P7B 2023-24

P7 have been doing hockey in PE.  The activities have focused on how to use and turn the stick so that the ball only touches the flat side, ball control and sending and receiving the ball.  P7’s were able to transfer their knowledge from other games when playing in 3v3 matches.

As part of our inter-disciplinary learning, we went outdoors into the Wildlife Area to measure trees and estimate their age.  We worked in pairs, using our critical thinking,, communicating, focus and curiosity meta skills.  We used the formula –

circumference divided by pi = diameter

Then, we took the diameter and multiplied that by the growth factor to come up with an estimate for tree age.  We couldn’t be sure what the growth factor was for each tree, so we used 1.5 or 2 or 2.5 to estimate the tree age.  It was fun!

Our class visited Taing House last week to plant sunflower seeds and draw sunflowers with the service users.  It was a lot of fun and we used our creative meta skills as well as our communication skills.  We’ve been invited back!

 

P7 have been doing handball in PE.  This is a new game to us, but we have used a lot of previous learnt skills and understandings to play in these games.  Some of the differences have been the size of the ball, using a one handed pass and the rule around movement and dribbling means the game is fast paced.

   

As part of reading week, the class decided to decorate the class door with Mr Men and Little Miss characters.  We are writing books in the style of Roger Hargreaves to read to our buddies in Primary 1.  The door is really bright and colourful!  Well done everyone!

 

 

 

The Bressay Jarl Squad visited the school on Friday.  On our return from swimming, we were fortunate to meet some of them and have a chat and admire their suits.

 

As part of our climate smarter topic, we created our own solar/biomass/wave energy pictures.  Beautiful work P7!

We have been exploring different kinds of music technology recently and this week we have been using a piece of software called Incredibox. The online software enabled us to create our own music with a crew of beatboxers. We could choose from four different styles and had the chance to lay down, record and share our mixes.

We had criteria to follow when creating our mixes. Our compositions had to:

• be at least 26 seconds long
• have a loop change
• showcase a muted/solo beatboxer

Here are links to some of our compositions:

Sonny P:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/14c93c0c82ca5d189211-v1

Lewis:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/0109452c7de5694ed7d5-v2

Luca:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/54c3eb999e5c4736aa92-v4

Bella:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/ca435f2d6855833c32c4-v2

Natalia:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/df9b32dc93f74b6743c0-v1

Ellie:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/161161c35927d524da53-v4

Zena:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/ffe355280052fe0e9550-v2

Robbie J:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/68471c08154434e623a9-v4

Magnus:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/0f5a2622e2c0f7b39a2f-v3

Tiger:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/315606031a1aee5f4618-v1

Alfie:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/dd54db100d793e2952de-v4

Robbie R:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/13bcce7dc24a7c0c3431-v3

Daniel:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/1131f4327174963487de-v2

Sonny A:

https://www.incredibox.com/mix/7f0b8fead11b50843403-v3

We have been learning about music technology and we have been using software called ‘Groove Pizza’ which is an online drum sequencer.

Here are some of our drum sequence compositions.

Alfie:

Amie:

Bella:

Boglarka:

Daniel:

Ella-Mae:

Ellie:

Lewis:

Luca:

Natalia:

Robbie J:

Sonny A:

Sonny P:

Sophia:

Zena: