Pupil voice:

This week has been a very busy week for P6/7, many exciting things have happened!

Cole: The P7’s made Santa’s Grotto and Santa came to our school last night at the Christmas Fair.

Brooke: I enjoyed doing Santa’s Grotto at the Christmas fair.

Bea: This week we started Christmas dancing and we had a great time, we even helped the nursery learn some Scottish Country Dancing.

Neve: We started Christmas dancing in PE.

Lorenzo: I enjoyed dancing

Joshua: We did Scottish dancing

Matt: We did Scottish dancing.

Ambra: We did Scottish dancing.

Lorena: This week P7 got to go to St. Margaret’s academy for a science lesson and did some experiments.

Ivana: I learnt how to use a Bunsen burner.

Haseeb: We learnt how to make paper bags.

Abi: I enjoyed my gymnastics competition because I came second place.

Beth: This week the gymnastic team went to compete, my team came 2^nd and I came 1^st individual I was so excited.

Aria: I went to a gymnastic competition and we came 2^nd and 3^rd

And this was our busy week.

Teacher voice:

As you heard from the pupils they have had a really busy week.

Our P7’s went to St Margaret’s Academy for their first transition visit. Dr McAllister led them in a Science lesson where they got their bunsen burner licence, learned how to draw scientific diagrams and worked with a partner to complete a science investigation.

Our P6’s went to the Lanthorn to participate in the P6 Cluster Assembly to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. They sang the hymn ‘Follow Me’ and some of the children read out the prayers they had written for Scotland.

As part of Catholic Education Week we learned about life in India and how families had to make paper bags to sell – 10 bags would earn you 1 rupee. The children worked in teams/families to try to make as many bags as they could in 1o mins (thanks to Mrs Reeves for the demonstration). On average each team/family made 17 bags. We all agreed that this must have been a tough job for the families as they would have to work very long days just to make a basic amount to live on.

There was also great excitement in the class this week as we prepared for the Christmas Fair. Santa’s Grotto looked amazing-well done everyone! A special mention to my ‘little elves’ who helped out last night, they did really well!! They raised £160 on the night!!!!!

We started Scottish Country Dancing this week. Mr McCurdy asked us to assist him in teaching the AM nursery some Scottish Dancing, it was lovely to see the older children helping the younger ones, smiles all around!!

Well done to Aria, Beth and Abi who competed in the gymnastics competition this week – they were fantastic ambassadors for our school and came back buzzing with excitement!

Next week we will begin learning more about our country, ‘Scotland’ as part of our interdisciplinary learning. We will also be changing our class altar to purple to celebrate the beginning of Advent.

I finished the week by attending a mass at St Margaret’s Academy this afternoon which was offered for teachers in West Lothian.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Roy and P6/7

P7 Weekly Blog – Lead Learners Vanessa and Paige

 

This week in primary 7, we have started our Scottish Dancing block in P.E. and we have started with a few well known dances.

Some of the P7s went down to St Margaret’s academy for a science lesson, which was a great experience.

We all worked together to finish our science lesson in class by completing a graph of our results.

CHRISTMAS FAIR!!!

Last night we had our Christmas Fair, which was of to a great start. We raised over £2000 for our school. We sold loads of things like toys, snacks, raffle prizes and knitted wear including, ninian the minions, small Christmas teddies, hats and scarves. It was a SPECTACULAR EVENT!!!!!

Some of the girls went to a gymnastics competition at Chraigswood sports centre and come back with a ton of medals. Vanessa, Beth, Emily and Abi got 2^nd place as a group and Brooke, Marcella, Louise and Zayah got 3^rd as a group aswell. Beth also got 1^st place as an individual. We all enjoyed the good experience!!!

In Maths we started doing Fractions and they are not really hard. We worked on something like Fractions of an amouts and all that kind of stuff.

 

Pupil Voice:

Grace:This week I enjoyed setting up for the Christmas fair

Rachel w I liked the Christmas fair.

Sarah-  I went to the the gymnastics competition and I found it fun and it was an good experience.

Isla – Mrs McDonald came in and taught.

We cannot believe it, but next week is our dress rehearsal on Thursday for our Nativity show.  If you have not brought in your narrators outfit (Black trousers/leggings and a white top) please have into school in a labelled carrier bag by Wednesday.

This week in class we have focused on the spelling pattern -ck at the end of words.  We noticed that the vowel in the middle of the words were single and short;

chick       flick       sock       clock          crack         black

Next week we will look at what happens if there is a long vowel in the middle of a word with the hard k sound at the end.

In Numeracy we have finished off looking at subtraction and addition.  Next week we will focus on working with money (we might even have to use our adding and subtracting skills to help us use our money too!).  The coins that we are using will be 1p, 2p 5p, 10p and 20p.

