Primary 7 weekly news by lead learners Lucas and Oskar.

Kalin: I really enjoyed rounders.

Lukasz: I really enjoyed rounders and kick ball.

Lewis: This week Mrs Macdonald came in and did maths. We were also part of a West Lothian Sumdog competition.

Brandon: PE was really fun and we did kick ball rounders.

Brandon This week we were practicing for our show it was really fun.

Oskar: This week in writing we did a personal recount and I did it about St Margaret’s

Lucas: This week we did a reading assessment about women in STEM and we had to either do a power point,word,poster or report.

Oskar: This week in maths we did problem solving where we had to draw a map using a scale. We also calculated speed, distance and time.

Lucas: This week we were, building Electrical circuits using cells, switches, bulbs and wires.

Oskar: In writing Mrs Smith came in and watched us do our writing.

Lucas: Mrs Macdonald came in and we did some stuff on fact families and division

Lucas: Today we had an assembly about the stations of the cross.

This week in P5D we have been busy writing a recount about Archbishop Cushley’s visit. We made sure that we had all the key features of a recount in our finished piece of work. These included a title, an orientation, a sequence of events and a personal comment. We enjoyed getting to share some of our finished pieces with Mrs Smith.

In PE, we were focussing on hill sprints as there is a big hill on our cross country route and on our daily mile route. We had to walk, jog and sprint throughout the route.

We have been learning all about building resilience and know that our lives are not always perfect and easy to manage. Sometimes we have challenges to face and there will always be ups and downs. We have been looking at how to manage our emotions and how we can deal with different situations we may be faced with. We have made short films using i-movie to show how life is like a river.

We have enjoyed our second session of bikeability this week. We have been cycling around the track and trying to take one hand off the handles bars while going round the cones. We were also doing a slow race again this week. Congratulations to Aaron, Maliha and Hasan who could not ride a bike without stabilisers before but who are all now riding free.

In maths, we have been learning all about equivalent fractions. These are fractions that are equal. You can find equivalent fractions but multiplying the top and bottom number by the same number or dividing them.

In art this week, we have been focussing on using line and following a step by step guide on how to draw The Eiffel Tower. We aim to get this completed next week and will share some of the finished articles with you.

“I am proud of myself for learning how to ride a bike!” – Maliha

“I really enjoyed making a movie using i-movie and I hope we can do it again!” – Zuzanna

“I am so proud of myself that I can actually ride a bike with pedals now and I am no longer afraid!” – Aaron

“I have enjoyed maths, making groups from different amounts!” – Sophie R

“I enjoyed doing the Eiffel Tower art this week!” – Morgan

“I enjoyed writing a recount about Archbishops Cushley’s visit!” – Ola

“I really enjoyed doing the slow race in bikeability!” – Andrew

Congratulations to Aaron and Sophie R this week who received our praise postcards. Aaron for super focus in writing and applying his learning to his independent tasks and Sophie for her hard work, determination as well as having a positive attitude in maths. Well done Aaron and Sophie R!

Here is a snap shot of our learning this week;

Our newly resourced playroom is now in use and we are loving all the new experiences we are having.

For maths this week we have been learning the names of 3D shapes and we worked out which shapes roll because they have curved sides.

In Numbertalks this week we have used the rekenreks.  We have been working out how many swooshes it takes to make a number.  It has been a lot of fun and it is great to use the huge Rekenrek to share strategies with the whole group.

We had our class mass on Tuesday and it was beautiful.  The readers did very well reading the Bidding Prayer and we all sang our prepared hymns with enthusiasm.  Well done everyone.

We used this experience of going to mass to help us learn further how to write a recount.  We all recalled the order of events from Tuesday morning when we went to mass and then wrote a recount of this.  It was great to see all the details the we remembered!

As it was the end of National Science week on 17th March we finished our Science learning by looking at Stephen Hawking.  We used a book we bought as a class during World Book Day and learned who Stephen Hawking is and what he is famous for in the field of Science.  It was great to hear Leon’s own knowledge of Blackholes too!  What super facts Leon, thanks for sharing.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

This week have had to say goodbye to Mrs Lauder.  She has spent the last six weeks with us in class helping us with our learning, especially in Science.  She is not fully leaving us though as she will be back after Easter to work with our P7 class.  Good luck Mrs Lauder.

This week we have been learning how to write a recount using our new resource PM writing.  We all decided to recount what we do in the morning when we are getting ready for school.  We have learned to include an orientation, sequence of events and a personal comment. The results have been fabulous and our star writers this week are Victoria and Eve.  Well done girls.

For numeracy we continued to develop our skills of estimating.  We have been trying to place numbers on a number line which only gives us the starting and ending number.  This has proved tricky but we have been practising really hard and using some interactive games to help us.  Try this one out.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/37/placing-numbers-on-a-number-line

Stay, Play and Be Well was a huge success in our class.  It was so lovely to see everyone and it is always special for the children to share their learning and classroom environment with their families.  Thank you again for the huge turn out.

Next week we have our class mass on Tuesday at 9.30am in the small chapel at the Lanthorn.  This is open to all to attend.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

Phonics

In phonics we have been learning the ‘wh’ sound and the ‘j’ sound. We have been listening really carefully to the difference between the wh and w sounds in words. The wh sound is a digraph. That means it is 2 letters which make 1 sound. We have been working on some activities this week to help us differentiate between the j and i sounds when we write them as this can be a bit tricky. The j sound is a green sound. This means that it comes from more than 1 part of our mouth.

Numeracy

We have been continuing to learn about subtraction. We are also beginning to look at the differences between addition and subtraction and how we can use our knowledge of addition to help us with subtraction and vice versa. We know how important it is to look for the plus or minus symbols in a number story sentence.

