Author: Miss McCormack

This week some of the Primary 7 class went up to St. Margaret’s for a science lesson. The lesson included learning how to draw scientific equipment and learning how to use the Bunsen burner safely. We also had to carry out an experiment to find the best insulating material. The rest of the class were helping the Primary 1’s while everyone else was out and they will go to St. Margaret’s nest week.

For writing this week we were re-writing the Fairy Tale of Little Red Riding Hood. We were doing Fractured Fairy Tales, where we changed some parts of the story as if we were writing a completely new one.

Visitors also came in during Maths to watch us do Number Talks. We have been focusing on fractions this week and calculating fractions of an amount use bar models.

Pupil Voice:

Chi-chi: I enjoyed doing the bar modelling.

Rachel W: I had fun in R.E. most of the time. We also did fitness.

Kerrigan: This week we did the take your book to lunch, it was fun J

Isla: We made posters on what makes our Catholic school great!

Rebecca: I enjoyed doing the writing for a twisted Fairy Tale story.

Maxx: This week two people from Primary 7 discussed Number Talks with Mrs. Heather. I was one of them.

Lewis: We did dodgeball in P.E. with Mr. McCurdy.

Zara: Mrs. MacDonald came in to teach us bar graphs.

 

Some of the class will be going to rugby tomorrow and they’re really excited!

Good luck to the girls playing football today!

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This week in primary 7 we did outdoor P.E (which was fun!) along with the 6/7 class. We were playing capture the flag and got all wet and muddy. We also had our Thursday Math class with Mrs MacDonald where we learned about bar modelling. On Wednesday and Thursday some p7’s helped run stalls and meet and greet people at Parents nights (which was also fun).This week is also Cool to be kind week! On Thursday it was Anti cyber-bullying day so our class looked at a couple of videos they were all about staying safe online.

Our class put a new poster on the wall that was all about Radiating and respect. We also were doing writing and it was all about the wild fire in California.

We finished Cool to Be Kind week by having Fun31 with our primary 1 buddies.

Lukasz – in PE we played capture the flag. It was amazing.

Gaby – I really enjoyed working with Mrs MacDonald this week, we learned about bar models.

Maxx – This week it was parents’ night and some primary 7 pupils helped out by asking for feedback. It was fun.

Taylor – we looked at some videos for cyber-bullying. The message was Stop Speak Support.

Rebecca – Today was a dress down day and we got a lot of raffle prizes.

Vanessa – We made a Radiating Respect display in our classroom.

This week we visited the library for the first time this year and got books to read in school.

We had a sports event in Craigswood sport hall. The people who went were Paige, Lukasz, Chi-Chi, Kalin, Vanessa, Maxx, Chloe, Matt, Lorena, Beth and Cole.  Some of the activities were Soft Javelin, High jump, Long jump, Obstacle Course, up and under, Relay Races, Chest push and an all boy and all girl races. We all had a great time.

Taylor and Preston went to Linlithgow on Thursday for the early Remembrance Day Mass Celebration to represent St. Ninian’s Primary! It was the same place that last year’s P6’s had their camp for a day. They had lots of fun!

For P.E this week we did a massive workout of our choice, the choices being legs, abs or upper body which was really fun!
We also had a fitness challenge and will try to beat our score next week.

In RE we made and presented dramas. They were about The Wedding at Cana some were really thought out and others…were NOT!

In math we made poppies out of a number grid and we had to find the coordinates. It was tricky but they looked great when finished.

In writing we wrote a news report about the end of WW1. We also analysed the poem For the Fallen and learned about the Poppy.

In Art we made pinwheel poppies it was really fun and every one enjoyed it.

Pupil voice this week:

Lucas: on Tuesday we had a Halloween disco.

Oskar: In P.E we did just dance and fitness bingo.

Lucas: On Thursday we had an All Saints Day mass.

Lukasz: This week in writing we wrote spooky stories.

