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Derri’s Delightful Blog

This week my blog is about keeping safe when your outside🚶🏻

1. If a unknown person asks you to go in there car say no because the can do anything to you.

2. Do not leave anyone behind even when it is still day light.

3. Hang about with a bunch of people  not just one person.

4. Be careful when crossing roads.

5. Try and bring a phone so that someone at home can get in touch.

Freya’s Blog Party

This week is going to be about the POD🤑

1. There is 8 people in the pod 2 adults 8 children.

2. It is a lot of fun to GO to.

3. The pod only one in the afternoon except Friday.

4. In the pod we play the wii and teamwork games.

5. We learn about emotions.

Jamie’s Football Facts

Jay’s Dino Facts

I’m not around this week but I look forward to sharing more facts with you next week.

Dyllan’s Mega Blog

This week my blog is about the dangers of smoking 

1.Smoking makes your lungs go black. 

2.Smoking makes your heart beat faster.

3.Smoking makes your teeth turn yellow.

4.If you have 1 you want more.

5.Smoking makes your hair smell bad.

Paige’s Awesome Blog

This week my blog is about the worlds fastest cars.

1. This is one of the top 10 fastest cars in the world and its called the  Hennessey venom GT. 

2. SSC ultimate Aero can go very fast and it went 256mph in 2007.

3.  The McLaren p1 is in the top 10 but is not the fastest.

4. Ferrari La Ferrari has the same recovery system as a race car.

5. The Bugatti veyron supe sport cost $1.7 mllion.

James’ Radical Blog

This week my blog is about Wayne Rooney.

1. He is a great football player.

2. Wayne Rooney was born in Croxteth.

3. He was 16 when he started football. 

4. He is the best in his football team.

5.He was not that good this year. 

Greig’s Amazing Info

I’m not around this week but I look forward to sharing more facts with you next week.

Article 13 – Children have the right to find out things and share what they know

This week we learned about fables. A fable is short story containing a moral (A story with a lesson). First of all, we watched a video of the fable ‘The Lion and the Mouse’. The moral in this story is don’t judge a book by it’s cover. We also listened to the story ‘The Boy who Cried Wolf’ where we learned that honesty is the best policy.
In writing, we worked hard to create our own fables. We had to include; a short story with a moral, a good character and a foolish character, a setting, a problem and a solution.
Next week we are going to re-draft our story then read it to our buddies.
In art we examined the work of Quentin Blake-the illustrator of Roald Dahl books. We noticed that Quentin Blake likes to draw with lines using ink and then uses water colour to bring his illustrations to life. He does this very quickly.
We had a go at creating our own images using Quentin’s style. We were very pleased with the results and our work will look amazing on display.

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Pupil of the Week- Travis

Last night we had a sleepover at school.

When we arrived we had a chat, chose our sleeping spots and played outside. After that, some of us chose to watch a movie while others played the Wii or coloured in.

Mr Berginis made up a quiz. We worked in teams of four to try to answer the questions. The teachers won 🙂

At 9:00 chips arrived from Gerry’s. We ate these in the dinner hall- they went down a treat!

We chose to watch Monster House. After the film, some of us drifted off to sleep while others had a long, long chat!

Here are some of our highlights:

‘When Mr Jeffries and Mr Welsh sneaked outside to make silhouettes at the window.’- Mhairi

‘Staying up all night and only getting half an hour sleep!’- Josh

‘The fake spooky story from Mr Welsh.’- Catherine

‘Abby and Mr Jeffries put the manikin in Lisa’s bed!’- Mhairi

‘When the lights turned on at two in the morning.’- Sasha

‘When Mr Jeffries put music on in the morning.’- Teigan and Emma B

Hope you enjoy them…

Derri’s Delightful Blog

My blog this week is about unicorns 

1) A unicorn is the Scottish national creature.

2) There was a Lascaux unicorn witch had two horns.

3) A gang of unicorns is called a blessing.

4) There is a belief that if you place a unicorn horn on a injury  it heals it.

5) The unicorn is usually depicted a large horse.

Freya’s Blog Party

This week is going to be about emojis .

Here’s 5 of my favourite emojis 💩.

1😍😘loved it means that you are loved .

2 nerdy because I am a nerd .

3😂happy its so awesome 😂😅

4 😭sadness it’s the only emotion that makes you feel better about yourself .

5😲 hurt its really not that good.

Jamie’s Football Facts

Jay’s Dino Facts

I’m not around this week but I look forward to sharing more facts with you next week.

Dyllan’s Mega Blog

My blog this week is about the greyhound.

