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P6/7 Snow Day

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all staying safe and warm on this snowy day. I have been keeping in contact with you all via Classdojo and keeping an eye out for any tasks you have completed so far.

Here are some extra activities which you might enjoy:

Literacy/Technology: write a blog post detailing your ‘Snow Day’ off school, include ambitious vocabulary and any of our BOOST words we’ve learned so far.

Numeracy: https://nrich.maths.org/6499

Use this link to play Countdown and try to see if you can beat the grown-ups!! Let me know your solutions and post them on the blog/dojo or email them to me.

Art: Go for a walk and look around, what do you see, recreate this image in a piece of artwork using any material of your choice. Rachel Mc has already had a go at making a snowflake. The link is on our Winter Ready class page.

Daily Mile: Get outdoors and do your daily mile in the snow. I managed 2.5 miles this morning with my 2 girls. Take a selfie and send it to me.

Drama/Music: use your script and MP3 sound files on your email to practise for the show as we were due to have a rehearsal today, make or gather any props you need.

Hopefully I’ll see you all tomorrow!

Mrs Roy

Term 2 Learning Adventures

Term 2 learning adventures have started at St Ninian’s.

Please click on the links below to find out what your child will be learning this term.

Look out for regular updates on Twitter, Class Dojo and your child’s online learning journal.

P1 Learning-Adventure-Overview

P2-3-Learning Adventure Overview

P2-Learning-Adventure Overview

P3 Learning-Adventure-Overview

P4 Learning Adventure Overview

P4-5 Learning-Adventure-Overview

P5 Learning-Adventure-Overview

P6 Learning-Adventure-Overview

P6-7 Learning-Adventure-Overview

P7-Learning-Adventure-Overview

P7 Class Blog

Aurora- On Thursday we went to St Margaret’s for a Spanish lesson. Mrs Mcdougall was the Spanish teacher .

Edwin – We went to St Margaret’s for Spanish lessons with Mrs Mcdougall. We did games using Spanish weather and IT WAS FUN!!!!:)

Emma – This week we got to decorate our art folders and we made our Japan leaflets. I loved Spanish at saint Margaret’s!!!;)

Jennifer-on Friday we had Mrs Purdie.It was fun

Declan-This week on Monday we had Mrs Mcdonald from St Margarets high school teaching us percentages in maths !!!!!:)

emily- This week we had Mrs McDonald for maths and on Thursday we went to St Margaret’s for Spanish it was fun!!!!!!!!!!!

neave- This week was awesome .Mrs Purdie got to teach us,

we also went to st Margaret’s for Spanish

P7 Term 2 Overview, Learning Adventure

P7 Learning Adventure Overview

Please find attached a copy of our learning adventure for term 2 in P7.

Our P6/7 Learning Adventure

Learning Adventure Overview (2)

Please find attached a copy of our learning adventure overview for term 2 in P6/7.

Primary 7 – Term 1 News

It has been a fantastic first term in primary 7.

We have covered lots in our learning and we’ve been trying out lots of new things.

Here are our class comments for this term:

Kornelia – This week we had a parent’s came to stay and learn with us.

Neave – I have enjoyed doing fitness after school with the teachers ,I have also enjoyed writing over the past few weeks and I have enjoyed P.E

Ciara-I enjoyed our rugby session

Emily- I enjoyed doing rugby this term because it was fun but not when it was raining.

Aiden-this term I have enjoyed learning about Japan.

Deacon-I have enjoyed learning about our presentations/posters about japan life.

Ben- I have enjoyed all of p7 so far and I am excited for next term!

Aliza- I have enjoyed our rugby session J

Erin O- this term I have enjoyed playing rugby in PE we learned how to kick the ball and tackle properly J

Jennifer -I really enjoy the locked boxed challenge yeeeeeeeeeeeeeey

Reece: I really enjoyed learning about Japan and liked to look into their culture!!!

Edwin- I enjoyed learning about Japan and learning the natural disaster in JapanJ

Aurora-I enjoyed making a powerpoint with Neave, Erin R and Ciara .

Ali-This term I enjoyed our Japan topic because the Japanese culture is brilliant. Japan!!!

Rugare- This week on Thursday we had a assembly we found out that Whithorn has won this term we are going to have a meeting to discuss about the prize.

