Category Archives: Primary 7

Primary 7

P7 Term 3

Literacy

P7 have been reading ‘Journey to The River Sea’ as their class novel.  They have enjoyed learning about life in the Amazon and have designed their own river boats as part of their design work.

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Our model short read text has been ‘Safia and the Captain’.  We have used it to study ( in depth) the structure of an action story and have planned and written our own action stories.

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Wraparound spelling

The children have chosen the level of challenge they want to set themselves  this term and we have worked as a whole 2nd level area to plan for a varied set of activities for the children to meet their needs.  Some children now visit one of the other classrooms in the area to complete the activities with one of the other teachers.KaHa4.JPG

Numeracy

This term we have been revisiting place value and decimal numbers.

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This term we have been focussing on multiplying by 10, 100, 1000.  We have been revisiting the times tables to help us with multiplying bigger numbers and have looked at different ways of recording this, using the grid method and the column method.  We also revisited division and discussed the link between multiplication and division.

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We have also looked briefly at algebraic equations.  The children have applied what they know about the 4 number operations to help them with this.

We have been looking at the relationships between numbers, identifying and continuing number sequences and the patterns of number.  Ask your child about the Fibonacci sequence.

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End of year event and fundraising

We have spent a lot of time planning possible events for our end of year event.  This has involved members of our class helping to compose emails to enquire about costings, special packages available to us and availability of dates.  Some children also volunteered to phone some of the businesses.  Mrs Thorley is reviewing the work we have done on this.  We have also started to think of fundraising ideas and the risk assessments and health and hygiene aspects we need to consider for some of these ideas.  Listen out for an update coming soon!

 

Micro:bit training

We were lucky to have a colleague from the Moray Digital Learning team come in to provide the children with a training session on how to use the micro:bits.  The children had great fun coding these to do different things.

 

Basketball

Two weeks ago we had a team of 5 children go to the academy to participate in a fun basketball event which was co-ordinated by active schools.  The team were great ambassadors for Pilmuir and had lots of fun with teams of P7 children from the other ASG schools.

Orienteering

We had a team of P6 and P7 children attend an orienteering event at Grant Park on Friday. This was organised by some S6 Forres academy pupils with the support of Active Schools.  The teams enjoyed themselves and did well.

 

Rotary Quiz

A  small team of P7s represented the school this week at the Rotary Club quiz.   Well done to all involved for representing the school.

 

Transition academy

The  children had 2 very successful visits to the academy and have  spoken positively about these on return to school . The event this week  had a focus on getting to know staff and children from other schools by rotating round team building activities. We also had a visit last week from a member of staff who was able to answer their questions and put their minds at ease.

 

Culbin Cycle

The children enjoyed their trip to Culbin woods with Outfit Moray.  They had great fun and and were very excited to be given this opportunity.

           

 

Badminton

Angela Bell has continued to visit the school and work with the 2nd level classes to further develop their badminton skills.  The children are making great progress, improving their skills and enjoying these sessions.

We look forward to seeing you all back in term 4. Enjoy your holidays.

P7 2022, Primary 7, STEM

Term 2 in P7

Primary 7 have had an incredibly busy and fun-filled term at Pilmuir Primary School!  Here are some of the highlights from our learning journey: 

  

Learning Through Play 

The children rose to the challenge of creating their own junk model rockets, and also completed some Lego challenges, including designing and building boats that could float.  We also set up an art gallery role play area to build on our exploration of the world of work which started last term with our hairdresser’s salon role play area. Some of the children have enjoyed sewing and making things.  The loom bands have been popular this term with lots of bracelets being made.

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Numeracy 

Primary 7 have had fun completing lots of practical activities to further our understanding of measure.  We have been busy with rulers, scales, and all sorts of measuring jugs and beakers.  We have also been working on time, covering everything from reading 12 and 24 hour clocks, to converting between units of time, and using timetables. 

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Literacy 

We have continued following the weekly spelling progressions in the Wraparound Spelling programme.  In Talk for Writing, we have been using the novel, ‘Cogheart’ by Peter Bunzl, and the short story, ‘The Way Home’ by Pie Corbett to help us explore characterisation.  We’ve also been honing our listening and talking skills, and summarising lots of different texts. 

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Where do we come from?  The Bronze Age 

Primary 7 have had a fantastic time learning about the Bronze Age.  We’ve used primary and secondary sources, completed group projects, explored Bronze Age art, and shared our learning with parents and other classes. 

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RME 

This term we learned about how people celebrate St Andrews Day, and explored how people from different world religions worship.  We also looked at religious artefacts from three world religions, and thought about why they are important. 

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Science 

Primary 7 have been learning about food chains and food webs, and genetic inheritance. 

  

Art 

Throughout the term we have been investigating the visual elements of art (shape, line, tone, texture, form, space, colour) and exploring these through our work on Remembrance, RME, the Bronze Age and Christmas. 

  

Outdoor Learning 

We have completed lots of our science lessons outdoors, and have also enjoyed playing games to develop our creativity and curiosity in the outdoor classroom. 

  

Remembrance 

Primary 7 were responsible for leading the Remembrance Assembly. 

  

Bonfire Night 

We learned about staying safe around Bonfire night, and made brilliant, eye-catching posters to share our safety messages. 

       

  

 

Book Week 

The Primary 7’s headed over to the Primary 1 classroom to be shared reading buddies for the younger children. 

   

 

RAF stem ambassadors 

We had a visit from some of the team based at RAF Lossiemouth. The P5, P6 and P7 classes all enjoyed participating in the activities and workshops. 

 

 

Badminton 

All children in P7 have participated in badminton sessions with Angela. These sessions have been fast paced and full of different games and activities to allow  the children to develop their skills. 

