Languages – We have been learning a lot in Mandarin this month including; how many siblings we have, favourite food and drink, as well as numbers and currency. We have been learning a little less French this term but still practising our skills. Ms Clark has been calling us up to have us recite our numbers in our ‘Mother Tongue’, giving us an opportunity to lead the class. In St Ninian’s we went to the languages department where we did a French class. We learned that the languages department teach French, Spanish and Mandarin.

Numeracy – The triangles have been learning about Speed, Distance and Time, we have also been learning about perimeters. The circles have been learning about top-heavy fractions and mixed fractions. We completed some whole class lessons on Time to consolidate our learning. St Ninian’s Math Department came to our class and we completed a ‘Murder Mystery’ Maths Challenge with them. Mishika and Daniel represented P7 as part of the Maths Challenge competition.

RE – P7 Confirmandi received the sacrament of Confirmation this month. We also went to St Cadoc’s Church to attend Mass recently, it was wonderful to be back in the church. We are attending the Thanksgiving Mass this week to celebrate all of the children who have received their sacrament this year from P4 and P7. It has been the month of May and we have taken time to pray to Mary each day.

HWB – During PE we did some Danish Longball and we did some Handball. We have also been doing Tennis and Rounders. Some of us got to take part in PE at St Ninian’s we all experienced different sports. Mr Kerr came in to talk to us as part of a Pastoral Assembly we also got to take part in PSHE classes during our time as part of our transition days at St Ninian’s.

Expedition/Committees Lara and Finn went to talk to the director of Education to discuss our Expedition work and Committees that we have been developing this year. We have a new Expedition called, ‘What Matters to Me’; we have been working a lot in partnership with P7D. We have focussed on our families and created an autobiography, which we will display alongside our autobiographical box. We were asked to bring in baby photos, which will be shared at our Leaver’s Assembly as part of a montage video. We have also made Family Trees to explain our family heritage.

Transition – We had our induction days last week and got to mix with P7s form across all of the cluster schools, which gave us an opportunity to make new friends. We had our own individual timetables, which allowed us to experience computing, science, PE and other subjects just like we will in High School next year.

Sporting Heroes – St Cadoc’s Netball Teams played a friendly against St Joseph’s and performed very well! The school Chess Team competed in an inter-school festival at St Ninian’s High School and won.

Highlights!

Aine – winning her recent tennis match.

Freya/Lara – coming first in their dance competition for cheer and hip-hop, both also competed very well as part of the solo elimination round reaching the semi-finals.

Ansh – winning his badminton matches.

P7c and Ms Clark

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

Literacy – many of us have been lucky enough to be star writers this year already. We have been linking our writing to our expedition questions and deepening our learning by focussing on characterisation. We have completed our Reading Standardised Tests this week. We have been enjoying our new reading books and have recently finished them. In writing, we completed our cold piece about glaciers in Canada.

Numeracy – we were learning about decimals, division and negative numbers. We are revising and remembering our previous learning and will revisit our learning about ratio. We have been learning about angles in a variety of contexts. We have been deepening our learning through puzzles and provocations each day.

HWB/RE – Many of us have completed our PFFA and we took this learning further by connecting our Gifts with things we already do as part of our everyday life, such as within school, Church, Mosque, Temple, Gurudhwara and Hindu Mandir. We also completed our My World Triangle to support our emotional wellbeing both in and out of school.

Bike Ability – we will soon be going on the road for Bike Ability. We had our last playground session this term and we are very excited. We met some lovely new tutors.

Holocaust Education Trust – Mr Clark taught us about how the Holocaust came to happen by taking us through historical facts on the lead up to Hitler coming to power and the harsh laws that were passed against the Jews.

Ceilidh – we had a fun and exhausting time at the cluster ceilidh. We learned many different traditional Scottish Dances and performed them to contemporary music. We had a chance to see some pupils who will be joining us in S1 at St Ninian’s. We met our Head of Year, Mrs Wilson and we also saw the S6 sports leaders who were guiding us with our dances. It was great to see the school and be in the large games hall. Some of us were lucky enough to see our friends who were there that day.

Expedition – we have begun expedition and created big questions, we are looking forward to do more with our IDL, ‘Life Beyond Land’ in the upcoming weeks.

Eurovision – we have been celebrating our uniqueness and diversity by learning each other’s languages for the Eurovision Song Contest. We are singing, ‘This is me’, in 8 different languages, Hindi, Polish, Kannada, Italian, Spanish, BSL, French and English.

Assembly – we were invited to present our 2022 Expedition to the upper school pupils and teachers this year. Although it was a little bit nerve wracking we found it really good fun and used it as an opportunity to demonstrate our skills and attributes, linking them to our learning last year.

Languages week – we have been lucky to be learning a new French game with Mr Connor called Petanque, we also took part language week bingo at home.

Art – we did some art with Ms Sinha to make a picture of a boy sitting surrounded by stars using oil pastels.

Happy New Year from the pupils of P7c.

P7c have just recently performed their Advent Assembly for friends and families, the pupils would like to thank all who attended. It was lovely to see the hard work from rehearsal practices come to fruition on the day. Since we have completed our Advent Assembly there have been other opportunities to be involved in the Advent celebrations across the school for pupils within P7c. “Some people got picked to be narrator for the nursery nativity”, Keira.

