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Future Me!

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Primary 7 have recently completed artwork and writing on the topic ‘Future Me’.

Budding Artists

At the start of term, we began by sketching to create half of a self portrait. We have slowly improved on our observation skills throughout the making. We used mirrors to observe every detail from above our shoulders and have focused on key parts of our faces to make it as realistic as possible.

Looking carefully
Looking carefully
Observation
Observation

The other half of the face was much trickier! We had to imagine what we might look like in the future, in the year 2035.  The illustrations also included some ideas of what we want to be like in the future. For example, I drew some sports equipment as I would like to be either a PE teacher or an Active Schools Coordinator and Conor drew some dinosaur bones as his dream career is  in Palaeontology.  The finished designs are really brilliant! Some of the class look quite different in their projections of themselves in 20 years! Each one gives a really good insight into their future hopes and dreams.

Dear Future Self
During our writing lesson, we wrote an inspirational letter to our future selves so that in twenty years we can look back at them to see what goals we have achieved. First, we brainstormed ideas and advice we would like to add to our letter to make sure it was filled with information, advice and questions. It is a lot more complicated than a regular piece of writing as addressing yourself in the future is tricky! Everyone’s letter included; advice to themselves, their future career expectations and any goals or hopes and dreams they wanted to fulfil.

We have created a display of our observational drawings and letters so that any visitors to our classroom can see the finished product!We thought of some qualities and skills we wanted our future self to have and arranged these words around our hard work. On Monday, we had some International delegates visit the school and they had some positive feedback to give about our work.

Our display
Our display

All together, everyone enjoyed the task – especially drawing the portraits! We hope everyone keeps their letters safe so we can look back in 20 years and see how far we have come!

Orla and Conor, P7

To be opened: 2015
To be opened: 2015
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Leading our Learning

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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!

Student Media Team Meeting

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.

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Why do we Blog?

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P7 love to blog as we can express our interests. Our blog lets a varied audience from all around the world interact with what we are doing in our class. It lets individual pupils share their experiences and achievements.

As we continue to blog we will develop key skills for example literacy, ICT and typing. We also become more aware of cyber safety.

Internet safety is very important. We know that we should never share our passwords or personal information.  Our blog is really safe although it is available for the world to view.

Blogging has lots of benefits such as social skills, classroom community and global connections. It means we are constantly improving on our literacy skills for the future. It also enhances our online confidence.

Not only is blogging beneficial, our whole class love writing and commenting on posts. Our class enjoy answering our ‘Question of the Week,’ and giving their own opinions on class debates.

Furthermore, P7 have established a new Student Media Team who are responsible for the upkeep of our blog, taking classroom ‘snapshots’ of learning, writing class newspapers and updating other social media outlets.

Student Media Team

We hope that this explains why our class blog and encourages others to start blogging too.

Orla and Eve

P7

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A Recipe For Success

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We are P7 pupils from Gourock Primary School.  We took part in the Blogging Bootcamp last year and we are looking forward to participating again and taking part in new challenges this upcoming year.

Primary  seven is a big year for us because we are getting ready for moving up to the high school, which means we need to push ourselves to our limits  and ‘take every opportunity’, which is our class motto!

We have been looking at poetry and figurative language and decided the best way to introduce ourselves was through a ‘Recipe for Success’.

We have used alliteration in our recipe to make it sound more interesting. We hope you enjoy it!

Matthew Orr.

P7 Recipe for Success
P7 Recipe for Success
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Exploring Europe!

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This term we have been learning all about Europe.  We decided for our topic that we would like to participate in the Inverclyde Euro Quiz. There were some useful resources we used to help us get ready.

Euro Quiz team

To help us study, we used books and the internet to gather lots of information. We have been making fact files on different countries too. Each group in our class has a different country to become experts on and we have to design our own wall display, TV challenge and think about what we will have organised for our table at the Europe Day celebrations.

Mrs Falconer has taught us about the European Union, focusing on the history, the Euro and map work. We had challenges set each week, for example; learning all the member states, recognising each of the flags and identifying all the capital cities on a map. One of the hardest was learning the dates each country joined the EU!

We have been using a really good website to learn more about Europe. It’s the Europa website which has a Kids’ corner. This website has games including an online board game you can play alone or with family and friends.  It tells you about different currencies, famous people and landmarks, flags, languages and the European Union.

