St Albert's P7 2017

We’ve been feeling very festive lately. Our Christmas party is today after school, the school Nativity will be on Monday and Tuesday, where Primary 7 will be singing ‘Last Christmas’.

On Friday 8th, we had our Christmas Fayre. The candy cane lollipops we made were a huge success, and flew off the stalls.

Mostafa, Subhaan and James put on a FABULOUS performance as magicians, showcasing their skills to all! Miss Cohen and Miss Bull decided to have a FROZEN photobooth, and dressed up for the occasion.

Tomorrow is Miss Welsh’s last day at St. Albert’s. We’ve decided to throw her a leaving party, and we’ve planned a Secret Santa Reveal…can’t wait!

As part of our Rainforest topic, we have been participating in active debates around the subject “Whose Rainforest?!”. Primary 7 have been adopting a variety of roles; ecologists, government officials, ranchers, miners, native tribal leaders, medics etc. and arguing their points about why they should have ownership over the Rainforest and its land. We used lots of persuasive language and related our roles to current, economic wants and needs to try to sway others’ points of view.

We also created gorgeous pictures of Rainforest animals using oil pastels and chalks. They look so lifelike and effective.

Mrs Kheirabi has been helping us to create list poems about the Rainforest using descriptive vocabulary, powerful nouns and super similes. Here are some examples of our fabulous Literacy work when describing a Rainforest habitat;

“The bold coloured cheetah stared at its prey like a Mum giving her child a growling stare” – Abu Bakr Qasim

“The happy, hungry family of orang-utans were sharing a nutritious bamboo stick happily” – Dany

“The timid centipede spiralled his hairy body to preserve warmth” – James

“The maginificent, tropical trees loomed over as if they were giants, watching over a thousand species” – Areeba N

“The magnificent monkeys are so playful when they are not being pursued” – Adam

“A chorus of croaking frogs were heard through the distant, Rainforest fog” – Maria M

“The delicate, elegant butterfly flutters its wings as it whooshes past you, eager to feed on the glamorous daisies.” – Hafsah

“In the large, colourful rainforest, the sparkling clear water drizzled down the stone-age rocks” – Muntaha

“The petite and colourful frog is leaping to the nearest rock, hoping to be able to find a snoozy spot for his afternoon nap.” – Abu Bakr H

“One can see a courageous, cunning tribal leader swooping through the forest, thoughtfully bringing home food for his people.” – Zaina

As part of our Art installation next week, we will be using face-paints to replicate animals of the Rainforest. We had a go yesterday to practice some designs on a partner’s face, they turned out fantastic! Have a look…

We will post some more pictures and videos next week of our Art installation, and how it’s materialised.

Miss Cohen

 

 

 

Huge congratulations to Furqan,  Khadijah, Dany, Areeba Nasir and Abu Bakr Qasim who participated in and secured bronze MEDALS in the Holyrood Badminton Competition.

They played to an extremely high standard, with super agility and fabulous sportsmanship. Here’s some snaps of them looking very professional and athletic;

Well done again TEAM St. Als, felt very proud and privileged to watch you in action.

Miss Cohen

 

An important question to ask about my learning is…

“Why did we make the spinners during Science?” – Danny asked.

“How many animals are endangered right now in the rainforest?” – Iesa

I can now explain to someone else that…

“where the rainforest is and who lives there (tribal communities)” – Heeba

“what refraction and reflection means” – Aisha

“in Hockey, we must focus on slide passing and not attacking and smacking the ball, because it makes the pass really inaccurate and it doesn’t go where we want it to” – Zafirah

I need to improve on my…

“sports – football in particular” – Mostafa

“chatting and answering out in class, and remember to always put my hand up” – Khadijah Ur. Rehman

At the start of the week, I didn’t know that…

“people could survive and live in the rainforest, and the natural materials they used to hunt (blowpipes), and make shelter (bamboo)” – Muntaha

“we could use division to solve problems involving percentages, for example, finding 20% of an amount is the same as dividing it by 5.” – Arisha

I am now able to…

“work with decimals and percentages more confidently” – Areeba B.

“add personification, similes, metaphors and onomatopoeia to my Poetry piece about Freedom” – Hafsah

Our Top Performers for the week are…

Abu Bakr Qasim; for using Miss Cohen’s feedback to develop his descriptive Writing skills when writing about Thunder Mountain, a Disneyland attraction.

Abu Bakr Hanif; for his enthusiasm and participation during Tuesday’s trip to the Glasgow Museum Resource centre, ‘Whose Rainforest!?’ Abu Bakr took on the role of a medic during a drama debate, and did so with confidence and excellent persuasive skills.

