Author: Mrs Conway

P7 Weekly Round Up!

Another busy week in P7!

Weekly Highlights

This week saw us with a big focus on ENTERPRISE as we prepared our stall for the Christmas fair. We chose to make stickers to sell and started by creating a  business plan. We worked out how much our materials had cost, how many stickers we wanted to make and how much we needed to sell them for in order to make a profit. We were delighted to cover our costs and make a profit which is going towards a new promethean board for our school!

In literacy this week we have been thinking more carefully about writing a quality exposition. We know that an exposition gives one point of view. It begins with a statement of position. This week we have learned all about the suffragettes and even had a real life suffragette in the classroom! We retained so much knowledge from this activity which we used to argue that the suffragettes were justified in their use of violence to gain the right to vote.

In numeracy this week we have been showing a real growth mindset through our work on word problems. We find this really difficult and have spent time as a whole class looking at strategies for working out these problems. Mrs Macdonald has been using a bar model to help us work out word problems so this is a strategy we are exploring. Krystian suggested we look at one word problem each day in maths and working with our talk partners to share ideas, this is something we will start after the Christmas holidays.

Next week we have our upper school election on the same day as the General Election – we have been working in our political parties to write a manifesto and create a party political broadcast which we will present to the upper school next week. Pupils will then complete a polling card and cast their ballot to elect the upper school prime minister.

Pupil Voice

Oliwia I learned to use the bar model for word problems, it was good.

Haseeb Word problems were quite challenging but now I’m getting used to it I’ll use bar models.

Aleks I loved PE with the nursery this week – they are funny!

Ryan T We did a new thing at Scottish Country dancing where we did a high school level dance to Cotton Eyed Joe.

Ambra I loved learning about the suffragettes – the best bit was hearing about the suffragettes telling their story, what is was like and how they were feeling.

Aria I liked trying something new for PE doing the basketball game.

 

Learning at home

To celebrate our Big Build team winning a runners up place in the national competition – this weekend spend some time at home discussing the different types of buldings in our local area  which ones are old, which are new, how do you know?

Thursday is the General Election – talk about where your polling station is and how you decide who to vote for. If possible, take your child to the polling station with you to give them the real life experience!

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P7 Weekly Round Up!

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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Primary 7 Weekly Round Up

What a busy week!

Weekly Highlights

Our first group went to st Margaret’s this week for their transition visit. We took part in a science lesson with Dr McAllister. Unfortunately the pool was out of order so we will return for our swimming lesson.

In numeracy this week we have been going back to basics with our number talks sessions and agreeing the expectations for behaviour, focus and engagement. Can you challenge your parents to see how many strategies they can come up with for addition and subtraction using 3 digit numbers?

In literacy this week we have been continuing our use of the wraparound spelling resource and looking at Blooms Questions to focus our understanding of our group reading novels. Some of us made it to the library this week and are looking forward to Book Week Scotland next week to enjoy some extended time to read our novels 🙂

 

Pupil Voice

Samuel – I enjoyed lighting the bunsen burner at high school

Harley – I love playing with my buddy at funky Friday

Krystian – I’m really enjoying the big build

Mirren – I loved doing our random act of kindness

Abi – the cinema trip was awesome!

 

Learning at home

We are beginning our democracy topic and it would be great for our boys and girls to learn a bit more about the political parties in the UK – they will be making their own political parties and standing for election… we cant wait!

P7 Weekly News

A wonderful week to be in P7 this week!

We have been completing our SNSAs this week – Scottish National Standardised Assessments. This meant our week was a bit topsy turvy in terms of timetabling, but we showed resilience and maturity in the face of these changes!

This meant a quick change of layout and silence – for the first time ever in P7! Heehee! Well done to the boys and girls who tried really hard and supported each other too 🙂

 

One of our most popular tasks this week was our science/food technology/literacy project – bread making!

We started with a science experiment using yeast, sugar and warm water mixed together.. we were excited to see it inflated the balloons! The key facts we learned were that yeast is dormant (sleeping) when dry – it reacts when mixed with water and releases carbon dioxide – this causes the balloon to inflate, and is what causes bread to rise.

