Author: Mrs Conway

P7 Weekly Learning Grid

Hi everyone,

Please find an attachment below with learning activities for you to complete over the course of this week.

Your work can be written on paper, in your home learning jotter, on OneNote or on Microsoft Word online and emailed to me.

I will be on Glow everyday this week for pupils to leave comments/email questions.

Learning continuity grid P7

 

Many thanks,

Mrs Conway

P7 Weekly Round Up!

This week has been a little bit different, but we have been busy nonetheless!

Literacy

Mirren – For writing this week we wrote about whether social media should be banned or not for under 16s

Daniel – we used Microsoft teams to figure out how it worked

Hannah – in literacy we made a happy news newspaper for the school and parents

Numeracy

Lauren –  In maths we were doing fractions and I found it ok but it’s still tricky!

Abi – We got to choose what to do for maths on Thursday – one of my tasks was Monopoly!

Zayah – We got choose what task we do – I chose colour by numbers and the money board game.

Ambra – it was really fun this week because we played lots of games and looked at using lots of skills!

HWB

Aleks – we learned how to use teams for next week!

Marcella – We were doing quizzes on Kahoot – it was good because everybody got a chance to win and it was fun that everyone played fairly!

Freya – I liked it when we went outside for Funky Friday, signing our shirts.

Brooke – On Thursday we used our paper sculpture techniques to make a 3D face

Samuel – the best part of my week was when the field was opened again for football!

It has been a busy week, full of unknowns and worries – we have got through this together and we are hopeful that it isn’t goodbye, just a see you later!

Home Learning

All pupils have been given their Glow logins and offered jotters/pencils/rubbers/novels, if it would help them to learn over the coming weeks. Information has been shared via Groupcall to inform parents and carers of the arrangements in place for the coming weeks.

Take care and  – WASH YOUR HANDS! 🙂

 

P7 Weekly Round Up

 

Weekly Highlights

Literacy

This week our writing focus was the NARRATIVE genre. It has been so long since we wrote a ‘story’! After learning about genres of fiction, through our Sky Studios trip, we settled on the SciFi genre and watched a clip about ‘Pandora’ (the setting of Avatar) – from here we were able to plan our narrative then begin the writing process. We have been working hard on inclusion of figurative language in our writing and this gave us the perfect opportunity.

Numeracy

We continue to move through our learning about fractions, decimals and percentages. This week we nominated one numeracy slot as a ‘Chooseday’ where we had a range of fractions/decimals/percentages learning opportunities and were able to choose which skills we wanted to explore as we learned! Mrs Conway was so impressed with our engagement, focus and teamwork! We are building our confidence in working with fractions.

HWB

This week we looked at positive and negative influences in our lives and discussed the impact of these influences on our decisions and our general happiness. We have revisited our class charter this week and had a good discussion about surrounding ourselves with positive influences. We have also been looking really carefully at the advice we have regarding the Coronavirus and how to wash our hands effectively.

Pupil Voice

Aleks, Harley, Jay We learned how to do a jump shot in Basketball – we use  BEEF to help us – balance, elbow, eyes, follow through…

Hannah,  one day of the week we get to do a ‘chooseday’ in numeracy – this is where we get to choose our own tasks and use our skills. I’d like the creativity challenge because I got to make a quiz for my classmates.

Abi Everyday this week we used handwash/sanitiser to clean our hands. Now we have got ‘Wash Your Lyrics’ in the toilets to give us different songs to sing apart from Happy Birthday.

Joshua, Ryan B,  We have learned about fractions. We learned when you multiply fractions you multiply the numerator and denominator.  To simplify fractions you make it into it’s simplest form e.g. 12/24 would be 1/2,

Haseeb, Harley, Hannah We had Taiko drumming this week, we had to do body movements. You get to speak and shout while you do it like ‘sah’. I enjoyed learning about the different cultures where it started.

Home Learning

After a class discussion this morning it was apparent that some children are feeling anxious about the media attention surrounding the Coronavirus. It may be helpful to discuss fears and worries this weekend and look into some of the helpful information shared on the Government and NHS websites.

To lift our spirits we used the ‘washyourlyrics’ website to create handwashing posters using our favourite songs! Maybe you could make one for your own home 🙂

P7 Weekly Round Up

Weekly Highlights

Literacy – For the past two weeks our writing task was to DISCUSS (present two points of view e.g. for and against) whether we think devices should be allowed in schools. It provided us with lots of things to talk about and we used our key points to make topic sentences to help us structure our paragraphs. We have also been ploughing through our class novel – Divided City. Is there anything better than spending the last 15 minutes of the day curled up with a book? 🙂

Numeracy – We were excited to welcome some teachers from across our cluster this week to observe our Number Talks session! Sometimes we struggle to articulate our strategies in number talks so we have spent the last few weeks revising our various multiplication strategies. We took it right back to basics with simple problems to help us build confidence in talking through our mental strategies. The observing teachers were very impressed with our knowledge.

