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Primary 7 STEM week

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What a busy week we have had through STEM week. Firstly we visited the planetarium which was so impressive. The pupils asked lots of questions and found out lots of information about our solar system, the International Space Station and our night sky. We learned how to detect the North Star by following two stars in the constellation The Plough/Big  Dipper. Primary 7’s made a model of the Sun, Moon and Earth to show how they orbit each other. Perhaps the most heated part was the class debate on the conspiracy theory of the Moon Landing. Such interesting facts surround this theory but when it came to the class vote the believers won the vote with their convincing scientific arguments. For our open morning the class split into teams and used a variety of resources to make a working Moon Buggy.

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A day out in Edinburgh for Primary 7

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Primary 7 enjoyed a day out in Edinburgh on Tuesday this week. We braced the start of the chilling winds to visit a few places before heading down to the Edinburgh Dungeons. We visited Greyfriars Bobby’s Grave and read about the dog, we are going to read more about this next week. Then as a large proportion of the class are beginning the Harry Potter journey we walked along to see the cafe that J.K. Rowling used to write her stories in. Afterwards we headed into the National Museum of Scotland for an hour to look around the Kingdom of Scots where we saw the Guillotine and learned about witches in Scotland.

Our topic this term has been learning about Scotland Chronology, its gory past and key figures in Scottish History. The trip to the Dungeons was a huge success. The class learnt about ghost stories, Burke and Hare, Maggie Dixon, Swaney Bean and the courtrooms of the past. The children came out screaming and buzzing.

Callum and Eeman both think it was the best trip they have ever been on. Jade “I’m sleeping with my mum tonight ha”

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Primary 7 visit the Risk Factory

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Primary 7 enjoyed a fantastic trip to the risk factory last week. We learnt how to react and respond in a range of ‘real life’ situations. The class learnt how to successfully carryout a 999 emergency call and all the key information they need if they had to do so. Each room was set up for a different scenario that they had to respond to. There was a railway line, beach front, electricity station, farmyard, bus safety and gas leaking and house safety. But perhaps the most talked about room was the fire response room. The groups were put into a room by themselves that simulated a fire with family members in the room. The children responded quickly getting themselves out the room and eventually making the 999 call. However one groups way of rescuing the granny dummy was questionable and the other group left her behind, then eventually going back into the burning building to try and get her again. They really enjoyed this part and have asked to do more fire safety back at school … I wonder why?

The class were extremely well behaved and represented Greenrigg Primary School proudly.

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Primary 7’s week of workshops

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Happy Chinese New Year

The pupils enjoyed a workshop with Rong Rong this week who refreshed our learning of the Lunar Calendar. Chinese New Year 2018 is the Year of the dog. People clean their homes to welcome the new year which begins with the new moon (that is why the date changes every year). Chinese people wear red and gold to bring good luck and put banners in their doorway so that guests will be blessed and also bring good fortune into their homes. We had a chance to write in Chinese, make some cards and listen and play the Pipa. Thank you Rong Rong.

Show Racism the Red Card

This week Primary 7 and Primary 6 took part in the ‘show racism the red card’ workshop with footballer Derek Ferguson. This workshop and the resource the teacher will carry on in school has been designed to help effectively challenge racism and promote equality amongst young people. Derek educated the pupils about the causes and consequences of racism. He increased the understanding of issues of equality and diversity.  We looked at negative stereotypes, prejudice attitudes and racism. Pupils were reminded about respecting people regardless of skin colour, nationality, religion and culture.

Racism is: Name calling, Jokes, Bullying, Excluding, Fights and Violence

Because of: Religion, Skin Colour, Nationality or Culture

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Primary 7’s week

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What a busy week we have had. Primary 7 have started looking at Macbeth in Drama with Mrs Loughton as part of our Horrible Scotland topic and will be learning more in our reading. We are learning about French Polynesia with Mrs Ewing as part of a West Lothian Langauge project, the pupils are having fun learning about language and different cultures.

Tuesday the 6th was Safer Internet day. We took part in the Police Scotland Glow meet, learning about how to use the internet and social media safely and who to talk to when something doesn’t feel right.

