Block One (August – December 2025)

Hello and welcome to the P7 school web page!  We are so happy to be back at Mountfleurie as we begin what promises to be a very exciting and memorable year. Throughout the year, we will take part in a wide range of experiences, both in and out of the classroom, that will challenge us and prepare us for the next stage of our learning journey. We look forward to celebrating achievements, building new skills, and making lasting memories together.  Here is what we have planned for Block 1.

Our Pathway of Promises and Branches of Brilliance:

As a class, we have been exploring our school values: SAFE, READY, and RESPECTFUL. Together, we have been thinking about the promises we can make to ourselves and to others to help us live by these values every day.  Our Branches of Brilliance give us a way to show how we are keeping these promises. Each week, we will have a new focus to work towards. When we achieve our focus, we will add our personally designed leaf to the Brilliance Tree.  By the end of the week, our aim is to have a beautiful tree, full of leaves, that celebrates our hard work and commitment to our values.

Topic:

Our topic this block is World War Two. Some of us have already touched on this topic in Primary 6 so they will be our experts and have helped us to choose some areas of the topic that they would like to learn about in more detail.  We have lots of exciting lessons planned that will cover curriculum areas such as literacy, numeracy, expressive arts, STEM and social studies.   We will also have a guest speaker in term two from the Anne Frank Foundation. Part of this theme will be focussed on our class novel this term which is Once by Morris Glietzman.

Numeracy & Maths:

This block we are learning:

• Place value to millions and some of us will look at decimal points
• Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division with carrying and exchange
• 2d and 3d shape
• Angles
• Symmetry
• Coordinates and compass points
• Money

Literacy:

Our class novel this Block is “Once’’ by Morris Gleitzman. It is about a Jewish boy who goes on an adventure during World War Two to try and find his parents.

In writing we will be creating:

• Diary Entries
• Fact files
• Letters
• A variety of poems (war poetry)
• Persuasive writing (linked to propaganda)

In talking and listening we are focusing on listening skills, presentation skills and taking part in debates.

Health & Wellbeing

RSHP

This block we will be covering the following topics:

• Friends and Friendship (team building)
• Food and health
• Growth mindset and resilience
• Mental Health

PE:

• Monday: indoor PE – This block we will be focussing on basketball, gymnastics, hockey and dance (*Gym kit should be worn on this day (no crop tops, string tops, football strips please)

Homework:

Our homework will consist of reading and spelling.

The reading homework will be written into the reading record, children are encouraged to be heard reading at home and their reading record should be signed by a parent/carer before being returned.

Spelling should be practiced in any way that suits the children. They can make it into a game or be creative with it.

This will be sent out on a Friday and should be returned by a Wednesday.
(*The reading book should be returned to their schoolbag after it has been read as it must be brought into school every day for our reading groups).