Category: Primary 7

P7 Weekly News

The people that went to S. Margaret’s last week made presentations to show the parents for Stay, Play and We Well. They made lessons to go along with their presentations and everyone in the upper area got to take part in two workshops. The choices were: Sleep Scotland, Building Resilience, Mindfulness and Online Safety. Thank you to all the families who came along – it was great to have you here. The people who went to St. Margaret’s this week did art, science and swimming. They had lots of fun.

On Thursday we also had so much fun with Mrs McDonald, we were doing algebra using the coloured rods.

We had a look at some information about electricity and where it comes from and we look forward to following this up in the coming weeks.

Some members of our class also took part in an amazing Glee performance this week. They were all great and we are very proud of them!!

Here are some comments from some P7 pupils:

Sarah: I enjoyed doing the show rehearsal.

Brandon : I liked P.E and we were doing rounders.

Charlie : I liked writing about my inspirational woman.

Zara: I enjoyed doing mindfulness this week.

 

Zara and Louise

Pupil Voice:

Transition

Cole: This week we went to high school and Mr Purvis helped us to draw a seashell.

Caiden: This week we went up to St Margaret’s we did science, art and swimming.

Thomas and Ivana: The p7’s went to St Margaret’s for transition and went for swimming, science and art.

Lorena: Group B had their transition on Monday at St Margret’s which was an amazing experience to have.

Matt: I and the P7’s went to transitions.

Ethan: On Monday I and 18 other p7’s went to St Mags for transition.

Buddies

Lauren: P6’s got to see their buddies on Monday.

Neve: P6’s got to meet our buddies and we played with them.

Daniel: The P6’s saw their new buddies on Monday.

Ambra: on Monday I met my buddy Mahnoor I played with her in the Nursery I had a lot of fun. The best part was we drew and danced.

Abi: p6 this week met our buddies Anna is super cute.

Mirren: I met my buddy on Monday and I got Kevin it was really fun because we got to know them.

Brooke: on Monday p6’s got to meet our buddies we got to play with them and become really good friends.

Joshua: we met our buddies and played with them.

Stay, Play and Be Well

Bea: This week we participated in Stay, Play and Be Well. We got to pick two different stations. They were called;  Resilience, Mindfulness, Online Safety and Sleep Scotland.

HWB

Harley: this week in PE we did 9 minutes of basketball handball and football it was good for people to try new sports.

The Gospel Show

Beth: we have continued the show and we are getting much better with the songs and words.

A reminder that costumes are due in on Monday 18th please in a labelled carrier bag.

Written by Daniel and Bea

This week P7 group A went to ST Margaret’s for swimming, science and art. On Tuesday we played throwing rounder’s in P.E. On Wednesday we wrote a recount about our ST Margaret’s trip. Thursday was World Book day and we completed lots of activities to do with our favourite books. We have also been practising for our show and are all working very hard to learn our parts.

On Tuesday we had a lovely visit from Arch Bishop Leo Cushley. It was great to chat to him in our class and get the chance to ask him questions. On Wednesday Fr Kenneth came in for our Ash Wednesday service.

 

Pupil Voice:

Isla: I liked going to ST Margaret’s on Monday I liked the swimming the best.

Rachel M: I really enjoyed science at ST Margaret’s.

Taylor: I enjoyed having a glee work shop on Thursday.

Joseph: I enjoyed writing about our trip to ST Margaret’s.

Chi-Chi: I enjoyed playing rounder’s in P.E.

Kalin: I liked our double period of science in which we were identifying unknown food groups.

Chloe: I liked when your grace came to our school. He talked to us about how he met the Pope.

Pupil Voice:

This week in primary 6/7 we had a very exciting week:

Pizza Express Visit

Everyone: We went to pizza express and made pizzas it was great fun . Check out Twitter @mrsroy16 for photographs!

Visit from Archbishop Cushley

Ambra: Archbishop Leo Cushley came into our class He told us stories about himself.

World Book Day

Harley: We done drop everything and read for world book day. Check out Twitter @mrsroy16 for a video link.

Daniel: Ryan and Beth went to Waterstones to buy new books and a game for our class.

PE

Abi: In PE we did heady handball. This was a new game and we all enjoyed playing it.

Ash Wednesday

Brooke: We had our Ash Wednesday mass I enjoyed it because I was part of choir.

Written by Abi and assisted by Mirren

 

Pupil Voice:

This week in P6/7 we started to rehearse The Gospel Show! We are all excited and can’t wait to show it to our parents. Costume letters have been given out to everyone and ticket letters will follow soon!

