This morning in language , we were learning about how to mix our questions with our answers. We were all given a task , either  to practice reading our books or answer certain questions. After a little while, an arithmetic  teacher called Mrs Kieth came in for about half an hour to teach us about what our five core skills (see below) mean to us.  Our core skills  for learning are creative thinking 🤔, working with others 👫, self management 🙋🏽‍♀️, enquiring and problem solving 🤷🏽‍♀️ and communicating 📝.

Then, after break , we did some maths 🧮.  We were learning about place value which means the value of the digits depending on which place they are in.

After lunch we had assembly.

Once we went back to class we split into teams of 6 and tried to build a tower with blocks.  This tower had to be able to support a dictionary.  Here are some pictures below🗼

By BM 😊

We have had an excellent first week in Primary 7. WE have been focusing on team building this week and building a good attitude towards work, learning and coming to school.

We have explored all the different aspects of our lives that we develop at school and how these will help us in the future.

We have also worked hard on developing our resilience and not quitting.

The gardening areas and the front of the school have been growing like mad over the summer so we tidied them up today ready for new plants and flowers to be planted.

Here are some pictures of before, during and after

Have a great weekend!

In ICT, we are learning to improve our typing skills

Two things help us with this:

1. using two hands
2. learning where the keys are

Here are some great games to help you learn this

https://play.typeracer.com/

https://www.typing.com/student/game/type-a-balloon

https://www.abcya.com/games/ghost_typing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr

Today we were back to school. YAAAAY!

We had one main focus today which was to learn to interact with each other so that we can make a good team. A team which is efficient and effective.

One way to make sure you have a good team is to be respectful, include everyone, support each other, plan, choose different roles. Jordan C says join in. Let other people have their own ideas.

Roan says “First day back was lit!”

Toady when we came in today, we started off by doing our news papers. We started them on Monday but we didn’t do a lot of it. We got to pick who we did it with. We could do it in 1s, 2s or how much you want but you can’t go in a big big group. We are doing our news paper for the full time.

Then it was playtime. It was an out door.

We came back in and went for song practise. Then we went outside for the rest and did some capture the flag.it was really fun but some people did not get to play because they were doing other stuff of the school show.

Then it was Lunch time. It was an out door.

After lunch time w got to finish off our news papers but we could only do it for 25 minuets.

Then we did some health and well-being. We did health and well being on flowers. We had to draw a flower    and label it.

After we went to assembly and did song practice, but every class did there second song. Everybody was really good. I think we did better this time, than on Monday.

Then it was home time. It was a good day!!!

Today was our art day. When we came in there was

We are learning about using a protractor to measure and draw angles in maths this week.

Here are some excellent games to help you practice this.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=angles

https://nrich.maths.org/1235

https://www.mathplayground.com/alienangles.html

https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/protractor-using.html

When we came in today we started off by doing just a little bit of maths. We had to do a time tables square and other times tables. Then when we finished we went to assembly. It was a house assembly. In assembly we did a quiz, songs, challenges, and news round. For the first bit we did a couple of songs, then we moved onto a quiz. You had to show your’e house captain either 1, 2, 3, or 4. It was really easy. It was miss cannon and miss livingstone against all the kids. In the quiz there was a couple of challenges, and some song challenges. The challenges were like drawing miss Ferguson, miss Thompson, and mr green, the triangle dance, and throwing bean bags in a bucket. The drawing challenge was for p4s, p5s and p6s singing challenges was for everybody in their houses, the bean bag challenge was for p1s and p2, and the triangle dance was for p6s and p7s. We all got a different challenge for all our classes. We had to work together as a team. 

When we came back in it was play time. It rang three bells so that means it is an indoor, but then we got told it was an outside play time. It was extra playtime as well but when it was extra playtime, we got sent back in because it started to rain again. 

When the teachers came back in we did some more maths. We did our proper maths this time because when we came in we did times tables to get our brain on. In maths we are learning to make it easier. We are working on graphs. We were trying to learn from our mistakes that we made yesterday to correct them for our graphs today. The teacher gives us a little bit of paper with numbers about how much people went to school. They were set up as a column of boys and a column of girls. We had to draw out the graph and then draw on the girls and boys. It sounded confusing for some people but then they realised that it is really easy. We had to use a ruler and put the numbers and letter ON THE LINE. When we finished we had to go and show the teacher and he will not let us go for lunch unless it is perfect, and he means perfect.

When we finished it was lunch time. It was an outdoor cause it was raining and there was puddles. They didn’t want any of the kids getting wet and sitting in it for the rest of the day. The buddies went down for their lunch and the other kids played on the computers. 

When the bell rang we came in and we started off by doing some reading. We read a couple of chapters of holes then we moved onto a debate. The teacher said if u want to do a debate you have to either do it about everything should be fair trade.

After that we moved onto health and well being (HAWB). We moved into drugs. The teacher wants us to know what can really hurt you, or what can make you sick. We had to write in our joggers what is legal and what is illegal. The teacher went through the full class and we had to add ideas. This is what we thought of,

Legal:

Steroids,

Alcohol,

Nicotine,

Paracetamol,

Sleeping tablets,

Laughing Gas

Antibiotics,

Opiates

That is what we thought was legal, and now this is what we thought was illegal:

Steroids.

Heroin,

Cocaine,

Crack,

Weed,

Meth.

Nicotine,

Alcohol,

Speed,

Ecstacy.

Ketamine,

ISD

That is what we thought was illegal. Then we moved onto True and False about drugs. We are learning about this because the teacher wants us to know About how to make sensible choices as we get older.

We then had to do our assessment. Our assessment was:

What were we learning ……….

I know I was successful…….. because ……….

A top tip I learnt from this piece of learning was…………….

My traffic light is………… because…………

Then we went to p7s for song practise. 

By Kimberley

When we came in today, we started off by doing some hand writing. We are doing hand writhing because we are trying to improve on joining letters. We had to use pen and we had to do it twice. It was about our art show and it had some over the top sentences in it. While we were doing hand writing the teacher asked some people to read. The first person to read was Logan, he had to read a chapter then the next person was josh, and he had to read a chapter, then coral had to read a chapter. We read three chapters altogether. Then we moved onto something called hyperbole. Hyperbole is when you put some fake sentences in it like 

E.g “this situation is 1 billion times worse than I thought!!!”

by Kimberley

Today was sports day. We went to many many different activities. It was a different day because we got to day activities for the full day instead of doing work all day. It was really fun.

The first thing we went to was basket ball. We had to go into 2 groups. It was boys v girls. It was a draw.

Basketball 🏀

The next thing we went to was I.c.t sweet. We had an ice lolly break. It was only 9:30. We got a choice between 3 different kinds. There was a rainbow 🌈 rocket 🚀 , Rainbow stick, and just a plain yellow ice lolly.

Pit stop

After a wee break we went to space hoppers. Mrs McMillan was taking it. She spit us into 4 groups. We all had a race. We had to go around Mrs McMillan and then back to the next person. When we finished doing races we could just play. We had to share but. The teacher made up tokens. There were for why don’t u go first. If the teacher seen us saying it he will give us one. They are worth 10 house points.

Space hoppers 🎾

We did lots more

from Kimberley