HWB – I think it is worth a mention that the young people in primary 7 are the most wonderful audience for the youngest members of our school family. The P1 class came to share their writing last week and the P7 audience showed patience, kindness and respect as they interacted with the P1 pupils. Sometimes the pressure of P7 is a lot, with expectations of behaviour, learning and looking forward to the big changes ahead of us – but it was a wonderful opportunity for our P7 pupils to flourish as positive role models and supportive peers 🙂

 

Pupil Voice

Mirren – We used teamwork to get our house assembly finished.

Jay – I loved it when they read out my question on BBC Authors Live!

Krystian – I like it when we can use our devices to help us learn.

Daniel – I liked being part of the Fairtrade Tuck Shop

 

Home Learning

As we are now in the season of Lent – our home learning challenge is going to be Lent related 🙂

In Lent we think specifically about THREE areas of our faith;

PRAYER

FASTING

ALMSGIVING

As a family can you decide on one goal for each of these areas for the remainder of Lent. You might agree a special intention to pray for at mass each week? You might agree to give something up or do without something? You might agree to donate some food/clothes/toys to others in need?

You can tweet me your ideas @Mrs_Conway10

Have a wonderful weekend!

P7 Weekly Round Up

Weekly Highlights

Literacy – Mrs Scott has introduced us to West Lothian Council’s new reading targets. We are going to pilot these in our class from next week and we will using our group reading sessions to look at the key reading comprehension skills. This week we looked at SUMMARISING. We worked with a talk partner to take notes on the chapters of our novel under five headings. This was tricky as we had to get our skimming and scanning skills put to good use! Next week we will look at doing this again to develop confidence.

Numeracy – Fractions. Need we say anymore? We have dabbled in fractions across the course of this year to build our confidence and give us experience of working with them – but now, we are going for it! This week we have started off easy by looking at equivalent fractions – what are equivalent fractions? Ask your child to explain this to you… if they can’t explain it, can they find out some information to help them? We will keep chipping away at fractions, decimals and percentages to build our knowledge and understanding – wish us luck!

HWB – As next week begins Fair Trade fortnight we had a little introduction to Fair Trade through our art lesson where we looked at the Fair Trade logo, what it means and we had a go at designing our own. We built on our previous learning about what Fair Trade means and discussed some of the issues faced by farmers and workers in certain areas of the world where Fair Trade have helped.

 

Pupil Voice

Freya – I liked doing the Fair Trade logo in art

Neve – The class novel was good; We thought Joe’s dad had depression and now we know he got it when Joe’s mum died

Jay – We’ve got a new devices contract we have all signed so we use our devices properly in school, we can’t go on social media

Aleks – I love fractions!

 

Home Learning

This week we revamped our class contract and how it fits with the UN Convention on the Rights of the child. One of the big discussion points in P7 is around what it looks like being ready to learn in our class… Sometimes is looks differently depending on what we are doing and what we are learning. As a family, take some time to discuss what your child enjoys about their learning and what they don’t… is it something that we can change together? Is it something that they need to find strategies to work through? When do they feel ‘ready to learn’? What do they need every day to come into school feeling like they are ‘ready’?

As hard as it is to talk about what is around the corner (*high school*) – what do they need to work on now, so that they are best equipped to reach their potential when they get there? We will be having lots of discussion about our skills and talents in the coming weeks so it would be great for them to have a bit of background 🙂

Have a wonderful weekend!

P7 Weekly Round Up

What a busy week we have had, but what a fantastic amount of learning we have squeezed in!

Weekly Highlights

Literacy – We had an amazing writing session on Tuesday where we stepped into the character of Graham from our class novel. We imagined what Graham would feel like and what might prompt him to run away from home. There were so many excellent examples we will spend some time next week adding them to our excellent examples literacy wall.

Numeracy – This week some of us have been testing out our growth mindset to the extreme as we try to get our head around long multiplication. The steps involved in the algorithm method can be quite confusing. We are looking at using different methods to help us learn it but we will continue to work on this together!

HWB – Our new unit of Building Resilience is ‘Take a Moment’ – we had a great class discussion centred around the feeling of stress and what it looks like/feels like/sounds like for different people. Please use the home guidance sheet issued for homework to support your child in their emotional literacy and building resilience.

Pupil Voice

Joshua – ‘I liked gymnastics this week because we used different equipment like the vault.’

Zainab – ‘The sky studios trip was really good. We made a trailer.’

Marcella – ‘I liked the sky studios trip. It was fun and we all made our own trailers. We learned about things like special effects.’

Brooke – ‘I learned how to work a camera at Sky Studios.’

Mirren – ‘I liked going to the NHS careers fair and seeing how many jobs there are.’

Harley – ‘At the careers fair I learned there’s a ‘gammy foot shop’ (which we think is the mobility shop on further discussion…) in livi that helps people.’