 

Toni: This week P7, P6/7 and P6 started our show rehearsals.

Lauren: We started to do The Gospel Show!

Neve: We did our first rehearsal for the Gospel Show.

Bea: This week we started to rehearse the Gospel Show! I can’t wait to see the finished product.

Ethan: Today we practised the Gospel Show!

Jay and Daniel: We were doing show rehearsal today.

Ivana: We did our first show rehearsal this week.

Thomas: We started for the Gospel Show.

Brooke: We have been practising for our Gospel Show!

Ailie: We started practising for the Gospel Show.

 

P.E

Mr. McCurdy was such a nice teacher this week he let us go to the park and play football! We all had a great time and it really worthwhile being there.

 

Joshua: In P.E we done football outside.

Mirren: We did football outside with Mr McCurdy!

Lorena: For P.E we got to go to the park for football- Which I really enjoyed.

Matt: We went to an assembly on Friday with Mrs Purdie.

 

A HUGE THANKS TO BEA FOR TYPING THIS IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES FOR US AT THE END OF THE DAY AFTER ASSEMBLY!!!

 

Teacher voice:

 

PM Writing

We started to use a new literacy resource this week which will help us with our reading, grammar and writing. We learned all about nouns and verbs using a Recount genre. We discussed the important features of a recount in preparation for writing a recount next week with Mrs Roy and Mrs Scott.

At one point all the upper area classes and teachers were having a debate about nouns – it was hilarious!!!

Health and Wellbeing

Sleep has been the topic of the week and we have had 2 lessons and an assembly now about this. We did a questionnaire about our own sleep patterns and then looked at some of the science connected to sleep. We made notes using sub-headings and then turned our notes into a report as a piece of extended writing. Mrs Roy is going to try and follow some of the advice, ie. No screen time for the hour leading up to bedtime!!!!

Sorry I forgot to give out the praise postcard it was a bit manic!! Remind me on Monday!!!!

 

THANKS FOR TUNING IN WITH P6/7, HAVE A NICE FRIDAY EVENING!!

This week in class we went to Pizza Express to make pizzas and after we used our experience to help us write a recipe for pizza.  The pizzas were great!

Also we had 7 Norwegian visitors come in and look at our school. They came to see us do Number Talks and they were very interested on learning about OneNote.

In PE we completed our gymnastic group sequences. We filmed these and will watch them back as a group to self assess our performance.

In maths we were focusing more on time. On Thursday some of the pupils went out in the area and played with some maths games and it was really fun and we played sumdog for a homework competition. We have also been using online timetables to plan and organise trips – we can all now read the train timetables and use the search tool on the Scotrail website.

Mrs McDonald came into our class to do our math lesson and we are still enjoying working with her every week.

Lukasz: This week we played group rounders with Mr Mcurdy my team lost but it was still really fun.

Charlie: I liked when the Norwegian visitors came in and we did some number talks.

Oskar: I really enjoyed when we walked down to Pizza Express and made an AMAZING margarita pizza.

Gaby: I am enjoying using our new reading comprehension boxes.

Joseph: I also enjoyed making the pizzas at Pizza Express and I like the cheese.

Chloe: I also enjoyed our visit to Pizza Express.

Pupil Voice:

Beth – today we watched the p3-5 show called Blast from the past it was great and all the children were very enthusiastic.

Daniel – we went to mindfulness with Ali on Thursday

Lauren – we had mindfulness with Ali this week.

Neve – we watched the P3-P5 show.

Jay – we watched blast from the past P3-P5 done the show.

Brooke – today we watched the p3-5 show I loved it and it was really funny.

Joshua – we did writing about Mary Queen of Scots being executed

Lorena – today the full school got to watch the p3-p5 ‘’Blast from the past’’. It was amazing. They done a great job!

Abi – today we watched a show with p3-p5 it was really funny

Harley- one thing that I really liked is when we were writing a newspaper report I liked it because I learned more about Mary Queen of Scots.

Matt – On Monday in PE we started to practise our routines I was in a group with Jay and Ethan.

Ailie – In PE this week we got to make up floor routines to our choice of music

Lorenzo – I liked when we done the time games

Caiden – My favourite thing to do is Maths, PE and Art

 

By Lead Learner

Jay (P6)

 

In class this week we did lots of different things. 

On Monday morning we did our reading and some groups were answering questions on their task map and others were reading their book to try and finish it. 

This week was our first week focusing on our new math topic time. 

For time we are working on reading timetables. We were allowed to use are devices to search up the Scotrail website and answer some questions. 

