We have had a very successful and busy week in P7/6.

Numeracy

We have been continuing to work on and develop our knowledge of fractions.  The plan is that by the end of next week we will be ready to assess our knowledge and understanding of this part of our numeracy focus and move onto decimals.

Literacy

After the October holiday we will be introducing ‘Literacy Circles’.  Every week each member of the reading group will be given a ‘role’ for their reading homework.  On a Wednesday morning they will have to present their ‘role’ to the rest of the group.  This approach to reading comprehension allows the children an experience of thinking about their reading and what they take from it from a variety of angles, hopefully allowing the children to find a method of fully understanding what they are reading that suits their individual learning style.

Over the past few weeks I have been introducing the different roles in class.  This will continue up to the October break.

IDL

The children have been working on their IDL topic this week using ICT as a research tool.  My focus with the class is ‘Fair Trade’ and I have chosen to bring the issues of fair trade to a more local and ‘real’ level for the children.  We are looking at ‘Fair Price for Farmers’.  We began our topic work this week and I was extremely impressed with the team work skills and variety of research strategies displayed by all the children.

Mrs Harrison’s original plan was to look at Eco via clean water issues across the globe.  However, driven by the children’s wishes and interest in current news affairs this has now changed to a Global Citizenship focus on the problems and issues faced by the Syrian refugees.

HWB

Mrs Logan had the children working extremely hard during PE this week!  They were doing a ‘bootcamp’ and there was lots of rosy cheeks and heavy breathing throughout!  Great work guys!

The weather is being very kind to us at the moment – much kinder than it was during the summer holiday! – so we have been able to continue with our Daily Mile and outdoor PE sessions.

As a health promoting school we would like to remind parents and carers that a healthy snack and healthy packed lunch are encouraged at school.  As snack time is only 15 minutes long we recommend that each child only bring one snack.

HWB: Team Work

On Wednesday, we teamed up with Miss Moir’s P6 class for an ‘Alphabet Treasure Hunt’! The children had to find a partner from the other class and use their team work skills to find 26 items within the front and back playgrounds. The tricky part was that the items had to begin with each letter of the alphabet!  Myself and Miss Moir were extremely impressed with the way all of children behaved and engaged with this task! During the plenary the children expressed many positive comments, including: ‘it was nice to work with people from another class’, ‘i enjoyed sharing my ideas’, ‘We’re not finished yet’!!  

Modern Language (French)

We had a general knowledge quiz on France and French culture on Wednesday. The children used their ICT research skills to carry out research in pairs.   They did a great job finding out lots of information about France and Paris.

Current Affairs

I was extremely proud of my class today.  We were looking at 9/11 footage and had a variety of discussions around this extremely sad and devastating event.  All the children participated in the discussions and showed a genuine interest in discussing the thoughts, behaviors and emotions from a variety of perspectives, including terrorism. What stood out was a genuine empathy for those affected.  Caiden suggested a minute silence to give us all a chance to reflect and remember those affected.  As a class we had a minute silence at 11.09 yesterday morning.

House Captains

Our P7s were all invited to stand as candidates for House Captains.  Our class had a very impressive 5 volunteers out of a possible 9!  Each candidate had to prepare a speech to try and persuade the rest of their house to vote for them.  Special recognition goes to Caiden who was the only boy from both of the P7 classes to stand!  Well done Caiden! Votes will be placed on Monday and the new House Captains announced during next Friday’s assembly.  Good luck 🙂

Pupil Council

Our class pupil council representatives were decided today.  Representing our class we have Ruby (P6) and Bailie (P7).  Well done and the best of luck in your new roles 🙂

Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs)

All P6 pupils have been invited to stand as candidates for this role.  Any child that is interested has to hand in a written explanation of why they believe they should be chosen for this role.  This has to be handed in on Monday (14th September)

Celebrating Success

We had an outstanding 6 Head Teacher awards plus 1 Depute Award this week!!

Amyleigh, Aiden C and Ruby received their HT award for demonstrating excellent fraction knowledge.

Ruby also received a HT award for perseverance during a maths challenge set by Mrs Harrison.

Emma received her HT award for getting 100% in a start of term Numeracy assessment.

Anthony received his Depute HT award for perseverance during the challenge set by Mrs Harrison.

Well done to all who received an award this week, and good luck to everyone for next week!

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend! 🙂 🙂

Miss Preston and Mrs Harrison