Top tips from Primary 7:

Your friends online … Know them offline – Jenna

Electronic interactions mean you miss out on things like tone of voice and reading people body language so messages can be misread. – Leah

cyber bullying is still bullying – watch out for things like pictures being posted without consent, hateful messages and leaving people out – Emma

Everyone is capable of becoming a bully and a victim – Arron

Anything you post becomes public property, it is in the terms and conditions. Even though your snap chat picture disappears it still ends up on a forum somewhere in the world. – Police Scotland

As long as we use the internet safely it can be great, it is changing the way we communicate.

Also this week:

We have started our reading challenge for the First Ministers Challenge. Everyone has a book to read at home and a record book to fill in.

This week has been Mental Health awareness week for children. We have spent the week having discussions with our peers about how we feel. We also completed a mental welling being workshop with Sheila Colthart. We talked about the effect bedtime can have on our mental health, energy drinks, what could be going on in people home lives, siblings and our emotions among other issues. We all agree to be a little kinder to each other as we never know what someone is going through at home.

 

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Primary 7’s week

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Primary 7 are having lots of scary fun, listening to and writing thrillers for our topic Horrible Scotland.

Let me share Eeman’s story starter with you, prepare to be thrilled:

Drawing in a deep breath, Esme knocked on the door of the devil twins. Everyone called them that. She was going to be babysitting for Mr and Mrs Hope that dreadful night. Five minutes had passed and no one had answered the ominous looking door. Esme knocked repetitive times, still no answer. She ambled around to the back door, hating being alone this dark, horrible night. The darkness began to engulf her, she quickened her pace, she started to wish she had never answered her phone that day.

 

Also this week we have been completing our artwork inspired by Kim Anderson. We focused on unicorns to compliment our topic of Scotland as it’s our national animal. The pupils have put so much effort into them and it was quite challenging to use the special art foil. It was a messy and creative adventure.

Primary 7 have also created a new game at PE. We don’t have a name for it yet but we have loved exploring and amending the rules to make the game, fair and fun.

 

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January in Primary 7

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Happy New Year to all our Greenrigg families! Primary 7 have had a busy start to the New Year. Here,s what we have been up to:

We have made some short term, realistic resolutions together. Some for our own lives and one for school. We have them on our wall to reflect on this month.

Miss Watson has been spending time with Primary 7’s doing IZAK 9 lessons which have been both fun and challenging. We are glad to have her back and hope we are distracting her from missing her lovely boys.

Judo has been challenging and Marv is working us extra hard. I can see a big change in the effort the children are putting in and the determination they are showing. Well done to the class, everyone brought their kit last week.

In literacy we are reading and listening to thrilling stories. We are going to be writing our own thrillers this fortnight and some of the ideas the pupils have are terrifying, just the right amount of chill down your spine. This week coming we will work on building tension and atmosphere.

In maths this week, we had a visit from Peter and Bronwyn from RBS Moneysense. We carried out a workshop with Mrs Robley on party planning. A lot of thought went into what was needed for a party and what the term good value meant. The pupils were split into small groups and planned unique parties and presented them to their classmates.

Finally, the class have been having very different break times this last week with all the snow. They have been helping children in the lower school in the playground and being very creative.

 

 

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Christmas week in Primary 7

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What a great week we had on the run up to the Christmas holidays. Our upper school Christmas party was a wonderful afternoon filled with games and country dancing, which I know my class secretly loved. Primary 7 created the most beautiful class display for the hall as a team. It was a perspective art lesson, a winters street scene. It was so beautiful and I was very proud. We wrote fabulous alliterative poems about Christmas to showcase our poetry work this term.

The children performed beautifully at the Church for our service, they sang so well and everyone spoke clearly. Everyone was very proud of the class. A special thank you from Primary 7 to Mr Darroch for having us and speaking and also to our Primary 1 and 2 who sang one of their nativity songs for us.

Finally the Primary 7’s organised a whole school board game afternoon in the upper area. We all had such a laugh swapping tables and spending time across the classes. With a good sing song too.