-My Achievements, Class Trip, Health and Wellbeing

Swimming

October 8, 2015 Gayle Santi

This year, the Primary 7 class have been first to start their swimming lessons. We go to Eastwood Swimming Pool every Thursday for a 6 week block.
We all started off by getting changed for swimming and getting everything ready and putting a pound in the locker for all of our stuff. Once everybody is ready, we all start head for the pool. For our first lesson, we were all very excited to jump in the pool. To begin, we had to do the front crawl in pairs from the shallow end to the deep end.
In other lessons, we have been working on our back stroke with a float. The teacher is always there to give us help along the way.
At the end of each lesson, we all get to dive or jump into the pool and choose our favourite stroke to swim a length.
We asked a few people about their thoughts on the swimming:

Gabby “I enjoy having swimming lessons because when we started in Primary 7, I wasn’t able to do the front crawl and now I am getting much better”.

Freddie “It’s fun and healthy at the same time”.

Amy “Our teachers are really helpful, they are always giving us tips on how we can improve”.

-My Achievements, Expressive Arts, Literacy and English

Book Buddies

October 7, 2015 Gayle Santi

Near the beginning of term, the Primary Seven class went downstairs to the Primary One class to come up with a story with them and create our very own book.

Each Primary 7 pupil worked with one or two of the Primary 1 boys and girls. We then sat together and gathered ideas from them about the books that they enjoy reading and what they wanted their story to be about.
We made some sketches that we would include in our book and the Primary 1’s helped with these drawings. This helped them to improve their art skills. Their talents were exceptional!
We then typed up our stories and we will soon be turning these into the finished products.

Some of the Primary One class might grow up to become authors one day since some of their ideas were incredible.
Miss Jagger and Mrs Santi helped us a lot as well. We all worked together to do our very best work. It was a really fantastic activity that taught us about responsibility and learning and I hope we get to do something like this again soon.

Vaneeza Ali

Religious and Moral Education

Rosh Hashanah

September 17, 2015 Gayle Santi

Rosh Hashanah Assembly

Welcome to our class blog. Today I will be writing about our Rosh Hashanah Assembly that the Primary 7 successfully led.

Having put in lots of preparation and effort, we were excited to welcome the parents in and all of the other classes. We started with lots of songs to show off our Rosh Hashanah spirit.

All of the classes had something prepared for our Assembly. The Nursery had pre-recorded some songs and we were able to listen to them in the hall; the Primary 1 class sang beautifully; the Primary 2 boys and girls showed us the Rosh Hashanah cards which they had decorated with apples, since we traditionally eat apples to celebrate Rosh Hashanah; the Primary 3 class stood up and told us lots of interesting facts about Rosh Hashanah; the Primary 4 pupils had prepared fresh challot and walked around the hall allowing us all to see their finished products; the Primary 5 class, along with the Primary 6 class introduced some news songs that they had been learning.

Lots of efforts from all the classes!

At the Shabbat table, Josh and Gabby from Primary 7 were Ima and Abba. They both did a great job saying the bracha for the apple, honey and the wine.
Near the end the whole school had been learning a song with Mrs Rosenberg that we all preformed together for the parents. Afterwards, we put on one of the famous videos for Rosh Hashanah and Gabby and Lilah performed a wonderful dance on stage, in front of the whole school. They did a great job.

Shana Tova everybody!

Susie Tenby

Class Trip, Literacy and English

Edinburgh Book Festival

September 11, 2015 Gayle Santi

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2015

In August, Primary Three, Five and Seven were lucky enough to visit the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The book festival is now a key event in the Edinburgh festival season, celebrated annually in Scotland’s capital city.

Each year writers and illustrators from all over the world come to the book festival and incorporate amazing workshops for schools and visitors.

This year Primary Seven met Nick Sharratt and Vivian French. We were even lucky enough to be able to work with the two of them in an extremely detailed and enjoyable workshop. They helped us to learn new skills that would help us all to improve our illustrating and writing. We learned about the start of Nick Sharratt’s career and the fact that he drew a market square at the age of nine and took it into school to show to his teacher and she thought it was good enough to be put up in the school hall! That was the day he became determined to, one day, become a professional artist.

After we had completed our workshop we continued to explore the book festival and discovered the bookshop. Most of the class had brought money to buy a book. We were fortunate enough to be given a discount voucher for three pounds off the price of any book of our choice.

At the festival there were ‘book doctors’. These were people that gave advice on books and helped you make the right choice before buying one or even a series of books. Not everyone used the book doctors which is understandable because some people prefer to choose books themselves. I used the book doctor and found them really helpful.

Before we headed home, the last thing we did was spend time walking around taking pictures and meeting actors and actresses who were playing a variety of characters from all sorts of books. They were extremely good at playing their chosen roles.

Overall, everyone enjoyed the day and I hope that we can go back again, if not as a class, I will definitely go back with friends some day.

By Madeline Friel

Primary Seven

Health and Wellbeing

P.E. Professionals

September 11, 2015 Gayle Santi

On 8^th of September 2015 the Primary Seven class and the Primary Two boys and girls, teamed up for their P.E. lesson. Mrs Santi and Miss Abercrombie passed the baton onto the Primary 7 pupils to use all the skills that they have been learning over the years and pass those onto the Primary 2 class. The Primary 2 pupils were split into groups and were able to take part in the 6 different ‘Skills Stations’ set up and run by the Primary 7 pupils.