During Health and Wellbeing we have had input from Healthier Minds who have been supporting us with ways to cope with anxiety. Within these lessons, we have learned about the brain and practiced useful techniques to help us return to our baseline or find calm when we begin to feel anxious. We have also been taking part in athletics, team games, Scottish Country Dancing and most recently learning about the functionality of body specifically our muscles and joints during PE. We linked our PE with Science this week taking part in a variety of experiments looking at the impact of voluntary and involuntary muscles on our bodies. We also had input from Eczema Outreach Support who helped us gain a greater insight and awareness of the impact eczema has on people’s day-to-day lives.

In literacy, the pupils have been focussing on poetry creating beautiful personal choice and Autumnal poems. P7c been leading their own learning and decided they wanted to write a letter to the residents of a care home as part of their “lifting other people’s spirits” focus during Advent. The completed letters will be sent to Whitecraigs Care Home and we are very thankful to Niamh’s mum for helping to organise this for us. P7c have also been putting their formal letter writing skills to use once more as we write letters to Bishop John in preparation for receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.

Following on with some more Christmas cheer, we worked very hard to complete our Christmas crafts for the St Cadoc’s Christmas Fayre, we still have a few left if you are looking to brighten up your tree J. “Lifting spirits is lifting hearts”, Umaiza.

P7c were also selected to create digital Christmas cards, the chosen design will be sent out as an e-card to every school and nursery within East Renfrewshire.

P7c have continued to work on the class WW2 IDL topic and are busy completing their novel study, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Before the end of term, we hope to watch the movie too. We had a wonderful input from a historian who spoke to us about the British Indian Army.

In maths we have been working on scale and using our knowledge of operations to create and replicate accurate diagrams which is part of developing the work force as some of us are interested in careers as engineers and architects where these skills are used. “Math is awesome!” Jenson.

We wish all of our friends, family and staff at St Cadoc’s a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

P7c have been really enjoying Bike-ability this term, the class have been practising every week to ensure they are using their skills to stay safe on the roads.“ We learned how to signal when turning and to make sure we look before and after we signal and turn”, Subhan. “When we did Bike-ability we managed to improve our teamwork, speed control and caution”, Umaiza.

We all attended the St Cadoc’s Dance-a-Thon, it was an excellent opportunity to be active and to raise funds for the school. We are full of anticipation for Ninja Warrior.

Some of the pupils in P7c attended the badminton try outs and were successful in becoming part of the St Cadoc’s School Badminton Team.

We have been working very hard to develop their athletics and fitness abilities during this current PE block.

P7c pupils have also been leading the prayers at The St Cadoc’s Rosary Club, it has been wonderful to see friends and families come to support us each Tuesday morning.

P7c have been demonstrating effective leadership skills while supporting staff with P2 monitoring and also wet play monitoring.

Many of the class auditioned for talent show we were happy to both take part and support their peers throughout the audition process and performance which was attended by the upper school pupils.

In IDL P7c have been learning how German bombs impacted British houses. We have researched Germany including organisations such as, the Luftwaffe, Nazi Party and Hitler Youth. We have learned more about the Blitz (Blitzkrieg) and researched the impact that the bombs had on Blitz Street. P7c have used their Numeracy and Mathematical knowledge to participate in a rationing lesson. There have been links with literacy and the IDL topic when we enjoyed getting into character and writing a diary entry based one of the main characters from the class novel. We also developing comprehension skills through reading about the Holocaust.

P7c were delighted to have the opportunity to attend the school Halloween disco, “It has been a few years but finally we had an amazing well deserved Halloween disco”, Maia.

In creative arts P7c have been learning about Diwali and drawing Ganesh with Ms Sinha.

P7c have had a busy 4 weeks at the start of term.  In literacy we have had the opportunity to do a cold piece and create some imaginative writing.  From this work star writers were selected who managed to achieve the success criteria.

During our reading strategies lessons we have been developing our inferential, predicting, connecting and skimming strategies. This has been particularly enjoyable when we are using these skills whilst reading our class novel.

Our IDL for this term is WW2 and we are reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, when we are learning about this topic we are immersed in the past and have the opportunity to experience what children our age might have felt during this time.

We have also been challenging ourselves by taking part in literacy and numeracy assessments. Doing these assessments have been helping us to grow in confidence in the skills we bring with us to P7 and to also challenge us for the year ahead.

In art we have sketched some Gladiolas and have more recently been focussing on Cubism art.

In Numeracy we have been learning about mental maths strategies and implementing these during our number talks lessons such as bridging, friendly numbers and place value. Our core work began with consolidation of numbers and place value. We are now all enjoying moving forward with our learning within numeracy; some of us are working on estimation, some of us multiplication by 10/100 and 1000, and some on the 4 operations.

During PE we have been focussing on our strategies, speed, quick reaction and athletic skills. We have also taken time during HWB to reflect on our own personal feelings about current issues. Within our class, we have been developing our Growth Mindset through various activities, to ensure that we are giving 100% and achieving our best throughout this year ahead.

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