Primary 7 – Page 28 – St Ninian's Primary School

P7/6 get into the swing of it!

This week P7/6 had a taster course of golf. As you can see from these photos it was everyone’s cup of tee.

We wood have loved it to be series of lessons as everyone was really enjoying learning these new skills. The children learned how to putt and chip the ball. Jessica said, “we had to try and chip the ball into the basketball hoop”. Even I had a go but I was well below par with my shot. Harburn Golf Club gave out leaflets about further opportunities available to the children during the October Holiday to try and encourage and drive forward this traditional sport.

The P7 children this week attended a local Athletics Festival. Jack said “we did javelin, running as well as other things. We did a relay race and our team won!” Well done P7!

The postman had a busy day at St Ninian’s as he delivered American pen pal letters for everyone in P7/6. Aaron said “we got a letter from an American kid”, Aurora said “we have learned a lot about the USA and we wrote back to a pen friend”. The children were given the task of writing a letter back. The children are noticing the improvement in their letter writing skills due to the series of lessons on this, Oskar received a Dojo acknowledgement message home as a result of his amazing effort this week! Well done, P7/6 letter writing is an important skill for life!

We have continued to use our Maths Glass Wall in class to support our learning.

This week it focused on helping us with finding the perimeter and area of a rectangle. If you would like further explanation of these concepts try this video presentation,

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry/hs-geo-foundations/hs-geo-area/v/perimeter-and-area-basics

Next week we will be continuing with finding the area of composite shapes and triangles. P7 will also look at the order of operations using the BODMAS rule (you can reply back if you know what this stands for…you will get an extra dojo point!) and P6 will be learning more strategies for written and mental multiplication.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

European Day of Languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDovNibBLd0

On Monday it was the European day of Languages and to mark the occasion many classes took part in some language-based activities. Here are a few examples:

In Primary one they practised morning greetings in French, Spanish, Polish, Italian and English. Then Dawid and Klaudia taught the class how to count to ten in Polish. They also took part in a Spanish fitness song.

Primary three learnt to sing a Spanish song and Primary five tried to match different words for Hello to the right language. They also took part in a language carousel.

Try practising a few of the different languages using the link above!

P7 Weekly News!

We have had a very sporty week in Primary 7 this week. Read on for more information!

Eve Mac – On Monday we were lucky enough to be joined by 2 golf coaches from Harburn Golf Club. The coaches showed us how to stand properly when playing golf and we worked on our accuracy when hitting the ball towards a target on the ground and also on our ability to chip the ball in the air! It was very fun and interesting!

Paris – Yesterday we were invited to Craigswood Sports Centre for a Sportshall Athletics event. There were lots of children from different schools in our local area there and we enjoyed trying out different activities including sprinting, relay running, javelin throwing, long jump and speed bounce. Have a look at our photos!

Rachael – On Wednesday we did an upper area carousel where we worked as a whole Primary 7 group with the P7 children from P7/6. Mrs Reeves came in to our classroom and taught us some French including how to order in a café and the vocabulary for different food and drink.

Aidan – We have started our America topic this week and so far we have focused on Social Studies, learning about the history and geography of America. We have learned the names of all 50 states and even a fun song which we are including in our class assembly next Friday so we can’t give it away yet!

Charlie – In writing we looked at The United States Pledge of Allegiance which all American citizens abide by. We studied the key information and vocabulary in this and then made up our own Pledge of Allegiance for the United Kingdom.

Natasha – Finally, in maths this week we did lots of work on Time. We practiced telling the time, learned about equal time units, clarified lots of time vocabulary and applied our current knowledge in a variety of carousel activities.

Have a great weekend!

P7/6 Little Week, Big Learning!

Here are the highlights that the children have chosen to blog about this week. I cannot believe we covered so much in three days…great work P7/6!

New Topic – We have started work on our country study of learning about the USA. Freya said “We have been learning about the White House and Obama”. The children have been really interested in this and were able to talk about the forthcoming election and could discuss the candidates running for office. Well done P7/6, keep reading the newspapers and watching the televised news as it is so important to know about changing events in our world!

Writing – As part of our country study we wrote a letter to President Obama. Mikolt said, “We wrote a letter to President Obama and we focused on our use of punctuation especially question marks when we asked a question”. Danielle said “I’m very proud of my writing this week!”.

Maths – Sophia said “We are learning about perimeter and how to add the sides to find the answer, and we extended this to use decimal numbers.” Luke said “We have been learning different strategies in maths to find the answer to 19+19”. This is part of our Number Talks maths learning. When Billie was working out the answer she turned the calculation into a tower sum in her head and added to get the answer. Isabella rounded to the nearest 10 and then added, once she had her rounded answer she took away two. Great responses! If you would like to have a Number Talk at home try this one, (remember and tell the grown up how to use their thumb and fingers to show the number of strategies they have worked out). Post a reply describing one of your strategies.

