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Prmary 7

Week beginning the 9th January 2018

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Happy New Year!

 

Welcome back to our P7 blog. We hope you had a great Christmas! This week we have continued with our WW2 topic.

 

In Literacy -we  investigated how we to use persuasive language.  We put ourselves in Hitler’s place to write a speech  to the German people convincing them to fight! We used super sentence starters and evidence to support our point of view.

In Maths- we  continued to solve algebraic equations.

In Topic – we studied the Home Front…. we looked at The Blitz and Evacuation,

In ICT – we found out how to use Microsoft publisher to create a Government Leaflet on Evacuation.

In Art – we created our own gas masks and started to create evacuees.

Prmary 7

Week Beginning the 11th December

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Its Christmas!!! This week we went to see Beauty and the Beast! It was really funny and the baddie was terrifying! On Wednesday we held our first performance of Grandpa’s Nativity Story and on Thursday we had our Christmas lunches and our second performance of the Nativity in the church.  We had great fun and the P1/2s were amazing, they remembered all of their words! On Friday we decorated our slippers and wore them in school, we brought in £1 to raise money for the homeless at Christmas! We were part of the choir and we were filmed for the West Lothian website so we will be famous!!

Here are some of our Christmas memories for 2017

Prmary 7

Week beginning the 4th December 2017

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Glow was down last week so we didn’t get a chance to update our school blog.

Last week we got ready for our school Fayre. We priced books and toys and did some home baking which we priced on Friday morning. We used our money maths skills to run all the Christmas Fayre stalls. We had great fun and we raised  £194. 92. Thanks to all those who came to the Fayre for their support.

We continued with our World War 2 topic and found out about the reasons for and against the Treat of Versailles.

In Art – we sketched spitfires and we used blending and shading  to create Blitz pictures.

In Literacy – we finished our ‘Spy’ Stories’

In Maths  – we continued with our topic on Multiplication and Division.

In Health and Well being –  we had a  Food for Thought lesson from Tesco. We played board games that made us think about body image and the correct foods to eat. Then we designed our own posters to show what we had learned. The posters were judged by Tesco. Katy Murray and Lucy Williamson’s poster won  and their prize was a fruit basket which the girls kindly shared with the class.

In Music and Drama – we practised for our school Nativity we are looking forward to performing for our parents  and guardians next week.

 

Prmary 7

P7 – Week beginning the 13th November

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We’ve been busy in P7 this week – Here are some of the things we found out about…

  • In Maths – We found out how to multiply a 3 digit number by a 2 digit number
  • In Writing – We created our own poppy Concrete poems
  • In Reading – We investigated ‘Cause and Effect’
  • In Art – We studied facial proportions to help us to create a pencil portrait of Hilter
  • In Science – We investigated why some objects float and why some sink!
  • We completed our solo talks on the Titanic

We are now finally ready to move onto our next topic WW2!

 

Prmary 7

P7 – Week beginning the 6th November 2017

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This week in Primary 7

  • we used key words to help us to answer questions on ‘Remembrance Day’
  • we studied the poem ‘In Flander’s Field’ and wrote some poems of our own
  • we created 3D poppies
  • we found out about the artist Georgia O’ Keefe and used blending techniques to create  poppies in the same style
  • we found out about doubling and halving strategies in Maths
  • we took part in the Linlithgow Athletics festival and won lots of our relay races!
  • we collected money for poppies for Poppy Scotland
  • we presented our solo talks on the Titanic to the rest of our class
  • we all had fantastic reports on parent’s night
Prmary 7

Week Beginning the 30th October

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We had a spooky start to our week this week when everyone cam dressed up for Halloween on Monday and we had a Halloween parade.

  • On Monday afternoon we went over to Linlithgow Primary School to watch a show called ‘Up to Speed’ about a girl and a boy, Jade and Barnaby ,and what it’s like to be the odd one out. The show was very good and made us think about Children’s Rights and how we should treat everyone equally.
  • On Tuesday we were invited to St Kent’s to watch their amazing production of Les Mis. The show was fantastic and we were delighted to see that Niamh Mullholland and Ciara Fitzsimons had main parts. Their singing was out of this world. Michael Boyle performed with the orchestra. His trumpet playing was excellent. We think we have some budding stars of the future in P7. This show motivated us to work hard in music and drama.
  • In Literacy we completed our diaries on our journey on the Titanic.
  • In Maths we used symmetry to complete some tricky Halloween pictures
  • In Art we completed our Art Deco posters.
  • We enjoyed our All Saints Mass on Wednesday.

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P7 – Week Beginning the 24th October

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Welcome back after the holidays! It is great to be back!

This week  in

  • Literacy we have started to write a diary recount about our time on board the Titanic we have enjoyed this so much we will have to continue it next week!
  • ICT – We completed our newspaper reports
  • Maths – We revised addition and subtraction of 4 and 5 digit numbers
  • Technology – We continued with our 3D Titanic
  • Art – We created posters in an Art Deco Style
  • Team building – We continue to work on our Team Building skills
Prmary 7

P7 Week beginning 9 October

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In our final week before half term we were very busy :

  • We completed our newspaper reports on the sinking of the Titanic and typed them up
  • We revised mental strategies that we could use for mental addition of three and four digit numbers
  • We tried to solve this weeks Daily Rigour Maths Challenge
  • We carried out research for our essay on ‘Make A Difference’ we decided to focus on how we could make little changes that would help to save the planet -some of the things we investigated were  non- renewable and renewable energy sources, how we could reduce, reuse and recycle materials, and how we could walk instead of driving everywhere!
  • We continued to make our 3D Titanics..

We still have  to look at the the lessons that were learnt from the sinking of the Titanic and we will finish our topic after the holidays…..

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