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Another busy week in P7/6 (minus the 7’s)

June 16, 2017 Miss Anderson 1 Comment

It has been a very busy and productive week in P7/6. The class felt a lot smaller ( and quieter) as our P7’s were away on their High School transition days, embarking on the next leg of their journey.

The week kicked off with a very successful trip to The Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh. The sun shone for us as we started our garden treasure hunt, where we had to find various flowers and items within the gardens and take photos of them or draw them. The sun was still shining when we had lunch so we were able to have a quick game of football in the park opposite the gardens. After lunch we got to take part in a work shop about the reproduction of plants, some of us got to dress up as flowers, a bee, stamen and stigma, which all represented the different parts of a flower. We then had to recreate what happens when a bee is attracted to a flower. It helped us to understand the process of pollination better.

On Wednesday Eve, Katie, Adam and Aiden took the Burton-mobile for a trip to Dobbies Garden Centre. We applied for funding from Dobbies to help us with our school grounds, in the hope that we could create a welcoming colourful, relaxing, place within our school playground and we are pleased to announce that we were awarded £600 worth of gardening equipment. Eve, Katie, Adam and Aiden have been displaying their green fingers by creating a small garden in our playground so I thought they would be the perfect children to go and have a wee trip to Dobbies to see what type of plants and equipment we could spend our money on. They all knew exactly what they wanted and came back with a very extensive list. We look forward to getting everything delivered and making our school playground a welcoming place. If anyone would like to help with this small project we would really appreciate your help.

On Thursday we got a visit from the SSPCA to discuss what animal cruelty was and all of the children had very good questions to ask our warden. We ended the session with a game of snakes and ladders that related to animal facts.

Our P7’s all arrived back safely from their new high schools and had lots of stories to tell us about their time away. It sounds like they all had an amazing time and are all ready to make the transition to High School.

I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend.

Miss Anderson

Primary 7, Sciences, Uncategorized

How does your garden grow?

May 12, 2017 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

LI: We are learning to explore the life cycle of plants.

We are learning to investigate what helps plants to grow.

SC: I can state the different ways that plants can reproduce.

I can design an investigation to test the effects of fertiliser on plants.

Last week we kicked off our new topic ‘How does your garden grow?’ and over the last fortnight we have been busy learning all about how plants grow and what might help them grow faster. Last week we looked at what a plant actually needs to grow, they’re not much different from us as they need food, water, air and sunlight. We thought that we could investigate whether fertiliser made any difference to the rate of growth so we planted our own sunflowers, watered half with just water and half with plant food mixed with water. We also decided to see if compost made any difference so we dug up some soil from the garden in the playground and used some that to plant too. It only took a few days for our sunflowers to start growing and we can see a difference in them every day. We will let you know the results of our experiment when they are fully grown. Once our sunflowers are fully grown we are going to plant them in the gardens within the playground.

This week we have been learning to explore similarities and differences between two outdoor areas. The children were split into groups and were each given an area of the playground to explore. Armed with a clipboard and paper and an ipad, the children had to explore what was in their designated area, draw a sketch and take some photographs. Back in the classroom the children mapped their area onto an A3 sheet of paper where they had to replicate their area using the information they had gathered. Each map had to have a key so that we knew what was on their map. The children all worked very hard on their map using all sorts of resources to highlight different areas and they all look amazing. Once the children had created their maps they then had to present their findings to the rest of the class. All of the children’s presentation skills have developed since the beginning of the year and were confident in presenting their findings.

Primary 7, Sciences, STEM 2017, Uncategorized

Cool Chemistry in P7/6

March 3, 2017 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

LI: We are learning to identify the features of a fair test

LI: We are learning to classify materials

SC: I can identify that a material/substance has changed through decay, cooking, burning, rusting, melting and dissolving.

I can investigate what causes this change.

This week we kicked off our new topic ‘Cool Chemistry’ and we have been very busy discovery what chemistry is and what processes we have to go through when conducting an experiment.We are all excited that we are going to be learning about chemistry and what this involves. At the beginning of the week we looked how materials can changed through different processes. We were all given a small piece of clay which we examined and we had to describe its properties. Some of the words that we came up with were: flexible, moist, dusty, strong smell, squishy, gritty and soft. We then watched a film to see what happens to clay when it gets fired in a kiln. Once the clay had gone through the heating process the properties of it were very different. Some of the words that we used to describe the properties of the fired clay were: smooth, hard, fragile, rigid, breakable. We discussed how clay would not be able to go back to its original form and came up with other materials that this would happen to when they have gone through a change, we discussed that bread and eggs could not go back to their original form.

We also learned about fair testing, what this involves and why it is necessary. Once we had learned about fair testing we then conducted our own investigation into what melts faster, butter or chocolate. We discussed how we could make this a fair test and decided that we had to keep the water at the same temperature when melting the butter and chocolate, the water had to be the same amount and the butter and chocolate had to be the same amount otherwise this would not be fair and our results might vary. We made predictions and were surprised at some of the results. We are looking forward to learning more about chemistry over the coming weeks.

