We have had a busy week, preparing for and delivering our Primary 7 assembly on Fairtrade. The pupils did a marvellous job of leading their learning and delivering an amazing and engaging assembly. Well done!

We also had the privilege of being the first class to open the new library and we loved it! Our learners now have a new learning environment that allows us to explore our inquisitiveness and enjoyment in reading.

Have a look at some of our photos from World Book day, our assembly and library visit.

Some creative costumes! Choose The World You Want – Fairtrade. Where’s Wally? Where is he?
Little Miss Magic and the golden ticket.
Some relaxed reading. Sharing our books. An interactive reading experience with our class Audio Book. 

P5 have been redrafting and up levelling our recount pieces of writing in our jotters and on Glow.

In maths we are finding fractions of amounts and will start learning about telling the time digitally and on an analogue clock. We will also start looking at time intervals next week.

We have been working in groups too! We have been looking into the life of a solider and their kit bag while living in the western front during WW1. We have also been preparing for our class assembly which we will be presenting to the rest of the school next Friday.

We enjoyed a visit to our new school library on Tuesday afternoon. It was a fantastic experience and we cannot wait to use this space to develop our love for reading…We had so much fun!

Today P7 celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight by sharing their assembly with the whole school.

Fairtrade Fortnight

What is it?

Fairtrade Fortnight this year runs from 21 February to 6 March 2022

For two weeks each year at the end of February and start of March, thousands of individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people who grow our food and drinks, mine our gold and who grow the cotton in our clothes, people who are often exploited and underpaid.

Since last Fairtrade Fortnight we have seen the G7 and COP26 take place. Over 33,000 campaigners joined 1.8m Fairtrade farmers and workers in backing the Be Fair With Your Climate Promise challenge to world leaders at the UN COP26 summit.

Well done P7,you certainly made us think about the choices we can make.

Loving the costume!!!!

After much anticipation P7B visited our new Library  and it was certainly worth the wait. As you can see from the photographs a great time was had by all. An amazing space which will certainly encourage the enjoyment of reading to be embedded across the school.Thanks to Mrs Robertson and the P7 Literacy Team for all your hard work,the results were amazing!

 

 

   

On Monday February 21st, P6A and P6B took part in the Almondell Cemetery Memorial Artwork project. Visiting artist Svetlana Kondakova specialises in public and environmental art and has been commissioned to create a piece of art for the cemetary at Calderwood with the help of our P6 pupils.

Svetlana Explained the concept she had in mind and showed us how to make templates to represent water, leaves or flowers. We then cut the shapes from silver, gold and bronze card and glued them together.

Once they were finished, all the pieces of art were joined together to make the final shape. It looks amazing! Svetlana’s plan is to use our design to help her create the finished 3D version which will be made of metal; we can’t wait to see the final result.

P7A used their prior knowledge to create and identify different types of angles through folding paper. We managed to create and identify the properties of most of the angles; there was a bit of problem-solving involved when it came to the reflex angle! We used our communication and team work skills to conquer the task.