We have had several visitors to our class this week, including families who were able to join in with the learning on Wednesday morning. Thank you for coming.

Today, we enjoyed another Science workshop, this time with Alfie’s mum who teaches at Dundee and Angus College. We explored what bacteria look like and tested to see what was on our hands. We also used microscopes and created our own yeast slides. It was a very interesting morning.

We also had visitors from Barnardo’s charity today to explore different substances, including legal and illegal, to develop our understanding.

On Tuesday, we had visitors from Madras; Mr Currie (HT) and Mr Wishart (DHT).  They answered all of our questions related to transition to High School. Thank you to them for visiting.

This week, we have been developing our skills in script writing and we have linked our scripts to WW2. We have been focusing on using all of the correct features in a script and have been peer assessing with our friends to check. In our topic work, we have been carrying out some personal research to find out about the impact of WW2 in different countries. We will share our findings next week to others.

In Numeracy, we have been exploring time further, including timetables and problems involving speed, distance and time calculations.

We have been developing our skills in French in listening to information and recording our findings relating to weather and countries.

We enjoyed working with our buddies as we continue our progress with the John Muir Award. We looked to conserve our school playground by tidying and collecting litter that may cause harm to living things.

Today was our final Skills Academy session for this block of learning and have all enjoyed developing our skills in a specialist area and working with others from across the school.

 

This week we have worked together to share our learning at a celebration of all things Scottish with our parents and families. This is included Scottish dances, poems and songs and information about the life of Robert Burns. We even had a toast to the lassies and a reply to the laddies. We enjoyed making shortbread for everyone to enjoy. We are very proud of the contribution everyone made to this event.

In writing, we have worked hard to edit our imaginative stories and we worked closely with a friend to self and peer assess and set targets to improve.

We have been developing our skills in time, including world times and timetables in Numeracy this week.

In our topic of WW2, we have been carrying out individual research into the different counties involved and choosing how to share our learning. We will present this to the whole class.

We are participating in the HMS Unicorn Sea Art Competition and developing our own ideas around the brief.

We enjoyed a visit from Eiliyah’s Mum to teach us about her work in Microbiology and we enjoyed conducting experiments as part of our learning in Science.

All pupils attended their chosen skills academy today too.

Today, some of the class represented the school at a Fife Athletics competition and they all did very well. We all took part in the next part of the Skills Academy the afternoon: from Lego to baking skills.

In our topic work, we have been exploring rationing and propaganda posters and we have created some of our own posters.

We have been developing our imaginative writing skills, following on from creating our character and setting. We have all planned and written the start of our stories.

In our Numeracy and Maths work, we have been exploring different aspects of time.

We have been planning for our Scottish Afternoon next week and continuing to learn Scottish Dances. Everyone shared their Burns’ poems in class on Wednesday and Thursday.

In P.E, we continued to develop our gymnastic skills, along with our dancing. In Health and Wellbeing, we have continued to explore the theme of kindness.

 

Another busy week of learning in P7!

We have been focusing on kindness as part of our learning in Health and Wellbeing and kind words we can use towards other.

In RME, we have been learning about Bar and Bat Mitzvah and have shared our learning in informative posters.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have continued to develop our understanding of data handling, including Venn Diagrams and mean, mode, median and range.

This week in writing, we have created interesting settings linked to WW2, focusing on our use of adjectives. We have been learning about rationing and the propaganda that was used during WW2.

We have been practising our Burns poems and have created illustrations to help us understand the meanings behind them.

In P.E, we have been developing our skills in Scottish Dance and also in gymnastics.

With our Buddies, we are taking part in the Big Birdwatch and and have observed the different types of birds we have found in our playground.

We are continuing to develop our skills in Ukulele, learning some Scottish songs.

In Science, we have started to explore Microbiology and its impact on humans. We have conducted an experiment by wiping bread on different surfaces and we will observe the results over the next week.

We all enjoyed taking part in the Skills Academy sessions today.

This week we have started our learning around WW2. We have explored what we know already and what we would like to learn about in this topic. We have learned about evacuation and have created our pieces of imaginative writing about an evacuee. We also created portrait pieces of art showing tone and shade of our evacuee.

In Drama, we have worked together on scripted drama around WW2 and are developing our presenting skills.

This week in Numeracy, we have been learning about different types of bars and charts in data handling.

We have explored the theme of kindness in Health and how to make amends with others.

In PE, we have been developing our skills in Scottish Dance and in Gymnastics.

We have enjoyed reading our class novel Goodnight Mr Tom and have carried out a character study.

