By – Aisha And Isla 

 Monday: We did P.E and the warmup people (Charlotte and Isla C) picked octopus tig. We’re now working on Cardio. We ran around the muga for 2 minutes then took a little break and did Head, knees, toes and snatch. To play the game you have to find a partner and put a cone in between you and Mrs Allan would shout out HEAD,TOES,KNEES or SNATCH. If she shouted HEAD you touch your head same for toes and knees but if she shouted SNATCH  you would try to take the cone from the  middle. Then we ran for another 2 minutes. After that we wrote down our spelling words for our homework.

We then did Imaginative writing. Some people used a picture for inspiration, others didn’t. 

Tuesday: We read chapters 6-7 in our class book remembrance. The book is about WW1 and the main characters are: Charlotte, Francis,Mrs Armstrong-Barnes ,John-Malcom,Maggie and Alex. We then tea-stained pieces of paper to make timelines with. The book is set in 1915 but is now changing to 1916.  

We then got given our homework for the week. 

Wednesday: We had P.E first thing in the morning. The warmup people picked Dodgeball for us to play. We then finished our mini olympics and counted up our scores! We’re still waiting for the results!! 

We worked on Speed in maths. Some people chose to do the trickier sheet and some chose the easier TJ page. 

Whilst we were doing maths some people went out with Miss Sime to work on our display.

Thursday: In the morning we had our literacy standardised tests. We worked on them for most of the day. They both had a volcano theme to them. 

In the afternoon we did art with Mrs Hutchinson and we made pinch pots with clay. We first had to condition the clay by kneading it and rolling it into a smooth ball when it was done. We then flattened the top and the bottom to make a cylinder shape, which we then stuck our thumbs into the middle of the top and twisted and turned them whilst pushing down to make a hole. We then pinched the top to make a rim and then hollowed out the inside even more to make the hole  bigger. We then used some water to smooth out any cracks in them. They all looked amazing when they were done.

Friday:

In the morning with Miss Sime we were working on pie charts, line graphs and bar charts using the chromebooks.

We then had assembly after break where we were talking about friendship and our school values.

After lunch we worked on our IDL topic (WWI) where we are looking at the trenches.

On Monday we did our spelling in the morning and then went to the MUGA for P.E. We played dodgeball and running. After break we did persuasive writing about the school uniform and if we disagreed with it or not. After lunch. We did social studies on democracy and war for our new topic.

Tuesday we were off because teachers were striking.

On Wednesday we did indoor P.E. we did our own P7 Olympics, we all got into groups of 5 or 6. We did a long jump, javelin, shot put, and sprinting. Since we didn’t have proper items we used rings and foam javelins. After break we did our maths corrections and there was also a mental maths board task once you finished. After lunch we did Science about the bodies organs, skeleton, etc. At the end of the day, Harris played the chanter for us.  He played “Scots Wae Hae” for Burns day. 

Thursday morning, we read our class novel, ‘Remembrance’. After break we did mental maths and Mrs Hutchison came in to do Spanish with us. We learnt how to say different family members in Spanish. After lunch we finished off our Spanish vocabulary and then started to make different shapes with clay. We used pencils as a replacement for the item pottery makers usually use. 

Lastly on Friday, we did our war topic and made a timeline and then drew poppies or the war trenches. After break we did Flexible Friday where we finished off our spelling and mental maths, and then went to assembly. 

On Monday we wrote out our spelling words. For P.E we had to stay inside so we did a just dance and a roll the dice game there were six tasks and another six tasks and we rolled 2 dice then we would do them. For maths we did angles and an area dice game so you roll a dice and we had our whiteboard and used the squares on the back and then we would roll a dice and make a shape with that area. Then at the end we count them up at the end to see who had the most if you did you won.

On Tuesday in the morning we did literacy, in literacy we had a passage about horses,the passage had facts and fiction about horses. some of us worked on a text about aliens. In maths we did revision on area and learned a bit about compound shape.in the afternoon we had health and wellbeing and learned about sleep and how it is good for you. We also peer assessed our posters on advantages and disadvantages of exercise. 

On Wednesday we had P.E. there was six stations and two timers and we marked down on a bit of paper to see if we were faster the first or second time. We used a chromebook for our stopwatch.we did a finish off on our maths and started our topic about war but we started with democracy and about votes and how the laws worked in the past and the present and some of us wrote notes.

On Thursday we started a new class book called Remembrance.It is about a women that wants to help directly in the war as a nurse and is based in the year 1915 . We started with our predictions with the two front cover what were shown on the board then we made predictions and the blurb after that we started reading chapter one.in the afternoon we had Mrs Hutchison and we did art. We have been doing sculptures. We used paper stick hot glue and cards to try and make sculptures.

Monday:

We copied down our words for homework and learned our new spelling words. Then P.E we did running around the muga for 2 minutes and relay races. We did maths.

Tuesday: We were off for the strike.

Wednesday:  We did P.E in the morning. It was fitness and there were 8 different stations. There were situps,pushups,jumping jacks,bench climbers,jumping,ladder running, and sprinting. Then we did time in Maths. We worked on our goals on stars with Miss Sime in the afternoon. 

Thursday: we wrote letters to Miss Sime to get to know each other. Mrs Hutchinson did Spanish with us and we done art. We were making different shapes with paper for sculptures .

Friday: This morning we did maths. We looked at angles, decimals and algebra, time and isosceles triangles. in the afternoon, we researched the benefits of exercise in groups and started to create posters. 

By-Ross J Harris

On Monday morning we talked about homework. We weren’t able to do pe because it was to cold. After break we did some writing we could pick our type of story we wanted to do. After lunch we did some maths; in maths we did some weight and measuring

On Tuesday morning we did some literacy on our reading books. After break we did some maths in maths we number work after lunch we did some learning leaders. We did our lesson plans after Mrs Slorach gave us all feedback. 

