A wild weather week last week with the rain battering down! Chillier days now  …. Autumn has arrived!

However it did not impact on the children’s fantastic work! They  have been working extremely hard in all subject areas.

Here are a few of their own words about their learning…..

“I enjoyed my maths this week and feel more confident at counting on hours and minutes. Our art this week was great, we have started using watercolours to create a rock surface and we are going to add on our own pictures that the Native Americans would have done to the rocks a long time ago.  Here is my first rock painting before the other pictures go on top”. by Molly.

I enjoyed my story writing this week in Writer’s Craft. It was about a Magic Ride which I made her fly and made her be in a different universe. Here I am with my brilliant story!” by Josh.

I mixed colours today to create a mud colour that would have been on the rock face that Native Americans would have done their Rock Art on. We will add to it another day. I think I created a wonderful colour and piece of rock!  I am loving reading Wonder, it is interesting and really sad as well. I liked the Magical ride writing as I find it easy to get ideas from my imagination and it doesn’t have to be true, I can write anything. The animal testing writing was a little bit more difficult as I had to think about the arguments – I was unsure on what side I wanted to take.”  By Yusra.

This week the children have  enjoyed a lot of painting and writing amazing creative stories  as well as persuasive writing on the subject of Technology and whether they are for it or against it. Some very good discussion have been had between friends and the whole class.

Here are some pieces of great writing to share….

“I really enjoyed the persuasive writing because I liked writing about technology. I am proud of how much I did because I wrote a lot and I like how I stated my facts and opinions. ” By Sophia.

“I really enjoyed the persuasive  writing because I got to talk about technology because I love technology and I am on technology everyday. I think I was quite fluent with my writing and made good strong statements. ” By Lucas.

I liked doing my French because we don’t often do French and I like learning a different language so when I go to France I can make friends and know their language! We learned how to say farm animals in French too! By Eilidh.

I enjoyed covering APR rates in maths because I got to learn skills to help me in the future and I liked working out all the calculations and checking if their right or wrong so if I do get them wrong I can look back and improve and try to get it right. We also covered budgeting and that was fun because I got buy a house (not really) and figure out my needs and wants for my budget which was £2,000. I ended up not going over my budget which was great. By Olivia.

In PE Eilidh led the class with her HIIT work out that she designed over Lockdown and led the class with 2 of her glamorous assistants Megan and Olivia, which was a huge success. A great sunny day for us all to be outside too!

This week Primary 7 have been putting themselves forward for their leadership roles such as Media Team, Prefects and STEM leaders and will in due course be doing the same for our Head boy,  Head girl and their deputies. Exciting times! So far, they have all been amazing at sharing their skills and how they will be amazing for these roles.

Good luck to all who are running for the leadership roles this year!