With our buddies, we have explored properties of materials in our playground as we continue to work towards our John Muir Award.

It has been lovely to see everyone again after the Christmas Holidays.

 

We discussed some of our targets as we welcome the New Year and have created artwork to share these in class.

 

We have been developing our handwriting skills, reminding ourselves about breaks in joins.

 

In Numeracy, we have been exploring place value in decimal numbers.

 

In Dance, we have learned two Scottish dances and had lots of fun doing so.

 

We have been working together to share our findings on the different body systems in Science. We also measured our heart rate as we learned about the importance of keeping a healthy heart.

 

We have selected new reading books and worked with others to record our predictions about these texts. We have also selected Scottish Burns’ poems to learn as part of our learning around Scottish Language.

 

In Drama, we have been developing our skills in using scripts and we will explore this further this term.

 

Happy end of term! We are excited to enjoy Christmas with our families.

We have completed our topic learning about Democracy by sharing our findings on countries with a dictatorship. We also enjoyed a Kahoot quiz on democracy today to show our understanding.

We enjoyed making and designing calendars for 2024.

In our reading groups, we have reviewed our books and shared our thinking in a book review.

In Numeracy, we have completed an assessment to show our understanding within fractions and percentages.

We enjoyed Christmas cinema in the hall with the whole school and the whole school Christmas top 10 sing a long. We have also enjoyed competing in teams in a Christmas Quiz.

P7 enjoyed having fun, being creative and enjoying some role play when using the outdoor loose parts this week.

Have a lovely Christmas from all in P7!

Well done to all P7s who shared a reading at Thursday’s Church Service.

Today has been the last of our Festive Fridays and we have made some Christmas cards and decorations to take home.

We also completed a STEAM challenge to create the longest paper chain we could out of 2 pieces of A4 paper. Lots of strategic thinking and creative ideas! Well done to Penny and Jasmine on creating the longest one.

We enjoyed attending our Christmas party on Monday. We had lots of fun games and great dancing on display. We also enjoyed watching our buddies perform their Nativity this week.

In writing, we have been creating Cinquain poetry based on Winter and then some of our own choice, looking at interesting verb and adjective use.

We have been developing our skills in linking fractions to % and also finding % of amounts in our Numeracy work this week.

In P.E, we have been developing our strategic thinking in team games. We have also peer assessed our ability to deal with emergencies in Health and Well-being.

We have explored the difference between dictatorship and democracy in our topic and what like is like in countries without a democracy.


We have watched a short film in French to develop our listening and understanding skills.

Today, we enjoyed making origami Christmas decorations for the gift bags that will go into the community.

We have also met with our committees for the final time this term to review our progress and set next steps.

In Drama, we acted out the case that we explored during Monday’s mock trial with a real life Procurator Fiscal. We enjoyed understanding how a real life court case works and also to find out about the role of a Procurator Fiscal and the skills they need. We have been developing our understanding of how laws are made and what happens if laws are broken. We also debated some possible new laws. We also gathered the results from our Mock Election, well done to the Preppy Party for winning by 1 vote! We used Excel to create Tables and Charts to show our results.

This week in Writing, we have created Haiku poems, focusing on Nature or Seasons.

In Numeracy, we have been further developing our skills in fractions.

We have been practising for the Christmas show in the Church, including reading parts of the Christmas story and learning traditional carols.

In Science, we have continued to learn about body systems.

We have been learning about classroom objects in French.

This week in RME, we have looked at different versions of the Christmas Story.

It is festive Friday today and we enjoyed making some Christmas artwork for our hall area. We created perspective snowmen and some snowflakes, it is looking very wintery! We also enjoyed decorating the tree with our P1 Buddies and designed Christmas jumpers with our buddies for the Eco Committee Competition. We all met in our Committees today and each Committee is working hard on a different project.

As part of our Democracy topic, each of our Political Parties presented to P3-P6 children in our mock election. We are looking forward to seeing which party has won. We have all worked well together in our groups developing our ideas and showed confidence to present to a large audience.

In Numeracy this week we have been exploring fractions, including equivalent, simplifying and finding fractions of amounts.

We have written formal letters this week, taking on the role of a MP and responding to the concerns of one of our classmates.

In PE, we have been developing our skills in Handball.

We have been developing our skills in dealing with emergency situations.

We have been enjoying singing traditional Christmas Carols in preparation for our visit to the Church.

In our art lesson this week, we were exploring perspective to create Polar Express Trains.

We enjoyed reading and completing the daily mile with our buddies.