 

Home Learning

In light of our current learning about what stress feels like please take some time this weekend to explore some of the Take a Moment resources as a family. Watch this clip as a family and use it to prompt discussion about what brings stress and how you deal with it, we talked about some stresses which come and go quickly and others that hang around for a while. Next week we will look at positive steps we can take to react to those stressful moments – practical ways to ‘take a moment’ – click below to access the video…

 

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Weekly Highlights

In Literacy this week we have enjoyed exploring our new group novels; The Boy Who Grew Dragons, Goodnight Mr Tom and The Escape. Two of our novels are set in the war – we have been captivated by the context of the war and using this opportunity to explore new vocabulary. We are thinking about digging deeper into the text to use our analysis skills to figure out what message the author is conveying.

 

In numeracy we are continuing to explore strategies for multiplication and division. We have banned the use of ‘bus stop division’ and are now calling them ‘algorithms’ – very fancy! Maybe at home this weekend you could practice as a family? Try 148 divided by 5 and ask your child to explain to you the maths involved!

 

In HWB we have been exploring the theme of discrimination. After a very tense game of noughts and crosses, where the crosses were favoured over the noughts, we discussed what it feels like to be treated unfairly. We talked about what sectarianism is and how it is teased out in our class novel; Divided City.

 

Pupil Voice

Ryan B I learned about discrimination and inequality.

Mirren We learned about how to do division – it was a recap because I could already do it.

Dominika I learned about light and dark colours in art.

Brooke I learned to work with people who I wouldn’t usually – I didn’t know I would be as good at it.

 

Home Learning

This weekend it would be great for our pupils to show their families ‘Torn’ by Kelly Coyle and talk about what they have learned through exploring the piece of art. We talked about how the picture is a metaphor for something and we aren’t going to take it for its literal meaning as we can dig deeper to understand what the message behind it is.

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Weekly Highlights

In Literacy this week we have been preparing for our trip to Sky Academy Studios. On this visit we will be splitting into four studios to create a trailer for our own movie/tv show. In groups of four we have looked at genres and created storyboards to illustrate the beginning, middle and end of our story. We will use our writing lesson next week to re-draft these and vote for our four favourite boards to use on the day.

 

In Numeracy we are getting our heads around word problems. Before Christmas we discussed how difficult we find word problems so we have started taking ten minutes at the beginning of our numeracy learning sessions to work with talk partners to solve word problems together – we have been looking at word problems that use multiplication and division. Perhaps you could come up with some at home together?

 

In HWB we have started our gymnastics block! We have been very happy to have Mr Cummings from St Margaret’s with us for our Wednesday PE slot and will continue to work on the gymnastics shapes, balances and creating sequence showing good posture. We have also begun our new Building Resilience unit where we are looking at our emotions and how complex they can be. We watched a smashing video of a wee baby who experiences some serious emotions in the space of one minute – watch together and enjoy, then discuss those emotions.

Pupil Voice

Daniel – I learned that when you are diving by ten you move all the digits to the left in the place value board.

Ryan T – I learned that away back when in Glasgow all the Catholics were said to support Celtic and all the non-Catholics supported Rangers – in my family half support Celtic and half support Rangers.

Ambra – I learned that Martin Luther King Jr helped people be equal even though they were born a different race.

Haseeb – We have been drawing and writing a story board. I chose fantasy/horror.

Abi – In PM writing we have been learning about the explanation genre.

Home Learning

This weekend it would be great to discuss discrimination as a family. It is a central theme in our class novel, ‘Divided City’ and has been interesting to discuss following our learning about Martin Luther King Jr. Next week all P7s are going to enter the Action on Sectarianism poster competition which will allow us to explore sectarianism in more depth.

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Have a lovely weekend!

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Weekly Highlights

In literacy this week we completed our final writing assessment and spelling assessments of 2019! The P7 group were so engaged in making stickers for our Christmas Fair enterprise task that we decided to focus on procedural writing to provide instructions about how to make stickers – we are hoping the P6/7 class will test them out to give us feedback on our efforts. We have all enjoyed the new approach to spelling and Mrs Conway and Mrs Scott have loved seeing our progress across all of our written work!

 

In numeracy this week we have looked at pattern and angles. We used pattern to create mandala designs as part of our Pope Francis Faith Award work – they are beautiful. We have revised angles to activate our prior knowledge this week so that we are ready to challenge ourselves in January! Perhaps you could start to look for angles in your environment and name them?

 

The big news of this week was our upper school election. The boys and girls were so engaged in creating their political parties, manifestos, tag lines, logos and party political broadcasts. We delivered these to the upper school on Thursday morning then opened the polling station in the upper area. Congratulations to the Coping Campaign who were the winning party – making Hannah Prime Minister and Aria Deputy Prime Minister.

Pupil Voice

Abi I LOVE the political parties!

Krystian I like doodling when we are listening to our class novel.

Harley I think my football career needs to be put aside – I’m going to work at polling stations instead!

Neve In a normal election Hannah wouldn’t have been PM, she would have been our local MP

Joshua Jeremy Corbyn had to resign because the labour party lost the election. Boris Johnson is Prime Minister.

Home Learning

This weekend if you find yourself with a spare few minutes please discuss our Human Rights Day assembly with your child – the home task this month is to think about which of the Children’s Rights is most important to you and your family and find ways that the Government is supporting this right J

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