Category: Primary 7

There has been a lot happening this week in primary 6/7.

We started Art with Mrs Conway and we all created a silhouette for remembrance day. We have also been continuing with drama box and everyone has been having lots of fun creating our class characters.

In numeracy we have been focusing on multiplication this week and have been trying different methods to see what one we like best. Continue working on this at home to increase your confidence! Challenge your parents – how many methods do they know?

We all became film critics this week. After watching The Grinch we wrote a review, including our personal opinion as well as facts about the film.

We have completed the Gift of Wisdom for the Pope Francis Faith Award – please check that this is all completed at home, ready for the next gift next week.

Pupil Voice:

Primary 6 pupils – Skills we have used this week.

Creativity – We used our creative skills in Art with Mrs Conway.

Responsibility – We had to be very responsible when walking to the cinema this week. We also represented our school very well.

Primary 7 pupils – Out first transition visit

“The best part was lighting the Bunsen burner.” Jan, Joshua, Joseph

“I liked how you could change how hot the flame on the Bunsen burner was” Aidan

“In science we monitored the temperature of boiling water for 10 minutes to find out what was the best insulator; bubble wrap, felt or cotton wool” Mark, Sean, Evie

“Science was really, really cool. We liked lighting the flame. We are looking forward to going back for swimming” Ailie, Shannon, Louise.

Learning in Literacy
Jan, Joshua, Ola, Oliwier, Hudu and Emma
In writing this week we were working on procedure. We all wrote a procedure about How to Programme Marty the Robot. Some people included how to add different commands.
We focused on using imperative verbs to help with our writing.
Kensuke’s Kingdom group continued to read and had to look up all the places Michael visited and mark them on our maps.
Skellig group discussed some questions and worked on improving our written answers.

Learning in Numeracy
Evie, Aidan, Adrin, Zuzanna, Aaron
During Numeracy this week we worked on standard addition and subtraction. Primary 7 have also all completed their SNSA tests. We also had time to play some maths board and card games this week.

Learning Across the Curriculum 
Shannon, Kacper, Louise, Levente, Sean, Ethan
We celebrated 2 masses this week. At today’s mass for All Saints day we learned about what “canon” meant. On Tuesday’s Mass the primary 6 pupils were enrolled for the Pope Francis Faith Award.
Primary 6 also started Bike Ability, becoming more comfortable on their bikes.  In rugby we focused on kicking the ball after scoring a try. We got to use Marty again this week and made up shows. We made backgrounds and props and filmed these.

Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Kasia, Robbie, Ailie, Mark
This week we used technology skills, communication, teamwork and imagination.
We used all of these skills in our group project working on Marty. We were able to programme him to do things and we all discussed our ideas and listened to each other. Some people were asked to nominate a classmate who showed excellent teamwork and they received a wristband.

Please see below photos for Maths and Numeracy questions that can be tried at home. There is a 1st and 2nd level calendar.

Learning Across the Curriculum
Evie, Adrin, Aidan, Zuzanna and Aaron.

This week we have been working with Marty the robot, we had to use a computer to navigate/programme him to do what we want. Some of the options we had to choose from were Kick, Walk Forward, Wiggle, Circle Dance and Walk Backwards. There is a video of Marty on our class Twitter.

During P.E we split up into different groups of our choice, Indoor Fitness or Outdoor Rugby. In rugby we did passing work and contact games, and in fitness we did Agility, Endurance and Strength.

Learning in Literacy
Louise, Kacper, Shannon, Ethan, Levente

This week in reading primary 7 have been reading Skellig ,its about a boy who moved house but stayed at the same school but found a strange creature in the garage. We had to answer challenging questions using our higher order thinking skills. Primary 6 have been reading Kensuke’s Kingdom and learning about sailing around the world! It sounds like a big adventure and we can’t wait to read the next chapter of our book.

In writing this week we worked in groups to create Halloween poems. We had to think of our own rhyming scheme and use lots of figurative language that we have been working on. When we finished we typed up our poems and we also recorded them and added sound effects.

Learning in Numeracy
Ailie, Kasia, Mark, Joseph, Hasan, Robbie

Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Ola, Jan, Emma, Oliwier, Joshua, Huda

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 🙂

This week was Maths Week Scotland and we’ve tried lots of fun maths activities.
We made angles and shapes using our bodies in PE, we measured angles on the desk (and wrote our answers on the desk!) and primary 6 used compasses to plan routes in the playground!

Pupil Voice:

Aaron: I enjoyed writing although I had a bit of a temper tantrum

Ethan: I enjoyed doing writing assessment.

