Our spelling pattern was the sound m, made with m, mm or mb.

In writing we are learning the features of explanation texts, and this week we focussed on present tense verbs and time and sequence words. We can find these in texts and highlight them.

Our grammar lesson taught us that sentences have a subject and an object, and we practised finding them in sentences. Here is Cara’s colour coded work.

In maths we are learning about time, and graphs. We use a key in graphs called pictograms to count the number represented.

Our science topic is the states of matter; solids, liquids and gases. We are scientists and have set our own questions about things we want to know. We are researching these questions and presenting our answers in posters or power point slides to share.

Here are some of our questions!

Skipper’s strategy for building resilience this term is ‘challenge your mindset’. We listened to a book ‘My Fantastic Elastic Brain’ and drew the parts of the brain and what they do.

Also in health and well-being we are looking at first aids techniques and practised putting people in the recovery position.

Our week in pictures:

This week we have also been focusing on learning how to manage our time well and work more independently. Keep it up P7B!

We had a wonderful day yesterday learning how to sketch woodland creatures with local artist Cherith Harrison.  She showed us how to draw the creatures and also how to use lines and shading to create the texture of their fur or spines. We are really proud of our beautiful drawings. Thank you Cherith!

It was great to see everyone back after the Easter break.

Our spelling words have the n sound made with n, kn, gn, or pn. We also have a common word.

In writing we are learning the features of an explanation. It explains how or why something occurs, and is non-fiction. Our example text is How Paper is Recycled.

Our maths is telling the time. We are matching analogue and digital clocks, putting times in order and distinguishing am from pm. We learned that am means ante meridiem and pm means post meridiem.

We are also interpreting charts where the picture stands for more than one item.

Our science topic is on the three states of matter; solid, liquid and gas. We will link this to the water cycle and water preservation. We listened to the story ‘We are water protectors’ by Carole Lindstrom and the illustrations are by Michaela Goade. The pictures are bright and colourful and show the water in beautiful patterns.

A similar artist is Ted Harrison and we painted pictures in his style.

We have been trying out lots of novels before choosing our next class novel. Thanks to everyone who brought books in, they were great suggestions. We have settled on ‘The Last Bear’ by Hannah Gold.

Art Competition

Lowri, Leah and Zara ran their own art competition last term and announced the winners today.

Rosie came first with this joy tree.

And Jackson came second with Harry Potter.

Well done to the winners and to the girls for organising it!

Welcome back Boys and Girls.

This week…

We were introduced to our new writing block. This term we will be looking at exposition writing which is to persuade by arguing one point of view. We looked at an example of a piece of exposition text and then looked closely at this to see what we need to include and what grammar we need to focus on.

We started our maths block on decimals and perimeter. In perimeter we looked at perimeters of rectangles and we had to work out the sides of a rectangle if you only know one side and the perimeter. In decimals we have been looking at place value and the link with decimals and fractions.

We also started our topic work this week. Across P6 and P7, each class are going to be focussing on a decade. P6/7 are looking at the 1970s and P6 are looking at the 1950’s. We began by creating questions on what we want to learn about and then looked at key events that happened in our decade.

We have had a great day today as we began our block of photography. We looked at taking photos in a variety of lighting conditions and adjusting the focus and exposure on what we have snapped. Take a look at some of our examples below. We are really proud of them.

Going to Dulgise I think will be a good Challenge
In math if I find something hard I tack a moment
I have helped my friends in maths

Going to Dulgise I think will be a good Challenge
In math if I find something hard I tack a moment
I have helped my friends in maths

Im excited for Dalguise and the stuff in it and especially leaving primary school

Probably s.n.o.t

I helped olly😀 with maths

I’m excited for Dalguise