Oskar: We wrote letters to businesses to ask for raffle  prizes for the Christmas Fair.

Lucas: On Monday we wrote Halloween poems in groups.

Lewis: on Monday we did our Halloween poems and we had to record it and we added sound effects using Audacity.

Chloe: in P.E we did just dance and it was fun and we did the Halloween workout.

Charlie: We did Halloween P.E and it was very fun.

Lukasz: On Thursday we had an All Saints Day mass.

Joseph: I won a prize at the Halloween disco J

Kalin: I won a prize at the Halloween disco

Grace: I enjoyed just dance in PE with Mr McCurdy

Isla: I enjoyed going to the Lanthorn to celebrate mass with the whole school.

 

All pupils now have access to our Class Notebook through Glow. If they sign in to glow, click on their emails, click on the waffle and click on OneNote they will find the Class Notebook. We will use the notebook as our profiles and pupils are encouraged to add posts from home. This space can also be used for home learning.

 

Have a great weekend 🙂

This week we came back to school on Tuesday for the start of term 2 . We have  started our small block of fitness for PE before we start our Christmas dancing.  We did a fitness program with Joe Wicks, it was so tiring ,it was at least 30 mins. After PE we did number talks,  we started to order decimals,   it was  a bit tricky  for some of us. We have also started our new topic, it is an enterprise topic called ”Make £5 grow”.

On Wednesday we learned lots of different skills to do with skipping to help with our fitness, for example: 180 spins, beat our high score on how long we could skip for, ect. After we went in pairs and as one of us would be skipping for thirty secs, the other would be doing bench related exercises. We also started our writing which where we had to write about the most favourite day of our life.

On Thursday we did some reading questions, from our reading books. There was ten questions that would give you 1, 2, 3 or 6 marks. You had to use evidence from the text. We also did RE, researching lots of different saints and talking about peace, justice and how to help victims of war, poverty etc. Mrs McDonald also came in for maths.

On Friday we started off our day finishing our writing. Then we did firework safety powerpoint. They were some pretty gruesome pictures but we learn to stay safe on bonfire night.

We were also very excited to start reading buddies with primary one this week. Each week we will visit P1 on Thursday morning to read and help with boost words and spelling.

 

By Chi Chi and Isla

Lucas-this week in P.E  we did contact rugby and tackling with the tackling bags.

Oskar-when the girls were away we had free time to go on one note and add our goals and go on the chat .

Lucas and Oskar-this week in writing we had our assessment and it was about if animals should be kept in the zoo.

Kalin-i enjoyed doing the pivot animator and we made loads of animations.

Lewis- i liked doing rugby with the St Margret pupils.

Brandon- We were doing fun stuff on pivot animator while the girls were at there fitness.

Sarah-  at fitness I liked the football .

Lewis- When the girls went away boys got to go on the computers and some people got to go on piviot animator.

Oskar-we did the poems about refugees.

Rebecca- All the girls went to an Active Girls Day in James Young High School and my favorite part was the Aerobics which really stretched my muscles.

Vanessa: I had fun doing the girls fitness day because we met loads of new people and did loads of sports!!!!!!

Maxx- this week S.T Margrets students came and Ethan and Megan did rugby and we done tackling with them.

 

 

A reminder for Monday

We have our Risk Factory visit. The bus will be leaving at 8:45 so it is very important all primary 7 pupils arrive to school in plenty of time.
Please bring a packed lunch to have on return to school.

 

Have a great weekend

This week we learned how to safely tackle someone in rugby. We also learned about Negative numbers and ordering decimals numbers from smallest to biggest. On Thursday Mrs McDonald came in to teach us about Place Value witch we learned a lot from this lesson. We were trying to learn about the app called My World of Work. We also tried using OneNote on Glow witch we are going to trial as our pupil profile.

 

Pupil Voice

Taylor: I really enjoyed the Buddy Mass and I also really enjoyed doing a reading at it.

