P7B 2021/22

Written by – Hannah, Rosie and Darcy 

Heartstone – We designed our own sarees with Mrs Nasser. We made our own outfits on paper and coulerd them in, they looked beautiful. 

Coding – the class split into 3 groups. The first  group was designing our own coding games with partners. The second group played coding games on the chromebooks. The third group played with 100 squares. Next we took it into the playground to code a path around the school for our friends to follow. 

Numeracy- In numeracy our whole class have been looking at pie charts. We went round to different classes and asked them what they proffered out of lots of options like what your favourite colour is. We then made it into a pie chart.

Comprehension – We looked at a section of the book The Silver Sword. We answered questions in a booklet about it. We were really keen to read more of the story so we might look at the book as a class.

Art – We created calendars with our Northern Light pictures that we made last week. We looked at the Aurora Borealis in videos and pictures and discovered how they were formed. 

PE – We started our gymnastics block by looking at balances and handstands, we surprised ourselves with how good we are at them! 

In the MUGA Mr Wilson taught us a new game which made us focus on our coordination and observation skills. 

Spanish – We looked at Encanto to help learn about different family members in Spanish. We were looking at Columbia and made comparisons between the movie and the country. We really enjoy the songs from the movie, especially since some of them are in Spanish.

Global Goals –  With Mr Wilson we looked at Ethical Trading and how the clothes we purchase and the companies we purchase from have a responsibility to treat their workers fairly. We were all slightly shocked to see an image of a Nike factory.

Written by – Holly and Hajira

Holly – On Monday we had our Christmas party and we were playing games like musical bumps,pass the parcel,musical statues,corners and balloon races.it was very fun! We also had John and Murray’s lessons about planes and coordinates. We created some stories to make dramas out of. We needed to sit in a square and take turns to act out the stories. 

Hajira – On Tuesday with Miss Hutcherson in art we were transferred our portrait onto the styrofoam prints  and then we printed our portrait with paint. We also had Natalia and Evas lesson and it was all about viruses through the years.

Holly – On Wednesday we had Connal and Ryan’s lesson and it was all about Asia and we got to eat fortune cookies and see what our fortune was. Next we got a bit of shortbread with shapes imprinted on it(circle,triangle,star,umbrella)and we had to carve them out with a toothpick and if it broke you failed so the aim was to get the shape out bin one piece.Mathew also brought us in a game from Hong Kong.

Hajira – On Thursday we had Eva and Olivia , Emelia’s lesson for P.E. They put us into groups and played some games in the muga. It was fun . For writing we had to choose what writing we wanted to write like poems ,spooky stories and fact files . Then we had Daniel’s lesson for Spanish. He gave us a wordsearch played tengo bingo with our white board and pens. 

Holly – On Friday we made some Christmas crafts and then it was Darcy and Hajira’s lesson and they let us make some Christmas clay models! We got to finish off our writing and our 3D prints for Santa’s sleigh to help him fly! We also had Millie and Hannah’s lesson about how to make some pop up Christmas cards!

We all found this week so fun!

This week we got to welcome Mr Wilson as a visitor to our classroom. He will be returning in January to spend 10 weeks.

Algebros used their knowledge of decimal numbers to create a card game this week.

Teo and Ethan taught their first half of their lesson about basketball to the class on Monday morning.

On Tuesday we looked at our non-fiction texts and found interesting facts to share with others within the class.

Rosie and Shravya taught us about art and we created images in groups, splitting faces in half to create a side each. They look fantastic!   

Matthew, Harris, Leo and Finlay taught us all about different countries. Matthew even brought in some Hong Kong dollars. We all enjoyed playing would you rather based on different cultures.

We finally took a whole class photograph!

In the MUGA on Thursday Kaiden, Teo and Ethan led our lessons. They were all so well prepared and created fun and exciting challenges.

Back in the classroom Fraser taught us about some music history before we created our own songs on Chrome Music Lab. Each group created an interesting tune!

Friday was present room day and we all helped bring in presents and picked them for someone at home. We can’t wait to share them with our friends and family.

Chloe taught us all about star signs and we researched what that meant for us before creating an image linked to our own. Mrs Norman is a Pisces.

Sophie introduced us to Anne Frank through her excellent presentation and quiz. We can’t wait to continue our research next term.

In the afternoon Holly and Khadija led an art lesson looking at painting techniques. We created beautiful trees that we will display in the classroom.

Christmas Jumper Day 2021!!

Written by – Ethan and Zara

Maths – 

Graph gang – This week graph gang worked on decimals in weight and it was very fun. We also looked at multiplying and dividing multiples of 10.  

Algebros – The Algebros finished looking at measuring angles and started to work on decimal fractions.

Fraction force – The Fraction Force started working on volume.

Number ninjas – Number Ninjas looked at different types of calendars and read information from them. They then started to work on multiplying and dividing

Writing –

This week in writing everyone wrote a newspaper article about whatever they wanted and it was exciting to see what everyone produced! We could either write about something in real life, exaggerate it completely or both at the same time!

