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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:

• Identifying SCAM warning signs
• Identifying clues for phishing scams
• Creating a safe password based off a recipe

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:

• Guess the headlines
• Suffrage around the world
• Famous figures
• Vote or not?
• Pins and poster making

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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

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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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We hope everyone has lovely weekend 🙂

P7a

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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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We hope you all have a great weekend 🙂

P7a

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Happy Friday!

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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!

We hope everyone has a lovely and relaxing weekend!

P7a 🙂

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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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P7a 🙂

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Welcome to the last blog of 2024!

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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Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🙂

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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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Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

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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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