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 have also applied their understanding of persuasion to create advertisement posters for their products and wrote engaging scripts describing their items which they shared at the Crookfur’s P7 fashion showcase. The teams 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!

For French this week, we explored the talents of sign makers in France. We had the opportunity to see some examples and then created our own signs in the style of those sign makers.

We had to use our maths skills, problem solving, expressive arts and literacy. Can you guess what some of these signs are for?

Today we made a Greek salad in class. We had the chance to follow a recipe to make our very own Greek Salad as part of our mini topic!

We get to take them home to share with our families!

This week we had the chance to work collaboratively to create our very own Greek Gods. We have had a variety of different ideas within our class including:

Hungerous – The god of food

Matilda – The god of books

Portoro – The god of shapeshifting

Emitus – The god of time.

Structures

We learnt about different statues and structures from Ancient Greece including the Parthenon. We even had a group attempt to remake one using KAPLA and we think they did a pretty amazing job!

We have been busy with our mini topic! We have enjoyed linking our learning across the different curricular areas to our mini topic. Here are a few things we have been up to:

Maths

We looked at Stomachion puzzles as created by Archimedes and had to create different shapes using only 14 pieces from the Stomachion square. This was extremely challenging and taught us about persevering and never giving up.

Literacy

We have learned about Greek Gods/Goddesses and had a go at creating our own. We then wrote poems using an Ancient Greece theme.

STEM

As part of our learning through play on a Friday afternoon, we had a chance at building structures from Greece, chariots and even made some wreaths.

What a busy start to the year! Here is a glimpse of what we have been up to.

Cloud busting and Emotions poetry. 

We have started reading Cloud Busting and are enjoying all the poetry. We even had a go at writing our own poems and chose an emotion to focus on. We included similes as well as personification.

Kapla – Design your dream school

We worked in teams and collaborated to create our dream school using Kapla. Each school was different and unique in its own way. We used our creativity skills and added areas to our school.

STEM challenge – Problem solving

We were set a challenge to create a name tag using only a paper clip, a card, string and a pipe cleaner. It took us a bit of time of time but we got there in the end!

Ancient Greece

We have started our mini topic on Ancient Greece. So far we have explored the daily life during this time and had a chance to hear some famous myths including:

• Story of Medusa
• Cyclops
• King Midas

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