Category: Primary 7

Pupil voice:

Abi – I enjoyed writing this week, we wrote a prayer for Scotland.

Haseeb – On Thursday we wrote a prayer that was about Scotland.

Joshua – Yesterday I wrote a prayer asking for God to help those who work in the NHS.

Ryan – I enjoyed learning about budgeting this week and working on the moneysense website on the netbooks.

Jay – On Thursday we were preparing for the Christmas Fair and organising Santa’s Grotto  -some of us were making posters to advertise the Grotto.

Matt – This week me and 4 other people from P7 went to the Centenary mass.

Brooke – I enjoyed doing the budgeting task and the credit/debit card task.

Ethan – Me, Matt, Thomas, Beth, Lorena, Toni and Ivana made a video to advertise Santa’s Grotto.

Ivana – We did bar modelling with Mrs McDonald on Thursday.

Cole – I went to mass with the house captains and Mrs Smith.

Thomas – On Wednesday house captains went to Edinburgh for the centenary mass. It was very cold and wet when we came out.

Mirren – We have been doing preparation for Santa’s Grotto.

Toni – This week our class were in charge of organising Santa’s Grotto for the Christmas Fair.

Bea – This week we had visitors in our school and we were an amazing class!!

Teacher voice:

Another great week, the time is flying by!!!

This week we studied financial literacy connected to our Enterprise and numeracy work. Everyone had great fun learning about and creating budgets!! The pupils were not amused when they had to spend their hard earned cash on fixing washing machines and paying bills!!! I was really pleased to read about how they had got on with their budgeting task at home, almost everyone stayed within budget. We also looked at the differences between debit and credit cards.

In writing we explored issues affecting Scotland and then chose one to write a prayer about. Check out Twitter to see some examples.

We began thinking about Catholic Education Week and started by discussing what was good about our school, this then led to a discussion about what was good about a faith school. Again see Twitter for our main discussion points.

Preparation is underway for next week’s Christmas Fair – P6/7 are in charge of organising Santa’s Grotto. We have made advertisement posters and videos with the ipads, made template letters using Microsoft Word, made a Christmas postbox, sorted out  Santa’s gifts and wrote a blog post!! Phew…..

Many of the children have expressed an interest in helping me out next Thursday evening between 5.30-7pm. I will give them a time slot to allow them time to also enjoy the evening with their families. They can wear something Christmassy!!!!

A reminder for P7’s that they are going to St Margaret’s for their first Science lesson bewteen 10-12pm on Monday. They will need a small snack.

Have a great weekend – and remember to stay within budget when shopping on Black Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs Roy and P6/7

 

 

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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.

Pupil Voice:

This week we did writing about the end of the world war one and I really enjoyed it because we got to use netbooks : Brooke.

This week, we did EAL with primary 1,2,&3:Ivana.

I fell on my nose at the relay race: Cole.

We did maths and it was very fun: jay.

This week some P7 got chosen to be in a fitness competition I got chosen.  I am proud of my team and myself because I was the farthest girl in javelin :Toni.

I went to the festival and we did athletics.On Thursday  we did enterprise we had to go in groups of 3 and we had to write down stuff about product and device :Mirren.

This week some P7’s got to go to an athletics event .:Thomas.

This week we wrote a newspaper report as if it was Armistice day. :Beth.

Every class got 6 netbooks each :Joshua.

The P7’s went to a sports event at Craigswood on Thursday: tEthan.

On Thursday we got to get in a team of 3 and on the jigsaw we had to think of words that describe teamwork.

I went  to the festival and we did athletics  we won it and I am really proud of my team. I came 2^nd in 2 relay and 2^nd in 2 laps: Lorena.

In P.E we did fitness and it was hard :Abi.

This week 9 girls and 9 boys  got selected to go to a fitness event and I got chosen I really enjoyed it.

Teacher Voice

Another busy week here in P6/7 as you can see. The children continue to work hard in class and are challenging themselves to use their higher order thinking skills across learning.

Armistice Day has a been a recurring theme this week during reading, writing and art. Ask your child or have a look at the lovely display we have created, here’s a sneaky peek! Remember to have a 1 minute silence at 11am on 11/11/18.

All children have now started their OneNote Profiles using GLOW. They have typed up their goals and community profile for this term. Please encourage them to use this profile at home to add any wider achievements. Well done to some of our class for putting their homework on OneNote for me.

Well done to some of our P7 pupils for representing our school this week at the Sportshall festival – Miss Burns was very impressed with their attitude, effort and behaviour!

Well done to AIlie from P6 who represented our school at the JRSO meeting this morning, she will be sharing this with us next week in class.

Well done to our lead learner Ambra this week who received the praise postcard home!

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.

We have had such a busy week that we ran out of time to type up our blog so Mrs Roy stepped in to help us out.

Monday

We started the week with spelling and wordboost before having our morning PE lesson. Fitness is the theme and we all worked in teams to play fitness bingo. The P7 girls were the winners! In numbertalks we were working on the doubling and near doubles strategy for addition. During shared reading Mrs Roy introduced us to ‘Inspector Heurisko’s lights’, the story told us about skills we need when reading. Mrs Purdie came into our class this afternoon and was helping us to order decimals using post it notes.

Tuesday

We were learning about abstract nouns in grammar today, we all did well with the task. In the afternoon we went to the lanthorn library to choose new reading for enjoyment books.

Wednesday

Mr McCurdy continued working with us on fitness using a Halloween theme. We nailed the monster mash as our warm up!! In enterprise we worked in pairs using our devices and netbooks to research 5 local businesses. We then created factfiles for out display, we could use Microsoft word or a poster. Mrs Scott is joining us now in class on Wednesday afternoons to help us with our reading.

Thursday

We learned about the feast of All Saints and led the liturgy at our whole school mass in the Lanthorn. Mrs Roy was very proud of us all as we led by example. In writing we used a picture as a stimulus. We then had to think of descriptive words or phrases to describe what we saw. Everyone wrote an extended piece of writing and some peoplr shared their story with us.

Friday

Everyone went to their committee, have a look on Twitter to see what we got up to. We also updated our GLOW Profiles using OneNote. Please ask us about these at home and we can show you what we have done so far.

Pupil voice:

Beth- I really enjoyed writing this week.

Bea- we did a scary piece of writing about a spooky picture.

Brooke- I enjoyed our PE lessons.

Have a good weekend!

Mrs Roy, Haseeb and Caiden (lead learners)

 

 

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

This week our lead learners Cole and Joshua took charge of our blog post and gathered pupil voice to help them.

On Wednesday and Thursday Mrs Roy was teaching us about decimals and made it fun. We watched a video as our starter activity and then some of us used tenth strips or did written tasks. We can now read, identify and sequence decimal fractions.

The P7’s went to meet their buddies this week for some paired reading, it was nice to catch up with them all. We helped them with reading and spelling.

This week Mrs Roy was teaching us how to use GLOW and we learned how to email. We all had to email Mrs Roy and then choose someone else in the class to email. We entered the WLC Name a Gritter Competition via our emails. We know we have to be sensible when using GLOW. It is important that we bring our devices to school each day to allow us to log on and use the different tools, we are also going to be starting our GLOW profiles.

In writing we wrote letters to NASA applying for a job to work there. We had to write about our skills, achievements, talents, etc.

In PE we are focusing on fitness with Mr McCurdy and Mrs Roy.

Today our school basketball team are playing another school – good luck to everyone!!