Kornelia- we were making porridge we had to do a smile on the porridge for Mary’s Meals.

Erin R-On Thursday we had to present our Japan presentation and it was fun.

Jessica- this term I really liked the locked box challenge!!!!!

Emma – This term I really enjoyed reading wonder I’m so excited for tomorrow !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has been a very successful term – well done to everyone!

Thank you to everyone who has been using our ClassDojo stories for regular updates – the pupils are really enjoying posting their learning on to their own profiles.

I hope everyone has a great October break! Next term will be even better!

A week of fun and laughter in P6/7

Our chosen lead learners this week were James and Isla who did a great job of capturing some of the highlights of the week for us to add to our blog and Talking Books.

Literacy

In spelling we worked as a whole class to discuss spelling strategies and words that are commonly misspelled. Each team had to think of as many strategies as they could and then share them with the class. We then focused on 3 of these: make a song, make a mnemonic and does it look right.

We enjoyed this catchy tune to help us with there, their and they’re.

Can you make a mnemonic for the word ‘people’, post your efforts on our blog post for an extra dojo point?

In literacy we also learned about the work of author’s and how many stages it can take before having a finished piece of writing. We had a go at this and tried to up-level our diary entries from last week by revising, editing and redrafting. This led us nicely into an online meeting with Pamela Butchart, author of many children’s books. We logged onto BBCLive to hear about her work and joined in with the session by making sound effects, answering questions, having a go at illustrating and tweeting, we were delighted when we were mentioned on the BBCLive event and Pamela even tweeted us privately after the event!

Inspirational Maths Week

Wow, where do we begin…This week was all about mathematical mindsets and being creative in maths. We started the week by working in teams to create 2D and 3D shapes with a 7 foot piece of rope in the outdoor space. Lots of laughter, confusion, creativity, frustration and success was had by all! We then examined our own mathematical mindsets and carried out a class questionnaire which led for some interesting discussions. We made some mathematical mindset keys for our tables and maths working wall.

We studied the work of a famous artist/sculptor, Sol Lewitt, and how his work connected to mathematics. The best part was then working in teams to create our very own sculptures using marshmallows and cocktails sticks. Mrs Howley had us learning more about symmetry and did some fun activities connected to this.

Thursday was one of the favourite lessons as we, the pupils, led the lesson by sharing the maths activities we had worked on for homework last week, everyone had made a great effort with these.

Throughout the week we also took part in Numbertalks , the Sumdog contest and Mathanagrams. It was great to see some of the parents getting involved to through dojo. Congratulations to Oskar, Shiv, Mia Stewart and Max for completing the 1000 question Sumdog competition and to Mrs Nicol for winning the parents mathanagram quiz on dojo. A big thank you to the parents who also came along to Ninian’s Natter, it was lovely to see you taking part in some of these activities.

On Tuesday the P7 children accompanied their P1 buddies to mass at St Philip’s. It was a lovely morning and well done to the P7’s for taking their roles so seriously and supporting the younger children.We celebrated St Ninian this week and participated in a beautiful mass on Friday morning. Mrs Purdie awarded us some extra playtime to celebrate the day. The Parent Council also organised a fantastic Scottish afternoon to continue the celebrations. Mrs Roy’s quiz team, the numpties, came 2^nd! Everyone got into the spirit and had a fun afternoon!

Have a lovely long weekend, see you all on Wednesday.

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Roy

P7 Weekly News

This week in primary 7

This week has been maths week and it has brought lots of excitement. It has been more fun than we thought!

There is nation-wide Sumdog challenge and our class has not done great but we have put on our growth mind-sets and tried our best for the day remaining.

We also tried going outside and looking for maths in nature and buildings using the AAL to take pictures and put them in a collage. Here are a few of the collages!

We are on our rugby block for P.E and we were doing team drills where we ran in a line and passed the ball between each other. Miss McCormack gave us a fitness challenge on Wednesday and we all succeeded but it was tough.
Pupil Voice:

This week was fun because it was maths week .I enjoyed doing the marshmallow challenge. Aurora

I have enjoyed this week mostly for sumdog because I have got given a sumdog star reward. Deacon

This week I enjoyed Ninian’s Natter because in p7 we got to do an extra maths challenge. Neave

This week I enjoyed writing, we were writing newspaper reports about hurricane Irma. Erin o

This week on Friday we had a school mass and I did the offertory. Ali

This week we had the dogs trust, they telling us how to treat a dog and it was fun. Edwin

Rugare –Today we had the mass for St Ninian, we all enjoyed it.

