I hope everyone enjoyed the extra couple of days off … We were even blessed with some winter sunshine … and snow! 🙂 🙂
We have had an extremely busy couple of days in P7/6!!
CAB/Community Links
During our recent CAB sessions the children highlighted that they would like to meet with representatives of the Emergency Services to get their opinion on the issues and challenges that the children had identified. We were very lucky to have four fire fighters come into school on Wednesday to meet with our P6, P7/6 and P7 pupils. They showed us some interesting videos and spent over an hour sharing their experiences and answering our questions. Myself, Miss Moir and Ms Miller were all extremely impressed with the maturity, listening skills and confidence to ask questions shown by all upper pupils during this session. Well done everyone! Hopefully we will also have a representative from the Police in soon too! (pics below)
IDL
Rainforest
Our Rainforest in a Jar experiments are coming along nicely … well most are 🙂 Some are showing signs of new growth, roots are developing, we are even seeing some insects both grow and reproduce! We will be observing these over the next two weeks in class then the children will be able to bring them home. I know ALL parents will be excited to hear that news!
We completed our end of topic challenge/assessment on Rain Forests. I was overwhelmed by the effort, knowledge, creativity, ICT skills and developing presentation skills shown by everyone! A massive well done to each of you!
Deciding upon the two winners of the challenge was an extremely difficult decision! The winners were chosen because they had gone over and above what was expected; They had produced PowerPoint presentations, 3D Art, super facts that reflected research outside the classroom and their confidence during their presentation let me know that they had obviously put in time to practice their presentation.
The winners were Ruby E and Shannon G. Well done girls!
WWII
This week we completed our topic plan for our WWII IDL learning! We have started our class novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which will tie in with our WWII learning.
Science & Technology
In line with the P7 transition project, we are doing a mini-topic on Science across the whole class. We are focusing our research and learning on Tim Peak and the ISS. Today we spent time discussing the ISS and planning a model. Any recycling materials you can send into school will be gratefully received. I have spent time tonight looking over initial sketches and I am so excited to see the end products!
P7 News
As part of the Heart Start initiative all P7s were given the opportunity to experience CPR on dummies. (Pics below) Our P6 pupils will get this opportunity in their final year of primary.
Today the P7s and I spent some time looking over their transition math assessment. I was most impressed with the effort and the way each of them faced the challenge! Although daunting for them initially it was a fantastic way for us to identify the areas that need some additional attention. We will meet again next Thursday morning to continue this exercise.
A reminder that the out-of-school Science projects are due in next Friday (26th). These are being handed over directly to the Academy, so I cannot stress enough the importance of presentation, presentation, presentation! 🙂 … Ask your child how many times I mention this in an average day 🙂
As you can see, we have had an exceptionally busy two days!!
A reminder that tomorrow morning (19th) is our class open day! All Parents/Carers are invited into our classes to see why and how we use Mild, Spicy, Hot challenges across the stages.
Dates for your diary
P7 Transition Science Project Friday 26th February
P1 1980s Disco! Friday 26th February (Dress down in ’80s style – £1 donation)
Masterclass – Book Week Thursday 3rd March
Parent/Carer Consultations Thursday 17th March
Upper school WWII Assembly Friday 18th March