Keep your eyes peeled for more experiments.

Miss Anderson

Outside of School, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Upper area trip to the Scottish Parliament

February 23, 2017 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

On Tuesday afternoon the upper area visited the Scottish Parliament. When we arrived we spent a short while looking at our spectacular surroundings of Arthur Seat and the amazing architecture of The Scottish Parliament, even the bike stands are arranged in a special way, which can only be seen if you are standing in a particular spot. On arrival, all of the children had to go through very strict security, it was a bit like going through security in the airport. Thankfully we were all ok and we were all able to proceed to the main part of the building. Walking through the main foyer we could see the spectacular architecture throughout and there were many fascinating sculptures that we were able to take the time to look at.

Firstly we went into a small room where we were put into small groups. There were certain objects scattered around the room, such as; a ballot box, a gavel and sounding block, a crown and robe, the ceremonial mace, the act of union and a royal seal, we didn’t know that the bigger the seal you had, the more important you were, in our groups we had to discuss what we thought they might be and what relevance they had to The Scottish Parliament. As we have been learning about The Scottish Parliament we were very good at discussing the purpose of each object. We also learned a bit more about the history of the Scottish Parliament. In our groups we then had to decide the devolved matters and the decisions that were made in The Scottish Parliament.

Primary 6 were very lucky to be able to have a chat with our own local MSP Neil Findlay who spoke about his life as an MSP. He also gave us a few tips for when we are holding our own elections. Katie asked for some advice on how to become class president, Neil advised her to be confident when speaking, to know your questions and anticipate what your audience might want to ask, he also added that it is always good to put a bit of humour into your speech.

Finally we had the opportunity to visit the debating chamber. We were all very excited and the children were eager to see our First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. We had to be extremely quiet when entering the debating chamber whilst the debate was on as there are cameras and microphones everywhere. When we entered there was a very lively debate going on and some of the politicians were even shouting and banging their tables, we later found out that this is their way of booing! We couldn’t always make out what the debate was about or who was talking but it was very entertaining. Our First Minister Nicola Sturgeon even made an appearance much to the delight of many of the children. It was a very interesting environment and gave us an insight as to what goes on at The Scottish Parliament.

I like it when the MSP’s were hitting their table during the debate as it was very funny – Natalia P7

The debating chamber was the best bit of the day, I particularly liked the way that all of the parties disagreed. – Keiran P7

I found the trip very interesting and learned a lot more about The Scottish Parliament – Matilda P6

I disliked when all the MSP’s were banging on their tables and interrupting each other because it seemed very disrespectful to the others that were talking – Cailin P6

Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Drama in P7/6

February 8, 2017 Miss Anderson 7 Comments

LI: We are learning to use a range of drama conventions to explore themes such as hopes, fears and desires.

SC: I can discuss what an issue might be.

I can say how a character might be feeling.

I can demonstrate how a character might be feeling.

Last week we used role play to explore issues as a starting point for our story writing.

Children worked in small groups and each group were given a scenario card. The children then had to think about and discuss the characters involved in the scenario, how they might be feeling and how they might demonstrate their feelings through what they say, tone of their voice and their expressions. Once the individual groups had developed their scenes we all got together to perform our drama for the rest of the class. Each group did extremely well in demonstrating their feelings and thoughts through the conventions of drama and the other children were able to guess what the issue was. I’m sure we have a few budding actors and actresses in our class.

Our drama lesson will now help us when we start to write our story about our chosen issue.

English & Literacy, Primary 7, Uncategorized

P7/6 All things Scottish!

January 20, 2017 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

This week we have been busy in primary 7/6 learning all about Scots language. In our reading groups we have been learning to identify Scots, to do this we have been looking at some Scottish poems. We identified Scottish words from a poem and,using the Scottish dictionary, we found out what they meant in English. We had a lot of fun thinking about what Scottish words we already knew and were surprised by the amount we came up it. We transferred these skills when writing our ‘Oor Wullie’ comic strips. We have also been doing some pencil drawings where we had to complete the face of Robert Burns. We were given a copy of half of his face and had to draw and shade the remainder, it was quite hard but they all look fantastic.

Rosie Finningham P7.

English & Literacy, Primary 7, Uncategorized, Winter Ready P6, Winter Ready P7

Burns Poems/Winter Ready

January 10, 2017 Miss Anderson 12 Comments

In P7/6 have been learning our Burns poems during our quick start every morning, we have also been identifying Scots language and how this is different to some of the words that we use today.

As mentioned in class, can children please comment ‘Winter Ready’ and the poem that will be reciting below, to let me know that, in the event of any adverse weather, you are able to access the blog.