Another excellent Lead Learner blog – well done guys! hope you all have a great long weekend! Miss McCormack

Primary 7 Weekly News

This week we have introduced Lead Learners to our classes. Our Primary 7 Lead Learners this week were Neave and Ciara. The Lead Learner responsibilities include updating the class talking books, tracking our learning progress on our learning wall and writing our class blog.

Here is Neave and Ciara’s blog for this week.

This week started of with personal reading. We also have done a little bit of R.E. Here are some ideas that the class came up with .

Jessica – almost every day someone will say or do something they regret or want to take back so you should ask for forgiveness every day .

This week we have also done some P.E. We are still working on rugby and coordination and we are getting ready to start playing proper games.

This week we all went down to the infant hall to do some structured play with our buddies. P1M and P1B did construction, dressing up, playing on iPads, comments for their talking book and some drawings and played snakes and ladders.

This week in maths we have been doing place value up to hundreds of millions and even billions. We have updated our maths and numeracy working wall.

Mrs MacDonald from St. Margaret’s also came in to do maths with us this week. We had to solve a murder case by solving some maths problems.

Next week for the whole of Scotland and there is a Sumdog competition that we will all be taking part in. Next week is also maths week.

We have been practising our school song and used some percussion instruments to help us. It was noisy!

This week in writing we worked on Diary entries for characters from Wonder. We focused on how the character of August or one of August’s parents would have felt after his first day of school. This week Jessica is writer of the week!! Well Done.

An excellent first blog post from our Lead Learners – well done!

Our classroom kindness challenge is continuing and I have issued a weekend kindness challenge to visit, call or send a card or letter to an elderly relative or neighbour. I can’t wait to find out who completes the weekend challenge and is able to add a pebble to our jar on Monday.

Have a great weekend,

Miss McCormack

P6/7 weekly update

In literacy we wrote a diary entry as if we were the main character in the story. We focused on chapter 3 this week, at the end there was a bit of a cliffhanger as Michael went overboard. We can’t wait until next week to find out what happens next… Some of us were brave enough to read our diary starters to the class to help motivate and inspire others. We even put a tweet on Twitter, Chi-Chi is famous!! Remember to follow our class @mrsroy16 as we regularly Tweet throughout the week. We also worked in teams to do some comprehension work, that was good fun!

We have been playing maths games to help us develop our understanding of place and value, eg. maths pacman, roll the dice, roll and stick game and close to the target. Some of us also did a maths population task using the http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ website. It was really interesting as it was a live website and people were being born every second! Cole and Max also made a place value poster for the maths working wall.

Don’t forget the Sumdog Maths Contest is now live until next Thursday, points means prizes!

In PE we were doing some more rugby skills. We had the ‘ Scoop Pass’ competition, James, Nicholas, Leon and Shiv were the scooping champions this week. This game involved concentration, speed and co-odrination. We progressed onto some rugby skills focussing on the ‘back pass’, this took a few attempts to master, Leon was hilarious at this activity as he kept getting confused about when to run and when to pass.

Chi-Chi and Krzysztof were our first Lead Learners and did a great job taking responsibility for the Talking Books this week – well done guys!

Our classroom is taking shape now and there is some fabby work on display for you to see when you next visit us. Remember Ninian’s Natter is on Thursday 14^th September 6-7pm if you want to drop in for a blether and some Inspirational Maths activities.

Some pupil highlights:

Cole enjoyed the maths work this week.

Chi-Chi enjoyed using the population site.

Rachel W enjoyed doing the homework challenge.

Remember next week is Inspirational Maths week so come prepared as we may be taking the learning outdoors at times. We are hoping to also start using AAL – Anytime, Anywhere Learning for those who have returned their contracts. Please load the Class Dojo and Sumdog apps onto your device if possible, both are free apps.

Have a great weekend!

P6/7 and Mrs Roy