Category: Primary 7

Literacy

This week we were fortunate to visit the Book Fair at the rugby club where author Lari Don spoke to the cluster P7’s about her Spellchaser’s trilogy. There was lots of audience participation as we helped create our own chase within a story.

We also wrote a recount of P7 camp where we had to share what we enjoyed, what we didn’t, our personal challenge and our next steps. It was lovely to talk together before we started writing and share the challenges we had which were all very varied.

We finished creating our wall display in art for “The boy in the striped pyjamas” where our focus was on using different materials and teamwork to create the final version which you can see below. We then started watching the film with an aim of writing a comparison of book and film afterwards.

Health and Wellbeing

Michelle from WLDAS (West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service) visited us again this week to deliver sessions 2 and 3 of the tobacco education programme. The focus was very much on giving the children tools and words to use when faced with a tricky situation. The children were very engaged and participated fully in the session which taught them all strategies which could be used in any risk-taking situation. We also had the dummy demonstrate the damaging effects of smoking just one cigarette.

Numeracy

Our focus this week was on shape. We did a whirlwind tour of properties of 2D and 3D shapes using mathematical language and nets of shapes. We then looked at the different types of triangles and angles using estimation, measurement and problem solving.

P7 Cluster Rugby Tournament

We took part in the P7 cluster rugby tournament on Friday. Luckily the rain stayed away for most of the morning and each team enjoyed 4 or 5 games of tag rugby. Well done to everyone for giving it a go.

Numeracy and Mathematics

This week we have been finding the area of both composite shapes (squares and rectangles) and right-angled triangles. The formula we have been using is A = l x b, which means area equals length multiplied by the breadth of the shape. When finding the area of a right-angled triangle we had to calculate the total area then half our answer. A nice definition of area and volume that was given by one of the pupils was that it’s “just the space inside something”.

Literacy and English

In writing we have been creating reflective texts. We used ICT to word process a summary of our week at Dukeshouse Wood. Our success criteria was to describe events in detail, structure our work appropriately and incorporate our feelings and emotions. We managed to do so successfully and Mr. Logan was impressed with the quality of our work. The English department won’t know what’s hit them next year! Miss Baillie was in class with us on Tuesday morning and following on from our Drug and Tobacco Education she asked us to create anti-smoking posters based on what we had just learnt about with Nicola. These were both eye-catching and persuasive, and would make anyone think twice before smoking and encourage people to have a smoke-free home.

Health and Wellbeing

As previously mentioned, we had Nicola in from WLDAS (West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service) twice this week to deliver the final two Drug and Tobacco Education workshops. The children were engaged during both of these visits and successfully demonstrated their ability to share information from previous sessions. Nicola told P7b their recall was the best she had come across. On Friday, we participated in this year’s Rugby Festival at Linlithgow Rugby Club. This involved taking part in small-sided games and applying the skills we learnt during our taster sessions in April and May. Big thank you to Kevin and the rest of the organisers. We all had a great time!

Next Three Weeks

• Leavers Trip on Monday at Time Capsule; depart at 9am and return for 3.15pm. Please bring gloves, hat and a jumper for ice skating. Swimming trunks/costumes and towels for swimming.
• Tuesday holiday for Linlithgow Marches.
• Wednesday – Friday: transition at Linlithgow Academy. See welcome pack sent home for information.
• Monday 19th June – Reports to be sent home.
• Wednesday 21st June – Sports Day, potted sports (am) and races (pm). All parents/carers and families welcome.
• Thursday 22nd June – Leavers Meal at Bar Leo, 5.30pm.
• Friday 23rd June – Leavers Assembly, 11.00am – 12.15pm. All parents/carers and families welcome.
• Monday 26th June – Auditions for Springfield’s Got Talent in class.
• Tuesday 27th June – Springfield’s Got Talent, bring £1 and dress down.
• Wednesday 28th June – Teddy Bear Picnic with P1 Buddies at lunch.
• Friday 30th June – Start of summer holidays.

Have a restful weekend

P7b and Mr. Logan

P7 had a very busy week and are looking forward to a rest before we head to camp on Monday.

On Monday we had the first of 3 sessions on drug education with a focus on smoking. The children have all brought home a smoke free home pledge and were asked to try to give something up for a week to see how it may feel to have to give up something .

In Numeracy we focused on volume and capapcity this week. Our main aims were conversions from ml and litres, estimating, measuring and calculating volume of a solid using the formula volume=length x breadth x height. The children enjoyed making mocktails where they had to use exact measurements.

In Social studies we looked at what a city needs and then did research and presentations on whether Glasgow and Edinburgh meet the needs of their citizens, and how they do this.

In literacy we finished reading “The boy in the striped pyjamas” which was very emotional, Mrs Gordon did cry at the end as she thought she might. We will watch the film when we return from camp, and do a comparison of the 2.

In French this week we visited our nursery to teach a little bit of french to some of the children. I think they enjoyed our visit !

Have a lovely weekend and see you when we are back from camp.

Mrs Gordon and P7a

Numeracy

This week we have been focusing on weight within maths. We used lots of different skills such as estimation, calculating, converting from mg, g,kg and tonnes and solving weight word problems. We also imagined we were selling items on ebay and had to find out the cost of our post and packaging, giving us a skill for life, learning and work !

Health and Wellbeing

This week we had a workshop on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. It was delivered by Lyndsay from the Just Enough charity. The children learnt a great deal about both issues and were shocked by some of the statistics that were shared. Lyndsay delivered the workshop in a fun way using drama, but the message was indeed a very serious one. The children can now more confidently identify the signs that somebody may be being trafficked or held as a slave. Thank you to Lyndsay and the Just Enough team for this excellent learning opportunity.

Rugby

We had our last rugby session this week. As you can see from the photos the children were all fully involved and enjoyed playing games against each other.

Class Talks

A huge thanks to all parents and carers who supported the children in creating, presenting and providing props for their class talks. I was blown away by the quality of the talks. Every single child should be proud of themselves. We all learnt a lot this week from a variety of unique class talk topics from WW2 Then and Now to War in Nazi Germany.

Well done to Arwen Kennedy in P7B for taking part in an ‘Aquathlon’ in Aberfeldy, yesterday. Arwen had to swim 10 lengths of a swimming pool and then run 2K. Here she is with her trophy and medal.  What a great effort Arwen!

Miss Baillie x

A massive congratulations to Ross Findlater in P7B and Lucy Roy in P7A for their recent success in the Primary Engineer Awards. All of our children did very well in the challenge which was to create an invention, with many gaining a ‘distinction’ pass.  Ross and Lucy’s inventions however, have been chosen to go through to he next stage in the competition. Ross invented a special type of car alarm and Lucy a device to suppprt people with memory problems.  We are delighted for you both! Thank you to Mrs Tulloch for her support with this.

Miss Baillie x

Within outdoor learning this week Mrs Law told us about the art work of Andrew Goldsworthy. We then worked in groups across P7 a and P7b to show our interpretation of his work using natural materials only. Here are some examples.