Many thanks – Miss Anderson

P6 – Breakin’ Rainbows

He wis jist a wee lad
dibblin in a puddle,
glaur fae heid tae fit,
enjoyin haen a guddle.
He micht hae been a poacher
pu’in salmon fae the beck.
He coulda been a paratrooper
swamp up tae his neck.
Oneywey, he wis faur awa,
deep wandered in his dreams.
It richt sobered me tae mind
a dub’s no whit it seems.
An while ah watched an grieved
the loss that maks a man a mug,
alang the road fair breenged his Maw
an skelpt him roon the lug

To a Mouse

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,

O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!

Thou need na start awa sae hasty,

Wi’ bickering brattle!

I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,

Wi’ murdering pattle!

I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion

Has broken Nature’s social union,

An’ justifies that ill opinion

Which makes thee startle

At me, thy poor, earth-born companion

An’ fellow-mortal!

I doubt na, whyles, but thou may thieve;

What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!

A daimen-icker in a thrave

‘S a sma’ requet;

I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,

An’ never miss’t!

Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!

Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!

An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,

O’ foggage green!

An’ bleak December’s win’s ensuing,

Baith snell an’ keen!

Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,

An’ weary Winter comin fast,

An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,

Thou thought to dwell,

Till crash! the cruel coulter past

Out thro’ thy cell.

That wee bit heap o’ leaves and stibble,

Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!

Now thou’s turned out, for a’ thy trouble,

But house or hald,

To thole the Winter’s sleety dribble,

An’ cranreuch cauld!

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,

In proving foresight may be vain:

The best-laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men

Gang aft agley,

An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,

For promis’d joy!

Still thou are blest, compared wi’ me!

The present only toucheth thee:

But Och! I backward cast my e’e,

On prospects drear!

An’ forward, tho’ I cannot see,

I guess an’ fear!

P7 Red Red Rose

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ ’twere ten thousand mile!

To a Louse,

On Seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church

Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie!

Your impudence protects you sairly:

I canna say but ye strunt rarely,

Owre gawze and lace;

Tho’ faith, I fear ye dine but sparely,

On sic a place.

Ye ugly, creepan, blastet wonner,

Detested, shunn’d, by saunt an’ sinner,

How daur ye set your fit upon her,

Sae fine a Lady!

Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner,

On some poor body.

Swith, in some beggar’s haffet squattle;

There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle,

Wi’ ither kindred, jumping cattle,

In shoals and nations;

Whare horn nor bane ne’er daur unsettle,

Your thick plantations.

Now haud you there, ye’re out o’ sight,

Below the fatt’rels, snug and tight,

Na faith ye yet! ye’ll no be right,

Till ye’ve got on it,

The vera topmost, towrin height

O’ Miss’s bonnet.

My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,

As plump an’ gray as onie grozet:

O for some rank, mercurial rozet,

Or fell, red smeddum,

I’d gie you sic a hearty dose o’t,

Wad dress your droddum!

I wad na been surpriz’d to spy

You on an auld wife’s flainen toy;

Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,

On ’s wylecoat;

But Miss’s fine Lunardi, fye!

How daur ye do ’t?

O Jenny dinna toss your head,

An’ set your beauties a’ abread!

Ye little ken what cursed speed

The blastie’s makin!

Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread,

Are notice takin!

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us

To see oursels as others see us!

It wad frae monie a blunder free us

An’ foolish notion:

What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,

And ev’n Devotion!

English & Literacy, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Book Week – Alice in Wonderland

December 8, 2016 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

Alice in Wonderland has taken over P7/6! During book week we have been comparing and contrasting the original Alice In Wonderland with the modern adaptions and of course the original novel by Louis Carroll. We have discovered that books can let your imagination run free and inspire you to improve your own writing. The novel has been quite challenging due to the language and craziness in it, at times it can be hard to follow and very hard to visualise what Wonderland might look like. To help us do this we have been referring back to the original Disney version of 1951.

We have used the films, the novel and of course our own ‘Alice the Musical’to inspire us to create a new front cover or a scene in Alice in Wonderland.

to inspire us to create a new front cover or a scene in Alice in Wonderland.

Miss Anderson & Cailin McKenna

Primary 7, Uncategorized

P7/6 Class Charter

September 13, 2016 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

Primary 7/6 have been thinking about the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child and how we can respect these rights in school. As a class we discussed the Rights of a Child and looked at each article, deciding upon what article’s we would respect within the classroom and what we would do to respect them. As we are reading ‘The World’s Worst Children’ at the moment, we decided that this would be the theme of our class charter. We have also been discussing how our school values link to our class charter. The children all designed their own ‘World’s Worst Children’….Gusty Gail, Taco Tim, Itchy Izzy and Debbie Dragon Girl, to name but a few!! We have all signed this to show that we will work together to build and maintain a great community over the coming year.