Author: Mrs Stewart

P7S 20th Century Artefacts

As part of our current context 20th Century Highlights P7S were fortunate enough to have a visit from Mrs Liddell from West Lothian Council Museum Service. She brought with her a whole range of 20th Century artefacts for us to handle. Maureen brought in items from each decade,some of them with a little discussion we could work out what they were…some we had no idea! Mrs Stewart felt very old when Mrs Liddell showed the class a Walkman and a Polaroid camera from the 1980’s…these are now classed as history!

  

 

 

P7S Welcome Stem Ambassador Matthew Innes

A Stem Ambassador visited P7S on Thursday.  The STEM philosophy of education  is that it embraces teaching skills and subjects in an a way that resembles real life. To this end we asked Mr Innes to discuss Negative numbers in an everyday context,this links closely to our current maths learning. Matthew certainly brought negative numbers alive with a lesson about the negative and positive values of different classroom commodities! The class had to decide if it was worth getting a loan from the banker to expand their portfolio whilst appreciating the risk of changing market forces. We  used coloured items of identical shapes (blue counters and red counters, with blue counters representing negative units and red counters representing positive ones), to analyse the importance of negative numbers when, for instance, calculating debts. At the end of the lesson the class had a real appreciation of how maths can impact on their everyday life.

  

  

Embedding a reading culture in P7S

In P7S  we have been looking at what key skills we use in  class everyday that we could continue to develop as we move forward towards the world of work. It was interesting to hear the class discuss what life skills they actually use on a daily basis but may not even realise it. When we looked at a full day in P7 words such as communication, resilience,confidence, organisation and problem solving were all mentioned. Looking at the Developing the Young Workforce website,all key life skills. Linking to communication the class also mentioned reading and how they thought this particular skill would impact on a whole range of careers. With this in mind we decided we  wanted a particular area in the class where we could read for pleasure. We also wanted to link our reading to everyday contexts so we brought in a range of Non Fiction texts from around home and school, demonstrating that reading really is all around us. We also visited the library last week and chose to select non fiction texts as we felt that maybe we were great readers but we needed to widen our genre. If you look at the photos we have created a corner where we can read and share our recommendations with the rest of the class….we have become living blurbs!

 

   

Maths Week P7S

As part of Scottish Maths Week 2018 we have participated in a variety of activities ranging from solving mysteries, Maths Top Trumps, Sumdog National Competition and a Roald Dahl maths challenge,which linked to Roald Dahl Day on Thursday. We used a range of skills and strategies in each task and got the opportunity to work in different groups and pairings. We also set social targets when working in our different groups. A few examples of these chosen targets included listening to everyone and valuing their contribution and maintaining eye contact when addressing a member of the group.

  

  

  

 

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