally, we enjoyed cooking pakora with Mrs Nasar as part of the Eid celebrations!
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P7a
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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
We have been enjoying reading out class novel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. This week, we have been writing diary entries based on a character from the book. The characters included Susan, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Mr Tumnus.
We created a wardrobe that included our diary entries inside.
We also created leaflets about visiting the Professor’s house. We discussed what there is to see, what time it would open and what it would look like.
We are looking forward to reading more!
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P7a
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Farmers Footprint
This week , we took a closer look at a typical day for a farmer in Dang District. It highlighted the extremely tough life that farmers have, most of whom are women.
We discussed how failed crops and climate change can have an impact on farmers lives. We identified the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that would link to farmers in Dang District.
At the end of the lesson, we tested each others knowledge with a quiz!
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P7a
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Wind Power Challenge
We were given the challenge to design, make and test a wind turbine that will pick a cup of pennies off the floor. We were given a range of different items to use for our design.
This challenged our creativity and critical thinking skills.
We used our problem-solving, team working and presentation skills to complete this challenge.
Throughout this lesson, we also discovered how STEM can help solve global issues and achieve the UN Global Goals.
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P7a
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IDL – Civil Rights Movement
On Tuesday, we started looking at the Civil Rights Movement. We watched “I Have a Dream” speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. which took place on 28th August 1963.
In groups, we looked at 4 extracts from Martin Luther King’s speech and highlighted powerful words and phrases that he used.
We then used these powerful words and phrases for our art! We sketched TVs and Radios from the 1963 and used Stippling to create shadows.
Meta Moments
On Thursday we participated in a whole school event – Meta Moments. We had different visitors come in and speak about their professions and how they use Meta Skills in their jobs.
We had an Influencer, Governor, Politician and a rugby player from the Glasgow Warriors rugby team come in and speak to our year group.
We showed our curiosity skills by asking lots of questions.
Science
This week, we used Tinkercad to create battery powered educational toys.
We also researched about how batteries have changed over the years. With this information, we created a timeline showing the changes throughout the years.
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P7a
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World Book Day
This week we became storytellers and created our own children’s books! We loved using our creativity and imaginative skills to create books for the lower school.
We really enjoyed reading our books to Primary 2a and Primary 3c
IDL – Indian Farmers Protests
This week, we looked into the Indian Farmer Protests deeper. We researched the reasons for this movement, key figures and key events that have taken place.
We used our research to create information leaflets.
Debating – Lord Provost Debate
This week we watched the Lord Provost debate on teams and we are so proud of our Crookfur debaters!
They all spoke very clear and listened well to the other team’s points.
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P7a
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Literacy
We have started creating children’s books for World Book Day. We planned our stories using a storyboard and looked at children’s books for inspiration.
IDL – Democracy
This week, we explored different movements. We research different movements and presented our information onto a mind map.
We researched:
Science – The Yeast Experiment
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P7a
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Debating
We have enjoyed developing our debating skills and taking part in class debates. This week’s debate focused on the argument of ‘litter should be kept out of our oceans.’
We look forward to participating in more debates
Literacy – Dictionary Relay Race!
We were split into teams to participate in a dictionary relay race. We were given a table with a range of different questions, and we had to take it in turns to look for the answers in the dictionary. We started with the person whose birthday comes next and then worked our way in order.
Internet Safety Day
For Internet Safety Day, we watched a live lesson that spoke about Phishing and Scams. We participated in a range of activities during the live lesson. This included:
We also enjoyed our workshop with the Campus Police Officer where we developed our knowledge and understanding further on why it is important to stay safe online.
IDL – Votes for Women
For the open afternoons this week, we participated in a range of stations to develop our knowledge further on the roles of the Suffragettes and the Suffragists. These stations included:
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P7a
Hello to all the P7A blog readers, it’s Mr Atkinson here! As you will know this year I am doing NCCT for primary P7A with a focus on developing Crookfur’s Inquiry Based Learning approach so I wanted to give you an update of what we have been doing.
In our first Learning Journey – Plant Growth and Farming, we revisited parts of plants and what they require to survive. Once having been explained how fertilisers affect the development of plants the pupils then researched different types organic and inorganic fertilisers. We also studied some labels on fertilisers and discussed the importance of how to use them safely and we looked at the percentages of the chemicals in them. The pupils then created farming maps of Scotland and made a key to label arable, dairy and mixed farming areas. We then had a heated debate about land use with pupils eagerly defending and arguing against who should get priority with developing land and who damages environments the most. We have also partnered with the University of Glasgow and taken part in their educational programme Sci-Seedlets. In this project we did a science experiment to test and compare how maize seeds grow when given water or salty water. This was to check whether sea water would make a good alternative option to watering plants as droughts are increasing in parts of the world. We recorded the growth progress of the plants over a few days and at the end of the experiment we took them out the soil. The pupils observed that the roots were smaller in the salt water container and concluded that salt water could be used to feed plants but their growth would be delayed.
Afterwards, the META Skills of Creativity and Curiosity were introduced to the class through a series of lessons and activities. We also discussed how these skills are relevant in everyday life and how they can be further developed.
Our current Learning Journey – Carbon Footprint, is being delivered through the STAT WARS competition tasks. First the class explored some of the sources of CO2. Then the pupils organised themselves into groups and by using Excel recorded their individual carbon footprints which identified a shared common problem. Since then the pupils have displayed excellent teamwork and collaborative skills whilst designing their campaign posters using Adobe Express, summarising the project in a blog entry and producing presentations with graphs and charts that they created. I have been incredibly impressed with their enthusiasm, resourcefulness and dedication throughout this Learning Journey!
Mr Atkinson
