This Week
Our mini IDL learning theme is Cake Fest, and in our groups we have continued preparations this week. Mrs. Gordon brought in a huge supply of apples from her garden and these were used to do some practical cooking skills. We made apple crumble which was delicious, whilst developing our knowledge of the importance of food hygiene and risks associated with this. With Mr. Logan, we focused on the design aspect for our cakes, producing annotated diagrams and using ICT to create a Lego representation of our chosen structures. Next week we look forward to finalising our designs (the most important criterion is feasibility) before Mr. Logan and Mrs. Gordon will decide which group will go forward to make their building out of cake.
We have been doing some assessment work for numeracy, spelling and writing this week. In numeracy, our Second Level baseline will be used to see where our strengths lie and also the areas in which we will be working hard to extend our knowledge this year. We will redo the assessment at the end of this year to see how much progress we have all made. On Thursday we met Mr. Ritchie who will be in class with us one day a week. He provided us with a picture stimulus and music before challenging us to write a creative piece about what lay behind the secret door. Once this writing has been marked, we will discuss our targets with Mr. Logan to ensure our writing continues to improve.
Mr. Logan and Mrs. Gordon swap classes on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon to allow for some skill sharing. With Mrs. Gordon we brushed up on some of previous learning in French and look forward to also learning some Spanish with her in the coming weeks. Mr. Logan is responsible for our P.E, and our first block will focus on Extreme Dodgeball. Last year’s P7s thoroughly enjoyed this activity and we began by gaining an insight into the basic rules and playing some competitive small-sided games. Next week we will develop different ways of throwing the dodgeball, aim to improve our accuracy and play some adaptations of the basic game.
Finally, we have continued our buddying duties this week but allowed our P1s to become increasingly independent. On Friday we were Digital Leaders when teaching our buddies how to turn on/off the laptops, log on, access the internet and play some games safely online. Mr. Logan has been impressed throughout the week with the mature and responsible approach we’ve taken to carrying out this role in school. All of us are determined and motivated to lead by example this year as the senior pupils within school.
Have a look at some photos from this week. Is Charlie reading a big book, or has Charlie shrunk? Who knows.
Coming Up in P7b
- Next Monday – Duncan Slater (student from Edinburgh University) commences 5 week teaching placement in P7b
- Orienteering sessions in P7
- Meet The Teacher event – Thursday 7th September at 6pm
- P7b Class Assembly – Friday 15th September at 10am
- Holiday – Monday 18th September
- Risk Factory trip – Thursday 21st September at 9.30am, EE2 forms to be sent out and parental help required
- Parents’ Evenings – Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th October
- October holidays – Monday 16th to Monday 23rd October
- Poppy Factory trip – Thursday 26th October at 12.30pm
- Skiing block (4 weeks) – commences Thursday 30th November until Thursday 21st December
Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine!
P7b and Mr. Logan