On Wednesday morning  we did some pe in pe we did some netball. After break we did some number talk. After lunch we did some literacy

On Thursday we did some literacy about the Northern Lights. After break we did some RME about Hanukkah. After lunch we did some art in art we finished our portraits. 

We’re sorry, but we’ve been so busy helping in the present room today that we haven’t updated our blog!

We’ve been working hard on our next instalment of Crookfur Learning Leaders.  If you like, you could ask us to dance the Gay Gordons with you…

We’ll be back next week.

By – Daryn and Kaitlyn

On Monday We switched prefect rotas, we did P.E (outside) and then we had a break. Then after break we did some writing about a fairytale in a news article. Then we had lunch. After That we had some mental maths then woodlands and we did road safety in our groups (we got to choose ) with lego figures and took pictures up close to make it look real size.      (It was very fun to do) 

On Tuesday morning we wrote  spelling words down in our homework literacy jotter and had break after break we did maths and groups went down and talked about our maths homework after lunch we had done something really fun. We designed safe places for people to walk and it was fun 

On wednesday morning social dancing (it was awkward for most of us) then we had break after break we did a questionnaire and some maths then we had lunch after lunch we did literacy for the afternoon 

On thursday morning we did reading our books (i think mr mumbles is really good) then we had break after break we finished off our read safety posters. In the afternoon we did art with Mrs Hutcheson.

On Friday we did RE talking about the Bible and Christmas.  We did some Flexible Friday and then after break we did spanish with Mrs Hutcheson and assembly. In the afternoon we did our group work for Crookfur Learning Leaders. 

By – Ryan and Isla C 

Welcome back to p7B class blog

On monday it was our last p.e session at the high school 🙁

The things we do there are:netball football rugby tennis invasion games and hockey. We also did some literacy nelson comprehension on coral reefs. 

This week we all went to different classes to do “I am Me” lessons which is hidden disabilities like blindness and cerebral palsy for anti bullying week.

On Tuesday we made Christmas cards for Whitecraigs care home. We all made different styles of cards and there was a competition where whoever made the best cards gets chosen by Whitecraigs to sell for a fundraiser.

In Maths we worked on money; some people planned a holiday with a partner on a Chromebook and the other task was converting money like pounds to Euros. 

On Wednesday some more people went to “I am me” for example 1c and 2b went outside at 11:45 and 2:35. We also had great fun at P.E we did group balances for example a human pyramid, but it was cut short because PC Mitchell [campus cop] to talk about bullying she talked about a boy that took his own life and a girl who tried to and stopped eating.I thought this was sad and so did the rest of the class

On Thursday we were at home because of the strike. 

On Friday we did some more money maths on a worksheet until the fire alarm goes off and an eye test [i wasn’t a big fan] then we had an assembly where some people were talking at it in the afternoon we were talking about hate crime as part of I Am Me for anti-bullying week. 

                               Hope you enjoyed reading this

By – Amina and Lucy

On Monday we started the day with P.E at Eastwood, then after break we started our megacity writing. This week we did the setting but next week is the plot. After lunch, we went to the woodland with P7a and used our new woodland trolley. There were magnifying glasses and bug catchers. Lots of people found bugs and worms and put them in the bug catchers. People who did not have their woodland kit peeled sticks with potato peelers.

On Tuesday, in the morning,we had literacy, the spongebob books and the fizzy feet stayed with Mrs Allan while the booklings and dogman went with Mrs Nasar. After break, we did some maths and after lunch, we finished some tasks we had not managed to finish.

On Wednesday, we started the day with P.E by doing some gymnastics. We did some vaulting, rolls, and balancing. Some people even tried cartwheels! We also practised jumping off of things and it was really fun! After break we did some more maths and our favourite maths game, tick dot cross! After lunch, we started origami bookmarks, we couldn’t finish them because Mrs Slorach took us to P7A to talk about anti bullying week, as we were the I Am Me ambassadors, which means we get to teach P1-4 about bullying and disabilities you can’t see and showing them what is like to live with them.

On Thursday we started the day by doing some reading for a bit then we did some stuff for our book, Thing Explainer! Its a book that explains things like a smart phone, and puts them into simpler words to help us understand! We made some blueprints for our own thing explainer. After break, some people finished and started on decorating some nets for 3D shapes. We tidied up and Mrs.Hutchinson came in and we started some Spanish. After lunch, we went down to the art room to start drawing a realistic nose but before that we finished our eyes.  

On Friday, we did a Book Week quiz and finished our origami bookmarks. We had a prefect meeting, led by the senior prefects. In assembly, some people got achievement certificates. In the afternoon, we planned our I Am Me lessons.

on Monday morning we went to Eastwood and did some P.E. There was lots of different sports to do such as: rugby, netball, tennis, football, and more.

After break we did some spooky writing following on from the spooky settings we did last week!

On Tuesday for literacy the booklings and dogman ( our literacy groups) went with Mrs Nasar to do some comprehension . Some fizzy feet and spongebob books stayed with Mrs Allan and did some comprehension whilst talking in a group.

On Wednesday we did gymnastics in P.E there was lots of different stations. One of the stations is walking along the benches and then doing a pose as jumping of the next one was running ,jumping on the springboard and leaping over 3 big blocks.

In the afternoon we did enterprise. We split into our enterprise groups and talked about all the different charities we could do. Our teachers put up a form on google classroom to pick what charity we wanted to do.

On Thursday Mrs Huchison was teaching us. First we did Spanish and we learnt how to count up to 100. Then we did art she was teaching us how to draw eyes! It was really fun.

On Friday a special day  today Remembrance day. Everyone was wearing Poppies to remember the people that fought in the war. We also did a minute of silence.