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Art – Chinese New Year

This week, we were inspired by the work of Sarah Kwan who creates art designs that includes multiculturalism. She blends Scottish cultures with other cultures around the world through her designs.

We created designs that blends Scottish and Chinese cultures for Chinese New Year.

Numeracy – Angle Art Project

Writing – Benefits and Dangers of AI

To prepare for this week’s writing, we researched about the benefits and dangers of AI. From our research, we came up with arguments for and against using AI.

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Numeracy 

One of our focuses for this week was shape! To support our understanding, we looked at a range of national flags. We investigated the following:

• What shapes can we see
• How would we describe these shapes
• Any lines of symmetry
• Any parallel lines

We went outside and tested each others knowledge of Area and Perimeter. 

IDL – The Suffrage Movement

We continued to focus on the Suffragettes and the Suffragists, where we looked at a timeline of events that occurred during the Suffrage Movement.

We did some research and started to create our own timeline for our classroom display.

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Numeracy

To recap on decimals, we played decimal wars!

The aim of this game was to get the highest number using a pack of cards.

Topic – Protest Movements: The Suffragettes and The Suffragists

This week, we were introduced to our new topic that focused on the Suffrage Movement. We researched about the early campaigns for women’s suffrage and created a comparison poster that discussed the different tactics that the Suffragettes and the Suffragists used to campaign.

To create our posters, we used Canva!

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Happy New Year!

Welcome to the first blog post of 2025!

New Year’s Resolutions

On Monday, we discussed what New Year’s resolutions are and any that we have for 2025. We each chose 5 resolutions and used them to create a 2025 disco ball.

Art – Northern Lights

On Tuesday, we learned about the Northern Lights and the science behind it. We all created pictures inspired by the Northern Lights. We used oil pastels and paint to create our own versions of the Northern Lights.

Health and Wellbeing

On Wednesday, we discussed how people keep healthy. We looked at different scenarios and discussed healthy alternatives for each scenario. This lesson influenced lots of great discussions.

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Numeracy

This week we played The Festive Pirate Game. We worked in pairs to try and win the most amount of points. We used our knowledge and skills of Coordinates to tactically win and steal points from other teams.

We also completed Christmas code crackers, as well as using our problem solving skills to complete different maths puzzles.

P7 Christmas Party!

We all had so much fun at our Christmas party where we played lots of party games!

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IDL – World War 2

To finish off our topic, we were put into groups to research another aspect of World War 2. The topics included the role of women, evacuees, school life, the Royal Air Force and how weapons were developed during the war.

We enjoyed creating PowerPoint presentations based on our topic and we are looking forward to presenting them to the class next week.

Drama – Freeze Frames

In groups we created freeze frames based on World War 2. These scenarios focused on evacuees and their life during the war.

As a starter activity, we played Say it Another Way where we had to say nursery rhymes in a different way. Here are some examples:

• Say it as if you are a teacher
• Say it as if you are in a hurry
• Say it as if you are very tired. Say it as if you are a robot

We used an interactive wheel to decide how we were going to say the nursery rhyme.

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Topic – WW2

This week we watched a video based on what life looked like during WW2. We took notes from the video, as well as books. We discussed the similarities and differences from then and now.

We also took a look at old newspapers and ration books.

Tinkercad

This week we also focused on how people stayed safe during WW2. We looked at Morrison Shelters, Anderson Shelters and public shelters. For our task, we then created a Morrison Shelter and a Anderson Shelter on Tikercad!

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Literacy

For this week’s writing, we looked at expanded noun phrases. We use expanded noun phrases to add more detail to our sentences by adding an adjective or adjectives to our nouns.

We looked at a video clip relating to our topic and completed activities to use the skill we have developed. One activity included a “5 senses carousel activity”. This involved us writing down phrases that linked to each of the senses.

Our challenge was to use expanded noun phrases and ambitious vocabulary. This activity helped us with our writing for this week where we produced a piece of writing based on the video we had watched.

Topic – World War 2

For our topic, we focused on the lives of evacuees during WW2.

We created luggage tags and posters that displayed lots of information about evacuees during WW2.

French

This week for French we revised colours. In pairs we played connect 4 to practice our language skills. The first person to get 4 in a row wins!

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Numeracy – Data Handling

This week, we were using Excel to create and interpret different graphs. We each created two graphs based data we have gathered from the class.

Topic – World War II

This week’s focus was the Blitz. We researched about what happened during the Blitz and then created a report.

Also, we created an art piece based on the Blitz.

We are so happy with the way they have turned out!

Road Safety Week

This week was Road Safety Week. We created leaflets that included key information on how to stay safe on the roads. We used our knowledge from Bikeability to help us create the leaflets.

Book Week Scotland

On Wednesday, we had a whole-class discussion about books we enjoy reading.

We created a class list of book recommendations, as well as discussed books that we thought were based around the theme of hope.

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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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