This week in P7 we started the week working very hard in maths and have now finished the topic of Angles. The children have worked so hard on improving their ability to classify, name, estimate and measure angles this term and I am very happy with the progress each and every one of them have made within second level maths.
After beginning the week with tricky work we spent the last couple of days having lots of fun preparing for Christmas. We learned a little more about Advent, learned some Spanish Christma s vocabulary and did some Christmas art and craft to decorate our classroom.
On Thursday all of the P7 children were given a treat and decided to either go to our Christmas party or watch a movie. Everyone had lots of fun as you will see from the photos below!
Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!!!
Dress as your “dream job” was a huge success. I really enjoyed chatting with children about their aspirations. I was very impressed with the thought behind some of their careers.
In Science we learned the vocabulary SOLVENT, SOLUTE and SOLUTION. And we are now all aware that melting and dissolving are different processes.
Something to think about!
If you have a salt solution (water with salt dissolved in it) can you separate it back into just water and salt? How?
Christmas is almost here…
Next week we will be having our Christmas jumper day and Christmas dinner on Tuesday. Our class Christmas party will be on Thursday afternoon, please remember to give your child a note if they are to go home to change for the party. We also have to prepare a class Christmas song for our end of the year assembly, find the link below to our song and get practising.
We used some Spanish Christmas vocabulary to create our own Spanish Christmas cards. If you want further practise with your pronunciations this is the website we used.
Next week we will wrap up our work on time. We recapped our knowledge of analogue time and digital time. Keep practising at home and in particular be working out time intervals from timetables etc.
This week in primary 5/6 we had our P1-7 achievements assembly, with Miss Smyth. Freya from our class won the award for going the extra mile in class. In maths we continued to learn how to calculate the perimeter and area of 2D shapes. In RE, this week we wrote a class Litany and designed boarders to display these around our classroom. Our science topic for this term, ‘The Solar System’, is coming to an end. This week we learned more information about Mercury and individually came up with rhymes to remember all of the eight planets. Joshua from our class has been on a special trip to France this week and he brought holy water back for everyone in our class from his trip to Lourdes.
This week in P7 we have been busy with our termly spelling and writing assessments. In our writing assessment the genre was imaginative so we decided to focus on the current topical issues of developing countries and refugees. Within this we wrote a diary entry from a child living in a developing country during the festive season. We thought about the rights which we have compared to theirs and also how different our lives are throughout the year but especially at Christmas. In doing this we were able to share our concern for those less fortunate who we must always remember to help in any way we can even with just a prayer.
In our topic work this week we learned about the structure of muscles and even did an experiment about our muscles and how they react with our brain. It was very fun as we got to blindfold our partner and give them a heavy cup filled with marbles and a slightly lighter one and asked them to identify which cup was heavier through the connection between their muscles and brain.
Finally, this week we also celebrated our achievements assembly. It is great to see how fantastic the children in our school are so well done to everyone and a special well done to the P1 and P2 children who performed their nativity for us earlier in the week. You did so well up on the stage in front of a great big audience!
It was St Andrew’s day on Monday and we all took some time to revise our knowledge about St Andrew. We watched a short video clip and then using our Letterjoin handwriting copied some information into our jotter. We drew the Saltire flag and now fully understand how our flag represents our Patron Saint St Andrew.
In our Science we started to discuss dissolving. Many children talked about how sugar will MELT in the water, this raised the question is melting and dissolving the same thing? We conducted a dissolving investigation and started our first formal Science report. We will be continuing to look at the question of dissolving and melting next week and we will try to understand why these are two different processes. If you want to get a head start on this watch the below clip.
We will continue to link our learning next week when we complete an exercise about famous Scottish Scientists and we will appreciate that Scotland has a very rich Science background and that this is something to be very proud of and to strive to continue into future generations.
I can’t wait for next week when we will have time to share our Science Book homework projects. I have been hearing about some of the amazing investigations and learning that has been happening, I am so excited!