Also in the week we had a special visitor called Allie who came in to give us a mindfulness session. She showed us bottles with water and glitter in it. This was to show us that when we shake it the glitter goes around the bottle and it is to show us that this is what are minds are like when they are full. Though the glitter soon settles and that is what are minds should be like. 

Mrs McDonald came in to do our maths and we are still doing our gymnastics in P.E. 

Pupil Comments: 

Taylor: I really enjoyed the gymnastics in P.E especially the wall bars because I got to do flips and have fun with all of my friends on the equipment. 

 

Rebecca: I enjoyed doing a newspaper report about Mary Queen of Scots execution for writing. 

 

Maxx: I enjoyed doing arts and crafts with MRS G!! Doing our pillow project for Father Simon for going to High School. 

 

Charlie: I liked having the monkey bars really high up in gymnastics! 

Zara: I liked having Mrs MacDonald for maths this week. 

By Rebecca and Taylor! 

 

 

 

A Lively Week in P6/7

 

AUTHOR’S LIVE

This week in P6/7 we watched Author’s Live, starring, Frank Cottrell-Boyce we had a fun time watching and listening to all the things he did when he was little and what inspired him to make his latest book, Sputnik’s guide to life on Earth!  We enjoyed it and hope to come to one Author’s Live soon.

Joshua: “Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Author’s Live, I enjoy his famous Broccoli Boy!”

Abi: “Yesterday we watched Author’s Live!”

Jay: “We done Author’s Live with Frank Cottrell-Boyce.”

 

P.E

We also had our amazing P.E teacher, Mr McCurdy teaching us how to use the bars, volt and balance well. Beth, Abi and Aria were our stars! They taught us exercises they do at their gymnastics club, it was great!

Caiden: “In P.E we are doing gymnastics.”

Cole: “Gymnastics is fun, I like to climb on the bars.”

 

GOOGLE EARTH

When the P7s we busy, the P6s went onto Google Earth and explored the world! They learned about where Mary Queen of Scots was held in for at least a few years, so the P6s researched to learn more about her!

Brooke: “P6 went on Google Earth to search for Lochleven.”

 

READING

The P7s finally finished their reading book “Running Wild” by Michael Morpurgo! So, they are now on a new reading book,  one full of emotions and an amazing kid full of personality.

On the other side the Killer Cat reading book, also finished their reading book and are now onto another story, but this one is a mystery because they haven’t found out their reading book…

Lorena: “The P7s got there new reading book ‘Wonder’ which I’m really excited for!

Lauren: “My group finished our reading book.”

Toni: “This week the P7s got our new book Wonder. I was really tempted to watch the movie, but I didn’t want to spoil the book.”

Ivana: P7s started their new reading book, it is named wonder.

Thomas: “The P7s started the book, ‘Wonder’”

 

FOOTBALL

The school’s football team went up to West Calder on Thursday.

Thomas: “The football team had a tournament and did well.”

Ethan: “I went to the football tournament on Thursday.”

Matt: “We went to a football tournament.”

 

WRITING OUR LAST LETTERS!

This week in writing we discovered Mary Queen of Scots last letter. It was pretty interesting since it was 8 hours away before her execution, we wrote on how we thought if we were in Mary’s shoes. How would you feel? If you knew you were going to die in the next 8 hours!

Ambra: “We wrote a letter about Mary’s last letter!”

Daniel: “We done writing about Mary’s last letter.”

 

MUSIC

We kindly had Mrs. Smith over and she taught us about different types of music and instruments including; the strings, woodwind, percussion, brass. We also learned about Tempo, Timbre and Dynamics.

Beth: “I really enjoyed doing music with Mrs. Smith, it was great fun and it was nice because we have not done music in ages.”

From Mrs. Roy and P6/7, signing out!

A HUGE thank you to our lead learner Bea for writing this week’s blog post!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Math we have been doing our assessments on fractions and decimals. We also did a holistic questions assessment.  

In P.E we are doing Gymnastics. 

Chi-Chi said that her favorite part this week was swinging on the ropes. 

Brandon said his favorite part was side vaults. 

In writing we made a diary entry of Mary Queen of Scots! We had to write it as if we just got told we were going to be beheaded. Grace said that it was hard but fun! 

Louise took our pictures and we turned them into a person from Mary Queen of Scots’ family using Paint on the netbooks.   

Taylor made Mary the 1st  and she said that it was very fun to make. 

 

Here are some things people said: 

Vanessa: My favorite part of the week was when we were doing gymnastics in P.E. 

Isla: I enjoyed it when Mrs. MacDonald came in and taught us Mathematics. 

Rebecca: I liked helping around with the food bank.