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?

Can you believe it is October already? It has certainly felt a lot chillier today – please remember to wear layers from now on and always bring a coat!

Our fantastic week last week is featured in this week’s Peeblesshire News – check it out!

This week we have been reflecting on our “Residential at Home” week In our Writing and creating thank you cards for All the adults who made it possible.  We’ve been learning a little about decimals in Numeracy and have continued developing our spelling of the long /e/ sound.  Grammar focused on Singular and Plural and we also write descriptions of the Main Character from our Novel Study ‘Wonder’.

In Science we explored friction, tension and weight distribution when we designed and made our own mini Zip wires.

How successful was your zip wire? What worked/did not work and why? How did you fix any issues found while testing?

This week is Maths Week Scotland. P7B tried out the Edinburgh University School of Maths challenge this morning. We learnt about Richard, a video game programmer, who uses maths in his job every day. He set us a challenge to work out how many security cameras would be needed in rooms of different shapes. You can try the task by clicking on this link Security Camera Challenge.

There are so many more activities and tasks you can try out on the Maths Week Scotland website just click here and explore.

#MathsWeekScot

What a week!

We have packed so many activities into this week we almost forgot we weren’t really on residential.  You have challenged yourself, shown resilience, worked as a team, communicated well, achieved new things and shown respect and consideration for your peers and all the adult helpers.  Mrs Little and Mrs Brown are so proud of you all!

Here are just a few reminders of our incredible week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Give us your thoughts on the week:

1) What was your best achievement?

2) What are you most proud of?

3) What would you do differently?

4) What did you find most challenging?

5) What would you most like to do again?

6) Any other thoughts?

We can’t wait to see you all tomorrow for the start of our Dalguise at Home week. Remember to look at our overview each day to see what you will need to wear and bring.

Another busy week – we’ve learned a lot about Angles, Square and Triangular numbers, Optical illusions, Forces, Writing a Description, apostrophes, the long /e/ spelling sound and lots of other things.  We also made a playlist for Wonder, designed a zip-wire and had a chat about Puberty!

What did you think?

1. Best bit of the week
2. Something you found tricky
3. Something you would recommend to another learner

Some highlights from this week include –

• air resistance science with flying planes
• floating and sinking testing of our sail boats
• super examples of different types of adjectives
• challenging multiples and factors in maths
• amazing firefighter pieces of description writing
• an actual fire drill!
• refugee and asylum seeker research to find out about characters in ‘The Divided City’

Comment below to answer these review of the week questions –

1. What did you do to make Kingsland a better place this week?
2. What were you successful at this week?
3. What did you need more help with this week?
4. Where could you have worked harder this week?
5. What are you most looking forward to for our Dalguise at Home week?

P7A have had a great week and have finished it off by playing a whole class Kahoot! on what we’ve been learning about.

Comment below on:

1) Your best bit of the week

2) something new you learned

3) something that surprised you

4) something that challenged you

We’ve had a hardworking week this week and will all be glad of a rest this weekend!

Some of the highlights of our week have been –

• Fruit floating and sinking science
• Getting our prefect badges
• Using a £1000000 budget to become property developers
• Designing our Christmas cards

Comment below to summarise the week that you had. Explain what you did, what you enjoyed and what you found challenging.