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P7 Weekly News!

This week in P7 we have been creating our new class charter. Each term we review our charter and remind ourselves of the rules which we should abide by in our school. This term we have chosen the theme ‘video games’. Each child in the class has selected a video game or app to represent them on our charter wall.

In maths we have been learning about units of measure. We did a fun carousel based on estimating then checking for accuracy where we used real life concepts. We learned about postage costs based on weight and what product information is included on food and drinks packaging.

On Wednesday we had some visitors in to talk to us about how negative it can be do prejudge others before we really know them. The activity was called ‘Unique Potato’ and the man began by telling us how all potatoes look the same but up close they have many differences. We then made our potatoes in to characters by giving them names, life stories and drawing on them! This was a valuable lesson in preparation for going to high school as it will be very important for us to try to get to know lots of new people.

Finally, on Thursday we had our first Term 4 Ninian’s Natter. The children had a chance to discuss their learning and set new goals. Ask your child about theirs!

Have a great weekend!

Summer Fair

Our Summer Fair is on Saturday 7th May 10am till 12noon. Pupils were issued a leaflet in school bags this week.

The event needs a large number of volunteers to man the stalls and we really struggle to get people to help. May be you could help for 1 hour or may be 2 hours? Volunteers can be parents, carers, grandparents, aunties/uncles – all family members are welcome to lend a hand. Get in touch via facebook or leave your contact details at the office – WE NEED YOU!

Message from Fundraising/Parent Council

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

Primary 6/7 have had another busy week! We have been continuing to learn about decimal numbers and have been multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1000 and we have also been dividing numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 to create decimal numbers. We have all made a great deal of progress with this and have been receiving lots of purple dots!

In writing we spent time looking at our Victorian newspaper articles and we made improvements to make them even better, by using interesting openers, connectives and interesting vocabulary.

We have now completed our Charles Rennie Mackintosh drawings and we are very pleased with the finished pieces of work. Some of them are already on display and they look amazing!

We all enjoyed dressing up as our favourite book characters yesterday as part of World Book Day. As you can see we had a wide variety of different characters visiting our classroom yesterday, ranging from Alice in Wonderland and Matilda to the Joker!

Last night some of our class attended the Film Club and we saw ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Dog days’. There were over 100 children who turned up to see the film and we all had a fabulous time! We are already looking forward to the next film!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

Primary 6/7 have been feeling healthy and fit this week by jogging a daily mile around the school every day! We began on Monday and we are all feeling much fitter and look forward to our daily challenge! Today we ran with the Primary 1s and we helped them to complete their daily challenge too!

In maths we have been continuing to learn about decimals and we have been focusing on reading decimal numbers from a scale and rounding decimal numbers to tenths and whole numbers.

During our reading lesson, we worked in groups to make posters to help us explain the important features of a newspaper article.

We used these skills to help us complete our writing assessments, where we all adopted the role of a Victorian reporter and wrote a Victorian newspaper article about the issues concerning child labour during Queen Victoria’s reign.

Continuing with our topic, we started to learn some facts about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and in Art we started to create some Art Deco roses in the style of Rennie Mackintosh.

Finally, yesterday we completed our last session of our Circle of Friends groups. We have really enjoyed participating with the games and the discussions about friendships and how we can improve friendship problems and be better friends.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

This week in maths we have started a new topic, learning about decimals. We revised how to read and interpret decimal numbers and we practised how to put them in order. We all discussed the importance of decimals in our daily lives, in particular whenever we want to spend any money!

For P.E. we have now started to play Rounders. This week we learnt how to play ‘Gang Rounders’, which meant that several players could be waiting on a mat at a time, hence the title. We all really enjoyed participating at this.

As part of our Primary 6 topic we have prepared some research about Victorian inventions and discoveries for homework. Today we began presenting our findings to the class and we gave encouraging feedback to each other.

During French this week we all practised singing a French song about food. We made a recording of our singing and we are going to enter it into a competition so please wish us all good luck with that!

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

As part of Technology week, Primary 6/7 have been having great fun, setting up as small teams of engineers. We have all taken part in a project to build and test ‘Robokid’ vehicles. The robots were designed by Scottish engineers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

First we built our robots…..

Then we used our problem solving skills to ensure they were all wired correctly.

Then we learnt to use the robot and control it through a cable controller….

And finally it was time for our driving competition!

We also had a fabulous time yesterday with a visit from Jenny from Quality Meat Scotland. We learnt all about the importance of buying Scottish meat and we discussed healthy foods. After that we helped prepare, cook and eat some fajitas which were delicious!

Enjoy the long weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves

Some photos of P7 at Sky Studios!

P7 Weekly News

This week we have been super busy celebrating technologies week. We spent most of the week preparing for our visit to Sky Skills Studio on Thursday. On Monday we were given our individual roles which included camera operator, presenter, producer, director, editor, script writer, expert and eye witness. We then researched our main topic of ‘Textspeak’ and began writing our scripts. This meant that when we got to Sky Studios on Thursday we were ready to film!

– “I thought it was interesting” Euan

– “I thought Sky Studios was fun” Scott

– “I thought sky Studios was very fascinating” Christy

– “I thought Sky Studios was very exciting” Max

– “I thought sky studios was very good and fun”Alice

All P7 children will come home today with their Sky Studios certificate and a copy of our final news report on a USB wristband. I hope you enjoy watching this with them, they all had lots of fun and worked super hard this week.

P7 Weekly News

This week in Primary 7 we have been really busy celebrating Catholic Education Week. We began by learning about what it means to be merciful which was the overall theme of Catholic Education Week. We then spent some time on Wednesday as a whole P7 group learning about Mother Teresa and the amazing work which she did to show mercy to others throughout her life. We used this information to plan a biography which we will be writing next week. On Thursday we started work on our Catholic Education Week wall display and for this we worked in groups to research ‘The Holy Door’ in St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Dylan Polland wanted to tell you what we created: “We used technology to research the holy door and made a big poster. We all learned at least one fact during the research and when we had written a fact on a post-it note for the display we spent some time making and finishing off a stained glass window for art.”

Have a lovely weekend and remember to have a look at your child’s work in their jotters!

Primary 6/7 Weekly News

Due to the bad weather conditions at the start of the week, many of our Primary 6s were disappointed to discover that the skiing/snowboarding trip had to be postponed. However in true St. Ninian’s style they soon bounced back as we all took part in a mini-topic about having a Growth Mindset. We learnt many things including how to change a Fixed Mindset to a Growth Mindset. We took part in drama activities, played games, designed posters and created Power points. We also took part in a quiz at the start of the topic and then again at the end of the topic and discovered that nearly everyone had a Growth Mindset by the end of the week! What a fantastic result!

Aside from the topic work we have continued to thoroughly enjoy participating in gymnastics for P.E. and have all improved our skills using the apparatus. Today we attended our different committees and we are all looking forward to next week which will focus on Technologies and will involve some very different activities for us all to get involved with.

Have a great weekend!

Primary 6/7 and Mrs Reeves