1. Greyhounds are the fastest breed of dog.

2. They can reach speeds of up to 45 miles per hour.

3. Queen Victoria and king Henry vlll kept greyhounds.

4. They are the only dogs known in the bible.

5. Most greyhounds can’t sit down. 

Paige’s Awesome Blog

I’m not around this week but I look forward to sharing more facts with you next week.

James’ Racing Blog

This week my blog is about motorbikes.

1. Motorbike racers have died in races.
2. Motorbikes can go 185 mph.
3. The first motorbike was made in 1894.
4. The first motorbike invented was sold in 2010 in Las Vegas
5. Motorbike have big engines.

Greig’s Amazing Info

I’m not around this week but I look forward to sharing more facts with you next week.

Article 13 – Children have the right to find out things and share what they know

Yesterday we went a school trip to Sky Academy in Livingston.

When we arrived the split into four teams and each of us had a different role. The roles included; reporter, editor, script writer, camera operator, producer, director, eye-witness and expert.

These roles require different skills such as; team work, creativity, hard work, communication, time management and problem solving.

We made a news report about cyber bullying. We learned facts about this topic and then split the news report into four sections. Team 1 introduced the report, team 2 reported within a ‘school’, team 3 were eye-witnesses and team 4 interviewed someone on the issue.

Here are our favourite parts of the day.

‘Watching the report back.’ – Liam

‘Watching programmes in the cinema room in the comfy seats.’- Travis

‘Getting to dress up.’- Leon

We got to take a copy of the report home to show our parents. Overall, we had a great experience!

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Article 19- Right to be protected prom being hurt

Article 29- Right to develop talent and abilities

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Freya’s Blog Party

This week is going to be about Victorian toys 

(1.) Tiddlywinks It was played in the victorian era.

(2.) Ball in a cup was played. I think it so much fun.

(3.)  Poor people had to use a pigs bladder as a football.

(4.)  Families played knots & crosses.

(5.) Rocking horses were popular in the victorian times 👄👄💅

Jamie’s Football Facts

Paige’s Awesome Blog

Greig’s Amazing Info

Dyllan’s Blog Mayhem

We have been learning so much this week in P7.

In health & wellbeing we learned facts about the heart. Here is some of our learning- there are two sides (chambers) of the heart, one with rich (oxygenated) blood the other side has poor (deoxygenated) blood. The arteries carry oxygenated blood around the body whilst veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart. Veins are not actually blue!
We also explored the function of the lungs and wrote an explanation text on this subject.
In drama we are learning slapstick and are really enjoying it!
By Jamie and Leon
Thank you for reading.

Pupil of the week- Dave
Class dojo winner- Kerry
Article 28- Right to an education
Article 24- Right to information to keep you well.

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Jamie’s Football Facts

Dyllan’s Mega Blog

Article 13 – Children have the right to find out things and share what they know

Last week P7a and P7b came into school to find out that their had been a robbery. All of the school money has been stolen from the safe. We went down to investigate the crime scene and collected the evidence. We found fingerprints, a hair and fabric sample, a hand written note, footprints and money scattered everywhere. The police questioned six suspects who work in the school. It is now our job to examine the evidence to work out who committed this crime.

The six suspects are:

Mr Welsh

Mrs Hay

Mrs McVay

Mrs Gray

Mrs White

Mr Jeffries

All the suspects could not provide an alibi and have a motive to steal the money. Over the next weeks we will carry out experiments before bringing in our last two suspects for questioning.

As we are learning to be forensic scientists we are also learning about the human body and how it works.

We will let you know about any updates on the case!

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Jay’s Dino Facts…Velociraptor

All facts from this section are accurate as of 2016.

1. Contrary to what jurassic park lead us to believe Velociraptor was smaller than a human and covered in feathers.
2. The Velociraptor is believed to be one of the smartest dinosaurs ever with there advanced planning and strategising skills and pack hunting capabilities.
3. The name Velociraptor means swift seizer.
4. Velociraptor lived in the late Cretaceous period about 73 million years ago.
5. The first known Velociraptor fossil was found in the Mongolian Gobi Desert in 1922.

Freya’s Blog Party

This week is going to be about Miley cyrus👠💋.

1.she was born on November the23 in Franklan -Tennessee.

 2 Her real name is Destiny hope .

3 her dad’s name is billy ray

4 she grow up on a farm 

5 she started in Hana montana

Jamie’s Football Facts

5 things about Naymar.

