Category: Primary 7

To begin this week our school ties finally arrived 🙂 🙂 🙂

This week has been very busy in P7a. We started our research for the assembly, sorted ourselves into groups and wrote our scripts. We have rehearsed a couple of times this week and will continue to do this after the holidays. The assembly is at 10am on Friday 25th October- it will be our last ever class assembly in P7a so we hope you can all come along.

We shone in our most recent duty- time monitors for the teachers at the recent parent nights. The feedback from the teachers and parents was really positive and amazing- we loved helping out and got to speak to lots of different people.

Today E, A and F went to Linlithgow Academy for a language event. When they were there they took part in a treasure hunt, quizzes and got to try some croissants- they were yummy 🙂

Next week we start our Futsal sessions, we will be doing these every 2nd week until December.

We hope you have a lovely weekend, we cannot believe we only have one week left of term 1- what a quick term that was!

P7a and Mrs Newton

We at P7b, have been learning to compare and contrast  life of a child in Brazil our my own. We learnt about the siblings Samir and Samira.  We then revised our understanding on informal letter writing by pretending to send the letters to Samir and Samira.

For Numeracy, we have been learning to calculate discounts , we revised on decimal place value and practised our number talks everyday.

For Expressive Art, we have learnt different types of shading techniques, tonal shading and highlighting.  We are nearly done with our Caricature, so next week we will be posting pictures of them.

For big writing next week, we will be uplevelling our persuasive text.

 

Have a great weekend everyone!

This week we revisited our knowledge of money and how to use decimal places. This followed on from our work on percentages and fractions. Our problem solving activity was to find the smallest number of squares needed to fill an 11cm x 13cm rectangle. This was an interesting and challenging activity, sparking lots of debate and discussions.

As part of our Brazil topic we learned about Samir and Samira, two children from a favela in Rio de Janerio. We wrote letters to them, telling them about our lives and asking questions about theirs.

As a follow on from drawing faces in proportion last week we extended this learning by drawing self portraits and then used our knowledge of Britto to add tones, shapes, lines and colours to them- look out for these on parents nights.

We chose partners, groups and topics for our assembly on Brazil. Next week we will write our scripts and then rehearse this after the October break (not everyone is here the last week of term so we are doing the preparation early).

We helped our buddies log into the netbooks and played some games online with them. It was a lovely way to end an interesting (!!!) week in P7a 🙂

A reminder that we are all helping at parents nights next week. We all know which time, class and day we are helping at so please ask us if you want to know- oh and don’t forget to come to your appointment.

Have an excellent weekend (2 weeks until the holidays 🙂 )

P7a and Mrs Newton

 

On Monday we taught our first classes as part of our Leadership roles. Sports leaders taught P4, Literacy Leaders taught P5/6 (and got 2 stars and a wish feedback!), Digital Leaders taught P2, Numeracy leaders taught P3, Buddy Leaders worked with P1 and the Newspaper Leaders started interviewing people and some continued writing the paper. 2 of us also had our first visit the the Linlithgow Day Care Centre.

We undertook research on the impact the fires are having on Brazil and the Amazon Rainforest, we then used this information to write persuasive arguments about deforestation.

In Science we were sorting living things into vertebrates and invertebrates and looking at the five kingdoms.

We had a workshop on the mosiac project, this sounds interesting and we need to start gathering old or broken tiles.

In PE we have been focusing on our throwing skills in Dodgeball- we have found it easier to play when we have smaller teams, listen to each other and actually picking up the balls!

On Thursday we had our first French session with Mrs Gordon, she told Mrs Newton (who was with the P1’s, so small compared to us) that we were amazing 🙂

Assembly this week focused on Responsibility- this is when you show a good example to someone else. We then had some Buddy time outside, this was a lovely way to end the week.

Don’t forget that next week is a short one as we are off on Monday and Tuesday.

Deposits for camp need to be paid by the 30th September (thanks to everyone who has already paid 🙂 ).

Have lovely weekend, the sun is supposed to shine!

P7a and Mrs Newton

 

 

On 3^rd of September we went to see the new rugby squad being announced. We also got to play a couple of games of rugby ourselves which was very fun and everyone enjoyed it.

IDL

On the 4^th of September we started our topic on Brazil. We also practiced our note taking skills to use when we make a new writing piece.

 

MATHS

We learned how to do written method of multiplication. Some of us did two digit by two digit and the rest of us did three by three digit.

 

LITERACY

We learnt to use the Thesaurus this week and use our listening skills to take effective notes about Brazil.

 

HOUSE CAPTAINS

Congratulations to all the people who got the House and Vice Captain Roles.

Made by GF & MC(:

This week has been very busy. We went to visit the Peel, took part in a touch rugby event and then watched the announcement of the Scottish Rugby World Cup Squad. It was a very wet afternoon, but we enjoyed it.

In Maths we have created multi digit multiplication and division sums and solved the  Four Fours challenge. Next week we are looking at how to calculate area of non regular shapes, simplfying equivalent and non equivalent fractions and undertaking a problem solving challenge.

We started our research on Romero Britto and Brazil, taking notes on Britto’s life, completing a mapping exercise of South America and comparing our school day to that of a child in Sao Paulo.

We have now started our reading books and finished a comprehension exercise on global warming. Next week we will be writing a persuasive article on the impact that land use has on the Amazon Rainforest and Brazil.

Today we held our House Captains and Vice Captains elections. Well done to everyone who took part and those who were elected. Information on the winners is on the Springfield Twitter Feed.

Hoodies and ties are arriving today, however not until 2pm, so everyone will get theirs on Monday 🙂

Have an amazing weekend.

P7a and Mrs Newton 🙂