This week in P7 we have done lots. We have been finishing off Mario art we had the choice of 4 styles but people only did 2, pointillism and pop art. We made reports on books that we enjoyed reading and put them on the wall with the book in a poly-pocket so you can read it and know if you would like the book.

 

We did planned and did debates on – Is the invention of Computer Technology a good thing? It opened up lots of different arguments and we then wrote an argument from both sides. We were very good at giving feedback to other teams.

We’ve been choosing a song for Glee this month and making board games based on Mario and Maths (quadrilaterals and 2D shape).

 

We had a Mario Kart competition with 2 grand Prix’s one table winning from each and the 2 tables who won went in the final of Rainbow Road the winner was… Felix’s table!

In P.E we have continued developing our volleyball skills and adding in the two different serves to our mini games this week.

On Friday we did loose parts (playing with things like Jenga or little things usually to build stuff) this time we were making cars. On Tinkercad, a 3d printing software, we are making Mario Karts (our topic is Mario and Japan). We finished off our E-PortFolios for this term and that’s the main points of this week.

 

Written by Robert

Maths: In Maths this week we were making boardgames about Mario and the maths we have been doing which was 2D shapes. We were in group of four for this project.

Literacy: This week for Literacy we did a debate about electric cars and did the debate on Friday. We also did our spelling test and learned all the meaning with a dictionary. We also learnt about a new website called book creator and wrote some facts about pilgrimages.

Committees: This week we had our first committees of this year and the Committees are JRSO, Rights Respect, ECO, Health and Wellbeing and Transforming Learning.

PE: In PE we were doing volleyball and this week we learnt a new skill called spike which was a big help to play the games. We also did a volleyball tournament which the green team won.

We also learned about four different styles of Art and chose one to complete our Mario drawings. Most people chose either Pointillism or Pop Art for theirs and they look very effective.

Written by Soren C

 

In Primary 7 we have been learning about coding on Scratch. All of us made a game based on Mario Kart/Japan. We also made leaflets to advertise our games to encourage people to play it. Next, we did debate planning about electric cars. We got handed a sheet to plan our debate whether we were against electric cars or not.

 

After that we made apple juice with our buddies. We got into groups of 4 and picked apples off the trees. Then we chopped them into little pieces and put them into the apple press.

 

In Maths we have been revising the properties of different 2D shapes.

 

Back to our topic, we followed a YouTube tutorial to draw Mario. Next we learned French words for activities that you might do after school. Mrs Mackenzie read out sentences and we had to draw what we thought it was. After that, we started to work on our Japan Interactive Maps. That was a map of Japan we made on Powerpoint that is, as the name suggests, interactive. We also made Japan fact files, because our topic at the moment is Japan.

 

Throughout the week we have been working on our house and class stalls, for the summer fair. As usual, we have been reading our class novel, Wonder, throughout the week as well.

 

Written by Ella-Rose and Faron

This week we have been busy. In Literacy we were taking notes and writing a summary from the class novel. We also wrote comparison reports between Scotland and Japan and practised our spelling words.

In Numeracy some of us were learning how to convert top heavy fractions to mixed numbers and others were subtracting from hundreds of thousands.

For our topic we started creating an interactive map of Japan using Powerpoint and a fact file about the country.

In Science we were learning about the benefits and disadvantages of electric cars. We are going to use this topic as a debate next week.

In ICT we started coding our games on Scratch. In Art we are doing an online art lesson with the National Galleries about Andy Goldsworthy on Friday.

We have enjoyed spending more time with our P1 buddies this week. We read to them in class and spent time apple picking.

The school voted for the P7 House captains and we got the results this week. Well done to Soren C, Felix, Saoirse, Morag, Holly, Sophia-Rose, Amelia and Nairn.

P7 have been very busy on the 1^st full week back. I’m am going to share some of our learning from this week.

 

 

Maths

 

In maths we have all done an assessment for second level. It consisted of fractions decimals mixed numbers top heavy fractions and more.

 

Writing

 

In writing we had to write a letter to Mrs Mackenzie that stated what we were excited for in P7 and what we would like to change to be different then P6.

 

Buddies

 

We have been working with our buddies all week at playtime and in outdoor learning. In outdoor learning we went on a scavenger hunt to find different types of leaves around the school. We also played with chalk and read stories outside.

 

Health and wellbeing

 

We made posters about how mind set is everything for example…

one might include a sad cloud who looks in the mirror and sees a bright rainbow.

 

PE

 

In PE we are learned a new game like netball. It was very fun and we all enjoyed playing it.

Written by Sophia- Rose

This week we started school on Wednesday and did art in the style of Romero Britto. We had a half piece of paper and wrote our name in the middle and designed the outside then we put them up on the wall under welcome to Primary 7. We talked about our summer and presented a power point.

 

Thursday we were learning about circles and using compasses to draw a perfect circle. In the afternoon we used our circles skills to create a 3D piece of art.

 

Friday we finished our piece of art. All week we had been working on our House Captain speeches a house captain is the head of each of house which are Waterstone, Inverdovat, Forgan and Tayfield. We are going to present them on Monday and the other classes will vote for who they want it to be.

Written by Amelia

We hope that you enjoy sharing the learning that is happening in P7 at Newport Primary School.