Our Christmas Fayre this week was a huge success and the fun does not stop here!  Next week there will be a Christmas game that will coast 50p a go, the children have to choose a box and then a winning box will be drawn and they can win a prize.

In Our Community topic this week we have learned all about Fire Fighters and the important jobs they do in our Community;

Micah – when someone is in a room and there is a fire the fire fighters will come and the people that are stuck will be taken out of the window.

Christopher – when there is a fire they put it out.

Kayla – they take you out of a car if you have crash.

Oliver – to help people or animals when they are stuck up in high places.

It has been wonderful listening to all the book reports this week.  The children have had their feedback put on their one note profile.  Well done everyone.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Currie

 

 

Word Boost

Carter: the story was called I don’t want to go to bed.

Shea: in the story the tiger wanted to go to bed and he stayed up all night.

Mara: the tiger doesn’t like to sleep.

Jane: instead of staying up he went to play during the night and he saw his friends.

Lucas: scurry was one of the boost words. It means you run away if you’re scared.

Amelia: belong is a boost word. My eyes belong to me.

Roma: disappear is a boost word. It means you can’t see something.

Luke: staring is a boost word.

Rojin: stare means you look at something a long time.

 

Phonics

Anna: we learned the ‘x’ sound. It is a yellow and a blue sound.

Lucas: it sounds like the c and s sound like ‘cs’.

Roma: six has the ‘x’ sound.

Luke: box has the ‘x’ sound.

Pati: ‘x’ is a quiet sound.

Mara: fox has the ‘x’ sound.

We have been playing this game this week to help develop our reading skills.

http://www.ictgames.com/machine.html

This is the song for the ‘x’ sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw5cmTFd8Es

Numeracy

Shea: in the tuff tray you had to make numbers using the numicon and that made the numicon messy.

Luke: on the bus game, you roll the dice and see what number you get. If you get 6 you move 6 and there was a sum on the square and you need to do the sum. If the sum was 2+1 it would be 3.

Roma: with the cups game, you needed to throw a ball in the cup. Me and Freya played it. We got 1+0, that made 1.

Amelia: I made my own ten frame. I made 4 + 4 for 8.

We have been playing this game this week to help develop our addition skills:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=PostSortingcalculationsv2

 

Nativity

Mara: It is called ‘Stargazers’.

Luke: I like singing the songs especially ‘Don’t tell Herod.’

Carter: I like singing about Herod having a party.

Layla: I like doing the actions.

Roma: I like speaking on stage.

Shea: I like singing ‘Don’t tell Herod.’

 

Writing

We were inspired after watching a clip of the movie Wall-E to design our own robots. We then wrote about what our robots would do. Here is the clip we watched:

Jane: My robot made butterflies.

Shea: My robot would do my homework.

Luke: My robot would do my homework.

Carter: My robot would make my dinner.

Logan: My robot would drive me to school.

Michelle: My robot would fix my bike.

 

Christmas Fair

Shea: We made reindeer food.

Carter: we had to scoop the food into bags, tie it and put labels on it.

Roma: We made a big poster. It said ‘Reindeer Food £1’.

Rojin: we made stockings to decorate the hall.

Carter: we had to set up the stall. We put the reindeer food on the tree and we had to put more on it when it was selling out.

Lucas: we had to sell the reindeer food.

Roma: I liked helping and collecting the money.

Lucas: I liked all the money as well.

Shea: I was shouting ‘who wants some reindeer food’.

We will be selling reindeer food next week if you didn’t get the chance to buy some at the Christmas fair. Please bring £1 to school next week if you wish to buy some reindeer food.

 

Our Highlights of the Week

Scott: I liked singing the Herod song.

Celine: I liked hanging reindeer food on the Christmas tree.

Olivier: I liked writing about the robot that would make my dinner.

Igor: I liked decorating the Christmas tree.

This week, we have been busy in P5D

We have been celebrating St. Andrew’s day and have been learning about his life.

We have been improving our digital literacy skills and learning how to use Word Processing. We had to change font colour, style and size, add a picture from the internet and then had to email our saved document to Miss Diamond.

We have enjoyed helping our school by making facecloth Reindeers to sell at the Christmas Fair. We enjoyed planning this project and learning about successful businesses when we had to think about pricing and profit. We planned adverts in writing and then work collaboratively in groups to create the posers to help advertise and sell our product.

In Maths, we have been learning about decimal numbers and how to multiply them by 10, 100 and 1000. We have had a range of activities to help us with this learning including using digital question cards and written tasks as well as physically using our bodies to make numbers.  We have been recapping on lots of our previous learning using a murder mystery investigation keeping all maths concepts fresh in our brains.

