Eco Committee Meeting!

The Eco Heroes had a great meeting this afternoon to discuss the on-going plans for the school! There were lots of great ideas from the team including having ‘Litter Ninjas’ in the upper school playground to ensure that no litter is left after play time and lunch time. We are also going to get the Eco Display in the main entrance decorated very soon! Watch this space for some excellent

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Another Jam Packed Week in Primary 7a

This week we have been super busy doing all our usual hard work as well as practising our art skills in preparation for the Christmas fayre next week. In maths we have started a new money topic and will be looking at budgets and profit and loss next week! Ahmed thinks it will be  interesting and is looking forward to it. We are still really enjoying reading Coraline and have

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The Braehead Clan meet The Balornock Clan

 We were very lucky to get a fantastic visit from some real members of Glasgow’s professional Ice Hockey team, The Braehead Clan! They had lots of advice on how to become a professional sportsperson and even more gory stories of broken bones and ice skate injuries! We had loads of thoughtful questions, and they managed to answer them all! We have also been creating some beautiful glittering, sequinned artwork inspired

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P7a’s Wonderful Week

This week we have been taking part in lots of different active literacy lessons to help us with our phonics and spelling. We  had to work together and test our partner’s knowledge of phonics on the whiteboards.   We practised our basketball and gymnastic skills during P.E, and started to learn how to Salsa dance! For maths this week we have been exploring negative numbers, and have enjoyed working out

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This Week in P7a..

We have had another busy week this week filled with lots of new learning! At the start of the week we began planning a non-fiction recount story on our favourite school trip, and on Friday we used different writing strategies to help us write it on our own. We have also been focusing a lot on phoneme families, and looking at how this can help us with our reading and

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What a great week!

This week in primary 7a we have been learning about lots of different things! In maths we went outside to collect data on how many cars passed the school and created a frequency table. We looked at buses, cars, lorries, motorbikes, and vans. The most common vehicle that passed the school was cars. Our new topic this term is India, we have already learnt so much. Did you know the

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First Week of Term Two

This week we have had a very busy first week back after enjoying our October week. We started Coraline which is our new class novel, and wrote a book review on Kensuke’s Kingdom, as well as some new recount writing. ” I think Coraline is  going to be a good book, and be quite scary!” – Calum During one of our maths lessons we used different resources to practise multiplication and

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Sumdog Parent Workshop

Date for the Diary Tuesday 31st October 2017 2-3pm This session your child will be using Sumdog to enhance their learning experiences in Maths. Sumdog is used in thousands of schools worldwide. As the children play, they answer questions. Sumdog personalises these questions for each pupil, and tracks their progress through the school curriculum. And the best bit? Lots of Sumdog is completely free. We would like to invite you

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Sumdog Parent Workshop

This session our pupils will be using Sumdog to enhance their learning experiences in Maths. Sumdog is used in thousands of schools worldwide. As the children play, they answer questions. Sumdog personalises these questions for each pupil, and tracks their progress through the school curriculum. And the best bit? Lots of Sumdog is completely free. We would like to invite you to a Sumdog Parents Information Workshop on the 31st of

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A very busy week!

P7a have had a very busy week this week.  At the start of the week we learned about inference skills, which is when you use clues and read between the lines to answer questions. In maths we practised rounding to the nearest tens, hundreds, and thousands,  and focused on different subtraction strategies. We also spent time on Wednesday morning playing different active maths games.     “Splat was my favourite”

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