Well the day has arrived…the end of Primary School for this class of P7s!

We have had a fun week spending time with our buddies and playing some of our favourite games together for one last time.

Yesterday, we shared our Leavers’ Show with the rest of the school and all of our families. We wrote the show ourselves and we are very proud of the performance we gave of ‘I’m a P7, get me out of here!’ We have certainly faced lots of trials and tribulations over the years but so many happy times and special memories as we move to High School.

We loved getting our Yearbook to take away with us and the Madras tie.

Today, we have enjoyed one last game of whole school ‘Hit the Button’ in our houses and we have loved getting our shirts signed by the rest of the school.

We hope everyone has a lovely summer and they enjoy Madras when it comes.

We are P7s…Get us out of here!

This week, we have been focusing on our Leavers’ show and we are looking forward to sharing it with everyone on Thursday.

We have been reflecting on our time in P7 in our writing and have written personal reviews.

We have completed to the end of Chapter 12 in the novel set by Madras and we look forward to reading the next part in S1.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been focusing on Measure and Volume.

We enjoyed completing the last of sports events – Trim Trail Challenge and the Target Zone, along with the relay race and egg & spoon race.

We have completed the last part of our Kidnapped topic and have solved who the Kidnapper is. We are creating short news reports in groups to showcase our learning.

On Monday, we have a great day on our P7 Leavers’ Celebration trip to Tenpin Dundee, followed by lunch at Pizza Hut. We had lots of fun and made lots of memories with our friends on our final trip together.

We have all been excited for our transition days to Madras and they finally happened on Tuesday to Thursday this week. We have met lots of new people, we know our classes, teachers and timetables for S1 and we managed to get the bus to High School for the first time. It was good to see our work displayed there, alongside all of the future S1 pupils.

Some of our highlights include…

Meeting new people

Getting the bus there and back

Meeting new teachers

Science – using Busen Burners

Home Economics – making cupcakes

Exploring the new building

French was fun

P.E was great

We returned to school today to take part in our final Sports day for Primary School. We enjoyed helping our buddies and in the organisation of the event…even though it was a bit wet in the end!

This week, we have been preparing for our transition days to Madras next week.

Today, our House Captains helped to organise a House Athletics Event with running and throwing competitions.

We also had a visit from HMS Unicorn to share about the history of the ship and some interesting artefacts, this was a prize won by Isabella for winning first place in the art competition they held recently.

We have taken part in an art competition for Newport and Wormit in Bloom, and have created artwork of insect loving plants.

We are continuing to work on our Leavers’ show that we will perform in the final week of term.

In P.E, we have rehearsed for Sports Day and held a House Competition in our class for football and rounders.

We are enjoying our class novel for Madras and have completed our information report based on refugees. We have also developed our comprehension skills.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been developing our understanding of finding the area of triangles and composite shapes.

We are preparing presentations to share in class after our Madras visits to share our highlights of our time at Newport P.S and our targets for High School.

We have enjoyed completing further missions in our Kidnapped topic and we have managed to rule out two suspects. The investigation continues.

As part of our work for Madras, we have carried out research into refugee camps and have written first drafts of our information reports. We will complete these next week and submit to Madras. We also created art inspired by the novel this week.

We have been developing our skills in units of length and measure and converting between different units. We have also been learning to find the perimeter of shapes.

In our HWB work, we have been exploring personal hygiene and also menstruation.

In P.E, we have developed our skills in football and enjoyed creating drills for others.

We had an online careers chat with a Marine Biologist today and she shared all about her role, making links to STEM subjects and the skills needed.

Yesterday, we enjoyed reading with our buddies and supporting them with the Daily Mile.

We have been working hard to develop our ideas for the Leavers’ Show and have started to put our ideas together.

We enjoyed attending the Big Strum at the Rothes Halls in Fife this week and it was a chance to perform the songs we have learned on ukulele this year alongside pupils from across Fife and a live band.

In Numeracy, we have been developing our skills in scale drawings and 3 figure bearings.

We have continued to read our class novel, ‘When Stars are Scattered’. We have researched individuals who have faced discrimination and written accounts about them and why they inspire others. We have also created posters about these individuals and this work will be shared with Madras.

In our Kidnapped topic, we have completed several missions to solve further clues. We enjoyed having Helen McMorris from Abertay University Forensics Department to help us explore finger prints, DNA and blood samples.

