Our last week of 2024 at school. And what a busy week it has been!

Christmas Party

We had our Christmas party on Tuesday and danced the afternoon away. We had some competition amongst the P7s with games of:

• Corners
• Musical bumps
• Musical Statues
• Limbo

End of our WW2 topic

To finish off our topic, we worked in groups to research and create PowerPoints based on a WW2 subtopic of our own. This was really good as we got to choose what we wanted to research. We then presented it back to the class using our amazing presentation skills. Mrs Rasul was very impressed.

Lily also brought in an Anderson shelter, made by her brother for when he was school. She presented it to the class. It was very impressive!

Sweet Treat

Mrs Rasul gave us a sweet treat to end the last day of this year. We had pancakes with our choice of toppings! What a sweet way to end the last week before the winter holidays!

What another busy busy week! Here is a little recap of all that we have been up to!

World War 2 – Evacuees

We learned about what the experience of an evacuee was like during WW2 and the process of being evacuated. We had a chance to hear real recounts from people who were evacuees during the war and read about different scenarios and situations. We then went on to create information posters to include:

• What evacuees packed in their case
• Where they went to live
• What their identity cards looked like.
• What they might have written in a letter.
• Propaganda posters convincing parents to send their children to rural areas.

Harper very kindly brought in some things from her great great grandfather’s memories. This included an identity card and some photos. It was lovely to hear all about!

Diary entry – recount

This week we started our recount writing and began by writing a diary entry. We watched an animated clip from a battle scene at the Normandy beaches and used our 5 senses to create sentences about the video. We then used these sentences to create a diary entry in the view of a soldier. These turned out amazing!

We also then created sketches of toys and objects that were at the end of the scene. These will be used in our new literacy display.

Health and Wellbeing

For health and wellbeing we looked at what it means to have a healthy lifestyle. We learned the importance of:

• a balanced diet
• sleep
• hydration
• exercise and activity
• relaxation and mental health

We then created a healthy tips video with a partner which we will continue next week.

Book Week Scotland

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland. This year the theme was hope. We worked in groups to create a book chain with books that we have read. and that we feel have a theme of hope in them.

Some of the books included:

Wonder: Hope of making friends and being accepted.

Harry Potter: A story not just of magic, but of friendship, love, bravery, and, most of all, of hope and love.

WW2

We also learned about the Blitz during WW2. We created fact sheets on Google slides and also created a Blitz art using paints and black paper for building silhouettes. These turned out great.

Last week we presented our inventions to Miss Tenby and finished our Apprentice topic! This week we have started our WW2 topic and it has been a busy one!

Time line of key events 

We worked in pairs to research key events from World War 2. Different events including:

• Germany invading Poland
• The Battle of France
• The Blitz
• The Dambusters Raid

We then created a big class timeline for our topic wall.

Allies and Axis

After completing our timeline we spent an afternoon learning about the allies and the axis. We then used atlases to plot the different allies and axis by giving it a key.

Propaganda posters

As part of our persuasive writing unit, we explored different propaganda posters that were used during WW2 to persuade people to:

• stop wasting food,
• send their children to the countryside
• work in factories (women)
• reuse clothes
• grow their own food.

Then we had a go at creating our very own propaganda posters!

We are now at our final task for our Apprentice topic. This is where we will combine all the skills that we have used and developed over the last few weeks and bring it all together into one task.

In our teams, we have come up with one new invention and have been busy creating a logo, branding campaign, advertising campaign and pricing strategy. We have linked this with our writing and wrote a persuasive letter to Dragon’s Den to persuade them to invest in our product.

Next week we will present our invention pitches to another teacher who will score us based on our passion, presentation and product.

Watch this space!

First week back after the October week sure has been a busy one! This week we focussed on a sales task for our Apprentice topic. We had the challenge of selling biscuits for tokens. We had to:

• Create a pricing strategy
• Come up with special offers
• Make posters for our stalls
• Persuade/convince customers to buy from us.

Friday was day of selling and we set up our stalls then opened for business. Primary 7C came to buy from us and we went shopping in Primary 7A. It was so much fun!

We watched the short clip on Literacy shed called Alma and have completed many activities on this. For the last 2 weeks we have been exploring the character of Alma. Her appearance, her actions, her thoughts and her feelings. We explored the definitions of the words:

• Temptation
• Curiosity
• Rebellion
• Consequence

Then linked these to Alma and how she represented each one in the short movie. We then went on to write our very own character descriptions based on Alma.

Tim Burton

We made some lovely masterpieces inspired by Tim Burton. We linked this to our Alma project by creating doll portraits from the clip Alma. We used charcoal and created shadows and highlight on the faces. These turned out amazing!

Another busy week in Primary 7! This week we had an exciting day on Thursday in which we took part in the Climate Ready Classrooms workshop along with many other schools. This involved watching live lessons to learn about biodiversity, habitats and ecosystems and how these are being affected by humans and climate change. We took part in a series of tasks which helped us understand better the effects of climate change and how we contribute towards it. We ended the day by writing up action plans on how we plan to make our classroom and school more climate friendly. We have yet to finalise our main actions but here are some ideas that we came up with:

• Build a bug hotel.
• Raise money to buy planters.
• Recycle our old clothes and toys.
• Write to an MP to ask for funding for solar panels.
• Recycling bins in the playground.

Have a look at some of the pictures from that day.

We have been exploring ‘Maths through stories’ for Maths Week Scotland.

The Maths Curse

We linked this with our Apprentice topic and had to create a maths themed story book for this week’s challenge. We read the book called ‘The Math Curse’ which is about a girl who overcomes lots of maths challenges in a day. We worked in our groups to then create our own story book about maths problems in a real life context. These books will be displayed in our maths area in class.

Bean Thirteen

We also read the story Bean Thirteen. This book explored prime numbers and we had a go at finding all the prime numbers within 100.

Escape Rooms

We had a go at solving escape room puzzles on chrome books. They were quite challenging but fun at the same time.

This week for our Apprentice topic we had to complete a branding task. We were given a challenge to create branding and marketing for a chocolate brand called ‘Blazin Raisins’. We worked in our teams to draft different design options before selecting the one we were going to go for. We had to think about:

colour

pictures

slogans

Once we were finished we had a discussion about what went well in our team and reviewed our project managers. Primary 7a voted for their favourite bars for us and this was the result:

1st place: Team Alpha Mines

2nd place: Team Aqua Velocity

3rd place: Team Starlight Odyssey

Well done to the rest of the teams! Next week a new challenge awaits!