Another busy week in P7!
Weekly Highlights
This week has marked the end of our Big Build competition entry preparation. It has been a busy few weeks for the children involved, who have given up lunchtimes and any free class time to get it all organised! Mrs Scott has led this project with the P7 group and had Ian from Crudden homes in on Wednesday to discuss the progress and organise a visit to take final photos and have a presentation on the ideas behind the Big Build.
We also had our second transition visit this week with Group B – we enjoyed a science lesson with Dr McAllister and a swimming session in the pool where we made our way across the breadth of the pool and back, then competed in teams to collect the most ‘sinkers’.
In numeracy this week we continue to work on addition and subtraction and discuss, explore and experiment with different strategies, always aiming for accuracy. We finished our week by revising the rules of the standard written algorithm (tower sum, chimney sum) for addition and are beginning to use this mathematical language as we move forward. Perhaps you could have a timed challenge working out 3/4/5 digit addition against each other at home this weekend?
In literacy this week we took part in the Book Week Scotland activities by entering the Scottish Book Trust 50 word fiction competition – we used our writing lesson to recap the rules of a narrative and used the context of a conversation to write our entries. The competition is available to adults and children and the context changes on a monthly basis. If you would like to enter the competition yourself you can do so at this link;
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/50-word-fiction
Pupil Voice
Mirren At transition we did swimming and science and it was really fun!
Aleks At transition we did lots of fun stuff in science about a bunsen burner.
Brooke We had to plug the rubber cord into the gas tap and then you push it down and turn it then the same person or the other person would light it with the lighter.
Daniel We did the 50 word story and it was fun.
Finlay In maths we used numeracy skills to do tower sums but we are calling them something different
Mirren We used leadership skills to help the nursery with PE.
Daniel We used teamwork in science (transition) when we had to figure out whether cotton, felt or bubble wrap kept the water warm (Brooke an insulator). We used a silver cup which would usually make the water cool down.
Learning at home
This weekend please take the time to read for enjoyment – we used book week Scotland to launch our new class reading challenge – we are going to try to read to the height of Mrs Conway. Every time we finish a book we will draw around the spine of it and add it to the ‘pile’ by sticking it on the wall – Mrs Conway has agreed a whole class treat if we get to the target by June!
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Group B had a wonderful first transition experience today @StMargaretsAcad – Dr McAllister taught us all about the science labs and we had a swimming session too! #stninianskidscan #transition pic.twitter.com/0lXP3zmv2g
— Saint Ninian's PS (@StNinianPS) November 20, 2019
Great work this week P7! You have demonstrated leadership skills this week by supporting our nursery children with their PE lessons. I love your reading challenge – I am sure you will be successful!!
Wow what a week, you are all achieving so much! Love the reading challenge task and the promise of a treat if they achieve it! I can’t wait to see the big Build too. May be we can see it when we come to Ninians Natter?