This week we were learning about:
Today was our last day of Yoga!
We discussed how Yoga was an exercise of the mind as well as the body and everyone agreed that it had a calming effect on their mind. Next week we will be visiting meditation!
Just a reminder that the next deposit of £50 is due to be paid by Monday 5th November 2012.
P7I were very fortunate to have Mrs Constadine from Whitburn Academy Science department visit them recently to explore anamorphic art.
This is the type of art that was used by followers of Bonnie Prince Charlie as a secret code to show their loyalty without visitors knowing. The use of a mirrored cup in the centre of tray would display a reflection of a picture of the Prince. If someone should have visited that you did not want to see that you believed in the Jacobite cause, then you simply removed the cup!
Here are some examples of our anamorphic art:
During both of our PE slots this week we have been exploring the benefits of yoga.
Using a Teen Yoga DVD, we chanted to ease and control our breathing before trying out some of the basic yoga positions:
Everyone seemed so calm and relaxed after the sessions, almost sleepy!
(I’m just wondering if I should start each day with some yoga 😀 )
You should have received a letter home this week, for you to return requesting an appointment for our parent consultation.
This is an important time for you and your son/daughter to come along and discuss with me how well they are coping with Primary 7, or indeed share any concerns that you may have.
I’ll look forward to seeing you when you come along.
I hope that everyone enjoyed the holiday as much as I did. It was great to have some quality family time before the dark nights are upon us once again!
Just to let you know that in class we will still be working on our Jacobites topic for the next couple of weeks, before starting our new topic about China.
We have been very fortunate to have on loan from the Bennie Museum in Bathgate, so items that they have from the 1700’s.
We had a carousel set up in the class, to work our way round exploring what we thought the items were made of, used for, who would have used them and we thought of what has replaced them nowadays.
The Science Department at Whitburn Academy kindly invited us down to experiment with burning various substances.
Everyone had the chance to wear the cool safety goggles and bunsen burners to find the following:
| Substance Burned | Form | Flame colour changed to… |
| Magnesium | Metal | Bright White |
| Copper Sulphate | Liquid | Blue/Green |
| Lead Nitrate | Liquid | Icy Blue |
| Potassium Bromide | Liquid | Lilac |
| Barium Chloride | Liquid | Red/Orange |
As you can see there was lots of focused faces:
Maths this week has been all about lengths of time. We decided to see how much that we really knew about what we could do in a given amount of time…
The class faced away from the clock and concentrated really hard on timing 1 minute.
An easy task? Only for 3 class members!
We then wrote a list of things in school that we could estimate the time of and then use a timer to see if we were close, here are some of them:
| Actual Time | |
| Run upstairs | 5 seconds |
| Visit the office | 2 minutes 15 seconds |
| Playtime bell rings for | 10 seconds |
| Visit P5A | 1 minute 34 seconds |
| Walk to the toilet | 32 seconds |
| Find ‘mechanic’ in the dictionary | 1 minute 1 second |
To finish off we played a game to challenge others to complete given tasks the quickest! Tossing coins, singing ‘Happy Birthday’, drawing flowers, naming all of the pupils in the class. Here we are having great fun!
