Category: Primary 7

As it was national chocolate week this week, and one of Mrs Gordon’s most favourite things in the whole world, we decided to have a chocolate focus this week…

For homework we had chocolate maths questions and during our problem solving numeracy sessions this week we had to solve chocolate mysteries. These involved lost of different mathematical concepts including place value, co-ordinates, fractions, roman numerals etc. One group had to work out the smallest number of breaks for a 100 square bar to be broken into individual squares…

Chocolate production in Brazil was part of our weekly research. We learnt a lot of facts and watched a video which showed us the journey from pod to supermarket shelf. We were all surprised at how long the process took, and how manually labour intensive it was. Here we are with some cocoa pods, and our own chocolate treat that Mrs Gordon gave us today for working so hard this term.

In Portuguese this week we learned about colours, and played matching pairs. Everyone picked them up very quickly and we noticed connections to Spanish with colours like yellow – amarillo in Spanish and amarelo in Portuguese.

We received lots of praise this week for helping the teachers as timekeepers at parents night. We were courteous, accurate and polite; and added these to our growing repertoire of skills for learning, life and work.

Happy holidays!

Mrs Gordon and P7a

Ola e bem-vindo a Brazil. Hello and welcome to Brazil. This week P7a have been learning Portuguese as part of our topic on Brazil. We learned greetings and phrases such as “how are you?” and numbers from 0-10. We noticed some similarities to Spanish too. Here is a game we played where we had to match up the English and Portuguese words as quickly as possible. Our winning team was Tamzin, Aidan, Alastair and James.

We did lots of research this week on deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest, we were focusing on the environmental impact of human activity. We found the information quite alarming, especially statistics like the equivalent area of 6 football fields per minute is being destroyed, and that had deforestation continued at the rate it was in 2004, there would have been no rainforest left by 2030. Luckily the rate has slowed significantly, but P7a feel this is still not enough. Next week we will investigate further.

In literacy we learned about figurative language and used our knowledge to create feelings poems using personification to celebrate world poetry day on Thursday. We were inspired by the movie “Inside Out”. We worked in groups of 4 to describe a feeling eg joy, sadness, happiness etc.

To help remember our spelling words we played the games we had created for homework last week. Everyone had great fun whilst also remembering their words. Here some of the girls were playing their version of scrabble.

We had some good news at assembly this morning when Alexander Rankin won the upper school prize for Miss Baillie’s Autumn Writing competition. Alexander had gathered facts about Autumn in Linlithgow and presented them beautifully including some lovely pictures of Beecraigs in the Autumn. Alexander won a book token, well done Alexander!

Happy weekend from Mrs Gordon and P7a.

Bienvenue a notre blog, nous avons passe une semaine pleine de langues…Welcome to our blog, we have had a week full of languages. On Tuesday it was European Day of Languages (EDL) and as Mrs Gordon loves languages we did lots of different things this week. We revised dates, days and months in French, asking each other “C’est quand ton anniversaire?”. We also split into pairs and researched a European city that we were given. We had to show it’s place on a map, draw the flag and find out key facts such as currency, capital city and interesting facts. We then shared these with the class so we all learnt something new. Today we presented a multi-lingual assembly to celebrate EDL and learnt about reasons why learning languages is important. Did you know that you can earn up to £5k more in a job if you speak a language…Here are some photos of our assembly.

In  numeracy this week we have been working with rounding decimals and problem solving. We learnt all about the RUCSAC method to help us solve word problems.

In literacy we wrote poems, stories, songs or facts on the topic “Autumn in Linlithgow”. This was for Miss Baillie’s writing competition.

5 of our groups presented their mini research presentations on Brazil. Each group had to pick an area of Brazil and involve their audience in learning some facts about that topic. We all gave each other feedback to help us improve our presentations next time. We also had to compare our area of Brazil with Scotland. Here are some photos of us presenting.

This week’s blog was written by Robbie and Hayden.

After a long weekend we came back to school on Wednesday ready to start the week. We started work on a presentation on Brazil. Many groups had chosen to research the Amazon rainforest and its animals but we are also learning about favelas, carnivals and Brazilian sport. We then started drawings inspired by the bright art of Brazil. We then kicked off with multiplying using fractions and once lunch was over we had science with Mrs Tulloch where we sample plants outside.

On Thursday morning we got on the bus to go to the Risk Factory in Edinburgh. We had 11 different scenarios to work through. It was a fun visit and we learnt about staying safe in lots of different circumstances and how the risks and dangers associated with these could be managed. After our visit we had a late lunch and went to music with Ms. Bain. We finished off with writing about our Cake Fest mini-topic, a recount of the events and what we learned.

Before we knew it, it was Friday. On Friday morning we did mental maths and the boys that got into the cross country team went for a practice run with Mr. Logan. Then it was assembly with Miss Baillie who introduced our Autumn writing competition . Finally, we had break and an extended Golden Time to end of a short week. Our highlight of the week was the Risk Factory, the situations were so realistic! Look at some of our photos below.

We managed to cram a lot of learning into a short week. In PE we are doing a series of yoga lessons with Mrs Gordon. We learnt about posture, breathing and different poses. After following some body balance tracks Mrs Gordon asked us to get into 2’s or 3’s and create balances using the poses we had learnt. Look at our creativity..

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We really enjoyed the relaxation at the end…

On Thursday we had a fantastic trip to the risk factory. We won’t say too much about it so we don’t spoil it for younger siblings, however it was a great hands on learning experience where we could experience risks and make decisions in a safe environment.

In numeracy we started our focus on decimals by looking at place value, ordering decimals and rounding decimals.

In literacy we were working on finishing our Cake Fest recount pieces where we tell our personal Cake Fest story and what we learnt in the process.

Happy weekend!