Category: Primary 7

Mrs Tulloch challenges the children each week with their learning in science and technologies. They are very fortunate to have her share a wealth of knowledge and lots of fun and practical activities.

This week the P7 children assisted Mrs Tulloch by demonstrating some fun experiments including making lava lamps. Here are a few photos of them at work.

Thank you Mrs Tulloch for everything you teach us, and for always helping us learn new and exciting things.

P7a and Mrs Gordon

The P7’s had a fantastic time creating, writing and illustrating mini books as Christmas presents for their P1 buddies. The P7’s surprised their buddies by delivering their presents after break and reading the stories to the P1’s. Here are a few photos.

Merry Christmas to all from P7, Mr Logan and Mrs Gordon

 

This week we finished our block on fractions within numeracy by doing an assessment. This will help identify an areas we still need to work on. We then started work with percentages. Mrs Gordon was delighted that a few children recognised that “percent” means per 100, and that cent in French is 100!

In literacy we wrote diary entries from the point of view of an animal, plant or person living in the Amazon Rainforest or Brazil. We had to really put ourselves into our characters shoes, and do some research as to their life style to ensure it was authentic.

In French we designed our own Christmas jumpers and then wrote a few sentences to describe them. We had some lovely designs and learnt some fabulous words like robin – rouge-gorge (red throat) again some links to the English language.

We also started Spanish by working out what we knew, counting to 20, greetings and asking and saying our name. We found some links with masculine/feminine endings that we understood due to our work on that in French lessons.

In IDL we are at the end of our focus on Brazil, and we were very lucky to have some parents and grandparents join us for the learning showcase on Wednesday. We did an apprentice style activity where each group had to choose their team leader and then complete a Scotland/Brazil comparison task. There were a few twists along the way, and each section  was timed to add an element of urgency. At the end each team presented a “persuasive presentation on either Brazil or Scotland” trying to convince the audience to visit. The children did a great job, and some of the visitors commented on how well they gave each other feedback! Our peer assessment is working !

We had our second session of skiing on Thursday at Hillend, where we had real snow, making it more authentic! Everyone really pushed themselves and did so well. After an exhausting few hours, it was time to get back for our Christmas lunch. Lunch for 62 was served in our classroom, it was a bit of a squeeze, but very tasty!

Mrs Gordon and P7a

 

What a fantastic end result for the P7 enterprise project this year. Between the 2 classes the children split into groups of 4 or 5 and have spent time during the last 3 weeks on the project. Each team had to design, plan, advertise, manufacture and sell a product(s) or service at the Christmas Fayre. The children worked hard on costings and budgeting, and had to estimate how many of each product they expected to sell.

The Fayre was a great success and overall we made £850.73 net profit (in P7 alone). On Monday each group will calculate their team’s net profit and reflect on what worked well, and what would be done differently next time.

Many thanks to everyone who supported us. Here are a few photos of the teams at the Fayre.

 

 

Another busy week of learning in P7a. In Numeracy we continued our work on fractions. This week we looked at conversions between mixed number and improper fractions and addition/subtraction of fractions. We were choosing our chilli challenge based on how we felt about the subject (mild, spicy or hot). We also used lots of fraction examples as number talks this week to help us better understand the concepts. The use of concrete materials such as blocks, magnetic cuisinaire rods and fraction pieces allowed us to explore fractions in more depth. The concrete material we loved the most was the mini roll… have a look at our mini roll fractions.

In literacy we continued the “Big Writing Animals in Danger” radio report writing. We had to focus on the structure of our report, and ensure it was persuasive yet factual. The children peer assessed each other’s work, giving feedback to allow them to improve the piece of writing. The next step will be to record and share the reports.

We are loving using yammer as a tool during our guided reading sessions. This is a great way to improve ICT skills whilst combining it with literacy. This was another opportunity for peer assessing when we gave each other written feedback in our reading groups about the homework questions.

In French we continued with “Moi-meme” and learnt how to describe hair colour, eye colour and height. Our focus in PE was passing skills in basketball. We were able to easily give constructive feedback to our peers when observing each other play.

On Tuesday we finished our Brazilian Landmark junk models and again peer assessed (this time by group) against the success criteria that we co-created. Have a look at our creations below, aren’t they fabulous?

After all this peer assessing we have become a lot more confident at giving constructive feedback that will allow us to improve our work and recognise what good looks like.

Have a great weekend, from Mrs Gordon and P7a.

 

 

 

This week we had a big focus on anti-bullying week. The slogan for this year is “All different, All equal”. We worked in groups through several scenarios this week, which really made us think deeply about our actions. In groups we wrote definitions of respect and then voted on the one we liked best to use as a class motto, the one which celebrated being different. We looked at gender differences and stereotyping, and power. The children were very mature with their discussions and were easily able to identify the correct actions to take in different real-life scenarios.

Chloe’s mum has a Brazilian friend who let her borrow some items to show the class. We got to see some Carnival headdresses, a statue of Christ the Redeemer, a traditional doll and carving and a flag. Having a look at these items got us in the mood to finish our rainforest tanka poetry.

In Numeracy we continue our work with fractions, this time making equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions. We also did work with money and budgeting as part of our Christmas Fayre Enterprise project. Mr Fryer came in to talk to us about budgeting and helped us think about the profit each group can expect to make at the Fayre. Lots of very important links to skills for learning, life and work.

In French our focus was on “moi-meme”, myself. We were looking at how to tell people about us and our families. In PE we started our block of basketball by looking at dribbling skills.

In literacy we used the new “Big Writing” resource to start a series of lessons on report writing, the topic is about orangutans in the rainforest.

Next week we have auditions for main parts for the Lion King on Thursday, scripts will be sent home on Monday for the children to practice with. They already have a note of any songs that were required.

Mrs Gordon and P7a