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.

It has been a very hard working week this week! Some of our highlights are –

• Writing information reports about Malala Yousuf
• Using bar models and pictures to find fractions of an amount
• Reading The Graveyard Book
• Taking on the role of a dietician and providing advice for a fictional client
• Learning about volume by making lots of noise in science
• Spellavator Wars
• Starting to plan our science project

1. What has made this week enjoyable for you?
2. What Global Goals link with your learning this week?
3. What ideas do you have for December that could replace the usual activities we won’t be able to do because of Covid restrictions?

Well done to Alfie and his dad who played the pipes to mark the end of our two minute silence today. We are very proud of how respectful everyone was during our remembrance. The pipes and silence gave us time to reflect and appreciate what people have given, and continue to give, for peace in the world. Thank you to Alfie and his dad for making it more special for us.

We are in November already! This week has been jam packed. Here are some of the things we have done.

• November calendar page display
• Bullet points sorting task
• Healthy eating advice posters
• Good copies of our Remembrance Day reports
• Journey of sound to the ear/brain activities
• Spellavator Wars
• Angles and position assessments
• Following and learning about the US elections

1. What did you enjoy this week?
2. How can you connect something you have learnt to the Global Goals?
3. What gave you confidence in yourself this week?
4. What acts of kindness have you seen this week? – This could be something you have done or something you have seen.

Our writing focus this block is on information reports. We decided to write an information report on Remembrance Day so we could find out more about it before the 11th November this year. We came up with headings and researched information using our iPads. We used our skimming and scanning skills to help select key information and pick up the main information from a page. Using our notes, we wrote and redrafted our reports and we are very proud of the results. We also looked at some literature based on World War 1. We found out about the poem Flanders Field by John McCrae and read a story by Michael Morpurgo. We were inspired by the poem Flanders Field and created some art using the poem and image of red poppies.

Some of the highlights of this week –

• Shoesday
• Walk to School Week
• Remembrance Day information reports and art
• Halloween art and quiz
• Kindness Tree
• Coordinate maths
• Direction maths
• The Graveyard Book
• Secret kindness pen pals

1. What did you enjoy most this week?
2. What was completely new learning to you this week?
3. If you could go back to the start of the week, what would you tell yourself to make it better?

   

   

   

    

It was lovely to welcome you all back after the October break. We have had a busy first week back with lots of new learning, a new class novel, an assembly, new guidance to keep ourselves safe, and a chance to catch up with our friends again.

Answer the questions below to review your learning experiences this week.

1. What three things did you enjoy doing the most?

2. What did you learn about yourself this week and what made you realise this?

3. What would you like to have more time on?

P7B have been working together in problem solving to use their reading and maths skills. They read a description and tried to create a shape that fitted the description. We used our iPads to help with our drawings and learnt how to use the ruler function to measure and draw straight lines.

We found it was interesting that we all interpreted the instructions differently and there wasn’t just one way of creating the shape.

Here are a few of the descriptions – see if you can create the shape (it was much harder than we first thought).

1.  A five-sided shape with one right angle and one pair of parallel sides.

2.   A four-sided shape with two pairs of parallel sides, four equal sides and no right angles.

3. A six-sided shape with no right angles and one pair of parallel sides.

Congratulations to our new JRSOs and House Captains who were announced today at assembly.

The JRSOs are –

William Mac, Summer and Tara

House Captains are –

David House – Benjamin and Frazer

Alexander House – Rose and Charlie

James House – Thomas and Elise

Everyone in P7 wishes them lots of luck with their new roles. We know they will try their very best.

We’ve been working really hard this week and recovering from our fantastic Dalguise at Home week last week.

Some of the highlights from this week include –

• Testing electrostatic forces on balloons and rulers
• Creating thank you cards
• Descriptive writing about refugees
• Testing magnets and making a compass
• Trying some Maths Week Scotland activities
• Collaborating for problem solving using our whiteboard apps

What piece of learning stuck in your head the most this week?

What would you like to learn more about?

What do you need to do more of before we start assessments next week?