As part of PE with this term, P7 are working alongside Active Schools to gain a leadership award! 🥇

Pupils are developing their leadership, problem solving and physical skills to eventually lead lunch time clubs with infant pupils.

Talk for Writing – Wishing Tales ✨

This term, Primary 7 have been focussing on Wishing Tales as part of Talk for Writing.

COLD TASK:

We have completed our own baseline assessment ‘cold task’ of writing a Wishing Tale with no input. We will then do our Hot Task assessment at the end of the unit and measure our progress.

IMITATION PHASE:

As part of the imitation phase we have been learning our model text ‘Hettie’s Unicorn’.

Ask your child why we learn a model text.

To help internalise the model text, we have been creating and performing actions, developing story maps using symbols and emojis and then re-writing the text from memory!

Check back soon to see our next phase – innovation!

A very Happy Halloween indeed 🎃!

Primary 7 had a fantastic morning racking up some serious mileage and steps on our sponsored spooky walk from the school, round the golf course and back! We loved seeing all the spooktacular decorations and a huge thank you to all the parent helpers along the way to keep us right with our directions 🧭!

We then returned to school for some well deserved sweet treats and to PARTY 🥳…

Halloween bingo, best costume, best dancer, just dance, Halloween corners, toilet paper mummies, the Slosh, Monster Mash, Spooky Scary Skeletons, act it out and LOTS of cake 🧁

We all had the best day with lots of laughs! Happy ‘almost’ Halloween 👻

Written by Jay H and Jack in Primary 7

WW2

We have been learning WW2 as our term 1-2 topic. As a class, we have made gas masks using paper mache. We were learning about the Blitz and have built our own Anderson shelters using natural resources from the playground. We all love doing the air raid siren at the beginning of our WW2 lessons. A lot of us have relatives who were in WW2, we been sharing a lot of very precious items from WW2 that they had. A couple of our students have been to Maidens to see where an old Prisoner of War camp was from WW2, and have found some coins and bullets. We have also been reading a book called ‘Fireweed’ which is about a boy and a girl who are runaway evacuees during the Blitz in London.

Written by Emme in Primary 7

Literacy – Writing

Hi, my name is Emme and I’m in P7. I am here today to tell you what we have been up to in writing in our class. We have been very busy with our Talk for Writing. We have been learning the model text ‘Kidnapped’ and re-writing the story using symbols and pictures to help us read it from memory without the words. It is awesome. We are now innovating the story using our own ideas to help build suspense. We are doing Quest stories.

Written by Lili in Primary 7:

Maths

In Primary 7 for Numeracy, we have been doing rounding and problem solving.

For rounding, we have been learning to round whole numbers and decimals. Miss Caldwell has gave us a rounding sheet, which starts at hundreds to millions and goes all the way to hundreds of thousandths and it is very helpful. Now most of the class have started to round 2 numbers then multiple it and use estimations.

We have also really enjoyed problem solving. We did a huge mystery about glue sticks I know it sounds funny but it was really fun and if you managed to find out how had done it you would get an extra 20 minutes of playing outside. Gladly, we all found out that the culprit was Markus.

Primary 7 have been learning about weather with Mrs Briggs and Mr Henderson. Today they made wind vanes and measured the direction of the winds 🌬