P7c March Blog

Languages – We have been learning more about sport in French with Ms Patterson; we had the opportunity to create a Hi 5 French languages video and other activities, which included reading, speaking and writing. This week we have also played double jeopardy, counting numbers 1-11 in Polish and in Hindi. In spelling, we have been learning about American and British English spelling of words, we have found this very interesting. We were also doing poems about space this included learning about different types of rhymes and using them effectively within our poems and stanzas.

Numeracy – We have been learning about budgeting with Ms Sinha, which has also included learning about interest and money. Some of us have been learning about multiplying and dividing with decimals. With Ms Clark, we have revisited scale and applied it to our Expedition work to scale the solar system looking at both the scale of the diameter of the planets and sun as well as the scale of the distance between all of the planets. To further develop our learning we created posters of our learning to be a part of our new wall display in class.

HWB/RE/ Committees – We have been learning and having philosophical discussions about Lent and the Stations of the Cross. This has included reflecting on who was there to help Jesus and trying to make connections within our own lives when we have been supportive, or shown love and gentleness in times where we have been met with adversity. On Friday, we will go around the Stations of the Cross with Canon Eddie in the playground and further reflect on this important time within the Liturgical Calendar. We also learned whom missionaries are and made our own Missionary flags. When we learned about Missionary work through the charity Missio we realised how we are all missionaries and each have an important role in our lives to spread love and help others who are in need. Our committee work has linked very well with our RE and HWB lessons, we took time to create Jamboards and posters linking with the UNCRC and Global Goals. Some of us made PowerPoints that we presented to the class too. This cross-curricular experience allowed us to realise what a good committee member is and what their most important entities are which have parallels to that of the Missionary work we were learning about within RE. We also engage in a class debate linking to the most recent Picture News where the focus was freedom of speech and Gary Linekar. We are looking forward to doing more debating next term with Ms Clark. Ramadan has started, this is a significant time for pupils who are fasting and promoting acts of kindness such as charity for their Muslim faith.

Budgeting group – We have made a PowerPoint for meeting the Director of Education this week.

Expedition – We have been pushing ourselves by creating interesting work on planets and the solar system; we have created art, we had a focus within our literacy to create metaphors directly linked to the theme and numeracy to learn in more depth about scale and radius, we have also been further developing our meta skills by learning to be independent in our work.

School Trips – Last night we went to the school to learn more about Lockerbie, “we are feeling both scared and excited”, P7c.

Transition – Ms Wilson came and visited us at assembly to talk about St Ninian’s, “it is exciting getting prepared for a different school”, Tristan.

Sporting Heroes – Dance champions 1^st place in the east Renfrewshire Dane Competition, Lara came 3^rd place for her solo performance. Matty has been improving his technique skiing every week. Badminton team have been supporting P6 in their training for the next academic year.

School Show – The rehearsals continue and we looking forward to displaying our hard work.

P7c and Ms Clark

Languages – We have been using our writing lessons to create links with our expedition. This has included creating a Mars fact file and writing a biography about a famous scientist of our choice. We have been receiving lessons from Ms Patterson who is a French specialist; she has been expanding our learning about sport.

Numeracy – In Math we have been learning about negative numbers, fractions, decimals and percentages as well as shape position and movement.  We have also linked our expedition learning to probability by carrying out fun and exciting activities.

HWB/RE – Lent has begun, many of us have been thinking about Pope Francis and his message this year about fasting. We have finished our PFFA and have been learning about the Fruits of the Holy Spirit while considering these as we continue our journey as the Confirmandi. In PE we have been participating in team games such as basketball, football, dodgeball.

Committees – We talked about what committees are and how we can improve them going forward. We have taken time to create short videos an presentations with our ideas for the Miss Conlin.

Budgeting group – Pupils from P7c have been selected to be a part of a budgeting group with Miss Ionta, “We will interview Mrs McBride and Mrs McBrearty, we also had a parent come in to our meeting to support us with this”, Maira.

Bike Ability – We completed our on the road session this month and were awarded either a level 1 or level 2 award for our successes.

Expedition – Through answering our Big Questions, we have been engineering parachute to replicate the one used for the Mars Rover. We also had the opportunity to use the VR headsets, which took us on a journey to Mars. When we landed we saw the Mars Rover, “It was a very exciting experience and it added extra excitedness to the expedition”, Lara. Our expedition has had a science focus; this has linked to our literacy lessons as well. We have carried out experiments inspired by Sir Isaac Newton looking at gravity and forces.

Eurovision – P7c won the Eurovision Song Contest, our reward was a party. Thank you to Mr Connor for arranging.

Drama – With Ms Sinha we were miming and pretending to be someone else’s mirror image.

School Trips – Some of the pupils in P7c travelled to Man City to watch Man City and Aston Villa, we had a great time! We also visited the Science Centre our favourite part was the wacky salon. We also watched a live science experiment in the theatre. “My favourite part was watching Ms Clark catch some poo as part of an experiment”, Maia.

Transition – This past month we also had our 2 transition visits to St Ninian’s, we took lessons in Chemistry, Art, Business and Design Technologies, “It was really fun to see what it will be like in St Ninian’s”, Zuha.

Sporting Heroes – Pupils from our class represented the school as part of the Badminton Squad, “We came second overall, which was a great success as it was a Scottish Championship”, Daniel. The St Cadoc’s P7 Netball teams also all came second in the cluster championship, this was a fantastic achievement and showed the talent and training all of the teams had undertaken prior to the festival coming to fruition. James, Mishika and Tristan represented the school in a football match at St Ninian’s. Keira represented the school in Cross Country came 73^rd out of hundreds of pupils from across east Renfrewshire.

Dance Club/School Show – The dance club has restarted and some of the pupils are a part of that, training each week and getting ready for the upcoming competition. The school show rehearsals have also begun and many of us were successful in getting a part. Freya – Lumiere, Maia – Belle, Lara – The Enchantress. Well done to the girls on their successes.

P7c and Ms Clark