Well done Danny, for his amazing footballing skills (he has won two club trophies, wow!!), Sana for her commitment to her Science work, and Zaina for her awesome performance at the Holyrood Public Speaking Competition. Miss Cohen has a lot to be smiling about this weekend…a class full of superstars!

Yesterday, we went on a trip to the Glasgow Museum Resource Centre for a trip titled ‘Whose Rainforest?’. We looked at different artefacts from the rainforest, like an authentic blow pipe, tague crafts in the shapes of toucans and lizards. We touched a netted hammock and traditional jewellery – which the tribal communities made and stained themselves with natural dyes from plants. They were really impressive.

We played a game where we had to identify five items that we would keep with us if we were stranded in the rainforest for 48hours. After some discussion, we chose;

water, mosquito repellent, a torch, a hammock and matches

We also debated about the theme – ‘Whose rainforest?’. We were divided into three groups; medics, business men and women, and tribal people. We each had to argue our points, and debate why we thought the rainforest belonged to us and that we should have control over its land. This was a very interesting discussion, and ultimately, we believed that the medics and tribal communities should work together as they both have moral and human needs at the centre of their priorities; developing cures for illnesses and disease from plants, using natural resources to provide essentials like shelter and food.

We had to play the game, find the parrot, which was well hidden in the Museum corridor, sitting on a shelf. We missed it, because we were distracted – and lost our dinner for the night!! Maybe us city kids aren’t made for the wild just yet…

 

 

 

 

 

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We hope you enjoy watching our clips that we showed at our assembly, last Thursday. We certainly had lots of fun recording them using the Green Screen and I-pads! 🙂 Thank you to Mr Stewart for all his tech help.

Pink for girls, blue for boys…P7 think not!!

White hat; Facts and information

Danny – “We have been learning about the bar models in Maths, like how you set it out to solve a problem”

Maria M: “In Science, we learned about reflective materials – and about rough and smooth surfaces when reflecting light”

Zainab – “We have been studying algebra. Algebra is where letters represent numbers”

Furqan – “We had the curator from Ted Talks, Gurjit, come to our class and he told us how to set up and start a business successfully. He also talked about the stages of invention – problems and solutions”

Subhaan “He also mentioned how podcasts are filmed; one screen with your script so that you can read it if you lose your train of thought, and the other with time left on the clock”

Sana “We explored characters, in particular, Mr and Mrs Dursley from Harry Potter, and identified phrases to help us visualise their appearance, and learn more about their characters”

 

Red hat; Feelings and emotions

Miss Cohen is feeling slightly overwhelmed and excited this week as she has just moved into her brand, new flat!! No more living with her parents anymore.

Danny, James and Furqan and Nabeeha are feeling super chuffed because they’re heading to Blairvaddach with their classmates.

Lee – Watching Harry Potter has really inspired me this week.

Green hat; Creativity

Heeba/Khadija “For Halloween we made hanging bats out of toilet paper tubes, and spider paper craft pumpkins”

Maria M “For our party, we made lollipop ghosts”

Muntaha “We made parrot masks for our Gender Stereotypes assembly”

Sadheeya “We learned how to use the Green Screen to record interesting statistics about Gender Stereotypes”

 

Yellow hat; Positive – Something you’ve done well…

Zaina: “We made some awesome dance moves for our class assembly that we think are catchy and easy to pick up!”

Sadheeya: “I’ve learned my script for our class’ assembly, and have been working hard to develop a clear voice for our audience”

Mostafa: “I’ve been trying hard to practice saying past tense verbs when reading my Wellington Square book.

James: “I thought my modern day fairytale idea was original – all about a boy and girl developing a friendship through Minecraft and gaming”

 

 

We had a spooky, crafty Halloween in Primary 7. We made 3D spiders, hanging bats, and gloopy monster slime! The party in the afternoon was super fun, Subhaan and Muntaha were crowned best dancers of the class. Check out some of these costumes…BOO!!

  

Hope everyone enjoyed Trick or Treating!

Miss Cohen

Thanks to Hannah at Victoria Road Bike Station, and the amazing Rago from Kinning Park Complex, our school bikes are now up and running and ready to use. Toot toot!!

We learned how to fix and adjust our brakes, how to blow up a tyre and fix an inner tube, AND how to adjust our saddle height.

We won’t forget “lefty loosy, righty tighty” in the future 😉

Who says Data Handling can’t be fun?! Primary 7 problem-solved, collaborated and created several ways of expressing data with their…bodies!

Here’s us making a human bar chart of the class’ birthdays;

We made human tally charts (ouch for the poor people in the stack of four ha!) to represent the number of people from Primary 7 in each of our houses.

Here’s us posing and creating a human pictogram of the number of boys and girls in our class…

We created a P7 pie chart to express the beginning letters of our names (A-D, E-I, J-M, N-Z). Thanks for snapping us in action Miss Welsh;