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The Path Of Peace – Jessica said “As part of International Day Of Peace the children in our school and Dedridge Primary all created pictures and these were laid as a path between our schools”. Please see our twitter account for photographs of the event.

Committees – A new session means new committees. Billie said “Is is great to get time out of class to work with different children from the school”. Committee Friday looks like it will be a big hit this session again!

Well done P7/6! Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Currie

P7 Weekly News!

This week has been short and sweet but we have still managed to squeeze in a lot of learning!

On Wednesday we learned about the life of Mother Teresa who was recently canonized as a Saint. We then used our knowledge to write a biography of her life and illustrated this with a story board to show some images of the main events. On Wednesday it was also International Day of Peace which linked really well with Mother Teresa as peace was one of her aims. To celebrate International Day of Peace we did some activities including making a collage of a peace sign, researching what the UN do, a peace breathing mindfulness activity and finally we watched a video which had a really good rap in it! You should watch it too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWzmbdfykdU#action=share

On Thursday we celebrated our recent achievements at our monthly achievement assembly. It was great to see what everyone has been getting up to across our school! After the assembly we went to the infant hall to help P1M at their structured play stations. We had lots of fun and can’t wait to do it again! Check out our photos to see what we got up to.

Today we had fun meeting new people and planning our learning for the year in our committees. Keep a look out for lots of exciting things coming up linked to committees throughout the year. Finally, we enjoyed our second swimming session at James Young High School with Mr McCurdy. We focused on building up our fitness in the water by repetitive lengths and also practiced our floating skills!

Have a good weekend!

P7/6

The children were asked to pick the main areas that we should blog about this week. Here is what they have chosen.

Maths – we have been looking at rounding numbers to 10, 100, 1000 and decimal places. We used a variety of resources to help us with this and some produced short PowerPoint presentations with voice recordings, of themselves explaining how to round, embedded in their presentation (very technical!) or video recordings showing rounding. We also launched our Maths Learning Glass Wall , this allows us to record our learning over the course of the week which will then be photographed and stored in our talking book as evidence of our learning and progress. Everyone loved having a turn to WRITE on the WALL. Here is our photograph this week to share,

Topic – we have chosen the focus for our country study for the next four weeks…USA. The children took a vote and the USA came out on top. As part of our learning wall the children have their Pupil Voice which allows them to help shape what we are learning, this week the question they were asked was “What do you want to learn about the USA?” There are some super responses and it looks like it is going to be a great topic!

Literacy – As part of our novel study we have been learning about Medieval Times and this has led us to learn about King Arthur, focusing on the story of the Sword In The Stone and how the young boy Arthur became King! We wrote our newspaper reports about this and we are really pleased with our efforts. Here are a few of the Headlines or Orientation sentences,

“The Sword Has Spoken!” (Moiz)

“The true King has arrived, pulling the sword from the stone.” (Mark)

“A new King has been throned after pulling out the sword Excalibur at St Paul’s Cathedral” (Darryn)

“The New King” (Aaron)

“Arthur Is Adopted” (Kornelia)

“Yes, there is a new King, he has pulled the sword from the stone.” (Ross)

Next week the children are on holiday on Monday and Tuesday therefore homework will only consist of reading. Our writing next week will be a letter to President Obama, telling information we have learned about the White house and asking him some questions about what he will miss about being President. To prepare for this lesson try to find out one fact about the White House and post a reply.

Next week on Wednesday it is International Day of Peace. We will be marking this in class with a minute silence at 12 noon. This silence is marked around the world at 12 noon creating a wave of silence due to the different time zones.

I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend.

Mrs Currie

P7 Weekly News!

This week in Primary 7 we have been finishing off our Novel Study topic and getting ready for our new topic, America. We have also been learning more in other areas of the curriculum. Here are some of the things we did:

Nikki – In maths we did some work on probability because it was ‘unlikely’ that Charlie would get the golden ticket! We also made some maths posters for our working wall and talking book.

Charlie – In PE we continued with rugby and hockey and we also played basketball as part of our team games to focus on communication. We also did a Charlie and the Chocolate factory quiz to assess our learning from our novel study.

Matthew – We did the daily mile every day and I managed to beat my record!

Rachael – On Wednesday afternoon the upper area split up in to year groups and we did a maths money carousel with the other P7 children from P7/6.