Max: I really enjoyed doing the Negative Numbers in maths.

Vanessa: I enjoyed the buddy mass.

Kalin: I like doing contact in Rugby.

Louise: I also liked doing rugby.

Sarah: I enjoyed doing number talks.

Joseph: I Enjoyed acting in the drama at R.E. as the devil.

Viet: I enjoyed doing My World of Work.

 

We hope you have a great weekend!!

 

Taylor, Joseph and Viet

A short but busy week in primary 7.

 

Lewis: This week we went outside for Rugby it was fun but cold.

Taylor: This week the ambassadors announced Maxx is our new ambassador.

Rebecca: We did descriptive writing of our own made up character.

Maxx: On Thursday Mrs McDonald came in to do maths. We were using the grid method for multiplication.

Taylor: We were learning about comparative and superlative adjectives.

Sarah: We used our boost words for smart start.

Rachel M: We learned that flowers are both male and female. We also learned the names for the different parts of the flower.

 

Today we started our committees for the year.

Credit Union
Jay P: This week we picked people to get trained to work the bank etc.

Community Links
Gaby: I enjoyed making the posters for the Halloween disco.

Mini Vinnies
Zara: We were finding out facts about St. Vincent de Paul and made an action plan.

Technologies
Joseph: We learned all about Google and how you can search anything. We also learned maths using the website coolmaths.

Health & Wellbeing
Maxx: We are planning on introducing a healthy tuck In partnership with locals supermarkets.

House Captain
Rebecca: We surveyed the toilets to check what needed fixed and improved. We were also planning a charity event for Mary’s Meals.

This week in primary 7 we have learned lots of new things.

On Monday

In maths we focused on Pascal’s Triangle and Fibonacci’s sequence. For Pascal’s Triangle we looked at our worksheet and had to try and find the secret.

“I thought it was fun” – Lewis

“Pascal’s Triangle is that every row adds up to double the one before” – Rebecca

Also on Monday we went to mindfulness music with Mrs Smith and practiced our hymns for Friday.

Tuesday

On Tuesday we did p:e we a learning how to play rugby we do different games to keep our stamina and confidence.

Wednesday :

We did writing with Mrs Docherty. It was descriptive writing piece about a bridge.

We did P.E again with Mr Macurdy and we were working on contact Rugby this time.

Thursday

On Thursday we focused on grammar and went outdoors on a maths challenge. Mrs Macdonald came in from the High School to do multiplication grids.

Friday

It was our St Ninian’s Feast day Mass also we have changed the name of Golden time into Fun 31 base on the Rights of the Child.

 

Miss McCormack would like to say a big thank you to all the parents who came to Ninian’s Natter – it was lovely to meet you all.

This week in Primary 6/7 we have been very busy! In R.E with Mrs Howley some people painted rocks from Saint Ninian’s cave and we were also drawing pictures looking out from St.Ninian’s Cave. In Maths, P7’s worked on Maths Grids with Mrs McDonald from Saint Margaret’s and P.6 were with Mrs Young doing word problems with three digit numbers.

We used the context of our class novel, Kensuke’s Kingdom, to write about setting using interesting and descriptive language.

In P.E we were playing rugby with Mr McCurdie. Daniel got a golden ticket for helping in the lunch hall and he gets to have hot chocolate Friday.

We had a whole school Mass for St. Ninian’s feast day on Friday.

Bea: I enjoy working with P.6 on our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom.

Toni: Mrs Mc Donald taught us to use a grid method to times hundreds by hundreds, I enjoyed this.

Ivana: I enjoyed the writing lesson, using descriptive language to describe the setting of a desert island.

Brooke: I found the Maths tricky because I had to work out what to do but I got more confident.

Ailie: I loved outside Rugby with Mr. McCurdy.

Harley: I enjoyed writing this week. I liked reading about Robinson Crusoe. Have a nice week end .