We are steadily progressing through our Global Citizenship topic, based on our community of Palmora Falls. Lots has happened since our last post:

• Palmora Falls has featured on BBC Earth as an area of natural, diverse beauty and interviews have been conducted with members of the local community
• An interesting discovery was made – a local community member found a silver and gold veined rock when searching for fertile soil. The rock was sent to a mineral laboratory for further investigation, and the results were veeeeery exciting!
• We decided to research what the mineral/metal underground could be using information sheets and internet sources.
• A mining representative has been in touch – and wishes to visit PF’s to discuss future, potential plans. We have a LOT of unanswered questions and worries after looking into the devastating effects of Mining globally. We do, however, appreciate the benefits of technology after our case study this week – and know that not all tech is bad tech.

Hi Primary 7,

As promised, here are the two options for the Leavers Trip for you to peruse and discuss with your friends and family. We will have a vote on Friday about which venue you would like to visit!

https://www.blairdrummond.com/plan-your-visit

https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/media/6890/2019_ez-map_march_online.pdf

Happy deciding!

Miss Cohen, Miss Webster and Miss Hewitt 🙂

In your family groups, you should investigate one of the following metals or mineals: tantallum, copper, tin, gold, tungsten, silver and cobalt.

Create a presentation for the class/community, including scientific name, how it is used in everyday life, where it is mined and how it is mined.

virtualquarry.co.uk/

digintomining.com/metals-your-everyday-life

www.nms.ac.uk/minerals

www.resolutionpossible.co.uk/our-work/research/minerals

Good luck!

Miss Cohen

On Tuesday, we had our final Outdoor Learning session with Miss Bull before our Abernethy trip next week. What a fun afternoon!

It was a glorious, sunny day and we went to the sensory garden to make some food by the campfire, learn how to set up a campsite (tent, washing station, crotchet accessories). We made damper bread, spicy smoky beans, toasted marshmallows and coffee for the adults! ☀️🍞🥫

Zainab has some strong ideas on how we should best manage the 6 man tent! She kept us in check hehe! 😂😛

We can’t wait for our Aviemore Adventures! Yaaaaaay 💜🎊

On Tuesday, we divided into our filming groups to consider our target audience/interviewees, potential shooting locations and premise of our movies.

A premise is the motive of a movie – a one lined statement which we always refer to throughout the filming and editing process.

On Tuesday, we were planning for tomorrow’s Outdoor Learning lesson when we will be making a fire, and cooking food on it. We learned how to organise and clear a site, ensuring that there are no fire hazards or flammable materials nearby, and creating a clear entrance and exit to the designated area.

P5 were presenting a class assembly about Scotland, and in particular, the Highland clearances. They shared some poems they had created, sang some traditional songs and got the audience members up dancing for a typical ceilidh celebration; eeeeeeeeee ooooooooooo!

On Wednesday lunchtimes, we have started a Chess club – thanks to the lovely Saad Khan for suggesting this idea! What a turn out we had for Session 1 – really looking forward to the rest of our time together problem solving and tactically thinking!

In Numeracy, we have been drawing and constructing pie charts using different formulas. We then decided that we needed a little bit more practice on how to use a protractor and draw different angles using the 3 Golden Rules!

We entered the Dragon’s Den Social Enterprise competition on Thursday to discuss our cashless, skills exchange project. Saad Khan, Mimi, Zeenat, Saleeha, Hafsa, Sakeena and Ryan did an amazing job telling the judges about our points system and our push for a focus on Learning for Sustainability by creating conscience-led communities!

We left feeling even more keen and determined to spread the word about the circular economy, sustainable living and production and appreciating one another’s talents and abilities. Giving is not to receive – it makes the world go round! 

Miss Cohen went over to lovely Laiba’s house after school last week to meet her new, gorgeous baby cousin. She doesn’t have a name yet – but she is ADORABLE!! Congratulations to Laiba’s family on their new arrival!

What a fun week! See you Monday for some more learning!

P.S. ONLY 5 SCHOOL DAYS UNTIL ABERNETHY!

Following today’s input on creating a site for a fire 🔥 (which you did amazingly well at prepping and assembling), Miss Bull and I would like you to do some research about campfire food that we could prep and make during next week’s session. Here’s some useful info you’ll need to be mindful of when researching;

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• We will have 1hr to make/heat the food.
• We have 28 pupils in our class, plus two adults.
• We have bamboo skewers for holding food over campfire, and can provide tin foil and cooking utensils for mixing (I.e. spatula, fish slice).
• Your budget for all ingredients will be £1 per head

Happy researching! Remember – deadline for submissions will be this Friday!

😊

Aliah

About a Mother (Pro Mamu)

Using the 3 S’s and C’s template and questions provided, watch a selection of age appropriate movies from the catalogue link below to become well-versed and critical of movie making the process of filmmaking;

https://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/?post_type=toa_films&s=&lengths%5Bshort%5D=on

Have fun researching! 🙂

On Thursday, we worked with P6/7 on developing our GC community, Palmora Falls. We discussed potential roles and responsibilities in our environment, and divided ourselves into family groups to create characters. We thought carefully about the following when deciding our roles;

• How does our job impact positively on the community?
• Does my job prioritise serving the common good, or place an importance on ensuring biodiversity is rich in Palmora Falls?
• How do I protect the environment?
• How do I contribute to the community?

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We had so much fun working together that we thought, why not have a shared PE session?! Miss Cohen took a 30 minute tennis class, whilst Miss Webster took a 30 minute basketball class! It’s fun to mix it up from time to time! Maybe we’ll do it again soon…

Hope you had a LOVELY weekend chicos! 🙂

We are making poems about things we love; inspired by Rabbie Burns poem ‘My love is like a red, red rose’. We decided to note down our ideas on the characteristics and nature of our loves, using sensory vocabulary. Lol at the culprit who has chosen their bed…this had me giggling A LOT!! 😂💕😂💕

 🤳🏻Amina capturing the moment!

We went to the MUGA for the first time in yoooonks for our Outdoor PE slot. It was so much fun! We practiced our under arm and overhead serves – what a treat to have such a big space to train in!🎾🎾☀️☀️

In Numeracy, we have begun a new topic on Data Handling. We participated in a carousel learning task to practice our new skills in a collaborative context. We familiarised ourselves with Venn diagrams, different formats and vocabulary (mean, mode, median, range) for information handling, and put our knowledge to the test with some challenge cards! 📈📉📊🗂

Zainab, Sakeena, Maha, Laiba, Hafsa and Abeera celebrated getting 50 dojo points each and rewarded themselves with a fancy pasta lunch at Chez Cohen! It was delicious! 🍝

Hardworking Mimi stayed in at lunchtime to prep our Skills Swap notice board for  display, What an angel! 😍

We begun designing logos for our Global storyline community, ‘Palmora Falls’. Looking forward to the next episode after the hols!

Have a fun filled February weekend everyone!

Miss Cohen 😊

Tomorrow, we will be having our weekly Skills Swap as normal from 13:00 -13:45. We have two amazing workshops on offer; Mrs Harker will be offering a Masseuse class (neck, shoulders, hands, potentially baby massage if some wee ones attend), plus Mimi and Zainab from P7 will be offering a Beginner’s Arabic class.

As part of tomorrow’s Café Connect (13:45 – 14:45), we will have a representative from SAMH discussing children’s mental health. All parents welcome, it will be a really interesting session!

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Miss Cohen