One of our activities in the last week of term will be a movie afternoon as a way of saying thank-you to you all for your hard work.

The film has to be rated U and available on DVD to play on the smartboard.

Can you recommend a good film for the class to watch. Please justify your choice.

We have researched and taken notes on the Muscles in the human body.  We then used our notes to create an Information Report.

We finished our novel Holes and the movie Holes and compared the two.

In numeracy we are still trying to get quicker at recalling our times tables and used this knowledge in long multiplication sums.

Some of us brushed up on our European facts ready for the Euro Quiz team selection.

We have continued to study how to keep safe on line.

What has been your

Enjoy our St Andrew’s Day holiday on Monday.

Both classes have been creating Christmas display pictures for the dining hall.

P7B looked for inspiration online and decided on a silhouette landscape picture. We split into our table group bubbles and delegated tasks for the project. Here are the jobs we did –

• Drawing, painting and glittering stars
• Colour mixing and sponging the background
• Colour mixing and sponging the moon
• Drawing and cutting the tree silhouettes
• Drawing and cutting the reindeer silhouettes
• Drawing and painting Christmas lights (we decided not to use these in the end as we thought it looked better without)

We think you will agree that Oliver R did an amazing job drawing Santa’s sleigh – free hand!

P7A decided on a Christmas Jumper theme for our display board.  Each of us worked on a different jumper with a letter ‘stitched’ into the design so that together we could spell our a message.  We wanted to keep all the letters uniform so the message could be read when the display was completed and this was the trickiest part.  This is how we did it:

1. First we traced a pattern for each letter from squared paper onto tracing paper.
2. Then we drew the outline of our jumper on red, green or blue paper.
3. Next we transferred the letter design from the trace to the jumper.
4. After that we had to add the ‘stitches’ to the design using oil pastels.  We wanted the letters to look like they had been knitted so made each stitch in a V shape.
5. Finally we added other colourful designs before cutting them out.

We gave Mrs Ryalls some tiny gold pegs to hang up the jumpers so that they look like they are on a washing line.  We are really pleased with the overall result.

This week both classes have been doing a job for Mrs Ryalls to make Christmas decorations for the dining hall.

P7B searched images on the internet for some inspiration and decided to do a silhouette landscape picture. We had to work in our table bubbles on different elements of the picture. Some of us made stars, painted the background using sponges and mixing paint colours, created tree silhouettes or reindeer silhouettes and Oliver R did an amazing job drawing Santa and his sleigh, free hand! We had planned on also using coloured lights on the trees but preferred the snow effect. We are really proud of what we created.

P7A’s picture – coming soon….

Great photo girls you look like you are working hard!

This is Eva’s favourite book! she is having lots of fun drawing birds from the book at home!!

Great writing! Well done

Eva loves to read this story and enjoys the drawing of Brenda at the end!!

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We made a video to show our understanding of the circulatory system.

We hope you enjoy!