This week, we have been developing our skills with whole numbers and place value. We have applied our trial and error skills in problem solving.

In Literacy, we have continued to enjoy reading our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom and have been sharing our opinions on the text. We have also carried our a predictor challenge based on our new reading books. In Writing, we have started our learning on writing personal recounts and this week we have written about ‘A day we will never forget’, focusing on the choice of vocabulary we use to engage the reader as we share our feelings.

We have developed our ideas further around our rights linked to our class charter and the Wellbeing Indicators. In P.E, we have been developing our skills in strategic thinking in different team games.

We worked well together in Loose Parts to complete a team challenge and also used them for free play.

We have been developing our note taking and research skills in our Natural Disasters topic. We have used ICT to display our findings.

In Art, we have discussed the work of Hokusai and The Great Wave and used mixed materials to create our own interpretation.

We are working on our presenting skills in drama and being confident to share our ideas to an audience.

We enjoyed exploring the outdoors with our Buddies and helping them to choose a reading book for pleasure.

In Science, we have begun exploring electrical circuits.

We have had a great first 3 days in P7! We have enjoyed learning a bit more about each other and exploring our new classroom. Everyone has settled back in well and is working hard.

Our topic for this Term is Natural Disasters and we have begun by sharing what we know and thinking about what we would like to know more about. We have developed note taking skills from what we have watched.

We have begun reading our class novel linked to Natural Disasters, called Kensuke’s Kingdom. In groups, we completed a Cooperative Learning task to create an island and it needed to have everything on it we needed to survive. We then created laws for all citizens to abide by. This has helped us to think about our rights linked to the Rights of the Child and from this we created our class charter that we have all agreed to.

Each member of the class has signed up to a Pupil Committee that we will help to lead. We have all written House Captain statements that will be shared and voted on by the rest of the school.

In P.E, we enjoyed developing our ball skills in team games. We have also worked well together in Drama to create short scenes based on the islands we have created. In writing, we wrote letters from our shipwrecked island, focusing on description using our senses.

We have recapped on our times tables and developed our problem solving skills in Numeracy.

We enjoyed designing Hoodies that represent what makes each of us unique.

Today, we enjoyed completing the daily mile with our P1 Buddies.

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