Station 1: Movement and Dance;

Station 2: Balance and Concentration;

Station 3 + 4: Gymnastics;

Station 5: Hand eye coordination and accuracy;

Station 6: Balance and Agility.

It was a great afternoon and the Primary 2 class learned a lot from us all (we hope). We were also able to develop our own skills and learn skills such as patience, learning to be clear with instructions and learning to pace our instructions depending on how quickly each child was able to understand what they were to do and then carry each skill out successfully.

Rachel Jacobs

Priary Seven

Class Trip, Health and Wellbeing

Safety in the Park

September 3, 2015 Gayle Santi

Safety in the Park

Primary Seven went on a school trip to Arthurlie Park in Barrhead for an educational event called Safety in the Park.
Safety in the Park is an event to teach young children about drugs, road safety, law and your health and wellbeing. It included activities which warned you about electricity, fire safety and cyber safety.
The children were split into groups of five to six people and each group attended certain activities at various times.
At one of the main activities which taught children a lesson about ‘stranger danger’, many people followed. One member of staff dressed as a ‘stranger’, advised that children should follow her. Little did some children know, there was a policeman observing the whole scenario, and then explained to the children why they should not have followed the woman.
The stations were all there to help us to make sensible and safe choices

1) Drink Station
Here we got to try out ‘Beer Goggle’ to see how alcohol can affect your vision.
Gabby “this station taught me how horrible and dizzy you could end up feeling if you drink alcohol”.

Safety in the Park

Primary Seven went on a school trip to Arthurlie Park in Barrhead for an educational event called Safety in the Park.

Safety in the Park is an event to teach young children about drugs, road safety, law and your health and wellbeing. It included activities which warned you about electricity, fire safety and cyber safety.

The children were split into groups of five to six people and each group attended certain activities at various times.

At one of the main activities which taught children a lesson about ‘stranger danger’, many people followed. One member of staff dressed as a ‘stranger’, advised that children should follow her. Little did some children know, there was a policeman observing the whole scenario, and then explained to the children why they should not have followed the woman.

The stations were all there to help us to make sensible and safe choices

Drink Station Gabby “this station taught me how horrible and dizzy you could end up feeling if you drink alcohol”. Here we got to try out ‘Beer Goggle’ to see how alcohol can affect your vision.
Stranger Danger Amy “I felt embarrassed that I followed the lady who didn’t have any identification. It was very easy to be convinced by somebody who we shouldn’t have been trusting”.
Rethink your drink
We discussed good drinks and bad drinks for people and how some drinks are a little deceitful with their advertising. Rachel “I was surprised by how much sugar was in Diet Coke and Coca Cola Life”
Community Safety Here we discussed dog fouling, graffiti and the penalties these can bring about. Maddie “It surprised me that you could get fined up to £500 for dog fouling!”
Road Safety Amy “it is often presumed that it is the driver’s fault in a bike accident, but quite often it might be the cyclist’s fault”.
Cyber Safety At this station, we learned about how easy it is for information to be revealed online, without you realising you are doing it. Online activity can be very dangerous and this station raised the awareness of many of us. Gabby “even the smallest detail can reveal so much about your life that you don’t realise”
Fire safety Freddie “whenever you have a campfire, you must put rocks around it, in order to prevent the spreading of fire”.

After our day at Safety in the Park, as a class we feel that we will all try and make sensible and safe decisions.

Remember to never feel pressured to try these things. Be smart and be responsible!

By Freddie Hyman

Social Studies

Scotland Street

June 2, 2015 Mrs Hughes

Primary Six have been working very hard learning all about The Victorians. We have had our own experience of what life was like for a Victorian child at school when we went to Scotland Street.

We learned that children who were lucky enough to go to school had a very hard time! They started each day by chanting their multiplication tables up to 12. They needed to do this to help them work with their money. Lessons were carried out on slates or using a quill pen. If you got any ink on your hands, spoke out of turn, were naughty or even late you got the belt or even worse, the cane! The classrooms were poorly light by gas laps and heated by a coal heater making it very cold, dark and grim. The children sat on wooden benches and the boys and girls were separated at the door. Their P.E was called Drill and they had to wear a dreadful uniform. The girls had lessons to help them become a good wife and mother a learned to cook and clean. The boys learned practical skills with lessons like woodwork.

We were all very scared of our teacher and we are so glad schools are not like that now!

The teacher was very very scary! Josh

Luckily, the teacher was happy with our work so we didn’t get the belt. I was so scared that my face turned very hot! Anna

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New this week!

May 1, 2015 Mrs Hughes

This week Primary 6 have been so busy! We started our Bikeability lessons where we learned how to oil our bikes and pump up our tyres. We learned how to change gears and fix our chain. We built up our confidence through games like high fiving each other and other control games. It was really good fun!!

We started to learn Mandarin this week and can now say hello, thank-you and goodbye. We also learned about the population, landscape, capital city, food, environment and culture of China. We are looking forward to learning more next week!

We had our first swimming lesson today, it was very fun! We practised all the different strokes and diving.

“I swam front crawl and learned how to glide for the first time!” Gabby

“I managed to swim front crawl and back crawl, even with my sore leg!” Lyla

We all managed to swim in the big pool and can’t wait until next week!

Literacy and English, Uncategorized

Literacy

February 5, 2015 Mrs Hughes Leave a comment

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