On Friday 15th March, Murrayfield PS pupils and staff will be participating in Red Nose day. This year we would like pupils to wear red on the day and bring a donation.
The P7 Fundraising Team will share information about the purpose of Red Nose Day at assembly. Afterwards they will be selling limited edition cakes kindly baked by the school kitchen staff for £1.
Help us raise money for a great cause! Thank you for your support.
Mrs Harrison and The P7 Fundraising Team.
P7 pupils enjoyed listening to a story read online by Tim Peake.
Using our art and design skills to create a book character from a lollipop stick. Can you guess our characters? They are work in progress for Thursday’s World Day challenge.
Can you encourage your child to read more? Reading helps to build vocabulary, develops a child’s imagination and in turn can inspire them to write their own pieces.
Happy World Book Day from P7
In P7 this week, one Maths group has been focusing on developing their understanding of percentages using pegboards. They were challenged to create pictures by placing coloured pegs into a board , then work out the fraction before converting their answers into decimals and percentages. Can you work out the fraction, decimal and percentage of each colour? We also discovered that on some occasions, we had to simplify the fractions.
P7, P7/6 and P6 attended a careers table talk organised by Community Action Blackburn. The pupils had the opportunity to meet and ask questions about people who work in a variety of different jobs, ranging from hairdressing, the fire bridage, health care, finance, IT, joiners, the police force, musicans, educators, WLDAS and even a Zumba instructor.
#engagingleaners #lifeskills #futureemployees #makingmemoriesatmurrayfieldprimaryschool #CAB #DYWF
Primary Seven started a new topic on STEM last week. So far we’ve explored ‘What is engineering?’ and looked at occupations which are part of engineering. Today we became engineers!
We were challenged to use limited resources to plan and build tall structures in teams. Before starting the challenge we looked at examples of towers, such as The Eiffel Tower and The Leaning Tower of Pisa, and discussed build shapes. We discovered it was difficult to make our structures stable and strong.
#STEM #DYWF #murrayfieldpsteachingskillsforlife
Happy New Year to everyone!
First day back into learning for P7 started with listening and talking about the holidays and goals for the rest of P7. We followed this up with mental maths and a time word problem challenge in trios. It took ‘time’ to tackle it because as well as using addition and subtraction skills, it was important to analyse the clues given about each person’s journey to school. Great growth mindset shown by all today on the first day back!
Hello from Primary Seven,
Today we were hard at work getting into the holiday spirit, by learning to create codes to help santa locate and deliver presents. We planned routes using STEM Glasgow’s daily advent calendar challenge and santatracker on the iPads. Coding helps teach pupils skills in problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and builds on Maths skills such as directions.
#DYWF
#makinglearningfunatmurrayfieldprimary
#digitalliteracyskills
On Wednesday last week (14th November) P7 went to DYWF event at Ingliston to learn about jobs within the food and farming industry. While we were there:
There were a lot of kind employers and it was an enjoyable experience. It has made many of the P7 pupils think about their future career aspirations.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Pudsey events for BBC Children in Need.
The P7 Fundraising Team started by promoting the charity by reading the story of Pudsey’s Great Fundraiser to the nursery boys and girls; and P1 – P3.
Throughout the week, the team sold many raffle tickets. Well done to the winner of the raffle, Lewis Walker in P3!
Finally we were delighted to see so many people taking part in dress down in spots day on Friday 16th November. You looked fabulous! It was great to see so many homemade t-shirts!
The turnout at biscuit and blether was fantastic! You helped make our bake sale a great success. The beautiful Pudsey themed cakes were kindly made and decorated by Dot from our School Kitchen.
In total, we raised over £400, which is amazing! Thank you again for all of your donations.
From The P7 Fundraising Team.
Scottish Maths Week in P7
The pupils have been taking on schools across the country in the Sumdog competition and tackling mathematical word problems linked to events which have appeared in the UK news. Next week we are hoping to put together our maths questions with short newspaper articles for the Daily Rigour writing competition.
Ethical Trading
Our new class topic for this term is Ethical trading. This week we focused on understanding the terms, ethical and trade. We also researched multinational ethical trading companies and how they support communities. Next week we plan to learn about the fashion industry and companies, which ensure basic human rights are met.
Next week we are looking forward to taking part in masterclasses about Famous Scots.
Enjoy the holiday weekend and we’ll see you back on Wednesday 19th feeling refreshed. Remember your reading homework!