Maths

We have been continuing to look at symmetry in our environment and make symmetrical pictures. Look for some symmetry homework next week so we can show you how much we have learned with this topic.

Topic

We are loving our new topic of space so far. We helped Miss Lydon to create a topic plan where we shared our ideas of what we want to learn during this topic. We have already helped to build a space station in our classroom and we have been having lots of fun playing in it already!

Our Classroom

Today in class, Mrs Davenport told us about the exciting plans to change our classroom a bit. On Monday, we won’t have our own chair anymore! There will only be 1 teaching table and lots of areas in the classroom for us to explore and extend our learning  and imaginations further through play. We are very excited for this change. On Monday, we also welcome a new classmate into our class. Her name is Cordelle and we got to meet her on Thursday. We look forward to seeing Cordelle again on Monday.

Miss Lydon

Today was Miss Lydon’s last day in our class. We have loved having Miss Lydon in our class and we all think she will be a fantastic teacher! We are going to miss having her in our room but we are very pleased we will still see her when she is working with P6/7 and Mrs Roy after the holidays. P6/7 are very lucky.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs Davenport and P1D

P7 Weekly News

The people that went to S. Margaret’s last week made presentations to show the parents for Stay, Play and We Well. They made lessons to go along with their presentations and everyone in the upper area got to take part in two workshops. The choices were: Sleep Scotland, Building Resilience, Mindfulness and Online Safety. Thank you to all the families who came along – it was great to have you here. The people who went to St. Margaret’s this week did art, science and swimming. They had lots of fun.

On Thursday we also had so much fun with Mrs McDonald, we were doing algebra using the coloured rods.

We had a look at some information about electricity and where it comes from and we look forward to following this up in the coming weeks.

Some members of our class also took part in an amazing Glee performance this week. They were all great and we are very proud of them!!

Here are some comments from some P7 pupils:

Sarah: I enjoyed doing the show rehearsal.

Brandon : I liked P.E and we were doing rounders.

Charlie : I liked writing about my inspirational woman.

Zara: I enjoyed doing mindfulness this week.

Zara and Louise

Pupil Voice:

Transition

Cole: This week we went to high school and Mr Purvis helped us to draw a seashell.

Caiden: This week we went up to St Margaret’s we did science, art and swimming.

Thomas and Ivana: The p7’s went to St Margaret’s for transition and went for swimming, science and art.

Lorena: Group B had their transition on Monday at St Margret’s which was an amazing experience to have.

Matt: I and the P7’s went to transitions.

Ethan: On Monday I and 18 other p7’s went to St Mags for transition.

Buddies

Lauren: P6’s got to see their buddies on Monday.

Neve: P6’s got to meet our buddies and we played with them.

Daniel: The P6’s saw their new buddies on Monday.

Ambra: on Monday I met my buddy Mahnoor I played with her in the Nursery I had a lot of fun. The best part was we drew and danced.

Abi: p6 this week met our buddies Anna is super cute.

Mirren: I met my buddy on Monday and I got Kevin it was really fun because we got to know them.

Brooke: on Monday p6’s got to meet our buddies we got to play with them and become really good friends.

Joshua: we met our buddies and played with them.

Stay, Play and Be Well

Bea: This week we participated in Stay, Play and Be Well. We got to pick two different stations. They were called;  Resilience, Mindfulness, Online Safety and Sleep Scotland.

HWB

Harley: this week in PE we did 9 minutes of basketball handball and football it was good for people to try new sports.

The Gospel Show

Beth: we have continued the show and we are getting much better with the songs and words.

A reminder that costumes are due in on Monday 18th please in a labelled carrier bag.

Written by Daniel and Bea

In P5D we have been working very hard this week. We have been continuing with our work on PM writing, still focussing on recounts. We have learned that the key features of a recount are a title, orientation, sequence of events and personal comment. We have been focussing on nouns and pronouns, past tense verbs and using sequential language.

We have also had the chance to do an extended piece of writing this week all about what we have learned during our sleep Scotland lessons. We are all full of very important information so why not ask us to share this with you.

We are enjoying using our new reading resource which focuses on our understanding of what we have read. Getting to use the answer cards to assess ourselves is one of the perks.

We enjoyed our class trip to the library this week. We got to pick another book of our choice and enjoyed having the chance to read some of these in the library whilst sheltering from the crazy hail and windy weather.

In maths, we have been learning about decimal numbers. We have been reading scales with decimals and placing decimal numbers on number lines. This has been quite difficult as we have had to work out what each increment represents.

On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and for the next 2 weeks, we will be participating in a bike ability course. This week we have learned how to do ‘M checks’ to ensure they are fit for purpose, how to put the bike down properly to avoid any damage to the chain and how to use our brakes properly. We had lots of fun activities like a slow race, emergency stop and the cone colour game to make sure our heads were looking up and not down towards the ground.

We got to support some of our classmates and watch the Glee performance of their 2 songs which they participated with in a competition this week.

“They sang beautifully!” – Zuzanna

“They worked well as a team,” – Hasan

“My favourite song was Proud Mary!” – Andrew

We enjoyed our stay, play and be well session this week where we got to showcase some of the HWB activities we have been doing in class. Thank you to the parents/families who were able to come in and join us.

We had the opportunity to join the nursery again this week for 10minutes of their PE lesson helping them develop their throwing and catching skills. In our own PE lesson we have been doing team cross country relay.

Congratulations to Calvin this week who has been awarded our praise postcard for good teamwork and being ready to learn :)!

Have a great weekend, P5D and Miss Diamond.