For our learning journey comparing Brazil to Scotland we were looking at Samba music. We gave it a go ourselves and had a go at a range of instruments!

We were applying our circumference skills by measuring real objects. We used the formula to calculate each objects circumference then checked our answer with a piece of string!

Hello to all the P7C blog readers, it’s Mr Atkinson here! As you will know this year I am doing NCCT for P7C 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!

Over the last couple of weeks, we have been learning more about the Meta Skills. The class shared their experiences of how they act and behave when no-one is around to instruct them what to do which led to some interesting conversations about integrity.  We also explored what strategies we can use to manage anxiety and analysed how feelings can influence your performance in school and in your relationships. Following this, the pupils reflected on what mindset they need to have to be able to work at their best. Some of the other activities have involved thinking about changes such as how to make new friends, adjusting to new settings or dealing with a challenging situation like bullying. During the tasks the class discovered that using their critical thinking skills and initiative can help them to choose the best course of action allowing them to overcome some of these problems. When investigating what leading can look like the pupils identified that even leaders need to take advice from others. This was tested when the children worked in groups to present three differing pieces of advice to the class to help solve an issue. P7C then had to guess which advice was good, bad or utterly ridiculous which led to a lot of laughter!

We have been looking at sequences and patterns in Numeracy.

We noticed that Dominos look very similar to the tables we have been using.
We carried out a range of challenges using the dominos to create number sequences and patterns.

P7 have been focusing on an artist study on Tim Burton. We looked at a range of his art work and sketched some different features we liked. We then took these ideas to create our own portraits with charcoal and chalk. 🕷️

Through our space topic we had been looking at landing pods. Each group was given an egg to put into their landing pods focusing on preparing for impact. The children were allowed to use a range of materials to build fantastic structures that ensured their “astronauts” were safe. Each pod was dropped from 1.5 metres and almost all eggs survived. Thank you to everyone who supplied resources for our experiment myself and the children really appreciate it!

As we have been focusing on poetry through both writing and our class novel, we created some interesting poems of our own. We combined our art and poetry skills to create visual poems based on a range of paintings we used as reference.

These poems are now displayed on the wall so have a look next time you are in the class!
Here is a sneak peak!

Friday afternoon PE will definitely be a highlight this year for P7C!

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