In Health and Well-being, we have explored how to cope with changes in life. In P.E, we have developed skills in football and team games.

We enjoyed watching the movies we created this week, and gave feedback to each other on what we enjoyed and what we could develop.

In our loose part play, we worked well together to design obstacle courses and enjoyed playing with the parts too.

This week, we have started our new topic: Kidnapped! We are taking on the role of assisting the police to solve the crime of finding out who has taken two children. We have completed two missions so far and are building our evidence wall. We have also finished editing our films and will share them next week.

We had a visit from Madras and some of our former pupils, to help answer our questions about starting S1.

We are continuing to work on our end of session yearbook and we have begun work on our P7 Leavers’ show.

In Writing, we have completed diary entries based on the the main character in our class novel. This work will be shared with Madras, as part of our transition.

We have continued to explore factors and multiples and have also begun work on scale drawings in Maths.

We are almost ready to participate in the Big Strum and have been learning some of the more difficult songs to play on Ukulele.

In P.E, we have developed our skills in outdoor team sports and athletics.

We worked well with our buddies to explore food chains in our playground.

We have continued to explore changes in the human body and this week we have focused on changes in the female body.

This week, 4 of our class attended the Goblin Kit Car Race at Cowdenbeath. They were very successful and won the portfolio prize, which showcased our journey to the race. They did well at the race too and lots of lessons learned to share with next year’s P7s.

In Numeracy, we have been exploring number properties – prime and square numbers, factors and multiples.

We chose a topic to write a procedure piece about this week and it was interesting to see the different topics; from cake-making to attending a musical.

In French, we have been working on our presentations. We have been developing our sign language skills this week too.

We have created lovely pieces of art based on birds from the Firth of Forth, lots of lovely puffins.

We have continued to develop our ukulele skills ready for the Big Strum in a couple of weeks.

This week, we have completed our films ready to share with our class next week.

In P.E, we have developed our skills within team sports and in H.W.B, we have been exploring changes to our bodies.

Well done to a group of boys who represented the school today at a Football Tournament at Madras. We look forward to hearing how they got on.

This week, we have been working well in our film groups and have made fantastic trailers. We enjoyed watching each others and we hope to share with the rest of the school. We have been filming our films and will finish them next week.

In writing, we have been been writing procedure texts about how to make a film, based on our current experiences.

In Maths and Numeracy, we have been developing our skills further in coordinates.

We are continuing to enjoy the P7 to S1 class novel and have completed some art and comprehension tasks based around it.

After getting the kit car repaired, all P7s had a chance to test the car and get their fastest time. Well done to Jessica, Jess, Freya-Rose and Charlie R who will represent the school at the race next week in Cowdenbeath.

We enjoyed developing our art and music skills with Mrs McMillan this week. We have also been rehearsing our ukulele skills for the Big Strum.

With our P1 Buddies, we completed another outdoor STEM challenge based on measure.

In P.E, we have been developing our team work skills. We are continuing to learn more about body image in Health and Wellbeing.

Good luck to the quiz team of Niamh, Harry, Jasmine and Harrison at the next round of the quiz this evening at Bell Baxter. We hope they have fun and do well.

This week we have continued to develop our film ideas in small groups. We have written scripts, created storyboards, and mood boards to develop our costume ideas. We have started to think about props we need and our locations to film in. We have also developed advertising for our movies, thinking about how we can attract viewers to watch our film. We have acted out our ideas in drama and have given feedback to each group to help develop their ideas. Next week, we will begin the filming process.

As a class, we have voted and chosen our Kit Car design and will begin to make this next week. We enjoyed racing the kit car and will choose our team from the fastest scores.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been developing our skills in coordinates. We have also completed an assessment for Madras this week.

In P.E, we have been developing our skills in field games in teams. In Health and Wellbeing, we have been exploring the media and its impact on body image and self-esteem and the impact of comments from others.

We enjoyed writing exposition pieces of writing, choosing a topic to write our feelings about to persuade others of our viewpoint.

We are enjoying the class novel and created artwork to show the viewpoint of a refugee. We also completed comprehension work to show our understanding.

We worked well with our buddies to plant flowers and vegetables in our outdoor planters. We enjoyed completing a STEM challenge with them outside too.