Europa Screenshot

It definitely helped us because we got a good place in the Euro Quiz! We came 5th out of 16 teams!

 

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Learning in P6

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In P6 Mrs Falconer tries to make learning as active and fun as possible. My favourite subjects are science, p.e and there are a lot of intelligent people in P6 and Mrs Falconer is a really fun teacher. There are lots of after school clubs such as skiing, basketball, athletics and football that we all take advantage of!

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A Picture of Learning in P6

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In P6 we love art, the latest thing we did in art was recreating famous paintings from famous European artists. I think this is useful because it gives us a chance to build on our observation skills.

We also love our Europe topic and 2 weeks ago a group of pupils from our class went to the Euro quiz and came 5th out of 16 teams! We are really proud of them! We have also been studying 7 specific countries for our Europe day celebrations.

In maths we have been learning how to multiply while using decimals, this is useful as it will help us when we are older for any jobs we get. We know we have to use decimals for lots of things like measure and money.

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A Picture Of Learning In Primary Six

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Primary six is full of opportunities. What I like about primary six is there is a new sport or activity opening up every week such as:

  •  After school skiing – we have been visiting Bearsden for some lessons up on the slopes with Primary 7.
  • Our athletics team who  made it through into the finals.
  • Cross country over at Tower Hill.
  • Ardentinny
  • After school basketball.

The person to thank for most of it , is our teacher Mrs Falconer. She participates in things like skiing and Ardentinny and I know everyone is very thankful for the time she gives up to join in with us.

Right now we are focusing on the European Union. Everyone has a set country to research. For instance, my country is Spain so my team need to create a wall display, TV show and a fact file.

We learn up to our full potential in every lesson and have fun without fail. My favourite thing is probably our Group Responsibilities, we each have a special responsibility including;

  • PPR: promoting positive relationships team who are in charge of our schools equipment and playground pals.
  • Fit for life team who are in charge of our running around Europe program and keeping us fit.
  • GIRFEC group who are in charge of the schools health and wellbeing and make sure everyone is SHANARRI. Currently they are working on a game board for the school to learn more about GIRFEC.
  • Global citizens who sell the Malawian farmers rice for £3 and have completed 4 90kg rice challenges.
  • Journalists  who type out our newsletter blog posts.

We all have carried out our duties well and I hope we will be successful in the future.

By Orla Mcallister P6

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A Picture of Learning in P6

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Primary 6 is a fun, active and intelligent class. We love P.E, Art, Writing and Science.

Art is a great way to express your creativity.

Writing is good because once you start writing, your story will  flow and turn into something amazing!

We love science because it tells you, if you mix different things together, it can turn into something really cool!

Finally, we love P.E because we love keeping fit, healthy and active. We recently learned how to ski at an after school skiing club. Skiing is now my favourite sport and hobby!

Primary 6 are included in groups.

The Journalists write the class newsletter for the parents so they know what we’ve been up to.

The Global Citizens order fair trade rice from Malawi and sell bags of rice to the school for £3  a bag. They are currently on their 4th batch of the 90kg rice challenge and are doing very well.

The PPR Team (Promoting Positive Relationships Team) are in charge of Playground Pals. We typed up a rota for who is in the upper school playground and who is in the lower school playground. We read it out every day. Playground Pals is a massive part of the school. Primary 6 play games with pupils from P1-P7. We recently ordered new equipment which will be available to play with soon.

The GIRFEC Group makes sure everyone is SHANARRI. They are currently working on a GIRFEC Game board which the whole school can play soon.

Finally, we have the Fit4Life Team who organise and count the points for Running Round Europe. They are doing a great job!

Primary 6 is a great class and we are looking forward to further challenges.

By Emily Watson P6

 

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Our Class Bio Poem

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Primary 6 GPS!

Fun, active, talented, responsible.

Class of Mrs Falconer, pupils of a great school!

Love science, art, athletics and working together

Healthy, confident, included!

Who fear no Golden Time and wet plays

Proud of St Andrew’s assembly, Global Citizen’s success and sporting achievements

Championing GIRFEC, the right to an education and treating everyone equally

The wee roun’ school.

Gourock Primary