January 

Literacy

This month in literacy, primary 7 have been studying Non-Fiction texts.

We have been learning about the Second World War and primary and secondary sources.

Mrs Hannah even brought us in some real primary sources, from the time of the War. We loved reading the letters and looking at the ration book she gave us.

We have been thinking about the validity of sources too:

“ A reliable source would be goggle box because people write it for schools “ – Devon

“ Wikipedia wouldn’t be a reliable source because anybody can go in and change information by making a wikipedia account “ – Gemma

Rabbie Burns

This week we have been writing some scots poetry as we celebrated the life of Rabbie Burns.

We studied his famous poem ‘Address to a Haggis’ and wrote our own versions entitled ‘Address to a Teacake’.

We loved getting creative with the Scots language.

“The best type of taught writing is the type where you get to eat chocolate” – Joe

We achieved our target of editing and improving work. Some examples of our edited and published poems can be found below.

 **Our literacy target for next month is to record ourselves reading and use these recordings to improve our fluency and expression.**

 

 

Numeracy

 

This month we have been learning about Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.

We have enjoyed making progress when working independently and using our fractions knowledge to solve problems.

We had to make a paper model then find a fraction of it.

Number Talks

We have started to re-visit every number talks strategy and have been solving problems without using our whiteboard. At the start it was tricky but we are improving every week!

So far we can solve addition and subtraction problems using the number talks strategies in our head!

 **Our numeracy target for next month is to be more confident when working with 3D objects and their nets.**

 

Health and Wellbeing

This month we have started to learn about Gymnastics in P.E. We have also been doing a 30 minute circuits session every week to improve our fitness.

So far we have covered matching and mirroring and simple routines.

We are all becoming much more confident and are looking forward to learning handstands, rolls and using these skills on apparatus.

We have also started learning about World War 2 through Y Dance! We love working with Jessica every Thursday! Check out some of our moves below.

**Our  target for next month is to set and achieve fitness goals during circuits in P.E. **

Let it Snow!

Let it Snow! 

Let it Snow! 

We had so much fun last week!! Igloos and Snowmen Galore!!