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Netball 

Some of our class represented Pilmuir at an inter-school competition at the academy recently.  

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Christmas 

We have had lots of Christmas fun with our pantomime, Christmas jumper day, Christmas lunch, carol service at the church and making crafts for the Christmas Fayre.  We still have our Christmas party to look forward to and some more carol singing! 

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Thank you for your continued support this year.  We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it comes and we look forward to seeing you in 2023.

  

P7 2022, Primary 7, Uncategorized

P7 Term 1

Literacy

We have been reading short non-fiction texts linked to our topic (How was it made?) this term.  The children have been engaged in discussions about the texts and have been able to share their thoughts.

We are continuing to use The WrapAround Spelling scheme to look at spelling patterns and words in more depth and the strategies we can use to help us spell words accurately.

This term we have read ‘Varjak Paw’ by SF Said as our class novel, and looked at the short story, ‘Zelda Claw and the Raincat’ to inform our own suspense writing.  We have been using the Talk for Writing method to help us learn these texts, innovate on them, and then write independently.

 

Numeracy

We have been focusing on place value and decimal numbers.  We have used a range of active learning activities to help us consolidate our understanding.  We’ve also linked our numeracy to the Dandelion Festival (reading and writing big numbers linked to the amount of potatoes grown by different countries), and our ‘How was it made?’ topic (using scale factor to start making a model of the Solar System).

 

Health and Wellbeing

Primary 7 have had weekly basketball lessons with Miss Masson and have also been practising their ball skills in netball lessons with Mrs Young on a Monday.

We refamiliarised ourselves with Zones of Regulation at the start of term to help us recognise, understand, and talk about our emotions.

 

Topic – the Dandelion Festival and ‘How was it made?’

Primary 7 learned all about how potatoes are grown, which countries grow the most potatoes, and what potatoes can be used for.  We then shared this learning at our school’s Dandelion Festival assembly in September.

We worked collaboratively to research the planets in our Solar System before using the information we had found to help us make a scale model of the Solar System.

 

Independent Learning through Play

The children have done lots of fantastic learning through play, developing a range of skills like teamwork, communication, and problem solving, as well as advancing their learning in other areas.  For example:

  • Hair salon role play area which has involved literacy (talking & listening) and numeracy (money, scheduling);
  • Watercolour paints at the arts and crafts table which will feed into our ‘How was it made topic?’ through fashion designs;
  • Experimenting with magnets which has furthered our scientific understanding of magnetism and forces;
  • The Kapla blocks have been very popular this term and have allowed the children to develop their teamwork skills to work on big projects. They have created some amazing models and tall towers.

 

 

Google Classroom

We post what we are learning daily on our Google Classroom so we encourage you to access this with your child and discuss their learning with them.

 

Next term:

Over the winter term our topic will be ‘Where do we come from?’ which will give us the opportunity to explore our history.  This will be supported by numeracy work linked to understanding time.  We will also be planning lots of fun activities in the build up to Christmas, including learning linked to whole school events such as the Christmas Fayre.

Health and Wellbeing, Latest News, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7

Get Into Summer

Get into Summer is a Scottish Government supported initiative to help children, young people and families have fun, socialise with their peers and reconnect with their communities throughout the holiday period

There are lots of activities on offer from council services, local clubs and communiy groups. Click here to be taken to the activities list.

The Active Schools, Sports and Physical Activity Opportunities programme for Moray can be accessed by clicking here.  This programme is in addition to the activities shown below.

Keep checking back for further details as we’re working with our partners to bring you even more fun activities.

Active Schools, Health and Wellbeing, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 4, Primary 5, Primary 6, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Active Schools Cross Country Series

Active Schools Virtual Family Cross Country Series March & April 2021

 It is usually around this time of year that children from across Moray are taking part in our Cross Country Competition. With the current lockdown we can’t bring this event to you, but we are keen to continue to encourage and support children, young people and their families to be more active, more often.  With this in mind we are launching our Family Cross Country Series taking place in March & April 2021.  This is FREE and is a series of 4 virtual fun runs that can be done in and around your local area, in your own time and the best thing is – you choose your own route and select the distance from those provided that you wish to complete. Suggested 800m P1-3, 1600m (1 mile) P4-7, 1600m (1 mile) or 3200m (2 mile) S1-6.

This series will commence on the 8th of March with runners completing two qualifying runs before 1st April and 2 qualifying runs before 1st May (a total of 4 runs).  As per the attached poster there are recommended minimum distances for the P1-3 and P4-7 age group (but participants can select either of the distances if they are perhaps new to running, returning to running or indeed want more of a challenge!)  Every pupil that completes a run will receive an email participation certificate with those who manage all 4 runs receiving a series completion certificate. We will also showcase the participation figures per Primary School, Secondary School and School Cluster and then award schools with the highest percentage of pupils taking part as our ‘Active Moray Virtual Cross Country Series Champions’.

Those families or individuals wishing to take part can complete registration via this link on our website:- http://sportinmoray.co.uk/mcsh/online-activity/

Runs will be verified by sending your Active Schools team a photograph you taking part or your route. Once you have registered you will receive a confirmation email with more details of this.

There is no deadline for signing up, and entry forms will be accepted at any point throughout the Series.

Throughout the series some top ‘running tips’ will be sent out in conjunction with our own local runner and athlete Kenny Wilson to help you along the way and encourage regular physical activity in the outdoors throughout the series. We really hope you enjoy the series and please do send us photos and stories of you and your families taking part and we will share this on our Facebook page.

We are hoping to run another series for May and June taking us to the end of the school academic year.

Thanks

Rosalyn & Craig