Hello everyone!
Welcome back to another Primary 7D update! Here are a few of our highlights…
We have been reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, to explore the themes of innocence, ignorance, war, boundaries, family, friendship, complicity, and many more! We are looking forward to studying World War Two towards the end of the term as we have many questions we’d like to answer and issues we’d like to explore. For now, we are embarking on our learning expedition – Life Beyond Land – which will address our Big & Little Questions. We are really looking forward to this opportunity to lead our learning & apply many of our existing skills within different contexts, whilst also acquiring new knowledge and understanding. This will prepare us for high school, in terms of managing our time, resources, and following through processes to completion.
We have focused on the use of persuasive techniques within Writing lessons, using rhetorical questions, anecdotes, personal stories, facts/statistics, and supporting our assertions/opinions with reasons. Our Research Lab has come in handy here, as many of us often pop up to the back of the classroom to find out more to enhance our pieces. A couple of weeks ago, we wrote impressive pieces titled ‘If I Could Change the World’ – these focused on animal testing, discrimination i.e. racism, gender equality, climate awareness etc. We made many connections with the Sustainable Development Goals.
In Maths, we have been consolidating our understanding of a range of topics, including mean/mode/median/range, negative numbers, the four operations, patterns/sequences, shape, data-handling, word problems, compass points, and co-ordinates. The Triangular Prisms have been focusing on chance & uncertainty, whilst the Pyramids have been learning about Square/Triangular numbers and Fibonacci Sequences. The Cones have been using a formula to calculate the volume of cuboids.
We have been training hard with the Bikeability instructors to refresh our skills as it has been a while since we last practised, and prepare for our on-road sessions next week. Friday was an extremely busy day as we then followed this up with our trip to St. Ninian’s to participate in the Cluster Ceilidh event! This was lots of fun – please check out the photographs on Twitter.
We have also been rehearsing with Primary 7C for the Eurovision Contest this coming Friday, as we will be performing ‘This is Me’ in British Sign Language, French, English, Kannada, Hindi, Polish, Spanish & Italian! Mrs Fraser & Ms Clark have been BLOWN AWAY by the dedication and talent shown by both classes during these sessions. We can’t wait for the performance. Miss Ionta even popped her head in for a listen as she was passing by and was brought to tears!
Thank you for taking the time to read our post.
Primary 7D & Mrs Fraser😊
