Ladywell Primary School P7a 2015-16

Well done to all of the Pearl Izumi cyclists and mascots. We are all very proud of you!

This week the sun has been splitting the trees.  On Monday we went outside and took part in a scavenger hunt.  We used the outdoor environment to list things from A to Z.  We then played some outdoor games such as football and played on the outdoor gym equipment.

On Wednesday, because our topic is Space, we went outside with eight balloons that we pretended were planets.  We learned about how planets orbit and rotate around the sun and acted this out to help us to understand how the solar system works.  P7b joined us for this lesson.

On Thursday morning we wrote an explanation of how the solar system works, what planets make up the solar system and how the solar system was formed.  After break time we learned about the different positions in netball and then played some mini games to get a chance to play in a position of our choice.  We learned about where we were allowed to play on the court.

It has been a short week due to the bank holiday and an in-service day however we have managed to squeeze in lots of learning.

This week the Motherwell Times came to take our Primary 7 photograph.  We can’t believe that our time at Ladywell is almost over.

One of our pupils planned an art lesson. We learned how to draw a parrot using lines which is one of the visual elements.  We loved it!

Some of our pupils created another relationship rap to show what they learned as part of our Health and Wellbeing lesson –

Care for people

Treat them nicely

Love them

Hug them

Make them happy

Smile – don’t make them lonely

Make people happy!

P7a

On Monday a new pupil joined our class.  It was a lovely surprise for us and a great way to start our week – we are all very lucky to have a new friend.

We each made a mnemonic to help us to remember the names of the planets in our solar system in order.  Here are a few that we came up with –

My

Very

Elastic

Moth

Jumps

Swiftly

Under

New York

Magic

Vans

Eat

Marmalade

Jumping

Straight

Up

North

My

Very

Educated

Mother

Just

Served

Us

Noodles

For Taught Writing this week we all wrote newspaper report explaining an alien invasion on Ladywell.  We learned that the features of a newspaper include: columns, a snappy title, quotes, paragraphs, formal vocabulary, photographs.  We tried to use synonyms for ‘said’ such as: assumed, stated, exclaimed, added, insisted, told and claimed.

On Friday we started a new HWB topic called Proud to be Me.  Our focus was about friendships and relationships with the opposite sex.  In groups we decided on what we thought the five most important attributes of a relationship are.  Two of the pupils in our class made up a rap about this.  Check out their video.

P6/5 performed an assembly for the school about Clyde in the Classroom.  We really enjoyed it and learned a lot about ways of looking after the fish in our environment.  Two of the pupils in our class worked the sound system.  What super technicians!

Until next week,

P7a

On Monday we began our new Literacy topic – non-fiction.  We investigated a variety of non-fiction texts to discover the different features such as contents page, index, glossaries etc.  Check out our photos below.

On Thursday a famous cyclist, Mark Beaumont came to Ladywell to talk to us about his adventures.  He told us about his participation in Pearl Izumi.  Two lucky people from our class were chosen to be the Primary 7a representatives for the opening of Pearl Izumi.  They came along to school with their bikes and helmets and took part in a photo shoot.

Mark Beaumont told us that he travelled on 141 planes to get to all of the Commonwealth countries and interviewed them about the Commonwealth games.  He was really excited to hear everyone around the world talking about Glasgow, the place where he started his career.

He also told us about his trip around the world which had many up sides and down sides.  We were really impressed by this.

On Friday we had the PTA Spring Coffee Morning.  Some of the P7s got to help with serving tea, coffee and cakes to our community.  We had the chance to buy some cakes, they were delicious!  During the morning, the choir performed a range of songs to entertain our guests.  They were super as always, music to our ears!

One of the children in our class brought in some artefacts from the first and second world war.  We found this so interesting and feel privileged to have been given the chance to look at a photograph of the Fife 7th battalion homefront, a map, a journal and two certificates from King George V.  This was a great way to round off our World War 2 topic.  We can’t wait to begin learning about Space and have so many questions!

This week we have been chatting about getting ready for High School and are looking forward to all of the hard work and preparation coming up before our visits.