We had a very interesting start to Thursday morning this week. When we arrived at school we were shocked to see a scary message left in blood on our classroom windows. We also had a note to say we were going to be investigating a crime that had happened in our classrooms.

We used our inference reading skills to solve a murder and create a crime report to present to the rest of the class. We were very relieved to find out it had all been pretend and just a way for us to practise what we have been learning about in reading. Quite a few of us managed to correctly identify the victim, suspect, motive and weapon!

This week we also –

• Learnt about the speed, distance, time formula
• Listened to a piece of spooky music and created a response text about it
• Had another session with Jen and Jen from Live n Learn
• Thought about some of the physical and emotional changes during puberty
• Explored Anthony Browne’s ‘Voices in the Park’ book
• Learnt about reproduction in flowering and non-flowering plants
• Set up an experiment to observe germination
• Continued to learn about why we use algebra in maths and in real life

1. What did you enjoy this week?

2. Who was in your back up team this week?

3. What tools from your Skipper toolkit did you use this week?

It’s great to be back after the holidays! P7 have been enjoying being able to eat their packed lunched outside on the balcony or near the MUGA.

We’ve been straight back into learning with lots to keep us busy and engaged.  Here are a few of the things we’ve been up to this week:

• Learning about Grit and Resilience in our Online session with Jen and Ian from Live’n’Learn
• Identifying the features of a ‘Response’ Text
• Exploring a visual text and looking for themes/hidden messages
• An introduction to algebra and algebraic expressions and developing our ‘Maths Mindset’
• Converting and Understanding 12 and 24 hour times
• Learning correct terminology for parts of the body
• Researching life cycles of various plants and animals

Which of Skipper’s Tools have you used this week?

Here is a quick reminder:

P7 have had another busy week. We have been settling back into our routines and are getting used to being around each other again and improving our concentration levels. This week we have:

• Researched, planned and written Explanation texts about the Life Cycle of Salmon
• Learned about spelling words containing the patterns j, g, ge and dge
• Studied some poetry in our task map reading lessons
• Created questions about a text
• Learned essential financial knowledge about debit & credit cards, budgeting, discounts, profit & loss etc.
• Investigated the area of right angled triangles and composite shapes
• Worked in groups to design and plan a zoo, thinking about area and perimeter
• Revised some essential First Aid skills as part of our ‘Keeping myself safe’ sessions
• Created some fabulous artwork for next week 😉
• Enjoyed playing some of the playground games we have learned with Mrs Fletcher during our break times.
• Received a Head Teacher’s Award and a comment in our jotter from Mrs Wilson

Time to reflect:

1. What do you most appreciate about being back at school?
2. What is your goal for the rest of the term? (Only a week to go remember!)
3. What have you most enjoyed this week?

P7 are so glad to be back with their friends again and we have loved seeing you in real life!

It’s been a busy (and noisy!) week and we’ve been working hard in class, learning about:

• FDP
• Negative numbers
• Area and perimeter
• Explanation writing about photosynthesis
• Paddington film trailer task map
• Spelling of words containing ch and tch
• PE playground games with Mrs Fletcher
• Music Voice recording using Garageband with Mrs Inglis
• Resilience in a virtual Assembly
• Looking back for some secret tasks

Reflect on your first week back by answering these questions.

1. What has been the best thing about being back at Kingsland?
2. What has challenged you this week?
3. What piece of work were you most proud of this week?

It has been so lovely to be back in school with you all this week. You have worked incredibly hard and have managed to settle back into the routines really well.

Our first week back has included –

• FDP
• Negative numbers
• Area and perimeter
• Explanation writing about photosynthesis
• Paddington film trailer task map
• Spellavator Wars
• PE playground games
• Zoo planning problem solving
• Team work card game
• Our new class novel – Eleven by Tom Rogers

Reflect on your first week back by answering these questions.

1. What has been the best thing about being back at Kingsland?
2. What has challenged you this week?
3. What piece of work were you most proud of this week?

Mrs Robertson from Peebles High School has sent us this link so you can take a virtual tour of Peebles High School at home. You can also see who the teachers are and hear from some senior students who talk about their experiences at Peebles High School.

VIRTUAL TOUR OF PEEBLES HIGH SCHOOL

This week P7 took some time to relax and focus on sketching skills.

Skipper tells us that sometimes we need to take a moment to help us cope with our emotions. Drawing and sketching is a great way to relax and calm ourselves down.

P7 focused on their sketching skills by following Mrs Little’s wonderful Sketches School tutorial to create these beautiful thistle pictures on their iPads.

Hello Primary 7 and welcome back. The current home learning Sway is available via the tab above.  We hope you enjoy the activities we have planned for you and the opportunity to keep developing those digital skills!

As always, please do contact us if you have any questions or you’d like to share something you’ve been working on.  We’d love to hear from you either by email or on our P7 Teams page.

Mrs Little & Mrs Brown

We loved the online Pantomime this year, especially the treats in class to enjoy while we watched it!

2020 has been a year like no other. We have all had experiences that have challenged us but also had positive opportunities that would not have occurred otherwise. Think about these questions and reflect on the year of 2020.

1. What challenged you this year – be specific!

2. What positives came out of this year for you?

3. What did you learn from this year?

4. What is your hope for 2021?