Primary 7b Wallacewell Primary

Hello everyone!

This is our final blog of 2026 and the final blog for P7B as they prepare to leave Wallacewell Primary School.

This week, the class has been busy rehearsing for our leavers’ performance. They have worked incredibly hard practising their songs, learning their lines and developing their drama skills. I am very proud of the effort and enthusiasm they have shown, and we cannot wait for you to see the final performance on the 23rd.

In Film Literacy, we continued our work on Lord of the Rings, focusing on character analysis and exploring the traits and motivations of key characters. In maths, we consolidated our learning on angles through a variety of revision and problem-solving activities.

It has been a wonderful year teaching P7B. I am incredibly proud of everything they have achieved this year and wish them all the very best as they begin their high school journey.

Thank you to all for your kindness, encouragement and support throughout the year. It has been greatly appreciated.

This week, we have been very busy with our learning!

In literacy, we worked on writing a recount about our favourite memory from primary school. This helped us to reflect on all the wonderful experiences we have had and also gave us the chance to rehearse parts of our leavers’ assembly.

In maths, we continued developing our data handling skills. We interpreted information from bar graphs and line graphs and explored different sets of data to find the mean, median, mode and range. We used our mathematical thinking to answer questions and explain what the data showed.

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools work, we linked our learning to our World Cup topic. We created origami-style football tops and chose a UNCRC right that was important to us. We then designed a slogan to promote that right. Our finished football tops looked fantastic and showed great creativity and understanding of children’s rights.

As we continue preparing for our leavers’ assembly, we would be grateful if children could practise their scripts at home whenever possible. Even a few minutes of practice can help build confidence and ensure everyone is ready for the big day!

Well done, P7B, for another excellent week of learning!

For Literacy, we continued developing our Film Literacy skills through Lord of the Rings. We focused on developing our inference skills by discussing how the ring impacts different characters throughout the story. We also explored character analysis by making comparisons and connections between characters, helping us to prepare thoughtful predictions based on what we know so far.

In Maths, we completed our maths assessments throughout the week. Everyone showed resilience and determination, using their prior knowledge and growth mindset strategies to try their very best. We are proud of the effort and positive attitudes shown by everyone.

We also enjoyed taking part in Sports Day this week. Our P7 pupils were fantastic role models, helping to set up activities and supporting younger children during some of their very first sports days. It was wonderful to see such teamwork, encouragement and leadership on display across the school.

We are also looking forward to our residential trip next week, where there will be lots of exciting activities, opportunities to challenge ourselves and plenty of fun to be had!

In literacy, we started learning about film literacy and used our before, during and after reading skills to help us understand clips. We also made fortune tellers and wrote our own instructions, using exciting vocabulary and adverbs to make our writing clear.

In maths, we learned how to find missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals, using our addition and subtraction skills to help us.

We also held auditions for our leaver’s show—everyone was amazing and showed lots of confidence! We have started practising our songs and can’t wait to perform for you.

A reminder that we are collecting recyclables to help fund our leaver’s party. Thank you for your support!

Click on the link below to view our term 4 curriculum newsletter.

P7b Curriculum Newsletter – Term 4 2025-26

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.