Ethan wrote about Storm Arwin in Dundee except it was extremely exaggerated. It was very snowy and the Christmas fair got destroyed! (in the story)

John – I wrote about a shop called Aivalo’s shop of wonder and how a fight broke out inside.

Pe: On Monday we played dodgeball for PE , and on Thursday we played football and netball in the MUGA. 

Literacy –

All groups have been looking at non-fiction texts linked to our learning. We have been using the different features of the text to answer questions.

Road Safety Week –

Primary 6 JRSO officers visited us to talk about Road Safety week. They shared a quiz about how we should act around roads to keep us safe. We then discussed who Road Safety Heroes are. In class we started to discuss all the different ways emergency services could help us and we spoke about the importance of staying safe as a passenger in a car as well as being a responsible pedestrian. We feel very lucky to have June and Cathy as our Crossing Patrollers to help us get in and out of the school safely.

Primary 7 Lesson planning –

Primary 7 have been given the opportunity to teach a lesson to the class. We need to decide on a subject to teach, set a learning intention and identify how we will know if the learners have successfully met the learning intention. We have had time to plan in class as well as at home for homework.

Our first lesson will be with Ethan and Teo on Monday when they lead us in a PE lesson.

On Wednesday as it was the first of December we decorated the classroom with some festive cheer! Each day we are opening a virtual advent calendar and today it had a link for a festive Just Dance!

We helped take all the gift donations for the present room to the family room today ready for the present room to be set up next Friday. We can’t wait to help out at the present room next week.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Written by – Lucy, Rosie and Teo

Lucy – On Monday we were doing dodgeball and we split the class into halves and those were our teams. We played a few games and mixed up the teams, so that everyone can play with different classmates in our class.

Rosie- On Monday afternoon we learned about plurals and what words we should change with a ves and what words should just have s.

Lucy – In music we were being told that next week we are going to use some musical instruments and ourselves to recreate the soundscape from a setting of the titanic, we had a vote and the majority of us voted for the sinking scene from the titanic.    

Rosie – On Tuesday we did art with Mrs Hutchison. We were drawing some lips , noses and eyes and then we drew a self portrait of ourselves.

Rosie – On Thursday Lleyton, Fraser and John went to a badminton competition and played different schools. They all played well.  

Teo- On Thursday we did a leaf survey in woodland to see what kind of leaves we could find and what trees they came from. We discovered that we have lots of different types of trees around our school grounds. We even got to see a Tree Surgeon working on a tree in a local house. 

This week was also Anti-Bullying week at Crookfur Primary. We were focusing on ‘One Kind Word.’ We decided to extend this and create our Crookfur Primary Kindness Advent Calendar. Look out for this to be shared on Twitter.

This week was Book Week Scotland.

Kaiden – We drew characters from our reading books as described by our partner. It was hard to draw a character who you already had an image of in your head.

Darcy – Mrs McGuigan visited the class to hand out achievement certificates. It felt amazing! 

Hannah – We made ‘Starbook’ tokens to recommend to other classes and teachers to encourage them to read more books.

Emilia – For outdoor learning we were doing freeze frames linked to the life of John Muir and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.   

John – For the Gruffalo and The Three Little Pigs we created headlines that were sensible and linked and also ones that were ‘Clickbait.’

Daniel – We finished our Titanic topic by learning about the events surrounding it’s crash. We discovered in our class only 10 out of 33 would have survived.

Emilia – We found out that the number of people who died was the same amount of people as there are pupils at Eastwood. There are not normally as many icebergs in April as there were in 1912. It is the fourth highest April on record.

Olivia – It only took 2 and a half hours between the Titanic hitting the iceberg and it fully sinking.

Ethan – We looked at our screws that had been sitting in salt and fresh water for a few weeks. We noticed the screws in salt and away from sunlight had rusted faster than the others.

Ethan – We finished book week with our ‘Starbooks’ reading cafe. We had hot chocolate, snacks and brought in something comfy to enjoy the afternoon.

Millie – We completed the whole school quiz to guess the teachers favourite books – I think we will win!!

Written by – Holly and Fraser

Holly – This week we went down to woodland and we took some lego figures down there so that we could make some COP26 pictures and we made little scenes of what our future would look like if we don’t stop climate change.

Fraser – We are making Christmas Cards for a competition where the winner gets there Christmas card sent out to quite a few people and maybe Boris Johnston.

Holly – In PE we were doing hockey games in the muga and we had one big game at the end and it was very fun.then in the gym hall we were doing 2 vs 2 games and 4 vs 4 and this was all very fun.

Fraser – On Friday this week we did something called Flexible Friday where you get a selection of finishing tasks to do and Mrs Slorach came in and did her Friday dance.

Holly – In writing this week we were writing our mega city stories and we went onto our actual stories today because last week we just did the settings.

Holly – In maths the algebros moved onto 24 hour time and 12 hour time.we have been adding it up and also converting seconds/mins/hours into minutes and seconds and minutes.

