We have been looking at collage. We started a countryside landscape today  and we will finish next week. We are excited to share our results.

P7A also had a go at extracting DNA from strawberries in our Science lesson on Thursday. It was fascinating and it got us thinking how much more complicated it must be to analyse human DNA.

We also made models of the DNA double helix structure using edible parts.  It was a great afternoon!

We’ve had a very busy week in P7! Here are some of the highlights –

• Maths assessments for high school
• Spelling with the m, mm, mb, sound
• Writing a response to the spooky animation ‘Francis’
• Analysing Banksy artwork using our inference skills
• Finding out how a baby grows and develops before birth
• Finding out about how twins occur
• Extracting DNA from a strawberry
• Building double helix structures with base pairs out of sweeties
• Planning our Leavers’ Assembly
• Watching some video messages from teachers at Peebles High School
• Walk to School Week with the help of our JRSO team – William, Summer and Tara

1. What surprised you this week?
2. What do you wish you could do again and why?
3. What’s the most important thing you learnt this week and why?
4. Who have you shown kindness to this week?

This week it was Walk to School Week and the return of the ever popular “Shoesday” Tuesday. Here are some of our footwear choices

P7A created these beautiful eye drawings recently using soft drawing pencils to work on our sketching techniques.  To add a bit of colour we used coloured pencils in the iris and drew something we were looking forward to.

On Wednesday we made these INCREDIBLE cress heads reusing tights. We added soil and cress seeds and we made hilarious faces by pinching the tights to make noses  and sticking on Googly eyes. Some of us even made ears!! We’re excited  to watch them grow.

By Willow, Amber, Amber, Hughie, Jacob and John

We have been learning about reproduction and DNA in class. Today we carried out an experiment to extract the DNA from a strawberry. We discussed where extraction of DNA might be used to help in cloning, forensic crime investigation, studying genetic diseases and bacteria and viruses in the environment.

It took quite a few steps and we had to be very careful but we were so happy when we finally managed to lift the DNA extract out on a cocktail stick.

Primary 1 spend time everyday reading either with Mrs Collins, on their own, with their group, or reading with a partner.

Last week we were busy in the garden, more weeding and planting our runner beans.