In PE, we have started our preparations for our Christmas party and have started our Scottish Country dancing block.

We had one group working with Mr Turner this week, learning all about plastic pollution and the children were having conversations about the effects of plastic pollution and they then put their ideas into posters.

Well done to Emily from our class and her team in gymnastic who came second in their level 2 group competitions.

Most of us attended the school Christmas Fair and had a great time.

“I liked taking my little cousin Chloe to meet Santa!” – Sophie R

“I liked going to the Christmas Fair because there was lots of things I liked to buy!” – Ola

“I liked taking my sister to meet Santa.” – Michelle

“I enjoyed the Christmas Fair because it was really fun. My favourite bit was designing my own Christmas mug!” – Emily

Have a great weekend, Miss Diamond and P5D!

 

 

This week some of the Primary 7 class went up to St. Margaret’s for a science lesson. The lesson included learning how to draw scientific equipment and learning how to use the Bunsen burner safely. We also had to carry out an experiment to find the best insulating material. The rest of the class were helping the Primary 1’s while everyone else was out and they will go to St. Margaret’s nest week.

For writing this week we were re-writing the Fairy Tale of Little Red Riding Hood. We were doing Fractured Fairy Tales, where we changed some parts of the story as if we were writing a completely new one.

Visitors also came in during Maths to watch us do Number Talks. We have been focusing on fractions this week and calculating fractions of an amount use bar models.

Pupil Voice:

Chi-chi: I enjoyed doing the bar modelling.

Rachel W: I had fun in R.E. most of the time. We also did fitness.

Kerrigan: This week we did the take your book to lunch, it was fun J

Isla: We made posters on what makes our Catholic school great!

Rebecca: I enjoyed doing the writing for a twisted Fairy Tale story.

Maxx: This week two people from Primary 7 discussed Number Talks with Mrs. Heather. I was one of them.

Lewis: We did dodgeball in P.E. with Mr. McCurdy.

Zara: Mrs. MacDonald came in to teach us bar graphs.

 

Some of the class will be going to rugby tomorrow and they’re really excited!

Good luck to the girls playing football today!

Pupil voice:

Abi – I enjoyed writing this week, we wrote a prayer for Scotland.

Haseeb – On Thursday we wrote a prayer that was about Scotland.

Joshua – Yesterday I wrote a prayer asking for God to help those who work in the NHS.

Ryan – I enjoyed learning about budgeting this week and working on the moneysense website on the netbooks.

Jay – On Thursday we were preparing for the Christmas Fair and organising Santa’s Grotto  -some of us were making posters to advertise the Grotto.

Matt – This week me and 4 other people from P7 went to the Centenary mass.

Brooke – I enjoyed doing the budgeting task and the credit/debit card task.

Ethan – Me, Matt, Thomas, Beth, Lorena, Toni and Ivana made a video to advertise Santa’s Grotto.

Ivana – We did bar modelling with Mrs McDonald on Thursday.

Cole – I went to mass with the house captains and Mrs Smith.

Thomas – On Wednesday house captains went to Edinburgh for the centenary mass. It was very cold and wet when we came out.

Mirren – We have been doing preparation for Santa’s Grotto.

Toni – This week our class were in charge of organising Santa’s Grotto for the Christmas Fair.

Bea – This week we had visitors in our school and we were an amazing class!!

Teacher voice:

Another great week, the time is flying by!!!

This week we studied financial literacy connected to our Enterprise and numeracy work. Everyone had great fun learning about and creating budgets!! The pupils were not amused when they had to spend their hard earned cash on fixing washing machines and paying bills!!! I was really pleased to read about how they had got on with their budgeting task at home, almost everyone stayed within budget. We also looked at the differences between debit and credit cards.

In writing we explored issues affecting Scotland and then chose one to write a prayer about. Check out Twitter to see some examples.

We began thinking about Catholic Education Week and started by discussing what was good about our school, this then led to a discussion about what was good about a faith school. Again see Twitter for our main discussion points.

Preparation is underway for next week’s Christmas Fair – P6/7 are in charge of organising Santa’s Grotto. We have made advertisement posters and videos with the ipads, made template letters using Microsoft Word, made a Christmas postbox, sorted out  Santa’s gifts and wrote a blog post!! Phew…..

Many of the children have expressed an interest in helping me out next Thursday evening between 5.30-7pm. I will give them a time slot to allow them time to also enjoy the evening with their families. They can wear something Christmassy!!!!

A reminder for P7’s that they are going to St Margaret’s for their first Science lesson bewteen 10-12pm on Monday. They will need a small snack.

Have a great weekend – and remember to stay within budget when shopping on Black Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs Roy and P6/7