Fraser –  This week the graph gang math group was looking at percentages.

Holly – With Miss Hutcherson we were doing music and art and in music we listened to the Beatles Black Bird song and then in art we were drawing portraits of ourselves.

Fraser – This week we got our new seats assigned to us and the tables have all been moved.

Fraser – This week was Remembrance Day. We learned about the importance of the poppy and created a poppy wreath with Primary 7A. We proudly displayed it at the front of the school.

Written by – John and Daniel

Date – 05/11/21

Numeracy-

John- This week the Graph Gang have been continuing Decimal Fractions, The Algebros have been doing a short recap of Time (adding hours, minutes and seconds), the Fraction Force have been doing Multiplication and Dividing, and finally Number Ninjas have been doing Multiplication and Dividing with the Fraction Force 

Literacy and English-

Daniel- In Literacy all groups have been reading their books, Black Panther: Treasure Island,  Iron Man: Mr Mumbles, Captain Marvel: Eager and Hulk: Pitt Street Pirates. We looked at where and when we use semi-colons and tried to add them in to our writing. 

P.E.   

 John- In P.E. we have been continuing our sport Hockey. On Monday we did Hockey drills (etc. passes, shooting and dribbling) then we played a mini math 2 a-side, it was very fun!

Then on Thursday we sorted into teams of 14 and then stored into smaller teams of 7. Then we played Mini games of Hockey, it was very fun!

Writing-

Daniel- In Writing we are starting another two week piece of writing. It is called Mega City. This week we have done our settings. Next week we are focusing on our character.

BREAK THE RULES DAY! 

John- This Friday we had BREAK THE RULES DAY!

Daniel- It was quite interesting to see what everyone was wearing!

 Dyslexia Awareness Week 

We learned about Dyslexia as part of Dyslexia Awareness Week. We talked about different things we all find easy and things we find more challenging.

Diwalli 

We discussed Diwalli and made our own collaborative Rangoli pattern.

COP 26 and Outdoor Learning

We talked about the impact of our actions on the environment and were asking ourselves the questions –

What will the future look like?

What can we do to help the future?

What are our hopes for the future?

We used the woodland as inspiration to help us consider the questions and created some sustainable ideas.

Date -29/10/21

Written by – Fraser and Ewan

Ewan-we finished our spooky writing. Last week we described our setting on where our stories would take place and this week we described our characters and the plot of the story.

Fraser-On Friday morning we did 6 science experiments. My favourite was the one where we made tin foil boats and tried to make heavyweights fit on them without it sinking in the water. 

Ewan-We talked about cop 26 and how we want the world to look for generations to come.

Fraser-In P.E we are learning hockey. On Thursday we were going to play hockey matches but it was pouring outside so we played games indoors and it was really fun:).

Ewan-Today in class we were playing battleships with paper and it was a lot of fun.

Fraser-On the 5th of November we are having break the rules day where we have 10 rules and we are allowed to break 1 for 50p 2 for £1 and on. The rules are Wear non uniform top (no football tops), Wear non uniform trousers, Wacky socks or tights, Wear silly shoes, Weird and wild hairstyles Diluting juice in bottle (not fizzy), non uniform accessories (bowtie,tie), Wear a hat or accessory for your head, Wear a onesie and back to front clothes.

Ewan-Today Darcy and Rosie were organising an ice cream treasure hunt for the P2’s and basically we hid ice cream sculptures the p7s made in art class and the p7’s took around groups of P2s to find the ice cream sculptures.

Fraser-The Black Panther group are reading “Treasure Island”, the Iron Man group are reading Invisible Fiends : Mr Mumbles, the Captain Marvel group are reading “Eager” and the Hulk group are reading “Pitt street pirates”.

Date -22/10/21

Written by – Ewan, Daniel and John

Maths: 

In Algebros we have finished working on area and have moved on to numbers beyond 1 million. It was a short topic and next week we are moving on to volume. 

In the number ninjas and fraction force we have been learning about angles and compass points. 

In the Graph Gang we finished our topic volume. It was very fun now we have started Decimal Fractions.

Literacy-

In the Hulk group we have been continuing with Pitt Street Pirates and we have made our own pirate ship picture.

In Black Panther group we have been continuing ‘Treasure Island’ (buddy reading) and we did a character chart (facts about Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver) 

Iron Man group started Mr Mumbles, it is quite scary and good for the dark and spooky nights!

Captain Marvel group are continuing to read Eager and have designed our own robots. 

Outdoor learning-

We have been continuing progressing to our John Muir Explore award and we also made bird feeders with vegetarian fat and an assortment of cereals and seeds, it was very fun!

Social Studies-

We have been continuing our topic Titanic, we have set sail, we have passed France             (Cherbourg) next it was Queenstown (Cobh) , and we are now starting the journey through the north atlantic ocean. 

PE

In the MUGA we started to work on our hockey skills. We are all working on passing the ball gently and with control.

It has been a very fun week and we hope you have enjoyed reading the blog!