Miss Law was in our class for 10 weeks and yesterday was her last day 🙁

P7V organised a great party surprise party for her! Maryam was the photographer and we chose which of her photos best captured the special moments 🙂

 You can get a glimpse of the action in our video!

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 A new bridge is being built in Scotland. You can read about it here .

Carronshore pupils were joined by some other local school children on Thursday and Friday of this week. Some employees from Jacobs Engineering and John McPartlin from the Institute of Civil Engineers helped us to build a bridge in our school hall.

Press play below to watch it being constructed. We even got to test it by walking across it!

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Some of Primary 7V interviewed two of the visitors. 

The first interview was with Alan Segrott who is a civil engineer at Jacobs.

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We also interviewed a visitor from ICE Scotland. John McPartlin is an education and careers co-ordinator.

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Sophie has put on a post describing how she decorated some eggs for an Easter competition. 

She made 2 of them and her sister and a friend also made one. They look superb! Press ‘Play’ to have a look 🙂

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You can read her post by clicking on her weemee icon

Primary 7V would like to say a great big THANK YOU to all team at Falkirk who helped us learn how to react to dangers that we might face in our daily lives.

Although it was scary, we think that we learned to meet all the objectives 🙂

We learned to:

Our video below shows just a small percentage of what we learned on our half day visit.
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 Today we were lucky enough to have had a professional football player in class! Steven Ferguson plays for Stenhousemuir Football club and he talked to us about his career. Some of P7V asked him questions after his talk.

Press ‘play’ in the video below to hear the interview.

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Most of the children in our class like to read, and so the people who do, formed a book club. We meet every Tuesday from 11:00am to 11:30am. We swap books and then the next week we tell the people about our likes and dislikes on that book.We have split the book club into two groups but sometimes we meet up as one.We usually read a paragraph of our favourite bits.You can take as many books as you want but you have got to keep track of who has your books. Then we ask anyone who wants our books and swap. Our clubs are called the Book Worms and in each club there is a Captain Worm. Jaydean is the captain of our club and Monica is the captain of the other.

This week we were all together and took pictures of our books and said our favourite parts then made them into a movie.You can see this on the blog. Soon we might start to fundraise so we can go shopping and buy books that the people in the club would like to read. If you borrow a book you have to put a sticky on it to say who it is. We have to get a variety of books because there are boys as well. Not just girly books . Not only we are just a book club but we write large stories. Maryam is the first to try this out and her story is fabulous.Here is a link to her wiki where you can read it.

Here is a video of some of us describing our favourite book, or reading an extract from it.

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Bethany & Nina

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 Darcie has been writing some great posts – you can click on her ‘weemee’ to take you to her blog

She wrote:

I keep having these moment where i want to write something but go to write and can’t think of anything! Some days i have good ideas and make long posts but others i am siting staring at the screen thinking of what to write. At first i thought great a blog, somewhere to put my thoughts and feelings and i had millions of things i thought about putting on but know i am stuck on what to write about lol! But like don’t get me wrong i love writing as you can maybe see but i just have these days where nothing comes to my head . Well i suppose this is an idea for a post! Haha!!!!!!

Then she wrote:

“Have you ever wished you could do something or be someone? Well i have and i would like to share it. When i was young i always wished that i was famous but now i realise that they are just normal people but just have more money, as they have been very successful.

But now my mind has changed as i am older. I wish that i could fly and be invisible. I know it sounds weird but if you think about it’s quite cool . Anyway i think it would be great to be invisible and be able to fly as you could go ANYWHERE (and i mean anywhere) in the world!

If you could, comment back and say what you wish you could do or someone you wish to be!”

What a great post … and thank you Darcie for inspiring me to write a post, too.

Click on the weemee below to take you there 🙂

I wonder if any other P7V’s have been struggling with what to write? Maybe Darcie is right … just go for it 🙂

Around 2000 Primary 7  children from all the Falkirk schools are taking part in this exciting event. It was our turn to go along on Friday this week.

The SET fair is supported by INEOS and is part of the My Future’s in Falkirk  initiative. It was a very busy day:

Build a Bug Workshop

We became an electronic engineer for the day when we made our fully electronic Jitterbugs.

Wood Technology Workshop

Here we made our own kites

 ‘Who wants to be a Scientist?’ Workshop

Here we learned about the many exciting careers that can develop from taking science subjects in High School

K’Nex design challenge

Problem solving and team work were at the forefront of this activity. We were challenged to use the K’Nex kits to design and construct a distillation tower. We had to stick to the strict guidelines … and teachers were not allowed to help!

We captured some of the moments in this video:

 Our February task for Voices of the World was to present the numbers 1 – 10 in our own language. We were also introduced to Photostory3 and managed to get it downloaded to one of our networked computers this week.

We had great fun with this task! We worked in small groups to come up with our number representations .. thank you AllStars for the idea 🙂

The groups had to come up with an ‘audio idea’ to accompany the visual representation of the numbers, and then we voted for the best one. Darren’s group had the most popular rap …. what do you think?

Googlevideo is sometimes not available in our schools, so we’ve made an alternative  ……luckily our video is very short – so using photobucket was ok this time 🙂

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The children of Primary 7V were let loose this week with our new Canon 350D digital camera. Their task was to photograph ‘the coolest things in school’.  This is the focus of our new Photo-a-day challenge.

