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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’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.