Numeracy

This week in maths we done Blooket mental maths starters. We learned how to add and subtract fractions. I got to teach the class their maths on Thursday.  One group this week focused on Robert Burns themed numeracy jobs including a roll and add section and an iSpy game.

by Max

Literacy

We have been writing our own fractured fairy tales using our plans we created. My one is a twist on the Three Little Pigs and is about Three Big Cats and Tom Holland. We watched fairytales on YouTube to get some inspiration for our own stories. In spelling this week my groups sound was -able. We designed a Scotland flag using our spelling words.

by Joshua

Expressive Art

In music this we started to learn our songs for the upcoming Pantomine. We learned the opening song and will be practicing hard over the next few weeks to learn them all. In drama, we were also doing the Pantomine. We practiced out lines for the show.

by Louis

PE

In PE this week we done basketball and learned skills we could use for the tournament. We competed in a basketball tournament and came first. We were undefeated winning 4 games and drew one with St. Margaret’s.

by Finn

Topic

This week in topic we were looking at more myths and legends. We learned about Brownies and a local story based here in Fife. We listened to the story, we created out own Brownies and played manhunt as Brownies like to hide from view. We learned that Brownies are called Brownies because of the tingy brown colour of their skin.

by Riley

Scottish Week

This week was Scottish Week at St. Joseph’s. We got to try some nice Scottish food such as tablet, oatcakes, macaroons, shortbread and irn bru. We also had a class poetry competition were we recited Robert Burns poems. We did Tam O’ Shanter and Sophia came first, Mirell was second and Max and Callie were joint third. We also designed our own Caramel Wafer packaging with Mr Hutcheon. He had a class competition too and Deni and Finn won that.  A local artist called Kevin came in and donated one of his pictures to the school.  Callie unveiled the painting.

By Tulisa

Numeracy

Last week we were learning how to simplify fractions and how to make equivalent fractions. Everyday we do our mental maths on Blooket and play against each other to win points. Another group in class were also doing fractions, they worked with Miss Westwater and used their times table number sheet to work out the answers and make equivalent fractions.

by Sophia

Reading

During reading this week we completed comprehension on our reading books. We all read a chapter of part of our books with Miss Westwater, Mrs Anderson or Miss Bennewith. Some of us had to complete an activity booklet that matches our book. Others had to complete an Accelerated Reader test to get points and a sticker on their BookFlix card.

By Kieran

Topic

For topic we have been learning about Myths and Legends and have been planning our sculptures we are going to make that are based on a Mythical animal or creature. We have been searching up research and inspiration on Google and we have been measuring out how big we might want to make our sculpture. I am doing a mermaid for my sculpture.

By Mirell

Science

In science, we were in four groups and one group had to make sustainable development goals.  Another group made and cut out wind turbines and another group was using a hairdryer to see which fan would work and determine which one would move in the wind. It was attached to a motor and we investigated which one would turn on the light. The last group had to write out or draw a picture of the school and see where they could put wind turbines, like a birds eye view plan.

By Michaela

Ceilidh

We walked up to the community centre on Friday to join in with the school’s Ceilidh. Primary 7’s were up first and we did strip the willow and read our poems. Then we watched the rest of the school perform their Scottish bits and pieces including different dance, poems and songs. The Primary 7’s finished the show with The Swedish Masquerade and sing I’m On My Way by The Proclaimers. We also got to dance The Gay Gordans with our family members and friends.

By Anna

Reading

This week for reading we started our class reading book: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. We also have been doing half an hour of reading independently each day to earn stickers for our BookFlix cards. We have been giving new reading books and before we started reading we completed a ‘before reading novel study.’ Some of the questions were asking ‘how do you feel about reading this book and why?’ My groups book is Who Let the Gods Out?

By Sophia

Writing

This week we have been learning about Fractured Fairy Tales. We listened to some fairy tales and discussed how we could change the story to make them different to the traditional telling. We have been writing our plans to create our own fractured fairy tale.

By Alfie

 

Expressive Arts

This week in music we have been learning our Scottish song for the school ceilidh. As a class we voted to sing a song by The Proclaimers.

In art this week we learned about Scottish artist Andy Scott to designed and make The Kelpies just outside of Falkirk. We looked into the stories of some mythical creatures and chose our favourite one. We then came up with a design plan for our structures.

By Rian

Languages

This week in French we have been recapping how to tell the time in French. We practiced half past, quarter past, quarter to and o’clock and introduced some new phrases so the person we are talking to can determine if we are telling them the time in the morning, the afternoon or at evening as in France they do not use the phrases a.m or p.m.

RME

We will be doing our God’s Loving Plan work in RME over the next few weeks so their won’t be any RME updates during this time. If you would like to know what we have been learning about, ask us at home and we will be happy to share with you!

by Louis

Maths

This week we have been working on fractions and using different strategies to convert them into decimals and percentages. We will be moving on with our understanding of fractions next week. The triangle group have been working on fractions to make a whole number and colour and labelling shapes to show the fraction shaded or cut out.

by Kieran

Topic

This week in Topic we were learning about famous Scottish Places where traditional or mythical stories have taken place. For example Fingal’s cave has a myth about the waters noise and Staffa where it’s located and used as a giants stepping stone.

by Anna

PE

This week we have been doing some dancing for the ceilidh practising the Strip the Willow and The Swedish Masquerade. We have also started doing some basketball skills and working on our dribbling and passing.

by Riley

Welcome to Primary 7’s online learning journey. Each week we will post about what we have been learning in class and any exciting news we have for the upcoming weeks. We are going to rotate who writes our updates and include some photographs that show in detail all we’ve been up to throughout each week. Enjoy!