Another busy week for P7. Maths Week Scotland and a visit to the Risk Factory were clear highlights for us all.

The class have been solving problems by finding patterns that help to predict further answers. Sumdog as always is a firm favourite and P7 have completed hundreds of questions each this week. An extra well done to those who managed to finish all 1000 questions.

The Risk Factory is always a hit with P7. It allows pupils to find ways to deal with risky situations like building sites or railway lines. There are 10 different scenarios to visit and it is great fun. Ask your child if they were one of several who ‘died’ by making poor decisions – some ‘died’ more than once! £20 on a railway line was apparently worth taking a risk for!

Jack – it teaches you a lot of scenarios that you could use when you are older. The volunteers teach you a lot of things as well.

Ben – It was really fun in the fire scenario. I died 3 times in the bus scenario.

Tyler – I died 3 times!

Kaitlyn – The fire scenario was really scary but fun.

Agota – The fire one was my favourite. I liked the railway one too.

Please find attached a copy of our Window into Learning. This provides an overview of what the children will be learning this term. We hope you find it helpful.

Window Into Learning P2

Thank you to those who came to the Meet The Teacher on Wednesday. If you were unable to attend, here is a link to the presentation.

Meet the Teacher Parent Presentation

P7 really is like no other year in Primary School – so many new responsibilities and opportunities. This week we announced our new House Captains:

Calderwood – Ben M and Emmie

Almondell – Eleni and Liam

Eliburn – Harry and Tyler

Beecraigs – Erin and Brooke

Congratulations to them and to everyone who went for these posts – you were all very professional and your speeches were heartfelt. You made the decisions very difficult.

We also have 4 Reading Ambassadors to congratulate:

Sophie C, Sophie M, Kaitlyn and Agota

They have a very busy year ahead helping us to encourage more reading throughout the school. Well done girls!

We also have our new Sports Captains:

Holly and Samuel

They will be organising all sorts of sporty things this year, as well as making sure the teachers are keeping the PE cupboard tidy – good luck with that!

We have several pupils applying to be Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) next week, so good luck to those pupils.

Looking back on what we have done in class this week, our Class Charter is now complete and has been signed by everyone to ensure we make this last year at primary school the best ever.

We started a year long programme with the Inveralmond CHS School of Football coach. We are so fortunate to be able to participate in this programme which focusses on developing the whole person, using football as a context. The key thing is that everyone is only competing against themselves to get better at everything, not just sport. There will be a mix of classroom sessions and physical sessions.

Pupil reflections:

Matthew – We did football and it was good but not tiring. We got our charter done eventually. Handball in PE was fun but a bit rough.

Sophie C – Number Talks was quite good. I think I can try some different ways to work out multiplication.

Charlie – I liked using the magnifier to look at rocks but you had to use the wee do part to get the best look. I learned about igneous rocks and metamorphic rocks.

Kieran – Number Talks was hard at the start but today we were much quicker.

Jack – It was good to pick our own story to write a report on, but it was difficult because the starting paragraph had to be a specific way.

Please find the link below for the Primary 2 information booklet from our Meet the Teacher evening.

P2 meet the teacher information booklet