Author: Miss McLean

Dear Parent/Carer,

Your child will shortly be taking part in a school performance for P7 school show. As always we rely on your assistance to help to organise your child’s costume where possible. As part of the costume for this show, we will be making Arabian style vests which each cast member will wear. To help us to make these vests, we require your child to bring an old t-shirt to school. This t-shirt will be cut and decorated to make their own particular vest. Please only supply an old or cheap t-shirt that you are happy to be cut and sewn.

Each part of our ensemble will require a different shade of t-shirt. We have specified the colour for your child  below. If you have any problems sourcing this, please let us know as soon as possible and we will be happy to assist you.

Please can we have these in for Friday 13th March.

As always, your cooperation is very much appreciated.

Yours sincerely,

P7 Teachers

Arabian Vest Colours

Genie and Genie Ensemble – Blue

Jafar and Jafar Ensemble – Red

Agrabhans and Market people – Green

Aladdin’s Friends – Yellow

Set Designers and Guards – Black

Spooky Voice and Cave of Wonder – Black

Snake Charmers – Green

Musicians – Orange

Today we started our buoyancy topic in science. In our groups we were given a piece of tin foil and the goal was to make it sink when placed in water. We worked together to come up with a strategy to use and then tested this out altogether. We realised that if we crumpled our piece into a ball it would float because of the air trapped inside. If we put in a flat piece of tin foil it sunk to the bottom because it is more dense than water. We now know that buoyancy is a force which pulls objects upwards.

 

A huge well done to Z for going above and beyond today during super skills! Z offered to help the musicians learn a song on guitar for our school show and performed this in front of the whole of P7! #proud 😊🎸

Through our bounce back ability topic we have been exploring the power of positivity and spreading kindness. Today we took the opportunity to write anonymous positive messages and compliments for our peers to brighten their day.

Some of our lovely positive messages:

Receiving our messages:

 

We have spoken a lot about the importance of showing kindness throughout primary 7 and discussed the positive impact that this can have on others.

Just a little reminder that as well as being kind to others, remember to be kind to yourself 😊!

 

Over the next 3 weeks we will be working on a mini science project. You will be undertaking some personal inquiry into an area of science that you are interested in.

First you will pose a research question about a particular area of science that you would like to know more about.

Next, you will do some research and try to answer your scientific question. You may even carry out an experiment to demonstrate your findings.

Please see the attachment below for more information.

Science Mini Project

Good luck! Enjoy carrying out your research and we can’t wait to see your findings at our science fair on Thursday 5th March!

Today we created some optical illusion art inspired by Valentines Day. We looked at some different examples of optical illusions (which amazed us!) and then we were given a design brief. We were asked to create a piece of art which had contrasting colours, geometric shapes and an interesting pattern to create an optical illusion. We were also asked to include a heart silhouette to symbolise Valentines Day.

So far, here some of our amazing pieces of finished artwork ✏️🎨

 

These are some of our highlights from school this week:

My favourite part of this week was the Holocaust memorial trip at St Clares, it was very interesting to listen to all the stories. I also enjoyed making the app its really fun.- Sean 🙂

My favorite part of this week was when we did outdoor P.E and played a striking and fielding game. I also found the Holocaust memorial trip very interesting.- Emma 🙂

My favourite thing we did this week was when we went to the Holocaust memorial at Calderwood Lodge Primary School -Charlotte 🙂

I loved going to Calderwood lodge and learning about the holocaust! It was so interesting how the surviors talk about their family members in the concentration camps. It was very heart breaking too!-Iyona 🙂

This week I have enjoyed Maths, In maths we were focusing on Fractions. I learnt how to multiply fractions and also to convert Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions and to convert Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers.           – Sarah 🙂

 

Me and my sister made a mandarin presentation about how to say animals and numbers in Mandarin.We went round the P2’s and P4’s and taught them numbers 1-10 and some animals in Mandarin.They had shots of saying some Mandarin.At the end of the presentation we asked if anyone had any questions.Some people asked if we knew any colours in mandarin so we told them some too.

(Written by IB)

What a fantastic job you did! Well done 🙂

 

P7 would like to share some of their highlights from this week:

I learned about Linear Patterns in school this week, I really enjoy it and i’m proud of my work.- SM

I am very happy about my maths and i managed to learn something new.-ON

I really enjoyed using the writing journals and we are doing it for 10 mins every day and Miss McLean gives us a topic to focus on and we can write anything we want.-SB

i really enjoyed when we got our writing jounals and everyday for 10 mins we can write our own storys and any topic we want and I cant wait to do more. -JS

I really enjoyed the writing  journals because we could write any stories we want -LD