Category Archives: Primary 7

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Commonwealth Golden Time

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Easter Carmuirs have been doing sports on a Friday for golden time. Each class gets to choose with activity they would like and at about 2.15pm we go to the teacher that offered to do that activity then the teacher takes us to the place the activity is being held. Some of the activities were rounders, athletics , gymnastics and Boxercise We were trying to base some of the sports on the Commonwealth Games. We were doing something called Bikeability. Bikeability is when a man comes in and teaches you how to ride your bike properly. We have been doing all of this for a couple of weeks because it is coming up to the Commonwealth.

By Emma C

P5/6

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Easter Carmuirs is Going for Glasgow!

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Easter Carmuirs have been completing a whole school project on the Commonwealth Games from January this year. As part of our Golden Time programme, the pupils have had the opportunity to try over 13 different sports ranging from ten pin bowling to softball. These have been running on a 4 weekly rotation and have proved to be a popular choice for pupils of all ages.

In individual classes, pupils have been completing personal projects; Primary 6/7 chose either Trinidad and Tobago or the Bahamas and researched the geography and culture. Primary 5/6 researched a Commonwealth country of their choice and completed a project about the athletes coming to Glasgow this summer. Primary 4 created their own mascots for Glasgow 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easter Carmuirs have also developed a Global Citizenship link with a school in Trinidad and Tobago. Mayaro Government Primary is a large school of 493 students, with a former student, Cleopatra Borel-Brown, representing the island in the Shot Putt event. We are currently developing this link with the pupils exchanging emails and letters. We plan to complete a joint project on leather back turtles on the island, Operation Trinidad, in association with Gillian Simpson from Zoolab.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Commonwealth Sports Day was a huge success! We had a great turn out from parents and invited guests, including Provost Pat Reid, Mr Webster from Falkirk High School and Yvonne McBlain. All pupils were involved in the preparation for this event, creating flags and banners to lead their house onto the field. Everyone performed fantastically, and in the end, Antonine were announced as winners, their trophy was presented to them by Provost Reid.

We have had pupils competing in a variety of sport festivals and tournaments this year. They had a great time at the Netball, Rugby and Athletics Festivals, the P7s enjoyed their Commonwealth Games at Grangemouth Stadium and some P5 and P6 pupils took part in a Triathlon event at Grangemouth High School. These events have been a great opportunity for our pupils, who have all behaved well and have been a credit to Easter Carmuirs.

Our Going for Glasgow project has been a fantastic opportunity for us to learn about the history of the Games and the countries involved in the Commonwealth. We have had so many great opportunities to take part in new sports and activities, allowing us to discover what Falkirk has to offer! We can’t wait to continue these sports as we enter a new term in August!

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P7 PE

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In p.e we have been learning how to play hockey we have been practising our dribbling skills and we have been play games with bibs on all different colours. We have been in pairs.

Before we done hockey we were doing gymnastics with the climbing wall, mats,benches,balance beam and the pummel horse and in class at the moment we have been doing aerobics with the teacher and we have been making routines in groups.   

By Cameron and Andrew

active schools, Primary 7

Dance Competition

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On Wednesday 12th of march some people from primary 6, 5/6 and 7 went to the town hall to do a dance in front of a lot of people. We had a dance teacher called Mrs. Barbour that came for Falkirk high to help us make the dance. We had to be up at Easter Carmuirs for 8:15am.  At the town hall some of us had a another dance to do  which also had 4 dance  teacher from the high school.  We got enter into the dance competition we came 4th place but we didn’t get a reward because it’s only for 1st,2nd and 3rd place we all had a good time

by shakira and cara

Primary 7, RME

RME in P7

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For RME we made pancakes with the whole class in the staffroom we had golden syrup, jam and butter for our topping. My groups pancakes were cooked quiet good the others turned out a little burnt the recipe was Mr Archibald’s wife’s recipe. We had to answer questions on a sheet like what is Ash Wednesday why is it called ash Wednesday what is lent why do we celebrate lent. We’ve also learned the story of Easter and done some activities like make our own palm cross and we had to write down the story of Easter in points. We also had to write about lent.

By Callum and Michael

Events, Primary 7

Rotary Quiz

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P7 took part in the Rotary Quiz.  It was on Wednesday the 12th of March at Saint Andrews primary school

The schools participating were Saint Andrews, saint francis, Easter Carmuirs ,Comely Park, Bainsford, Carmuirs and the winners were Bantaskin.

Some of the questions were very very very hard but we still did well, we came in 5th  place out of 7 schools. After all of it we went to get something to eat it was good, all the other schools had really good general knowledge and the rounds were maths and numeracy, language and literacy , science, expressive arts and pot luck it was really good and we were all very tired after it. Cameron, Blair, Grant and Duncan represented our school.

By Grant and Blair

Active Learning, Primary 7, science

K’Nex challenge

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On Wednesday 12th of March P7 did a k-nex challenge. Stem ambassadors came in and told us we had to make  David Livingstone’s cottage out of K’Nex. First we had to draw a plan on what we had to make and it had to be similar to our real thing. It also had to have a moving door or stairs to get up into the cottage. It had to be 10mm off the ground and 25cm square. It was a competition to see who did the best within a time limit which was 50minutes.  Then we had to make the cottage it was really hard. Everyone in P7 had to get a partner and all took part. Everybody’s was amazing but the people who were the judge had their eye on one. First it was down to 3 – Aiden and callum – Blair and Andrew – Teegan and Caitlin.Then it was down to 2 – Blair and Andrew – Teegan and CaitlinAnd the winner were TEEGAN AND CAITLIN! We got extra points because our picture looked exactly like our drawing!And in a couple of weeks we will be going to represent Easter Carmuirs Primary School in the k-nex challenge at the Falkirk wheel and there will be 30 different schools competing!

By Caitlin and Teegan xx!

Active Learning, Citizenship, Literacy, Primary 7

Circle time in P7

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P7 have circle time every Thursday and we have circle time rules.1 of our rules are don’t talk when other people are talking, good eye contact, good listening and don’t laugh at other peoples comments. We do a game then a round then a activity and if we have time at the end   we do another game. Our games are usually something like elephant and mouse, splat, look up look down, novelty voices and the sun shines on. Our round is something like how we feel when someone wastes time…… or how well we concentrate in class…… and our activity is something like what’s on your mind or memory games and listening skills. We all enjoy circle time and would like to keep on having it.

 By Demi-Louise and Rebecca