Category: Primary 7

‘ There is joy and wonder everywhere, when you see the world through the eyes of a child.’

Numeracy: Numeracy this week has been great fun, we have moved on from the formal written methods of addition, subtraction and multiplication, we are now learning the formal written method to solve division problems. It was tricky at first, but we have the hang of it now! – EM

Literacy: This week in Literacy we learnt about homophones, homophones are words that sound the same but have different spelling and meaning. Some examples are the words guest and guessed, passed and past or herd and heard. We have been learning about inference. This term we have being researching and comparing the differences and similarities of Scotland and Brazil. Mrs. Matos set up a crime scene in which Christ the Redeemer, in Rio, was vandalized. After we had discussed the meaning of inference and how it can be used in the world of life and work, we wrote a short paragraph about the crime, using the evidence to help us to infer what might have happened.- EC

Science: In science this week we learnt about classification keys. We worked in pairs to make a classification key about penguins. In different pairs we started making one about sweets! We made up funny names for the sweets we didn’t know. It was a real treat! – LC

1+2 French: In French this week we revised our numbers to 50, played some lotto bingo and hide the object game. While one person searched for the object, the rest of the class had to count in French, the closer they got the louder we counted, we were surprised our loud counting didn’t crack the windows! – DR-S

Buddy Time: This week with our buddies we had the opportunity to help them with ICT. We helped them to log onto the netbooks and Sumdog. We helped them to become familiar with how to navigate and play the different games. We used our school values of  confidence, kindness and inclusion to help our buddies!

P7b and Mrs. Matos

Wednesday, 26th September was European day of languages. P7b joined together with P7a to learn some basic Portuguese vocabulary. We linked our Portuguese lesson to our learning and comparison study of Brazil. We discussed that Portugal is Europe and that Barzil is in South America, but that Portuguese is the chosen language in Brazil. We had fun learning some vocabulary and also comparing the similarities of some words to that of Spanish.  We worked in pairs to complete a language jigsaw, matching the Portuguese word to the English word. To finish off our lesson we learnt a popular Brazilian game that is played amongst children, the game involved memory and speed. The game was a lot of fun that we have continued to play it throughout the week on the playground.

Literacy: This week, a very special person is leaving our school. Jessie Orr, the lovely cook that has been cooking our delicious school dinners has decided after many years to retire. We wanted to do something special for Jessie, so that she will know how much we appreciated her. Last week, we learnt the features of a Tanka poem, we therefore decided to write Jessie a special message using the features of a Tanka poem, completing this activity was not only something special for a very special person, but it also helped us to consolidate our understanding of tanka poems, and helped us to practise identifying  the number of syllables in words.  We concentrated this week on homophones and identified the common errors when using the incorrect homophones in a sentence, the week before we looked at Synonyms and this week we consolidated our learning by identifying different synonyms for the different homophones that we were learning.

Numeracy: We continued to solve multiplication problems using the formal written method. We continued to play a range of different games to help us practise recalling our timetables.

IDL: In previous weeks, we learnt the location of Brazil, this week we looked again at the world map, and we revisited our knowledge of identifying the 7 continents on a map. We then had a look at South America and located Brazil, to continue with our comparison study, we identified Scotland and its major cities on a map

Expressive Arts: Christ the Redeemer is one of the most popular and well known landmarks of Brazil, this week we created our own images which represent Christ the Redeemer, we used a wide variety of different art techniques, such as shading, collage, overlapping and more.

HWB: This week we started our discussions on how to keep ourselves safe, how we will keep ourselves safe in the community. We worked in groups to identify the possible dangers that we could face, and we discussed different ways in which we can ensure that in a time of danger, we will be more aware of how to respond appropriately.

We continued to practise our basketball skill in PE, we used the skills that we have learnt throughout the term, and played a few short games against each other.

Wider Achievement: Well done to HR who had brought along her badges and gifts that she had received recently at girls brigade. It is always lovely to hear about all the achievements outside of school.

P7b and Mrs. Matos

It was a rather short week this week, with the children having a good rest over their long weekend break. Although it was short, we still managed to have some meaningful learning.

Literacy: During Literacy this week, we learnt about Tanka poems and the features of writing a Tanka poem. Through our Brazil study, we used some reading material and netbooks, to further our knowledge and understanding of the Amazon Rainforest. To help us to make our Tanka poems create a sense of feeling and emotions, we recapped on some Figurative language that we can use in our poem, we discussed the difference between similes, metaphors and personification. We challenged ourselves to use at least one of these in our poems. Our completed poems will be displayed in our classroom for you to read.

Numeracy: We have been consolidating our understanding of using the formal written method when multiplying a multistep problem. We have been using word problems to help us practice using this method. We have realised the importance of knowing our timetables, and we have been practicing them through various games.

HWB: This term we are focusing on how to keep ourselves safe. We were fortunate to have a visit from a RNLI volunteer, who came along to share with us, how we can keep ourselves safe near open water. We learnt how to identify danger and  how to report if we suspect that someone is in danger. Our talk was very informative, and we were complimented on our knowledge and engagement. We took part in a fun role play activity, where some of us were the victims, some of us were the witnesses, we had a coast guard operator, and our life boat rescue team – it was great fun, playing out all that we had just learnt.

To top off our week, P7b put on a fantastic performance for their class assembly on Confidence. The children all delivered their lines with poise and confidence. Mrs. Matos is so proud of everyone, we know that standing in front of a hall full of people saying lines and singing is not for everyone, but each and every P7b learner can be so proud of themselves today. Thank you P7b, you delivered an important message about confidence to all the learners, staff and parents/ carers of Springfield Primary School!

P7b and Mrs. Matos

Our afterschool netball club is in full swing again this session. Our Primary 7 boys and girls have been coming together every Wednesday afternoon to practice their netball skills with Mrs. Matos and Miss Harrison.

We have been so impressed with the enthusiasm from everyone who has been coming along. The boys and girls have demonstrated their netball skills and talents, Mrs.Matos and Miss Harrison have been so impressed.