In writing we have moved onto learning about a new genre – PROCEDURE. We discussed the features of language and the structure of a procedure before beginning our bread making session as the topic of our writing next Wednesday will be the procedure to make bread rolls!

We then moved onto our bread making! As we are P7 now, Mrs Conway was there to provide support only – in trios we worked through the recipe – measuring ingredients, following the method then setting our rolls aside to rise. Only one out of 9 groups had to remake their dough – a great success! We chose to add flavourings or finishes such as herbs or seeds or cheese.

We were really impressed with the end result!

If you would like to try it at home – the P7 pupils should be able to provide a family cooking session using the skills they have learned!

As we discussed our week some of our class wanted to share their highlights;

Joshua – I enjoyed making the rolls (this was then echoed across the class!)

Zainab – I liked the science (Ryan T – when the yeast reacts it releases carbon dioxide)

Jay – The rugby was good but I liked doing the drama in RE this week

Aleks – I think the best bit was Spanish with Mrs Reeves

Krystian – Spanish with Mrs Caskie was good too!

 

Have a wonderful weekend 🙂

P7 Weekly News

What a busy first week of Term 2 we have had!

  • Brooke – we got to change our PE and do either fitness or rugby  – I chose fitness
  • Abi – we got told that fun 31 wasn’t going to keep going, some of us wrote letters saying what was good about fun 31 and why we should keep it
  • Ryan T – we learned about the development of the brain
  • Ryan B – we learned that with growth mindset doing more things helps your brain develop
  • Jay – we used Marty the Robot app to control it and we also used SCRATCH with it
  • Harley – we listened to our new class playlist during free writing Friday

Have a lovely weekend – think about those Sound Sleep strategies!!

 

Mrs C 🙂

P4-7 Committee Groups

DIGITAL

Today in digital committee we were coding and making our own games. Miss Lydon was siting on a chair so we had to tell her how to make a sandwich  using coding!

Krystian and Maciej

 

RIGHTS RESPECTING SCHOOLS

Today in RRS we got pictures of everyone supporting the Show Racism the Red Card charity by wearing red. We also made posters to show what the phrases ‘RIGHTS HOLDER’ and ‘DUTY BEARER’ means. We made up challenges for our first right of the month – this month it is every child has the right to relax and play article 31.

Hannah and Neve

 

COMMUNITY LINKS

We have been preparing for the halloween disco, making posters to entertain people and encourage them to come along. Tickets are £2 and the infant areas P1-4 are 4-5.30, P5-7 is 6-7.30. There will be a best pumpkin contest and you will get some food and drink.

Louise and Ailie

LANGUAGES

In our language committee we were searching for different songs to learn greeting  and numbers in French,Polish,Welsh and Arabic!Jay and Maliha were laminating Spanish phrases so we can share our learning with other classes.At the same time Ryan,Lorenzo and Olivia were preparing Spanish words for the teachers to help us tonlearn more Spanish.To rap up the day we played a play a quick game called “numbers”(in Spanish).Hope you have a fantastico weekend!

Ambra & Dominika.

 

P7 Weekly News

Happy Maths week!

Some of our maths week activities this week included looking at Tangrams, multi step word problems and negative numbers. Today we worked in groups to solve clues to find the culprit in our murder at the movies problem;

Tangrams proved super tricky – maybe it is easier using the online game?!

https://www.abcya.com/games/tangrams

Have a go as a family – which of you is the best problem solver?!

 

Our Risk Factory visit was exciting – all of P7 together!

We don’t want to say too much to keep the mystery alive for future classes.. but we were given the opportunity to react to a number of different scenarios;

What would your child do if they were in a house and a fire started?

What would they say if they had to phone 999, do they know what information they would need?

Can your child keep themselves safe by making safe choices and following safety information?

There were a number of interesting discussions had on the day – the fire brigade supplied us with leaflets, but we will continue to look into fire safety, especially in the run up to Bonfire Night.

 

Next week we will be presenting short 2 minute presentations on our animal science topic!

