P7 took part in a plant life investigation in our local meadow. After collecting samples, pupils worked in their groups to sort, organise and display their findings. They used large construction materials to display their findings in a creative way.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Learning the 7 Life Processes
Primary 7B took learning outside on a hot on sunny afternoon. We were given the group challenge of ensuring all our group members learned the 7 Life Processes. We could choose our preferred learning style and we were very creative indeed! Check out our YouTube video to see if you think we have been successful learners!
A poem about Penny…
Penny
Fun, happy, friendly
Daughter of Sharon, sister of Rose
I love my family, my toy Boo and my friends
I felt happy, excited, sad
I fear snakes and daddy long legs
Who has a bronze award for trampolining
I want to play ice-hockey
Born in Dundee, lives in Dundee
The tale of Taylor…
Taylor
Brainy, friendly, sporty, brave
Grandson of George, brother of Blaine
I love buses, the T.V show Doctor Who, my Xbox and my brother
I felt exhausted, excited and busy
I fear heights, the Hilltown and wasps
Who has achieved having his name on a bus
I want to experience the London Eye. I want to be a bus driver. I want to be a celebrity.
Born in Dundee, lives in Dundee
Leading our Learning
Recently, the Student Media Team held their first meeting to discuss what we will be getting up to this term.
Learning to lead the meeting was an important skill as you never know what you might encounter when working with a large group of people. It helped us learn to respond properly to other people giving their views and opinions and at times, talking over one another!
We both volunteered to chair the meeting and we had the job of planning ahead and ensuring the agenda was ready and then typing up the minutes afterwards. We knew it would be important to encourage and include everyone’s ideas.
Skills we developed:
- Planning the meeting
- Encouraging ideas
- Making decisions
- Using our initiative
- Effective communication
- Problem solving
These skills will be really useful because many people have to participate in meetings at some point in their lives and many of us will on a regular basis in our future careers.
Everyone included in the meeting was using their talking and listening skills to participate effectively and contribute their ideas and suggestions. We worked cooperatively to create good questions we might want to ask the classes when we go round to gather information for the school newspaper ‘The Gourock Gossip’.
Mrs Falconer was really impressed at how the whole group conducted themselves and we think this picture shows just how focused we were on the task!
We are developing our skills for learning, life and work and hope this gives you a good picture of our learning in P7!
Thanks for reading!
Matthew and Molly,
Student Media Team.
Blogging Bootcamp Week 3
Week 3 already! I am guessing most folk feel like time is speeding on.
There have been some great posts to the bootcamp this week.
This weeks tasks:
- Technical: Widgets, Themes and Plugins
- Discussion: Classroom Organisation, Favourite Websites
- Challenges: 1. Post favourite websites 2. Post on what we are learning in class. 3. Comment on 3 other posts.
Technical
Widgets
Widgets are used to add features and functionality to the sidebar (usually) of your blog. Widget placement is dependent on themes.
Widgets on Glow Blog Help blog
Download: Widgets docx or Widgets PDF
Plugins
Plugins add functionality to your blog.
More information on Plugins wp4 on the Glow Blog Help where you can download Plugins MS docx or Plugins PDF
We will look at changing theme. You may not actually want to change themes on your blog, it can have major effects but the Glow meet and Video here will show you how.
Themes
Themes wp4 | Glow Blog Help
Themes PDF
Themes MS docx
Discussion
How do you organise posting to your blog in the classroom. There are many different ways to do this, what fits your situation best. If you are not in the classroom think about how you can keep up a blog. When should this fit in your day or week?
What is you favourite website? Why? What is good about it? This will help with the Challenge.
Challenges
Three this week:
- Make one or more posts about something you are learning in class currently. Try to include text and pictures.
- Write about and link to your favourite website.
- Comment on at least 3 other posts in the bootcamp.
How to take a screenshot is a great site to find out how to take a screenshot.
Remember to categorize your posts bootcamp!
Update: I am afraid I did not manage to record the Glow meets for this week. Apologies. Here are the 2 presentations used:
Scottish Opera Visit
This was initially linked to a sharepoint file in Glow but is now added from uploaded image into media library. This allows everyone to see in public.
Our class poem
We are P6/7, with ages nine to eleven.
Here’s a little more, so you’ll know the score.
A is for Andrew, a boy who loves fishing.
B is for Becky, a girl who loves to cook.
C is for Chelsie, a girl who loves One Direction and Christopher, a boy who loves to sumo-wrestle!
D is for David who likes to travel on the underground and Dylan, a boy who loves motorbikes.
E is for Ellis, a girl who loves food.
F is for friendship and fun.
G is for Geddes, a boy who is incredibly artistic.
H is for Hannah, a girl who loves kiwi.
I is for intelligence, which we all possess.
J is for Jill, an extremely musical girl, and Jamie, a boy who loves to swim.
K is for Karen, a girl who loves sports.
L is for Liam and Lennon, who both love playing football.
M is for good manners, which we show in class.
N is for Nikki, a girl who loves guitar, and Nathan who loves youtube.
O is for Olivia, a girl who loves to dance.
P is for Mrs Pagan who helps us all the time.
Q is for quarrels, which we always try to avoid.
R is for responsibility and respect we show to all.
S is for Shelby, a girl who likes football. Sophie likes her toffee and Scott loves jumping and climbing.
T is for Tegan, a girl who loves art.
U is for united, which we are in our school.
V is for victorious which we feel when we use VCOP.
W is for WALK A MILE Monday which we do to keep us fit.
X is for the eXcellent work which we all try to produce.
Y is for Mrs Young, who makes the learning fun.
Z is for the Zzzzzz’s we sleep once our learning’s done!
School Football
Hi next week the West School Football team are taking on Thorne primary school away lets look for a first game of the season win!!!
Rosie the Perfect Pug
Rosie the perfect Pug was as fluffy as a Panda
She lived in Pug Lane
Who loved sunshine
And she fell in love with Bob the lhama
He lived in lhama lane
He had blue eyes just like her they were bound to be together forever
So they got married and were a happy couple
They went on a honeymoon to New York
