Primary 7a 2024 – 2025

Aadam and Julia will be our new class bloggers for Term 2! Innis will be our photographer to make sure we don’t miss out on reporting any key learning moments. 📸

If you have a book at home that you no longer need because you’ve read it, why not donate it to our P7 Book Week Scotland Book Swap and grab one you do what to read? 📚

A massive well done to Alex and Julia who were the winners of our Book Week Kahoot quiz! You really paid close attention took to our class novel. 😊

Over the last week we have enjoyed making predictions about the second book in The Last Wild Trilogy, as well as finishing off our roadmaps for the key developments within the book. The book has been such a rich source of discussion points!

We have finished our Term 1 class novel The Last Wild and have been sharing our opinions about the story and its themes. Today we undertook a Diamond 9 activity to prioritise the key messages within the book. Great discussion skills everyone!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YkIuxefvbtNSpXkWbJGBXaSVl0sNniiQ/view?usp=drivesdk

Nathan has achieved a sensational start to P7, showcasing communication skills that are blowing every teacher he meets away. His ability to engage with and encourage others in the classroom are second to none and he is a pivotal reason why our class is such a positive place. Keep up the incredible effort Nathan as there are so many exciting challenges ahead for you in P7!

One month ago we undertook a multiplication speed test to see how many questions we could answer correctly in 7 minutes. Rapid multiplication knowledge is the key to being able to tackle many more complex mental calculations as we move forward. Therefore, we set personal targets and aimed to implement practise at home and in small blocks in class to bring about changes in knowledge and confidence. I’m happy to report that the majority of the class answered many more questions within the 7 minutes. In addition, many more children managed to finish the ENTIRE 144 questions within 7 minutes. Some after 4 minutes! Keep up the hard work, boys and girls! If you’re keen to improve your score even further, please let me know and I can give you another sheet in class. 🙂 Have a look at just a small portion of our results below.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QsegphI4l3nnStgoTEyIskM5oNbPWv8X/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a2TP0Jm2KO_-Cv03W5BQ0XES9tubhsgr/view?usp=sharing

Please take a moment or two to look at the P7a and P7b website dedicated to Black and Asian British people who have achieved amazing things. We took time this month to recognise that representation, inclusion and diversity are all vital in our community. We are developing our skills in using Google Sites and will continue to explore its possibilities and features.

https://sites.google.com/er.glow.scot/black-history-month/home

These are the results of the radishes after a few days. The organic fertiliser seemed to defy our theory that the chemical fertiliser was meant to grow the plant faster but turned out that’s wrong (so far!)

By Mia and Freya

An massive congratulations to one of our most consistently diligent and focused students – Sukaynh! She always listens carefully to instructions and makes incredibly fast and positive starts to tasks. Sukaynh collaborates well with others and exchanges ideas in a tactful and detailed way. Her homework is of a fabulous standard and it’s clear that she has a range of independent learning tools and the inner drive to push herself. Keep pushing yourself, Sukaynh!

Each Monday, our Literacy task is to continue a story provided and write the next paragraph. In order to self and peer assess we read each others’ efforts and vote for the one that meets a set of success criteria. This week the fabulous Zohaib received the most votes for his vocabulary choices! Keep up your efforts with homework everyone and keep showing your parents what you’ve been doing or what you may need support with.