In Literacy – we finished off our WW2 evacuee letters home to their parents.
In Maths – we found fractions of amounts, we simplified fractions and found equivalent fractions.
In Topic – we looked at human rights and how the ‘rights’ of the Jewish people were taken away during the Holocaust.
In Art – we created a Star of David badge that the Jews had to wear during WW2 and thought about how they would have felt. We also continued to work on our Anderson air raid shelters. We found an air raid shelter locally to help us create our own designs.
In RE – We looked at ‘Serving the greater good’ and how we could help SCIAF help people in Cambodia this year stop illegal fishing as part of the WEE box appeal.
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
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
This week we wrote gruesome recipes based on the book ‘How to Cook Children’ by Martin Howard. Mrs Telfer was really impressed with our recipes. Some of the titles include, ‘Ruby Rhubard Crumble,’ ‘Bella Bolognaise with Snot Sauce’ and ‘PENNYcotta.’ In Maths we continued with our Mental Maths strategies. We did a walk about answering the sums of the other people in the class. It was great fun and really got us thinking. We made 3D pictures of ourselves in art. They look amazing.
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…..
During our last week in Primary 1 before the October break we have been enjoying more Colourful Consonant games and keeping our Pupil Profiles up to date. We have been writing a personal story about our weekend and investigating 2D shapes. Listening to Katie Morag stories inspired us to create kilts; we think Katie Morag would love wearing them! One of our P7 buddies wrote a special story and came to read it to her P1 buddy. During our Class Talks we have found out lots of information from where family members live in Ireland to Panda’s and their habits. In RE we thanked God for the wonder of Autumn. In PE we have been practicing ball skills. On Thursday we had a reward afternoon which was great fun. Mrs McGonigal came in to share the story of Little Red Riding Hood; we have lots of actions for the characters now! We have had a busy, but fun, first term. Have a restful October holiday, see you all after the break!
Katy Morag
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