There is just enough TIME left to talk about Maths. This week we have revisited telling the time from analogue clocks and then converting this into digital time. For your homework I wanted you to find as many opportunities to tell the time this week so hopefully everyone has had lots of practise. This will be our Maths focus next week too.
This week in P7 we celebrated Scotland Week. We shared our knowledge about St. Andrew in RE and played a game of charades in drama where we had to act out something Scottish and other children had to guess what we were. We also discussed some common Scottish stereotypes and compared these with the reality of living in Scotland. It was very interesting to think about what people think Scotland is like and of course we all know we don’t really wear kilts and chase haggis around the hills!!!
In literacy we thought about some Scottish words and found out some of their meanings. One of our favourites was clype! We also enjoyed researching Scottish castles and designing the ‘perfect castle’ which had all of the best defence equipment and even some more modern additions!
We finished the week with Ninian’s Natter where we got the chance to talk to each other about our learning and goals. We are all enjoying P7 and achieving the goals which we have set ourselves. Well done everyone!
This week in P5/6, a Scottish story teller came and told us about the Loch Ness monster in Scotland by acting out a funny story. He also sang a song about the roman people battling and he told funny jokes. In French this week we received French post cards and letters from pupils at Pumpherston Primary School and we wrote replies back to them. This week was our Scottish focus week, we learned lots of information about St Andrew, some new Scottish words and we designed and made Scottish place mats.
This week some of our P5’s had a trip to the Cathedral in Edinburgh with Mrs Thomson. The children found this a very interesting experience as they were given access to areas which they would not normally be allowed to go in the Cathedral. The children who did not attend this trip were involved in the Travelling Tube performance in the school. Again this was a very informative, as well as enjoyable, experience as the children participated in a workshop where they created their own music.
This week we also had our Class Mass in St Philip’s small chapel. The children were impeccably behaved and participated well in all aspects of the Mass. Our thanks to Father Paul who helped to prepare us for this. Many members of the Parish commented on how impressed they were with the children. Everyone earned an extra Dojo point, well done!
We still had that sinking feeling in our writing this week as we continued our theme of “Floating and Sinking” as part of our Wonderful Water topic. We studied the sinking of the Titanic, learning facts and timelines. We then used this to create a newspaper report about the incident. Here are a few examples,
Well done P5. Next week we will move onto investigating dissolving and have our first attempt at writing a scientific report.
We have had another busy week in p5/6. We presented our learning on ‘who was St Andrew?’; at the St Andrews cluster assembly. Linked with our class Agar.io Goals, we have added a leader board to our display as so many children in our class have been achieving their goals! In maths this week we finished off our multiplication topic and started our topic on shape, we learned how to estimate the perimeter of a 2D shape. In Literacy we all wrote an imaginative story about a mission in Space, we worked with a partner to improve our adjectives in our writing. On Wednesday we had a visit from The Travelling Tuba, everyone really enjoyed this! We had the chance to play different instruments and learned how to play salsa music. At the end of the school day we presented our piece of music to the rest of the school.
This week in P7 we enjoyed our second visit to St. Margaret’s where we learned about how Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 Jewish children at the start of WW2. We also learned about the life of Anne Frank through group research using laptops.
In class we have been learning about the brain as part of our Sport Science topic and we did an experiment to see which was our more dominant side, left or right. For most of us, our right side was the more dominant!
In maths we have now completed the topic of money and will begin learning about angles next week. If you would like to get ahead of the game feel free to watch this short YouTube clip as a reminder about angles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6zued_V5Q
Finally we were very lucky to have a visit from a musical company called ‘Travelling by Tuba’. Chris and Stuart entertained us with their amazing musical skills and then let us experiment with some samba instruments which we made in to a short performance for the rest of the school. We had lots of fun making music and we hope to continue trying out new instruments and making our own music in the coming weeks.
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