Mrs Le Blond and two of our P7 pupils were fortunate enough to attend Mass on Friday to welcome the relics of St Therese of Lisieux.
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P1/2B ICT questionnaire
P1/2B mental agility questionnaire
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The Jungle Book
Depute First Minister’s Summer Maths Challenge
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There may be golden tokens involved for anyone who has a go!
We will want to see your strategies and answers, of course.
Go on give it a try.
Primary 6/7b May 2019
May has been another very busy month for 6/7b.
Health week was jam packed with activities . We kept very active, and made ourselves some sandwiches which we had at our whole school picnic. We took part in the Big Clean Up which saw us all clear up our local area. We were really shocked at the amount of glass in the park.
P7s have had their two day visit followed by the Smoothie Challenge from the maths department.
We had a great night at Hampden Park when we went to see Scotland V Jamaica. A 3-2 win for Scotland’s ladies before they head to the World Cup in France. Go Scotland!
In class we have been learning about negative numbers and doing some algebra. We also did some persuasive writing with Mrs Henry when we were learning more about alcohol and smoking. We had a class debate on the use of these substances.
Many of our pupils have been working hard in Jungle book show practice and we have been producing some great Jungle Book art.
P7s investigated the properties of substances with Cardinal Newman High School
P6s met their Buddies who are due to start school in August, they had great fun with them.
Primary 5/6 April / May 2019 Post
As we were off for a lot of April due to our Easter holidays we have made a joint post to share our experiences during the months of April and May as part of our Reflective Friday.
H Factor was enormous fun and gave us a great opportunity to showcase our talents and develop our confidence in performing in front of an audience. There was lots of audience participation as you can see during this performance of Tsunami !
We had great fun making sandwiches using the cress we had grown in class as part of our work about food miles. It also linked well to our health week activities and our Global Picnic ( although it was indoors because of the heavy rain !!!!)
In literacy we have been studying Saving Finnegan and learning about writing for a younger audience. We wrote our stories for P1/2a and then went downstairs to pay them an author visit and read our work aloud to them.
In numeracy we have completed our work on fractions. We have  been learning a lot about money through using coins effectively as well as calculating cost and change.
In Spanish we have been learning outdoors and testing our knowledge through a variety of active games. In this photo we are playing the line up game based on our knowledge of the weather.
One person calls the weather type in Spanish  and the two contestants race to touch it first.
Preparations for the Jungle Book are going well and many members of our class have been practising with microphones and music. They are really working hard and learning when they come on and off stage as well as memorising all their lines. All of them are staying behind after school a lot. We hope it will be a great success when it takes place in St Gerard’s Primary on the 18th and 19th June. Tickets are now on sale at £4 each.
During health week we had a bouncy inflatable assault course which was great fun but really hard to climb. It was a really busy week with golf, healthy cooking and other different activities. We ended the week with Sports Day which was a bit different as we had to hold it indoors as the weather was terrible. It was still great fun though and we have the P7 sports championship race still to run on the first dry day.
Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company have been coming in to work with us as part of Developing The Young Workforce. They are explaining how many jobs are involved in the creation of a product and the challenges of getting your product just right. It has been great fun so far as you can see.
P4/5 March Reflective Friday
On the 8th of March, we released the brown trout alevins into the Calder. We each had a container of 3 or 4 fish. One of our favourite parts was pouring them into the water. It was really good to get fresh air and a chat with our friends on the way to release the fish. It was great seeing them in the river for the first time. Some of us felt it was a bit sad because we had been looking after them for 6 weeks but it was great to see them searching for – and finding – food for themselves! Some of us felt a bit nervous for them because we noticed a lot of rubbish like glass, plastic, branches, crisp packets, bottle tops, broken bikes and so on in the water.
We have been learning about plastic pollution after releasing them because we saw all that rubbish. We have watched videos about the harm that is done to fish and other creatures in the sea and we’ve been talking about how to stop using so much plastic. We have been writing persuasive letters to people to convince them to stop using single-use plastic.
Don’t use so much plastic.
Recycle plastic.
Reuse plastic.
Don’t litter.
Don’t waste plastic.
At this month’s Merit Assembly, Sophia and Logan showed everyone their presentation about the Brown Trout.
This month, we have also been learning about the church and what being an altar server means. We have prepared questions to ask existing altar servers. Oscar has even just become an altar server! Well done, Oscar!
Science Week was this month.
We did lots of experiments including:
Skittles in hot water: the Skittles melted and the water turned different colours.
Bouncy egg: we put one egg in vinegar and waited 24 hours and when we took it out, there was no shell but it was bouncy!
Bending water: we got a static charge on a ruler and put it beside running water from the tap.
Blow-up balloon: We put a balloon over a jar of vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and it blew up the balloon!
We even tried some experiments that didn’t quite go to plan! It was great fun. Some of us tried them at home.
Some of us made non-fiction books about our interests such as guinea pigs, horses and Fifa.
It was also World Book Day.
We came to school in costumes or in our pyjamas and we read books and went round the classes. In our class, we read Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo about World War II and children being evacuated.
Reflective Friday March P6/7b
This has been a hectic month for P6/7b.
We have had fun whilst raising money on our Fridays in Lent so far. We have had our quiz, mad scientist/ crazy hair/odd shoe day, Pyjama and movie afternoon and today we have H-Factor, the school is buzzing!!
In maths, we have been furthering our learning in algebra and have been learning to identify, name and measure different types of angles.
In literacy, we have been continuing to use our reading strategies for comprehension and have written a persuasive letter to an engineer in the Leaders Award to promote our inventions. We have also made posters after taking part in a BBC live lesson called Blue Planet to try and warn people about the dangers of plastics in our seas. We are also now going to try to put commas in the right places. 🙂
We enjoyed science week doing a variety of experiments looking at physical and chemical changes.
The P7s took part in the Commonwealth games at Cardinal Newman with the Cluster Schools where we managed to gain the top number of points, a great effort by all.
We had a brilliant visit to Hampden Park with our friends from Mossend Primary which was a treat for us from Nil by Mouth, a huge thank you to everyone at the charity.
We had a chance to compare our work with P3/4 which was a very interesting experience for all of us, we were very impressed by P3/4’s jotter work!
We had a great day being engineers at the Forth Bridges where we built a structure which was 4.8 metres high, using individual tetrahedron shapes which we made individually then put together in groups. We were guided by a lady called Elaine Barrie who was a Civil Engineer and gave us some good advice on solving problems.
A big congratulations to Cathal and Katie for reaching the final of the Reading Quiz…good luck for the next stage.
Now we are off to enjoy our two weeks holiday…see you all in April!
