Primary 7 November Blog

Literacy

This month we have been loving our new novels! We’re almost finished them already! We have started using more digital technology in our literacy lessons. This means we can do fast finisher and extension tasks online when we finish our work. Examples of each group’s digital literacy work can be seen below!! We have also been collaborating to create group dictionaries and chapter cards as we read our novels.

This month we have been focusing on Narrative and Persuasive writing. We have also completed 2 re-drafts to practise our editing and improving skills.

We have been completing weekly dictated paragraphs to challenge us with our spelling words, many of us are now achieving 100% on our weekly spelling Quiz!!

Our Literacy target for next month is linked to editing and improving writing. We will post some of our word processed letters in our next blog!

Numeracy

This month we started by completing our Multiplication and Division assessment on Sumdog!

Every single child in the class improved overall and many achieved over 90%! This is fantastic and proves that hard work and maximum effort pay off!

We now know all of our Number Talks strategies – we start each numeracy lesson by choosing an operation with a class vote. We can then use any strategy of our choice!!

We then moved on to time, starting off by making our own clocks to help us calculate time durations!

As well as 24hr time, durations, timetables and converting time, we have been applying our time skills in P.E. by timing ourselves carrying out various events in Sportshall Athletics.

Our numeracy target for next month is to apply our money knowledge in a range of contexts. We will be part of the finance team calculating profit and loss for the Christmas fayre. We will also work at the Christmas fayre helping the younger classes give change.

Health and Wellbeing

This month we achieved our target of learning to compete in each of the Sportshall athletics events. We have practised long jump, triple jump, speed bounce, balance beam, aiming and shuttle runs with hurdles! We also did some circuits to improve our fitness ahead of the Sportshall Athletics Festival at Ravenscraig on Fri 1^st December!

At the beginning of November, Daryl from ‘Tree of Knowledge’ visited us to deliver a fantastic workshop on growth mindset and self-motivation. We worked on a range of teambuilding activities which needed resilience and determination!

Our health and wellbeing target for next month is to review our target plates and create new Literacy and Numeracy targets for the new year!

Expressive Arts

This month we have been experimenting with brush strokes to create texture! We loved splattering paint to create the lava on our volcanoes……we did not love cleaning up afterwards!!!!!

Our finished volcanoes look so effective!! You can see them displayed outside Room 14!

At the beginning of November we visited Sky Academy!!

BEST TRIP EVER!!!!!

We split into teams and produced our own news report on natural disasters! the finished advert is on the USB wristband each P7 got to take home. If you haven’t seen it already, it really is worth a watch!