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Primary 7

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.

 

 

Primary 7

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.

Primary 7

Christmas in Primary 7

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In term 2, we focused on poetry through our Literacy. We were reading, listening to, acting out, illustrating and then writing poetry. The class worked so well during this project and we wrote a class poem called ‘What does Christmas mean to me?’. The class split into pairs and created a couple of verses each. I am so proud of the final outcome and am delighted to share it with you all.

What does Christmas mean to me?

A poem written by Primary 7

What does Christmas mean to me?

Well, it changes every year you see.

 

When I was five, I couldn’t sleep

For dreams of presents and lots of sweets.

Writing to Santa to tell him my desires

As I watched for reindeer flying higher and higher.

Some wonderful years have now passed

And those magical memories they still last.

But now that I am older I’m learning to see

That Christmas can mean so much more to me.

 

We hang up the precious tree decorations

As we look forward to loud family celebrations.

Spending too much money buying random expensive gifts

When actually dad really likes those 10p crisps.

Everyone I love, sitting around drinking tea

Listening to their laughs fills me with joyful glee.

Sitting around the busy table having delicious Christmas dinner

Listening to cracker jokes and teaching papa to use a fidget spinner.

 Giving family and friends presents fills my heart with such bliss

As they softy give me a warming thank you kiss.

Spending time with family is so dear

It spreads the love and the Christmas cheer.

 

Christmas is a time to be full of hope and love

Spread joy to everyone, give thanks to god above.

But we think of others at Christmas time too

To remind us that it’s not all about you.

We can give to the food bank; cereal, pasta and rice

Helping others in need, we all should be nice.

We can check on a neighbour, be friendly, give them a surprise

Listen to their stories, learn from others who are wise.

We visit our relativities to make sure they are okay

But we should do it more regularly not just on Christmas day.

We can give to local charity some of our old toys

To spread magic and happiness to less fortunate girls and boys.

 

So what does Christmas mean to you?

We hope that we have changed your view.

 

Primary 6, Primary 7

P7/6 Poetry

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The Giant Outside my Classroom

Rhythmic, circling,hypnotic statues.

wonderful wizardry.

Whooshing and whirling.

Astonishing, magnificent, mesmerising machine.

Tumbling and twirling.

Gliding and swirling.

Amazing, irresistible, energetic technology.

Mind blowing.

Powerful! Prancing!

Magical, flowing, superior sight!

Never-ending.

Dreamy dancing.

This is the poem Primary 7/6 created with Poet Julie Anna Douglas. We focused on the wind turbines outside our classroom. We created a poem to celebrate the uniqueness of where we live. Each pupil contributed a word to the poem and created beautiful art work to complement it. We have also been using lots of activities that Julie taught our school to do further poem writing and creating different styles of poetry.

 

Primary 6, Primary 7

primary 7 news

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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.  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.