Last week was a fantastic week in primary 7 where we got to explore a range of different activities such as American Football,  Football, Judo, smoothie making, and sports day. We all enjoyed this week immensely and are thankful for all the activities we were able to participate in.

This week we have been busy with our topic WW2 project where we are constructing a model of a trench, concentration camp or Anderson Shelter.
As a class we decided to merge our writing topic of procedure writing with our science topic chemical reactions. We gather various liquids (water, milk, vinegar) and we’re testing to see if a chemical reaction took place when submerging a gummy bear in the liquids overnight. Our results found changes in shape, texture, size, colour and overall appearance. Check out our results.

In-between the hard work we managed to squeeze in some fun Just Dance activities.

For the past two days primary 7 have been attending transitions to Highschool where they have been seen munching on the chocolate crispy cakes the made in home economics. Seems they have had a great time.

Another great week in Primary 7. Not long left now. Keep being yourself P7. You are all amazing, special individuals. Your teacher is so proud of you.

Primary 7 have worked super hard this week after their exciting but tiring week at camp last week. We have been busy working on our world war 2 projects where we are combining out STEM skills of technologies and engineering, and out topic work of world war 2 to create out own trenches, concentrations camps and Anderson shelters. Watch this space to see our creations.

This week we have been learning to find the premier and area of rectangles. We created our own rectangles in a theme of our choice and found the perimeter and area of these shapes.

Looking forward to the week ahead, health week!!!!
not long left primary 7! Keep up the good work

Another incredible day at camp. Pancakes this morning for breakfast was a real hit and fuelled us for a full day of amazing activities.

The sun came out for our water rafting activity, we were thankful to have a splash in the water after we built our rafts. The other team got competitive at archery and walked the catwalk.
We finished the day off with a campfire where we were chatting about our pit and our peak (our best and worst bits of camp). No one could give a negative but some positives included, “water rafting”, “lunch”, “the catwalk because I thought it would be hard and I could do it”, “the crate building because it helped my fear of heights”.

Now after a VERY competitive game of rounders, we are chilling out with snacks, music and games.

We should say we are looking forward to going home tomorrow but that might be a lie for some.

Another exciting, fun filled, wet, wild, sunny, adventurous day here at Bromley camp.
Sleepy heads started the day at 7:30 this morning but breakfast of cereal, croissants (chocolate ones too) and toast helped set us up for the day. Catwalk for one of the groups and Raft Building were 2 of many highlights of the day amount many.  Again lots of smiles, hard work and success for all. We have some quotes from our happy camper below.

Codi “That’s a 10/10 dinner.”

Willow “Low ropes helped us with teamwork.”

Elise “I had a smashing sleep.”

Maddison “I’m excited to do raft building today.”

Adam “If they keep feeding us like this I could live here forever.”

Shaheen “Nightline is very exciting.”

Luke “That was an amazing breakfast.”

Terry “Activities are fun.”

Daniel “Today is going to be awesome.”

Oliver “We have strong minds you can’t trick us.”

Lewis “ I am the midge repeller.”

Well done to each and every one of our amazing Campers.

A brilliant day had by all here in Broomlee. We have settled well into our dorms before heading out for our first activities! A delicious lunch was a big hit with lots of our campers before our afternoon activities-Low Ropes, toasting marshmallows and Night walk. Dinner was pasta with cake and custard then we finished the day with a game of snakes and ladders with a twist.

Exciting, fun, tiring, wonderful and thrilling were words given by our primary 7,s to sum up there day.

Now hopefully a long nights sleep.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s adventure!

We are looking forward to our half term break after having another busy week of learning.

This week we have been using our concrete materials and blending our maths and engineering skills to revise our knowledge on place value by building the best castle using our dean’s materials. We then counted our materials to reach the total amount used.

We have finished our WW1 topic this week by completing our own projects on a specific area of WW1 (The Treaty of Versailles, Kaiser Wilhelm II, The Battle of Marne and The Battle of the Somme). We then created a lesson to teach the rest of the class about our topic and planned a short activity to assess the rest of the class of what we had taught them. Our activities included 2 truths and a lie, a Kahoot, an interactive board game and a quiz. We were surprised how much we enjoyed hosting a lesson.

