Merry Christmas everyone! We have had a fun week at school with lots of Christmas activities. We had our P6/7 Christmas party. We also became authors and illustrators creating our own Christmas books for our Primary 1 buddies. We used our artistic skills to create lots of Christmas Art. We gave presents to our Advent partners. Have a great holiday see you in the New Year!
All posts by Mrs McLean
Week beginning the 10th December 2018
Hi everyone , welcome back to our blog. We have been very busy over the last few weeks practising for our Nativity ‘A Miracle in Town’, We had a fantastic time performing in school and at the church this week . We loved seeing our buddies perform on stage. We also enjoyed singing ‘Hallelujah’! We are really starting to get in the mood for Christmas! We wore our slippers to school to raise money for Shelter Scotland. We enjoyed creating our ‘Catching Snowflakes’ pictures.We also completed some our our WW2 art. It has been a great week.
Slippers For Shelter
Well done to all our pupils and their fantastic slippers. With your help we raised £100 for the homeless at Christmas.
Christmas Ball
Thanks to the Fundraising Committee for working so hard … and the wonderful support form our parents, families and friends the first St. Joseph’s Christmas Ball was a great success! The amazing sum of £1,400 was raised.
Week Beginning 26th November 2018
Welcome back to P7. This week we were learning about the Blitz and Evacuation. Thanks to Gerard and Anna who brought in WW1 and WW2 medals, a ‘Billeting Card’, ‘an ‘Evacuee Letter’ and a ‘Name Tag’. This really brought our lesson to life. Then we wrote our own descriptive letter based from an evacuees and their new life in the countryside, to their parents. We also drew a Blitz blackout picture using media using oil pastels. In Maths we learnt about the order of operations also known as BOMDAS. In Health and Wellbeing we continued to learn about how to look after our minds and mental health. The right of the week was Article 13- you have the right to say what you think and find all information as long as it is safe to use. We were also had ERIC time everyday.
By Lewis and Hannah
Week beginning the 19th November 2018
Hi everyone, look at what we have learned this week! In Literacy we have learnt how to write a persuasive speech about how unfair the Treaty of Versailles was from Hitler’s point of view. In Maths we were dividing at three digit number by a two digit number. In reading we have looked at Cause and Effect In Topic we found out about the Blitz. In art we drew our own spitfires. We had a really interesting STEM talk from Karen Fitzsimons and we found out what it is like to be a Hydrogeologist. This week for our Smile Mile we had to walk like a chicken.
by Rachel and Anna.
P7 Week begnning the 12th November 2018
Hi everyone welcome back to our blog. This week in primary 7 in Literacy we used the Fox tool to take notes quickly and share our notes with our group, then we used these notes to continue to write our balanced argument on ‘The Treaty of Versailles’ . In Maths we investigated long division problems. We found about about ‘Conscription’ during WW2 and we completed our poppy pictures for our ‘Lest we Forget’ wall display. Then we looked at facial proportions and sketched Hitler’s portrait. On Tuesday we went to see ‘We Will Rock You’ at St. Kent’s, we thought it was amazing and enjoyed seeing our former pupil Ciara on stage. Mrs McLean saw Niamh on Thursday night. Both girls were fantastic. We are very proud of them! Finally we ended our week with our Sportshall Athletic challenge.
Week Beginning the 5th November 2018
Hello everyone. This week in P7 we have immersed ourselves in our new topic ‘War and Conflict’. We found out more about WW1 and WW2. In Literacy we wrote a balanced argument on ‘The Treaty of Versailles, in ‘Topic’ we found out what actions Hitler took to start WW2. In Maths we revised Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. In Reading we found out about Armistice and sold poppies for Poppy Scotland. Joseph brought in Remembrance and Victory medals from WW1. Well done to Eilish for her Bronze medal at the Wallace Fencing Academy. Its been a busy week in P7
Week beginning the 29th October 2018
Welcome back to our P7 blog. We have been busy completing our Titanic topic and moving onto our new topic of War and Conflict. In Literacy we wrote a reflective essay called ‘ My Inspiration’ we talked about people who were inspirational to us and how they had helped us to become ‘Global Citizens’. In Maths we found out about strategies we can use in mental multiplication and long multiplication. In topic we completed our Titanic cabins. We started our War and Conflict topic by finding out about the reasons for WW1 and WW2. We dressed up for our fantastic Halloween parade.