Dear Parents,

Here’s a look at what we were doing this week in P7A:

Spelling this week came from our class novel ‘A Monster Calls’ as part of our WordBoost activity – the idea being to increase our vocabularies and transfer these more ambitious words into our writing. Quite a number of the class managed to fit some of the words into our narrative stories written on Wednesday – you can ask your child to see theirs as it is saved into their OneDrive.

In maths this week we have continued work on FDP with the focus being on finding a percentage of an amount, this will run into next week where we will also begin Decimals. We were working out how to calculate complimentary angles on Thursday and on Friday we were problem solving handling data, using the netbooks and the Real Life Problem Solving App.

We enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison and PE (Netball) with Mrs Lafferty and really liked the drama warm-up game ‘I’m Mr Hit’.

In science we have continued learning about dissolving and solutions, this week using filter paper to separate sand from water which we are going to evaporate and see if there is anything left behind. Some of us had a bit more trouble keeping the sand from getting through than others!

The PFFA group have met again and will have a bit of homework over the next few weeks, the deadline for submission of the workbooks has been brought forward to the end of February so please support your children in any ways you can. Their work is assessed looking at:

1. I have used all the Gifts of the Holy Spirit when showing my love of God and my love of others in my daily life.

2. I have reflected on how my actions have made an impact on my journey of faith.

So having evidence for each of the gifts at School, Home and Parish (if going for a Parish Commendation) by completing some of the tasks. The reflection should evidence how the gifts of the Holy Spirit have impacted their faith and be related to the Fruits of the Holy Spirit and is completed on the Concluding Evidence pages.

On Thursday, our buddies visited us to celebrate their 100 day of school. We loved hearing what they would do if they had £100 and just enjoyed getting to spend some time with them.

Here are some pupil highlights from this week:

Zahra S said, “I liked how we played different games for drama and how our French was on animals.”

“My highlight of the week was seeing seeing our buddies on Thursday for their 100th day,” said Katie.

“I enjoyed the sceince lesson using a funnel and filter paper to sperate sand from water,” said Rhys.

Nellie said, “We did drama and it was a murder mystery. It was exciting and fun.”

 

And this week’s winner of Hot Chocolate at Home is…

 

 

 

Bettina!

Great Job Bettina, enjoy your hot chocolate!

 

Have a Great Weekend,

P7a and Mr McGurn.