This week in P7 we have been super busy as always! We are coming to the end of lots of blocks of work which we have been focussing on this term including our topic, Democracy.
On Monday, children were given a 3 pieces of paper with the titles ‘Suffragettes, UN and Scotland’ on them and they worked in groups to add as much knowledge as they could to the sheets of paper. The paper was then passed on to the next group who did the same until all groups had written everything they had learned about all 3 titles. This was a really effective way to assess the children’s understanding of their topic as this allowed them to discuss their learning and use each other’s knowledge and understanding to encourage and share ideas.
On Wednesday we then linked all our knowledge of the Scottish Independence Referendum to write a persuasive speech which expressed our opinions. Our speeches and critical thinking was amazing and we really think there will be an MP among us one day!
We have also come to the end of our maths block on fractions, decimals and percentages so we have used this week to link our knowledge of these in order to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages. We did a really fun activity using M&Ms to understand this by actively counting and moving the M&Ms around. We were able to make fractions by counting the number of a specific colour over the total number in the bag and then used our knowledge of 100% being the full bag to work out how many were a specific colour as a decimal and as a percentage.
Finally, we have used this week to display and share our excellent skills in listening and talking this term. We have been presenting our personal talks which we created for homework on a subject within Democracy and everyone has done so well in the preparation and delivery of these, we really are Confident Individuals in P7!
Have a great weekend 🙂