1. His full name is Naymar da silva santos júnior.

2. His birthday 5 of February 1992 age 24.

3. Place of birth Mogi das cruzes in Brazil.

4. He is left foot in football.

5. He plays for Fc Barcelona.

Paige’s Awesome Blog

Greig’s Amazing Info

Dyllan’s Mega Blog

Article 13 – Children have the right to find out things and share what they know

Last Friday, our class (P7b) performed a panto based on the traditional story of Cinderella. However, our story line had an unexpected twist…

Here are some of our thoughts and on the panto:

‘My character was Bella-an ugly stepsister. She ended up getting married to the prince because the fairy godmother put a spell on Cinderella’s slipper and it fit Bella perfectly. I enjoyed dressing up and wearing make-up.’- Ross

‘I was the prince and I just wanted a pretty girl with loads of money. I thought it was quite funny that I ended up marrying Ross who played Bella!’ – Josh

‘I was Cinderella. I really liked over exaggerating all the lines. I liked signing the duet with Ray.’ – Emma B

We hope you enjoyed the show!

Have a lovely, long weekend
P7b

Pupil of the week- Lewis

Article 28- Right to an Education
Article 29- Right to develop talents and abilities

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Jay’s Dino Facts…Tyrannosaurus rex

All facts from this section are accurate as of 2016.

1. Contrary to popular belief the Tyrannosaurus rex actually had feathers, we know this as many of its relatives were feathered.
2. The tyrannosaurus rex lived about 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period.
3. Unlike what Jurassic park lead us to believe the tyrannosaurus rex actually had pretty good vision so if you ever see one don’t stand still…it will still eat you!
4. The word Tyrannosaurus actually stands for tyrant lizard while the word Rex means king in Latin.
5. Along with Stegosaurus and Iguanodon Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the 3 dinosaurs that inspired Godzilla’s design.

Freya’s Pirate Party

This week my blog is about Blackbeard
1. He was born as Edward tech💋
2.He spent some time sailing on privateers 💋
3 He was born in England in 1680💋

Jamie’s Football Facts

1.His full name is Cristiano Ronaldo.
2.Ronaldo best friend is Marseol.
3.🚀 He was the fastest player in his team but Bale is more fast.
4. He has a tattoo on his arm it’s a star.
5. He is the best player at taking free kicks.

Paige’s Awesome Blog

Greig’s Amazing Info

Greig’s smashing facts about lamborghini’s

1st. Girls find them attractive and boys well it’s there dream car.

2nd. Lamborghini’s are one of the fastest car in the world the fastest would be the bughati 

Veyron.

3rd. Most kids dream car would be either a Lamborghini or the bughati veyron.

4th. Most Lamborghini cars had a v12 engine except the gallardo which has a v10 engine.

5th. The owner of the Lamborghini drove a ferrari before making the Lamborghini.

Hope you enjoyed the five facts about Lamborghini’s bye see you next week.

Dyllan’s Car Mayhem

This week my blog is about the jaguar xk120

1.the c-tipe was the successful racing version of the xk120 

2.1950 an xk120 wins the tourist trophy race

3.1954 production ends after 12,000 cars are bult.

This week we had the first ever meeting of the Pod Squad. We meet every afternoon in the Pod. We are Jay, Greig, Paige, Freya, Jamie, Dyllan, Mrs Mallin and Mr Berginis.

This week we have focused on decorating the Pod (look at our cool Pod sign above) and getting to know each other.

Paige: “The Pod is the best place to be because you get more help and support and it helps you learn more stuff.”

Greig: “It helps with your learning because there’s not as many people to distract you.”

Freya: “The Pod is better for learning because there is less distraction and I can concentrate more.”

Jay: “It helps me to learn because there are no distractions and it is more fun.” 

Mrs Mallin: “This week has been good fun getting to know the rest of the Pod Squad.”

Mr Berginis: “I have really enjoyed this week because we have started learning about how to work together as a team and we have had some successes already.”

Jamie and Dyllan are absent today but we look forward to them sharing their thoughts in next weeks blog post.

We also worked together to create our Pod Charter. This will help us identify the actions we need to do to make sure we all get our rights. Here it is below.

Here is some of our learning from this week:

• In PE this week we have been learning the Dashing White Sargent and Strip the Willow for our Burns Supper next Monday.
• We have also been exploring Scots language and wrote a Cinderella play script in Scots! (Miss Bollen was very impressed with our work!)
• This week in drama we continued practicing our Cinderella panto and performed it in front of Primary 1.
• In maths we were learned to identify different types angles and were reminded how to measure and draw angles using a protractor.

We are looking forward to our Burn’s Supper and ceilidh next week.

