Category: Primary 7

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

Where do we begin, what a busy week it has been!

Monday

We used a science text and identified our 8 BOOST words for the week, they were pretty tricky! Each day we will be doing a different activity liked to our BOOST words. During PE we went outside with Mrs Roy for rugby and did some rugby circuit work. It got messy especially at the station where we had to lie on our stomachs and then race to the rugby ball!! We finished reading chapter 7 of Kensuke’s Kingdom and learned more about the relationship between Michael and Kensuke. Everyone took part in Numbertalks and we enjoyed sharing our strategies. The Solar System is our mini science topic this term and we were learning about constellations and the different parts of the solar system.

Wednesday

Today we worked in our reading groups and did some work on our HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills), we will be using these across the curriculum throughout the year. Mr McCurdy took us outside for our final rugby practice before our rugby festival next week with the other P6 and P7 classes. Jazz was great fun as we were composing and playing our own tunes which we will be performing at a small concert next Thursday at 11am, parents welcome to come along. Synonyms were the focus in Wordboost today, not as easy as it looked! In science we explored the planets and then a did a house quiz to see what we had remembered.

Thursday

It was National Poetry Day and we studied the poem, ‘Russian Dolls’ written by Rachel Rooney. Mrs Roy brought in some real Russian Dolls to help us visualise the poem and we listened to a recording of Rachel reading the poem. We all had a go at unpicking the layers of our character and wrote our own poems, we then shared some of these on Twitter, follow us at @mrsroy16 or @StNiniansPS. Rachel Rooney was very impressed an sent us some personal tweets. In numeracy we revised rounding numbers up to 1million as this was something which we all agreed needed a bit more work, this will be followed up with a homework task next week. In RE we spoke about discipleship and identifed how we could be closer to God.

Friday

We started the morning with Numbertalks and played Countdown, Brooke and Haseeb got really close to solving it, here are the numbers if you want to try it at home – 100, 50, 75, 3, 10, 7 – target number was 423. Then we played Quick on the Draw during Wordboost and worked in teams to think of ways to visualise all of our BOOST words. Then we went to our House Assemblies.

Other news

Ethan took part in the WL Schools Cross Country event at Dechmont representing our school and he came 4th which was a fantastic achievement!!! Well done Ethan!!!!

The P7 girls took part in the Active Girls festival at JYHS and all behaved perfectly and joined in with all activities.

Our P7’s will be going to the risk factory on Monday morning, remember to bring a packed lunch.

Pupil voices

Aria: Pupils came to help from St. Margaret’s

Mirren: This week we did Jazz mattaz with Mike and we are practising for the show.

Haseeb: In writing we did a poem about a Russian doll and we wrote 7 verses and emotions in it.

Abi: We did PE we did rugby we got wet and covered in grass and we were cold.

Abi and Bea: This was our first week when Mrs. Roy came back, we were all very excited and ready to learn with her. And we had a wonderful with her this week.

In maths we did number talks we put our thumbs up if we got a answer and put our fists up if were thinking

Thanks for reading our blog

Bea, Abi, P6/7 & Mrs Roy

 

 

 

On Monday we made a display about Kensuke’s kingdom which is our class novel. We did the Matilda challenge if you want to see it go on the St Ninian’s twitter page. On Tuesday the P6’s did symmetry and we also did R.E and we were looking at what the Priest wears on certain times of the year. On Wednesday we had jazz with Mike,  Cole and Matt made a song about rice krispies. On Thursday we had John the janny’s leaving assembly. On Friday Mrs Roy came back and we talked to everyone about what they like and what they don’t like.

Pupil voice:

Bea-We made Kensuke’s Kingdom pictures of a wave and a sunset with a boat. We also wrote arguments about whether zoos should be banned.

Caiden-Today we discussed Ready, Respectful, Safe and made posters for our charter.

Ethan – We had Mike for Jazz.

Cole – On Wednesday we introduced tackling in rugby.

Lorena – On Friday Mrs Roy came back and we all spent time getting to know one another which I really enjoyed.

Teacher voice

It was lovely to return to work today to such a wonderful class of committed, enthusiastic and kind pupils. They have made my return smooth and kept me updated on all that has being going on. I am looking forward to working with each and everyone of them throughout P6/7 and I am sure we will have lots of learning, laughter and fun!! Just a final word to thank the children, parents and staff for their support for the last 5 weeks, it has been greatly appreciated. Mrs Roy xx

Written by the lead learners, Thomas and Mirren

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 .