Over the last few weeks we have thoroughly enjoyed learning stories from world religions including: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. We have explored the moral of the different stories and trying to link them to life lessons.

We have looked at similarities and differences between these stories across the religions and have been very surprised at how similar things really are. Such as the morals and values.

We have explored:

Adam and Eve (Hawa)

Noah (Nuh pbuh) and the great flood

David and Goliath (Dawud and Jalut)

We have also been extremely lucky to have 2 visitors that have kindly came in to share the story of Abraham. Reverend Lazonby came in to teach us about the story of Abraham while Ibrahim’s dad came in to teach us about the story of prophet Ibrahim (pbuh).

This week we started our learning journey about stories from Bible. We started with reading the story of Adam and Eve and compared it to the version in Islam.

We took part in a mock trial which included a defense and persecution team for Adam, Eve and the serpent.

Here are a few pictures from this week and our team building task from last week.

This week we have working on Team Building skills and how to work better in a team.

We have explored the importance of roles, communication, collaboration, time management and problem solving. Here are a few of the tasks we had to complete.

Name Line in silence – We had to work together to form a line in alphabetical order but silently!

Paper chain – In teams of 5, we were given one piece of A4 paper, 2 scissors and 1 glue stick and we had to create the longest paper chain within 10 minutes! The time pressure was challenging.

Boat challenge – In teams of 5, we had to solve a problem. We needed to use recycled materials to create a boat that would hold toy animals without sinking!

What a wonderful first term! Ending it with lots of festive activities and joy! See you all next year!

Last week we had the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Rural Life! We had a chance to see the farm animals and even met a baby calf!

This week for writing, we have started looking at instructional writing.

We explored features of recipes by looking for vocabulary used in Mr Flood’s cook books.

We created our own word bank, then wrote our own recipes for an onion soup!

We just finished our mini country comparison topic on Canada.

During this topic we:

• Compared animals from Scotland and Canada and learned how different  adaptations make animals more suited for different climates and habitats.
• Wrote a persuasive letter to Mrs McGuigan to persuade her to let us have a school trip to Canada.
• Researched foods from Canada – maple syrup in particular.
• Today we ended it with enjoying some pancakes with maple syrup ourselves!

Last week for Art week, we watched a video titled ‘Alma’ from Literacy Shed. We then wrote a character description using everything we have learnt over the last few weeks. To go along with the spooky theme, we looked at the work of Tim Burton, and created our own ‘dolls’ (based on the Alma video) using charcoal and shading.  They turned out pretty amazing. To go along with our spooky theme, we even started reading our class novel ‘Invisible Fiends – Mr Mumbles’ which we are absolutely loving so far!

Happy Halloween!

Hello to all the P7B blog readers, it’s Mr Atkinson here! As you will know this year I am doing NCCT for P7B with a focus on developing Crookfurs Enquiry Based Learning approach so I wanted to give you an update of what we have been doing.

It has been exciting start to the year with the children utilising their new Meta Skills of leading, feeling, adapting and initiative in their sustainability design clothing challenge. First we explored the methods of paying for items in today’s society and then the children drew diagrams of the different stages in the manufacturing process. Equipped with this knowledge the pupils then formed teams and collaborated excellently to combine a variety of fabrics to produce a unique piece of clothing. To help them with this they created mood boards by using inspiration from their online research which included listing some fabric samples, drawing a logo, noting the colours they will use and deciding on a company name and slogan. The teams also applied their understanding of persuasion when writing engaging scripts about their items which they shared at the Crookfur’s P7 fashion showcase. The groups confidently modelled their creative designs to everyone in P7 and their presentation skills were very entertaining!

I would like to express my thanks for everyone who donated clothing and materials to help with this project!

Last week for maths week Scotland, we went for a nature walk then set up our own nature stalls. We priced each item under £20 and had a go at being ‘merchants’ as well as customers. At time there was a 10% sale so we had to work out 10% off the price. It was lots of fun!