I can’t wait to hear them all 🙂

 

Some of us chose pieces of work for our WOW wall today – if you child has a device that they can bring to use in school, I can highly recommend downloading the OneNote app and logging in using their Glow login – it makes it much easier to access their profile. We have a range of devices in class that can also be used for this 🙂

 Ambra is really proud of her Wonder drawing Aria is really proud of her Wonder poemAbi is really proud of the drawing she did for our class charter Ryan is really proud of his character study

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Conway

Primary 7 Weekly News

A busy week in P7!

 

We have been enjoying learning about measure in maths – some of the work we have been doing is to estimate, then measure to see how accurate our estimation is. At home can you play a game that involves estimating length the  measuring? Or maybe you have some tips of your own for estimation that you could share?

 

In writing we have been learning about Narrative as a genre – we looked at a narrative called The Swooping Eagles and used the structure to create our own animal narratives. We look forward to welcoming you on Tuesday 8th oct to our Stay, Play and Write session – so you can see a little bit about what writing is about for us!

 

We are looking forward to beginning our classroom economy next week! Part of our maths curriculum includes learning about and being able to budget and manage money. The class will earn £5 classroom currency for various jobs such as having full PE kit… they will be expected to pay £30 per week for their desk and chair (non negotiable) and the class shop will open during fun 31 where they can spend their money on various treats! Well done to Lorenzo for winning our design competition with his St Ninians design – and Finlay for coming up with the name St Ninian’s Nickles 🥰

 

We had a P7 meeting on Friday to discuss some of the issues we have coming up – including our Risk Factory trip on Tuesday!

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

One of the things you will learn about at stay, play and write is how much we love free writing Friday!

Primary 7 News!

What a busy week! I feel like we have earned our long weekend after this week!

It was a big week for our class as we prepared for our first class mass of the year. We used our lolly sticks to assign jobs, having them on a first come, first served basis – some of the jobs we needed doing were readers, offertory, slideshow technicians and music technicians! Father Simon thanked the class for a lovely mass 🙂

 

Writing this week was a roaring success as we wrote free verse poetry from the viewpoint of Auggie and Via from our class novel, Wonder. A few examples were posted to twitter and some others were added to our wall display.

 

A huge thank you to the families who came along to our ‘Meet the Family’ event on Thursday evening! Mrs Scott and I enjoyed meeting, chatting and getting to know you all 🙂 if you weren’t able to make it, I have popped some information home with the children today for you to enjoy together over the weekend! A wee reminder about our family photo challenge for the September weekend;

After experimenting with QR codes (and getting it to work!) – I would also like to share this SWAY presentation for some top tips for P7 – click on the image below to view it 😉

As always – you can follow our adventures on twitter; https://twitter.com/Mrs_Conway10

Homework begins again from next week – issued on a Wednesday, handed in on a Tuesday!

Have a fab long weekend!

P7 Weekly News!

This week some of our highlights include;

We began to work on rugby in PE – we will be working outdoors for this block of PE. We learned about passing and catching – banana tig was a highlight, can you child explain the rules to you?

In our class novel we learned about Auggie’s genes and how he had a mutated gene. This led us to ask some questions about what DNA was and how genes work. We learned that we all have DNA in our bodies – every cell has DNA. The most interesting fact was definitely that we carry 99.1% of the same DNA as chimpanzees!

Another Friday meant another FREE WRITING FRIDAY session! We love getting the freedom to write what is on our minds and also having the class playlist on in the background.

In our writing session we made Wikipedia pages about August Pullman, the main character in our class novel – Wonder! We can’t wait to show our families at our Stay, Play and Write session soon!

Have a fab weekend!

Pupil voice;

Oliwia – I liked rugby (PE) because it was fun!

Finlay – My favourite part of school this week was learning about the DNA because I am in to dinosaurs and how they do the tests – and I’m really into science as well. I knew about DNA because of reading books and from Jurassic World.

Daniel – I liked writing about Auggie because I know lots about him.

Dominika – I was prefecting the upper area, it was good.

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