We used Photostory 3 to help make this video. Thank you Mrs Tonner from our Voices of the World project for introducing us to this great resource:) 

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Miss Law asked Primary 7V to choose what they wanted to write about this week ……. and they came up with some great ideas!

Some P7’s decided that they wanted to share their writing on their wikis today. We didn’t have much time in the computer suite, but a small snippet of their writing is included below.

Click on their ‘weemees’ to be transported to their PBwiki spaces 🙂

 Chloe is writing a playscript called ‘Mystery Book’. She’d love to see the finished script acted out!

Rebecca’s story is called ‘The Tunnel’. If you like a good mystery story, this one is for you 🙂

Nina’s writing piece entitled ‘Yesterday’ – brilliant title and great introduction!

Maryam’s ‘Evil Teacher’ epic ….. I’ve heard the whole thing – it’s scary!!

Bethany’s ‘Daisy in Candyland’ promises to be a great read 🙂

 Primary 7V have some great posts recently! For example, Anna posted:

I have decided to do a thing weekly called ‘quote of the day’! I will find some inspirational quotes from celebs or someone i know and post them.What do you think?  Anyway here is my first one

‘Somewhere along the line i made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark side all the time.Now i look at everything i have and think how lucky i am’-Michelle Pfeiffer

And there’s more from Anna 🙂

Here is another really inspiring quote…

‘All your dreams come true,If you have the courage to pursue them’ -Walt Disney

You can visit Anna’s blog by clicking on her weemee

Ainsley has been blogging about her love of drawing…

“I just love to draw pictures , it’s really fun. I am quite good at drawing. Last night i drew Eyore , i tried to draw Winnie the pooh and piglet but that didn’t work out , i drew pluto , donald duck and daffy duck. I stuck some of my pictures on the wall in my bed room but i couldn’t put all of them up because i ran out of blue tack.”

You can visit Ainsley’s blog, too – just click on her weemee!

Some of Primary 7V have been blogging about their hobbies. You can read their posts here. You can also click on their ‘Weemee’s’ to visit their individual blogs.

  Bethany has been writing about her interest in drawing.

“Miss law is the student that is in our class at the moment and she is really cool! She has great ideas for work and likes to draw. We started up a drawing club when she came as she is such a brilliant drawer and we want her to help us and give us some tips! Its quite fun and sometimes people come out with some pretty good pieces of art work!”

She’s also considering taking up photography after our visit from John. She wrote:

“……even just having photography as a hobbie would be good, taking pictures of anything. I think that being a photographer would be quite expensive though so i dont know how much I would be willing to pay just for a hobbie!”

 FraserM wrote a great post about his hobbies. He wrote:

“I have quite a lot of hobbies but my two favourite are probably guitar and football. Football is my favourite hobby. I play football at the park with my friends and I also play with a football team called Gairdoch United. I play defense and I don’t score many goals. I used to play up front and then midfield but now I play defense.

 My other hobby is guitar. I’ve been  playing for about five years. I play the guitar below.

Its a black statacaster. I got it last year for my birthday from my Uncle Andy, Auntie Fiona, and my two cousins Kirsten and Kieran.”

Rhiann loves to perform on the stage. She wrote:

“At the Falkirk childrens theatre that i’m in. We are doing Treasure Island. I auditioned for one of the principal parts but I got in the chorus instead. Oh well it doesn’t really matter if i’m not a principal. I could maybe try another time. Anyway i’m a sailor in the chorus which should be quite good because there is pirates as well as sailors in the chorus. I would rather be a sailor anyway because they are cleaner than pirates and i would say they are easier to play as a part. So i can’t wait to see the costumes and to do the show in April, it’s going to be great. In May there is a Big in Falkirk show they do every year so i’m going to be going to audition that and hope i get into it. I don’t know what show they are doing for it be it should be good. At christmas we are doing Oliver which is a really gd film so i can’t wait to audition for that either. All the shows that they are doing this year sound really gd and i hope i get a main part as one of them. lol I think  The Falkirk childrens theatre is a gd theatre to go to. “

 Sophie just loves Art. Everyone in class is always amazed by her wonderful pictures! She wrote:

 “My hobbie is art. In art there are lots of different things to do such as drawing cutting sticking colouring and more.

The benefit of my hobbie is that I can hang my art work on the wall and make my house look nice. The person involved with my art work is my art teacher. You need equipment for art for example paint brushes, paper, scissors, glue and more. The best feature about art is the way in which you can express your feelings in a creative way. You could also sell your paintings for money.

I would recommend my hobby to others because no matter what skill level you are, you can make something fabulous and feel a real sense of acheivement!!”

We’d love to know what others do in their spare time. Leave a comment and let us know!

Primary 7V were transported back to 1941 when we visited Callendar House this week. We were divided into 2 groups. One group was evacuated, the other group examined real artifacts from WW2. We changed places so that we could experience both activities.

We learned such a lot, and we’d like to say a big thank you to the three ladies who made our visit so worthwhile.

One group was evacuated … it was quite an experience. The three videos below capture the tense atmosphere!

First of all we had to register and collect our Ration Books and Identity Cards.

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Next, we had to listen carefully as we were issued with our Gas Mask instructions.

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Finally, we arrived at our destination.

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Meanwhile, the other group examined artifacts from World War 2. This group had to wear gloves to help preserve the items. Everyone gave a short presentation about what they had discovered. The animoto video below captures some of the moments.

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