Transition to High School

As part of our transition to High School, P7 are involved in a 6 week programme where we attend St Modan’s  weekly and take part in lessons covering 2 curricular areas, Art and Music. This follows on from a 6 week block pupils experienced in P6, where they took part in 3 PE sessions and 3 sessions of Modern Languages.

Week 1

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P7B

Week 2

P7A

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Check out our YouTube movie to see what we got up to in our Week 2 transition lesson.

 Week 3

P7B

We learned some tunes on the xylophone this week. It was very challenging at first but through practise and perseverance we mastered the tune!

Week 4

P7B

This week we started our Art and Design transition lessons. We began by designing an insect themed mask. We had to plan a draft and we stained our paper in preparation for next week.

Week 5

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This week we continued to work on our Insect Masks. IMG_6068 IMG_6069 IMG_6070 IMG_6071 IMG_6072 IMG_6073 IMG_6074 IMG_6075 IMG_6076 IMG_6077 IMG_6078 IMG_6079 IMG_6080 IMG_6081 IMG_6082 IMG_6083 IMG_6084 IMG_6085 IMG_6086 IMG_6089 IMG_6090

Week 4

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We completed our masks! We brought them back to class and created an eye-catching display.

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Science

Mixtures

P7’s carried out a variety of experiments to explore mixtures, evaporation and dissolving. Our favourites include, Chromatography, Sieving, Filtration, Mystery Powder Investigation, not to mention creating our very own Lava Lamp!

 

Light

P7 explored reflections from different surfaces. We used torches to experiment with the pathways of light created through reflecting off a variety of objects and surfaces.

Next we explored visible light in the seven spectrums of colour. For this we created rainbows using water which refracted the light and created rainbows around our room.

Finally we explored shadows and learned about the effects of shadows. We worked in small groups to create a shadow puppet theatre and performed a show for the rest of our class.

 

Christmas Enterprise

We teamed up with our PTA to host a stall at the Denny Christmas Extravaganza at Denny High. In preparation for this event we formed our own companies and worked through a Junior Apprentice  programme looking at resources, pricing, production, marketing etc. We were delighted with the outcome of our products and many pupils volunteered to sell on the day. Overall the project was a success teaching us a lot about business and enterprise, not to mention the healthy profit we made as a reward for our efforts.

Watch this space for details of how we will spend our earnings!

Crazy Hair Day

Check out our crazy hair!!!

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P7 took part in our whole school Crazy Hair Day, raising money for various charities. The senior department decided to raise money for Strathcarron Hospice and also for Little Princess Trust who make wigs for children with Alopecia. We were inspired by 2 of our pupils who, over the past year have donated their hair to this charity to be made into wigs for children suffering with Alopecia.

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Nativity

As part of our 35 texts in Active Reading we have been using scripts. We worked hard exploring texts and following the directions and speech. We also had fun acting out the Nativity based scripts for our peers.

Some pupils decided to be creative and add music and song to their scripts…

Christmas in Primary 7

Choir

Christmas in Primary 7 was an extremely busy time! Our school choir practised regularly to be ready for all their performances. We are very proud of our P7’s and P6’s and enjoyed listening to their beautiful singing!

Christmas Jumper Day

We took part in Christmas Jumper Day with some pupils designing their own!

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P7 Christmas Party

Christmas Party was a huge success! Dancing, party food and games certainly got us all in the Christmas spirit!

Check out our dance moves! –