Joshua: I enjoyed the trip to the risk factory it was intriguing and fun at the same time it was probably my favorite trip.

Louise:I enjoyed going to the risk factory and being the driver of the bus.

Shannon: I enjoyed going to the Risk Factory and learn about different risks.

Hasan: I enjoyed the maths activity because I got to learn new things it was hard but eventually I got the answer.

Emma- I enjoyed the girls active sports day.

Zuzanna-I enjoyed PE with Miss Ford.

Levente: I enjoyed doing Fibonacci in maths this week because it was very fun to do.

Mark: i enjoyed P.E with miss ford

Joseph: I enjoyed doing maths with Mrs Mcdonald

Kasia- I enjoyed writing.

Ailie: I enjoyed the risk factory

Jan:This week i really enjoyed going to the risk factory it was very FUN.

Huda: this week p6 girls went to James young high school to teach girls to get active and I enjoyed dodge ball.

Adrin: This week we went to the risk factory (my house burned down)

Sean: I enjoyed the writing assessment

Oliwier: I really enjoyed the Risk Factory because we had to escape a room for a test and I also liked the part when you phone 999. It was so FUN!!!  XD

Robbie: I enjoyed doing maths outside with all the primary 6s, we even exercised!

Kacper: i really enjoyed starting the posters about science and also for the reading and talking assessment.

Primary 6/7 have had a busy week of learning.

We have all started new class novels and have made predictions about them. We focused on using Higher Order Thinking Skills when writing answers to show our understanding of a text. We also started our spelling groups and all have our lists in our homework jotters.

In Maths we have continued working with shape, looking and regular and irregular 2D shapes. We then completed a challenge to make shapes using equilateral triangles.
In Numeracy we have been using concrete material to represent decimal fractions.

House captains have been involved in learning walks and focus groups this week – they all did an excellent job! A big thank you to the 6 pupils who represented our class .

Pupil Voice:

Jan: I really enjoyed doing the huge rugby match in P.E against the P7

Ethan : I enjoyed the rugby match

Aidan : I really enjoyed rugby  and maths.

Joshua : I enjoyed making shapes out of triangles, it really got my brain working.

Kacper:I really enjoyed making shapes out of triangles(it was a mayhem in the class)

Hasan: I really enjoyed science because I got to learn new things.

Emma- we finished Wonder and we all really enjoyed it and we  did a worksheet about the most important character

Ola: I enjoyed getting and doing questions about are new book and I really like the book.

Zuzanna: I enjoyed PE because we done one big game with the p7 class.

Oliwier: I enjoyed playing rugby because it was P7 vs P6/7 and also we gave them extra time for PE so that was very kind of us  XD.

Sean: I enjoyed playing against the p7

Mark: I enjoyed playing rugby against primary seven

Kasia-I really enjoyed writing narrative story

Aaron-I enjoyed everything

Joseph – I enjoyed maths and making shapes with triangles

Adrin-I enjoyed making shapes out of triangles.

Evie- This week I enjoyed learning about decimal fractions.

Huda in p6\7 we got new books

Louise~I enjoed painting for fun 31

Shannon~ I enjoyed maths when we made shapes out of triangles.

This Week in Primary 6/7…

P.E:  In P.E we have been doing rugby
This week we did little matches and drills.

Writing: in writing this week we were writing “I am from” poems. Inspired by the poem Where I’m from by George Ella Lyon.
We focused on emotive language and thought about our favourite memories to include in our poems.

In literacy we have been improving our figurative language and have continue reading Wonder.

Music: In music we were doing our own original piece of music In our groups using different instruments to do this task.

Today we are celebrating Saint Ninian by having a Mass with the whole school.

Pupil Voice:

Kacper: I enjoyed doing The figuritive language posters.

Oliwier : I enjoyed The mini rugby games.

Adrin: music was very fun and i really like The new teacher.

Sean: I enjoyed The poem writing it was very exhilarating

Ethan I enjoyed  music  this week

Aaron: I enjoyed writng and never expected I’d do so good.

Kasia-I enjoyed wonder the august part six.

Huda-I enjoyed improving my  language.

Emma- I enjoyed when we did a poems writing.

Hasan-I enjoyed rugby and learned new things.

Joshua- I enjoyed listening to film music and guessing the instruments and what film it was from. J

Joseph: I enjoyed hymn practice J

Robbie: I enjoyed meet the family.

Mark: I enjoyed music

Aidan : I enjoyed doing rugby and music :/

Miss McCormack:
Thank you to the families who came along to our meet the family evening, it was great to see you all.
Enjoy the long weekend!!