Have a great weekend,

By Emma T and Josh

Class dojo winners- Liam, Leon and Lewis
Pupil of the week- Liam

RRS- Article 28- Right to an Education

We all had a great holiday and have been working really hard since we came back to school.

In maths we have been learning about using doubles and near doubles to help us add and multiply mentally. The Hexagons and Octagons have been learning how to multiply 2 digit numbers. They have been learning to use different strategies including partitioning and doubling and halving. The pentagons have been learning strategies to help them to divide mentally.

We have been learning about Scots language and practised a poem to perform in front of the class. We studied a poem called A Dug, A Dug and translated it into English. We also wrote our own Oor Wullie comic in Scots.

In our WW2 topic we have been learning about the role of women during WW2. We learned that they made a huge contribution to the war effort by working on farms, in factories and in the forces. We looked at propoganda posters and how they were used to influence people during the war. A lot of posters were used to enroll women into the war effort and portrayed women as strong and independent. Finally, we looked at sources of information. We are able to identify primary and secondary sources of information. Primary sources are sources of information which are gathered at the time, for example, an eye witness account or a photograph. A secondary source of information is created by someone who did not experience it first hand, for example, a documentary based on the holocaust.

We had a nice end to the week as we got to watch a pantomime performed by pupils from Bathgate Academy. It was really good fun and gave us some great tips for our pantomime performance.

Awards:

Class Dojo: Joe

See you next week!

This week we had a focus on Scots language. We explored the Oor Wullie website and completed an activity to translate the Scots words into English. We also created comic strips using Scots language using the characters from Oor Wullie. We also learned poems for homework and some of us performed them in front of the rest of the class. Ross and Mhairi will read Social Dancing and Leon will read Slaister to Mr Welsh and the head boy and girl on Monday.

Yesterday we watched a panto performed by S5 and S6 pupils from Bathgate Academy. The panto was a twist of the traditional tale ‘Jack and the Beanstalk.’ It gave us ideas for our own Cinders panto which we will perform in three weeks’ time.

Today we participated in the Big Balbardie Blether. During this we discussed the health and wellbeing indicators and how these are met in school. We also discussed circle time and how this can link with the indicators to make us feel happy, healthy and safe.

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Pupil of the week- Jay

We have had a great term 2 in P7. We particularly enjoyed our context for learning World War two. Here are some of our highlights:

‘Learning about rationing’- Ava
‘Writing an evacuee letter’- Robbie
‘Watching videos and learning about the blitz.’- Teigan
‘Vertical groupings with P7a to make presentations about the war.’ Aaron
Making story books for our buddies.’ – Dave
‘Creating online profiles on didbook.’- Travis
‘Multiplication and division.’- Robbie
‘Playing dodgeball in P.E.’- Shaun
‘Practising for the P7 show.’- Teigan

Have a great holiday,
Miss Bollen and P7b

Pupil of the week- Leon
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This week we all have been very excited as have had a new pupil join in our class. We have enjoyed getting to know Derri this week and we hope she has enjoyed her first week in P7a.

We have been learning about the Blitz and the effect this had on people’s lives. Everyone was issued with a gas mask and some people had an Anderson shelter in their garden where they could go to be protected from falling pieces of glass and rubble. Many children were evacuated from London during the Blitz and went to live in the countryside. Many children did not know who they were going to live with and often had to work on farms before and after school. We imagined we had been evacuated and sent away from our families. We wrote a letter to our parents telling them about our journey to the countryside, the family we had to live with and life at our new homes.

In maths this week we have been learning how to plot co-ordinates on a graph with four co-ordinates. We found this quite difficult at first but will keep pracitising. The pentagons, hexagons and octagons have been developing their knowledge of multiplication. The pentagons can multiply up to four digit numbers using mental strategies and a standard written method. The Hexagons and Octagons have been learning to multiply a 2 digit number. We will keep developing out mental multiplication strategies.

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Awards:

Class Dojo: Joe and Scott

Pupil of the Week: Ava Brown

This week for our context for learning, we have been learning about the blitz and evacuees. The blitz is when Germany bombed all the main cites in Britain. It was called the blitz because ‘blitz’ means light in German and the bombs caused a lot of light.

In writing we pretended we were evacuees and had just got sent away to a new family. We had to make up a countryside address to write a letter to family about what we have been doing and about our new house and school etc. We all wrote really good stories.

This week a lot of us have made it in the golden club which is really exciting because the event is next Thursday!

Wrote by Cat A
Class dojo winner- Leon
Article 28- Right to an education