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On Friday the 19th of June primary 7 had their leavers’ assembly.  The show was a huge success and we all worked really hard on the lead up, practising our parts and songs. As a leaving gift we received our new ties for our new high school.

Yesterday morning we went to Strathclyde Park to participate in St. Andrews Hospice’s Wear Yellow Walk. All the primary 7’s went on a coach that took us to Strathclyde Park.

When we arrived we got given a yellow hat and a bottle of water and then we started to walk.  After a while we went and had a snack beside the water on the rocks. On our next stop we went to the park. All the primary seven boys were on a tyre swing while the girls pushed them. Then we went on the runner.

While we were walking, we saw old roman baths and we climbed on the rocks that use to be a bath. We played a game called last man standing, if you put your feet on the floor/little stones then you are out!

After playing in the old baths we had lunch, we had lots fun at lunch like playing in the park but when we sat down to eat the rain came on a light bit but that didn’t stop us from having fun! The funniest part of lunch was when Bobby threw football at Garv and Garv threw it away and it accidentally hit a boy called Jake in the cheek but he was okay and we ended up playing in the park together. After we had lunch and played around a bit we finished the 6K walk.

At the end we got given a Caramel Wafer, a Banana and small bottle of water. Since it was Mark’s birthday Georgina got the DJ to give him a shout out and sing happy birthday. After the DJ sang happy birthday we all partied around and sang. Yesterday was amazing and we liked it even more because it was for a good cause.

By Georgina and Courtney.

In Primary 7 maths we have been learning about pie charts. Pie charts are used to show percentages or fractions of a whole amount. Pie charts look like a pie cut into slices, pie charts are always cut into an even amount. We have also started learning about algebra. Algebra is when you have an equation that has numbers and letters in it and you have to work out what the letter stands for e.g. a+7+10 a=3.

 

Last week all the schools going to Chryston High went to a science event in the high school. The science event was about C.S.I and forensics. C.S.I are a group of forensic scientists that help solve crimes. Forensic scientists are people who come to a crime scene and look for evidence. They take the evidence back to their labs to analyse it and look for DNA or fingerprints. DNA is a unique code everyone has in their body, this can help find criminals. Fingerprints are little patterns we have on the tip of our

fingers, when someone touches an object they leave their fingerprint on it.

In language we have been reading a new book called Jammie Dodgers On the Run. It is about three boys that are gypsies. The book shows what it was like to be poor in the Victorian Times. The three boys are called Jem, Ned and Billy and their family is very poor so they go out every day trying to earn money by picking pockets, selling things to people and cheating rich people. We have been focusing on the visualisation strategy to help us understand the setting.

 

We have started a new media project called V.I.B this stands for Very Important Bear. In this project we will be making a mini movie about a teddy bear called Buddy. This movie will have 8 scenes and each scene must be 15 to 20 seconds long, the movie will be approximately 3 minutes long. We will start filming these movies within the next 3 weeks. We are all looking forward to making these films.

 

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P.E

In P.E these past weeks we have been working on tennis. We are learning about ball handling and how to keep it on our racket and make sure it doesn’t go everywhere. Some strokes in tennis are forehand, backhand, volleys, smashing and serving. The most powerful one is smashing as you do it at the net.

 

I.D.L

In I.D.L we have been learning about the different groups of animals. They can be classed as vertebrates and invertebrates.  The different groups of vertebrates are mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. We looked at pictures of different animals and matched them up with their name on a sheet. We also looked at what makes being that certain animal classed as that e.g mammals give birth rather than laying an egg.

 

Maths

In maths we have been looking at the median, the range, the mode and the mean. The mean is where you add all thee numbers up e.g 5+9+8+3+3+2+1+1=32 and then you divide it by how many numbers you have so it would be 32/8=4 so 4 would be the answer. Next is the median(middle). The median is where the number is the centre number but first u have to put the numbers in order. 6,9,4,3,7=3,4,6,7,9 and then the answer would be,=6 . The mode is next. The mode is a number that appears most in that pattern for example 1,1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,6,7,8,9,9 the most common is=3. The range is where you take the biggest number away from the smallest example 12,92,81,100,52,11 you would do the sum 100-11=89 .

High School Visit

Yesterday a woman called Leonthoea came to see us. She was a personal support teacher and we could go and talk to her if we were worried about anything. She let us make up a first year student. Ours was called Jake and he was very smart. He also got bullied. Then at the end she told us about coming to school on the last week of the summer holidays for Chryston High summer sizzler. At first nobody wanted to go because it was going to school in the holidays! But then she showed us a video and everybody wants to come! We even get to go to the safari park!

Language

In language we have started a new book called ‘Jammy Dodgers on the Run’. We have been looking at different strategies to help us like:  Prior Knowledge, Metalinguistics, Main Events/ideas, Summary, Visualisation and Inference. We are all loving our new book.

Scottish Opera

Last Friday, three people from the Scottish Opera came to our school. We put on a great performance, over 50 people came to see us! We had to wear these silly costumes that made us feel really hot. In total we sang about 8 songs. It was a great performance and the whole class really enjoyed taking part in this amazing experience!

 

By Emma and Neve! 

 

 

 

 

On Friday we are performing Warriors, the Emperor’s Incredible Army to others. P5 s will be The Builders, P6 are the Soldiers and P7s are The Peasants. We will be performing alongside Scottish Opera singers. Roger came to work with us prior to the Easter holidays to improve our singing. We will be singing a variety of songs to tell the story about the emperor. The story is set in China 2000 years ago. Watch this space for further updates!

Here we are making out real life sized human bodies!! We will post our completed ones very soon. Maths-

In maths we have been learning about percentages, they are like decimals and fractions (e.g. 0.35 = 35%). We have done a page in the maths textbook about it, there was squares that had 100 smaller squares like a grid pattern, there was an amount of squares highlighted and we had to write them in percentages (e.g. if a square had 40 squares highlighted it would be 40% of the square is highlighted.)

Science-

Our new topic it about biodiversity, biodiversity is the types categories that plants and animals are grouped into like lions are mammals and spiders are insects. We found out that plants are involved in biodiversity, there are more than 2 kingdoms of living things, there are 5 including plants, animals, fungi, protoctista and prokaryote.

Writing-

We have been writing a report about Hitler and the holocaust. We wrote Hitlers life,  the Nazi’s and Memorial day. This piece of writing is last we will do relating to our world war two topic.

Health

For the last few weeks we have been combining out art skills with our learning from our drugs topic. We drew bodies and the organs then we wrote the effects that different drugs can have.

 

By Joshua Gall