We had the pleasure of working with Primary 2 this week where we learned all about Chinese New Year which takes place on Saturday 10^th February. As this year is the year of the dragons we worked together to create our own colourful dragons. We had a great time doing this. Don’t you think they are amazing? We do! We can wait to come back and work with Primary 2 again, thanks for having us Primary 2!

We have had a busy week learning and revising out burns poems in preparation for our burns competition. Well done to the Winner.

Have a great holidays Primary 7. I look forward to seeing everyone when we return. Be safe.

Another busy week in Primary 7 with lots of new learning.

We started the week with some problem solving maths challenges where we had to work in teams to solve the problems we were presented with. Some of these included

– Can you change 1 stick to solve the equation?

– Can you fill the cup up with exactly 4 litres of water. You only have a 5 litre cup and a 4 litre cup, how will you do this?

– Can you cut an A4 sheet of paper so it has a hole big enough to fit 2 people through?

We were successful in all our tasks.

We have been using digital frequently in our class for research challenges and presentations. This left us asking “What is a reliable website?”

“How can we trust this information from this website?”.

We then completed a research projected on The Pacific North West Tree Octopus which we were upset to learn was a completely fake website. This made us realise not all information we find on the internet is trustworthy. We will now be more careful with the information we read on the internet.

We have now started our new writing topic of narrative writing and poems. In preparation for this we have been looking at direct speech. We have discussed the direct speech rules and practised our direct speech skills to translate texts from some known characters. Check out our work below.

We celebrated burns day on the 25th January with some Scottish songs, poems, and art tasks. We used our digital skills to see if we had a clan tartan related to our surnames. This gave us inspiration to create our own tartan kilts.

Primary 7 you are working so hard and making great progress. You are all fabulous individuals and I am so proud of you all. I’m delighted to be teaching you. Miss Lindsay

We have been learning about division this week in Maths. We can recognise that division is the opposite of multiplication and understand division is splitting a number into equal groups. We have been applying this knowledge when completing 3 digit number divided by 2 digit number calculations.  Division is tricky however we are finding strategies to help us before moving on to long division.

In literacy we have been working on our questioning skills for our reciprocal reading, creating quizzes on our non-fiction texts and quizzing our classmates. We have been completing our information report using evidence found online using our digital skills to help us. Our next steps will be to identify the sources of evidence and reference these in our work.

We have been getting into the Christmas spirit early this week by creating our Christmas crafts for the Christmas fayre next week. Keep an eye open for our handy Christmas baubles, they’re sure to sell out fast. We have enjoyed singing along to Christmas songs and can’t wait for more festivities.

What a quick week it’s been on Primary 7, although time does fly when you’re having fun…

This week in maths we have been consolidating our learning topic of multiplying a 3, 4 and even 5 digit number by a 2 digit number. We have been working well through our Math No Problem books and are looking forward to moving onto division next week.

In literacy, we have been gathering evidence to include in our own information report about animals, endangered, living or extinct which ties in nicely with our topic which we have partnered with 5 Sister Zoo where we are discussing various animals.

This week is anti-bullying week which made for some interesting discussions around relationships and safety. We looked at some agree or disagree situations where we were able to discuss our emotions and regulation strategies.

For world book day we created our favourite book characters on wooden spoons. Take a look at our work.

What a great week for Primary 7. It is a pleasure to teach everyone in this class. Keep up the good work.

This week we’re supporting Talk Money Week, which aims to break the stigma of talking about money and get us all sharing more about this important topic, whether that’s with friends, family or anyone else! In Maths we were tasked with planning a festive party. We all had different budgets and different guest lists to consider. We had to use Aldi and Argos’s websites to buy supplies. We had to consider budget, venue, guest list, food, decoration and entertainment. We then applied our talking and listening skills as we presented our Canva presentations of our budget friendly parties to the class and discussed if we think having a large budget was the most important factor in having a good time. Ask us our thoughts on this.

This week we invited our Primary 1 buddies to our classroom to help them log on to devices and play some online maths games with them. We love having extra responsibility with our buddies and enjoy teaching them new things. We hope they can come back soon.

Keep up the great work Primary 7 and we will have another fantastic week next week!
Miss Lindsay