Author: Miss Wallace

As part of our WW2 topic, we had to make an Anderson shelter model within a hour. It had to be waterproof, had to fit a Lego man inside and also had to hold a 1kg weight. Our class brought in junk from home to make the model. We worked in groups of three for this task. The groups of three worked together to plan and made the model. We used cardboard, plastic bottles, paint and paper. It was great fun and everyone enjoyed presenting their model to the class.

If you are visiting the school via the school office, please look at our models. They are all found in the foyer.

By Anthony and Layla

 

 

Over the past few weeks our class has been taking part in a course called bikeability. The S5s and S6s from Chryston high school are teaching us how to check our bike and ride with confidence.

We are really enjoying learning about WW2. We have found out about the Blitz, Evacuation, blackouts and Anderson shelters. Last Friday we had a pretend air raid exercise. The air raid siren went off and we hid under our tables like they were Anderson shelters. An Anderson shelter was a safe place to hide when the German bomber planes were overhead and dropping bombs on Britain. We did it again and we went outside and hid under the benches.

Miss Wallace’s grandad (Mr Smith) came into our class to tell us about WW2. It was very interesting to hear about WW2 from someone who was our age when WW2 was happening. He told us all about his experience of WW2 and he showed us his gas mask, ID card and ration book.

Finally Caoimhe, Coral and Violet played their respective instruments in class to us all. Caoimhe and Violet play the trombone and Coral plays the trumpet. The three of them sound amazing and we hope to hear them again.

 

By Gregor and Robyn

We had lots of fun dookn for apples, decorating them and then eating them. We wish every day was Halloween!

This week we came back from our October week and started working hard again. We have a new topic called World War Two and so far we are all really enjoying it. Right now we are looking at how WW2 started and the evacuation of children. We coloured maps to show which countries were involved at the start of the war. We also showed dates of when some countries were invaded and labelled the axis and the allies.

In health and wellbeing, our indicator is active. We have been going outside as much as possible to be active and enjoy the outdoors when the weather is nice.

Some people have been planting outside to replace the old plants that died over the summer holidays. We also dug up the old vegetables in the big boxes so we can plant new ones in the Spring.

In maths we are looking at money. We were writing bank statements and we are now learning how to exchange money into a different currency.

By Adrianna and Hannah MacI

 

This week we came back from our September weekend and started our hard work again.

We all got our new reading books. One group have started Jammy Dodgers on the run which is set in Victorian Times. Another group are reading a scary book called, Young Ware Wolf. So far, we are liking our books.

In Science, we have started an experiment to do with our topic Space. We are trying to find out if changing the surface when dropping a fake meteorite will affect the surface or affect the fake meteorite. We are using a rock from outside as a fake meteorite. The results so far are:

Grass: Affect on meteorite was slight bounce
Affect on surface was slight noise

Tyre: Affect on meteorite was a large bounce
Affect on surface was some little black tyre bounced up

During maths, we have been looking at triangles are we are all very good at it. We learned about the different types of triangles, the properties of each triangle and that if you add up all the angles in a triangle it equals 180 degrees.

Here’s a link to a song to help you learn about triangles: https://youtu.be/JQUTVgT9RXY

By Abby and Hannah MacI

As you know this week has been Maths Week , and we’ve been learning about timetables and schedules. We have been creating timetables for being the Head Teacher for a week including taking lessons, meetings, etc. We also made a timetable about what we would do out of school . Recently, we have been learning about dates and the calendar. Some of us learned this rhyme :

Thirty days has September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have Thirty-one,
Except February all alone,
With 28 days clear,
And 29 each in leap year.

 

Also, we have been learning about space. In our Solar System, and the planets are :

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

Just recently we researched constellations. If you didn’t know constellations are groups of stars that create an image, for example Ursa Major and inside Ursa Major there is a smaller cluster of stars called the Big Dipper or the plough. If you draw an imaginary line up from the two stars on the right you see Polaris or the North Star.

Here’s a rhyme to remember the order of the planets :

Leena: My Very Evil Mother Just Swatted Uncles Nose.

Gregor: My Vicious Evil Mother Just Sat Upright Nastily.

By Leena and Gregor.

On Monday 11th December P7 had a very special Christmas Party at Chryston Parish Church. Mr Malcolm made us a lovely lunch and the leaders from 5th and 6th year at Chryston High joined us. We played lots of party games, enjoyed some Scottish country dancing and loved disco dancing. We all had a fantastic time. Here are some of our photos:-

 

Last Thursday we went to the People’s Palace to find out about WW2 in Glasgow. We started with a workshop and explored the different areas about Evacuation, The Blitz, Rationing and Anderson Shelters. We got the opportunity to look closely at items from WW2 such as a gas mask, a ration book, an Air Raid Warden’s helmet and whistle. Brooke got to dress up as a land girl. Doesn’t she look great!

Brook was surprised to find out that women had to use alternatives for beauty products during WW2. They used beetroot for lipstick, oxo cubes to tan legs, soot for toothpaste, burnt wine corks for mascara and olive oil to moisturise. Sometimes dogs chased women for the oxo cubes on their legs! Can you imagine that?

Max found out that the Government recommended 8 people per Anderson Shelter. When our class tried it out, we managed to fit 12 children it but that was not at all comfortable.

Jake found out more about Hitler. Joe didn’t know about Morrison shelters until he saw a picture of one. A Morrison Shelter stayed inside a house and looks rather like a dog cage today. This was used to protect people inside their homes during air raid attacks.

We had a brilliant time and felt it a great way to finish off a topic we have all loved.

On Tuesday John and Isobel paid a visit to our class. They were both children living in Coatbridge during WW2.

John spoke to us for roughly twenty minutes about the Blitz, Anderson Shelters and Rationing. Then we asked our visitors questions and shared some of our hard work with them.

It was really interesting to hear real accounts of WW2 from a child’s perspective.

Max thought it was a great experience having two WW2 children in our classroom. He said, “This is a one of a kind generation of people to speak to.”

Matthew thought it was quite odd that the one bomb that landed in Coatbridge was roughly 200 yards from where John was seeking shelter.

Evan thought it was amazing how many times the people of Coatbridge had to go into the Anderson shelter. John said he was only in the Anderson shelter about six times in total. The longest time he was in the Anderson shelter was for 6 hours. This was the night of the Clydebank Blitz. John and his family were there until 4am.

John and Isobel were very impressed with our behaviour, knowledge and listening skills.