Primary 7/6 update
Category Archives: Primary 7
“Right of the Month”
As a school we are working towards Level 2 for Rights respecting Schools. We have decided to introduce a “right” to focus on each month.
Article 12
You have the right to give your opinion, and for your adults to take it seriously
 This article says we have the right to have our say and help make decisions.
In school we watch Newsround and share our opinions and discuss recent news. We make sure we listen to others opinions, take them on board and respect them.
Learning to give our opinions now will help us to be more confident making decisions in the near future.
There are a lot of things in our school that lots of pupils agree and disagree on so we let every pupil say what they think.
Things you can do at home:
* Watch CBBC Newsround
* Look at newspapers with your parents
* Discuss news with your family and give your opinions
By James and Scott, P7
Rights Respecting Schools Pupil Voice Group
P1-7 Literacy Open Morning
This morning parents and carers were invited in to see what we have been doing in literacy. Mrs Gibson shared the school’s approaches to literacy with a short presentation in the hall. This looked at different ways we learn about literacy and how they can help their children at home. Parents and carers were then able to go and visit their child or children’s classrooms to take part and share in what they are doing for literacy, with reading as the main focus. This gave a little taster of the kinds of things we do and how they can continue this at home too. Please have a look at some of the photos. There was also a leaflet given out about ways to help your child with reading at home. There are extra copies outside the office.
Greenrigg Community Council Logo
The Greenrigg Community Council set the school a challenge to design a logo for them to use on any correspondence from them. Every class created logos which were then judged by the team. There was a winner from each class and an overall winner. Jason Brown from P7/6 had the winning logo which will now feature on correspondence.
Here is his winning design.
primary 7 news
What a few weeks we have had. Here are some of the highlights. We have been looking at the painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. We gave been describing the painting and have written a recount as a character in the painting, the children have produces excellent stories.
We looked at the amazing Northern Lights and have created a magical silhouette picture and a descriptive poem to complement our pictures.
In maths we have been learning about angles: how to identify, measure ans draw. We are now moving on to shape.
We loved going out in the snow and used the STEM bins in our class to challenge ourselves to create something from the snow we brought indoors.
In PE we have been doing fitness stations with Mrs Crow to dust away those January blues.
The pupils worked very well together to create a logo each for Greenrigg Community Council’s competition. We have some excellent ideas and have designed them very effectively.
Will Ogg visited our class this week to carryout a workshop with us on Growth Mindset. The pupils engaged well in this session and showed Will that they are learning to think positively about challenges they may face in their learning and in day to day activities. Â I think we mostly loved making an origami penguin each, which once we took our time we learned we could do it. A collection of penguins is called a raft in the sea or a waddle when on land.
Finally, on Thursday we had a very spectacular day. Firstly we had a poetry workshop with Julie Anna Douglas. We have read some of her published poems in class and were inspired by her poetry she read to us today in class. She then worked with us to create a poem for our community about the windfarms. The pupils were illustrators first and then created the words from their images. We are waiting excitedly to find out what the finished work will look like. then to finish Thurday of with a challenge, Miss Tuke taught us all (including myself) how to use Izak 9 cubes. We are going to work in teams more next week to complete more challenges and build on our team work, mental calculation and problem solving skills.
STEM Challenge Bins
Each class have a selection of 4 STEM bins. There are 8 different bins altogether. These bins are tubs that contain 1-2 materials such as lolly sticks or cubes. They also have some starter challenge cards like ‘can you build a maze’ and ‘can you create a bridge to cross a 10cm gap’. The children can then work on their own, in pairs or in small groups to use the materials to build, lay out and create something to solve their challenge. The feedback from the children is that they love these and enjoy making their own challenges. It is great to see how different children will tackle a problem in such different ways and really show off their ideas and creativity. Next time you have a few empty boxes or tubes at home, set your child a challenge to use them to make something to solve a problem. Â 
Greenrigg Reporter’s Club
Happy New to everyone from the GRC. Please check out the news wall next to the dinning hall for all the updated news.
P7/6 table tennis tasters
The upper school has a chance to experience table tennis skills. We worked well in pairs and practiced serving and trying to bounce once on your side of the table. We had fun mostly chasing the ball everywhere.
Primary 7/6 Onesies day
The whole school wore their onesies to school and then to the cinema in order to raise awareness for JDRF, children living with type 1 diabetes. Well done everyone .
Christmas party
P4/5, p5/6 and P7/6 had their Christmas party on Monday afternoon. We had a disco and strutted our dance moves for all to see. We did the Macarena and the cha cha slide.
We played different party games too. We played musical arms. It’s similar to musical chairs but you link arms when the music stops. It’s great fun.
After all of our dancing we stopped for a snack. We had juice and crisps and a chance to chat.
To end our party we danced the gay Gordon’s and the dashing white sergeant.
We all had a great time at our Christmas party.
