Primary 7b Wallacewell Primary

Welcome back to our final term at Wallacewell Primary School! It’s been lovely to see everyone back and ready to learn.

This week in maths, we have been exploring angles. We started by identifying different types of angles, such as right, acute and obtuse. We then practised measuring angles carefully using a protractor and challenged ourselves to draw our own angles accurately. To build on this, we worked on finding missing angles, including those in complementary and supplementary pairs, some tricky thinking, but everyone showed great effort!

In writing, we completed our first instructional writing piece. We headed outside to play a game of rounders, then came back to class and wrote clear, step-by-step instructions explaining how to play. We focused on making our writing easy to follow so that someone else could use it to play the game.

We also enjoyed some film literacy work this week. We developed a script between two characters, focused on the importance of sound in a scene, and began to explore different camera movements as we started to think like directors.

Have a lovely Easter break everyone! I’m really looking forward to seeing you all again for Term 4 – our final term of P7 😊

This week, we visited the Wallacewell Monument to support our poetry writing. Primary 7 have entered the Lord Provost’s Poetry Competition, with the theme “My Hidden Glasgow.” We chose to focus on something meaningful and unique to our school community.

Our poetry centred on the use of the senses, and we gathered ideas both prior to and during our walk. Pupils worked hard to bring their writing to life by incorporating a range of imagery techniques, including personification, similes, metaphors and onomatopoeia.

We had a lovely trip together, creating special memories in our final year together.

In numeracy this week, we have been learning all about negative numbers. We talked about where we might see negative numbers in real life, such as temperatures. We practised comparing and ordering numbers, as well as adding and subtracting negative numbers.

We also continued working on our library poem which we started last week. Over the next few weeks, we will be entering a poetry competition based on the theme “What Glasgow Means to Us.” We are excited to share our ideas and creativity through our poems.

In reading, we have been working hard on developing our inference skills. We practised spotting inference questions and looking for clues in the text to help us understand deeper meanings and answer the questions.

We had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day in P7B on Thursday. Our focus was on books linked to our current topic – World War 2.

We continued reading ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ and made key comparisons between our two main characters, Bruno and Shmuel. The class discussed how the boys come from very different backgrounds but share many similarities. We talked about how their friendship shows kindness and innocence, even during a very difficult time in history.

After this, we explored a range of other fiction books set during the war, including Goodnight Mr Tom and The Bletchley Riddle. Using what we have already learned about World War 2, the class then designed their own books. We created imaginative front covers and wrote our own blurbs. These turned out fantastic, with many different themes explored such as The Enigma Code, Evacuation and The Blitz.

This week, we completed our final writing piece for our explanation texts. Our writing was titled “Why Did the Evacuation Happen?” We applied all the skills we have been developing, including the use of technical language and cause and effect connectives. We also incorporated advanced punctuation to further uplevel our writing. The class worked incredibly hard and should be very proud of the high standard of work produced.

In numeracy, we have completed our unit on 3D shapes, covering volume, properties and nets. We then moved on to identifying and calculating area and perimeter. Our next unit of learning will focus on negative numbers. We will explore where negative numbers appear in real life such as temperature and money.

For Health and Wellbeing, we explored into the difference between equality and equity. The class created thoughtful posters explaining both definitions and demonstrating how equality and equity are displayed within our school community.

This week has been a short one in P7b, but there has still been lots of exciting learning taking place!

In literacy, we focused on cause-and-effect conjunctions, expanding our WW2 sentences by adding more detailed information about the war. We also linked this to our prior learning on technical language, using subject specific vocabulary to uplevel our writing even further.

For Diversity Day, we explored the blurb of Boy at the Back of the Class and discussed the challenges and strengths presented in the text. This led to thoughtful conversations about empathy, inclusion and resilience. We then created our own “diversity shields,” highlighting our backgrounds, what makes us unique and our individual strengths.

In maths, we transformed nets into 3D objects. We were able to identify, construct and match 3D shapes to their corresponding nets, applying our knowledge of properties and spatial awareness.

Well done to P7b for their continued effort and enthusiasm!

This week in P7B, we completed our learning on symmetry, developing skills in identifying lines of symmetry, reflecting shapes across axes, and using accurate measuring and drawing techniques. We have now moved on to 3D shape, where we revisited prior knowledge of the properties of 3D shapes, including faces, edges and vertices. Next week, we will be moving on to making and recognising nets of 3D shapes.

In writing, we explored technical language and how to uplevel our sentences. We completed this in preparation for our upcoming assessed piece of writing. Next week, we will begin planning our writing, bringing together technical language, cause and effect conjunctions, and time connectives.

In our interdisciplinary learning, we learned about Alan Turing and how his codebreaking helped end World War II two years earlier than expected and saved many lifes. We also completed some coding of our own and linked this learning to our spelling tasks.

Have a lovely long weekend!

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P7b Curriculum Newsletter – Term 3 2025-26

For numeracy this week, we completed our learning on 2D shapes and have now moved on to exploring symmetry across four quadrants. We will be finishing this learning next week before moving on to 3D shapes.

In writing, we transferred our learning from our topic on WWII evacuees to create flow charts showing the evacuation process. This is helping us build our understanding in preparation for our upcoming assessment, where we will be writing an explanation text about the WWII evacuations.

During reading this week, we took on key roles which rotated daily, including summariser, clarifier and questioner. We independently summarised their texts, identified new vocabulary and meanings, and created literal, inferential and evaluative questions to deepen their understanding.

In PE, we have now moved on to gymnastics and this week focused on developing skills in jumps and rolls. A reminder that our PE days are Wednesday and Thursday.