Rebecca – We researched the links between chocolate and Fairtrade and worked in groups to display our learning.

Dallas – We also learned about how chocolate is made by researching where the ingredients come from using a globe and atlas and watching a documentary called ‘Inside the Factory’. It made us all sooooo hungry!!!

Callum – On Friday we celebrated St. Ninian’s feast day mass with Father Kenneth.

Natasha – We watched the videos which we made about the life of St. Ninian. Our acting skills were very impressive!

Alice – We completed our first writing assessment by writing letters to Willy Wonka asking if we could go on a visit to his chocolate factory.

Eve Mac – Finally we met Trex, the dinosaur who has arrived in P1M. We are so excited to see what will happen next!

Have a lovely long weekend 🙂

Thank You Message from Fr. Paul

Just a wee note to say how touched I was with the events surrounding my final day in the school. Thanks for the Gift Card, and in particular thanks for the Book of Memories. It brought a tear to my eye when sifting through it.

I wish you, the staff and the kids at the school every grace and blessing for the future.

In Christ,

Fr Paul.

P7/6 working hard

It has been a busy week. P7/6 welcome Miss Ross to our class. She is a final year student teacher and will be in our class for the next few weeks delivering many aspects of the curriculum.

We continued with our focus of rugby and hockey during our PE lessons on Tuesday, the children are all really enjoying these sessions as well as getting the chance to work with children from the P7 class. Our PE lessons on a Thursday with Mrs Currie have changed their focus to football. We have looked to develop skills and then try to use these in a competitive game. Check out one of the three skills we learned this week and practise it again at home before next week’s lesson so you can dribble the ball confidently. Click on the link below and choose the video of Ball Mastery – Inside and outside of the same foot. Good luck, remember to let me know if you try this at home by posting a reply to tell me how you got on.

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottishfootball.cfm?page=2590

We had a music session on Friday from Voice Rocks. The children were given a short taster session of this project which runs at Howden Park Centre. I was amazed at some of the high notes the children could reach and I loved the final song “Love Runs Out”…some of the dancing was pretty good too (Jack!). Flyers are available in school for those interested.

We completed our piece of writing this week about an elderly man’s memories and how he looked through a squint and saw back into his past memories. We used a video stimulus to help us, click the link below and choose The Piano to see the story of the gentleman we wrote about,

http://www.literacyshed.com/the-inspiration-shed.html

Here are some snippets from the children’s writing,

“Carefully the old man pressed his eye to the small window and suddenly his life came to a halt. Everything he knew and loved came to a stop. Memories from everywhere came flying towards him.” (Freya)

“When he looked through he could see his wife dying. It was just like a nightmare, he felt a cold breath on the side of his cheek. He loved his wife…and he missed her so much.” (Broady)

“He could see a war. He watched his friend get shot and he could not save him. He was terrified…he felt helpless” (Rachel)

“The old man then felt happy as he reminded himself about the time he was given a box. Inside the box was a hobby horse, it use to be his grandad’s…he felt ecstatic and speechless and quite emotional.” (Billie)

“He woke up next to his piano, he was playing his favourite song with his grandson and he realised that all the sad moments in his life ended in a happy ending.” (Mikolt)

I am sure you will agree they have used some very mature and emotional language. Both Mrs Docherty and myself had a lump in our throats at times reading the amazing pieces of work. Thank you everyone for your great efforts and keep up the super work.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

New Experiences in P7

Primary 7 have been lucky to try out lots of new things this week. Keep reading for some examples!

Eve and Sally: We turned our classroom in to Wonka’s chocolate factory and got the change to try chocolate, fudge and marshmallows (make sure you check out our photos!!!). We did this to generate descriptive words relating to our senses so that we could write a poem. It was so fun!

Dallas: We found out our topic is going to be the United States of America, and we told Miss Ford what specific things we want to learn about.

Charlie: We did a maths carousel about place value where we wrote in the talking book, did some text book questions and played some place value games using some of the Heineman Active Maths games boards and resources.

Paris: Today we went swimming at James Young High School. It was so fun and amazing to see how confident we are in the water. We can’t wait to go back in 2 weeks time!

Joshua: In RE we researched information about our school saint, St. Ninian and then used this information to record group videos on the iPads. Next week we will be showing these to the class.

Freya: In PE we did some more hockey, rugby and team games. We played Russian Long Ball where we had to show focus on the skills of teamwork in creating effective tactics.

Avelon: Finally when we had written our senses poems, Mrs McCabe took photos of us making ridiculous faces!!! We can’t wait for you to see what we have on our wall display when you come to our Ninian’s Natter on Thursday evening (6-7:15pm).

Have a great weekend!