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Primary 7 Learning Grid

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Another week of learning at home is upon is. It has been lovely to see more traffic on our TEAMs page!

Today there will be a P4-7 assembly at 2pm on the P4-7 Assemblies team! Make sure you tune in!

 

Here is the learning grid for this week

P7 Learning Grid Week 6 11.05.20

Our learning materials are available on the OneDrive link – we are now working from folder ‘Week 6’.

I’ve also collated responses to a few FAQ from the last few weeks;

Where do we find learning materials?

All of our learning materials are available on OneDrive or through TEAMs > P7 2020 > General > Files > Class Materials (there have been problems with accessing files on TEAMs through android devices, please use the OneDrive link instead)

Please use the OneDrive link by clicking here.

The OneDrive link stays the same week on week, with a new folder being added on a Friday with the learning grid for the following week (this might help with planning of learning for the week ahead before a Monday morning). Materials will be uploaded by a Monday morning.

Do we need to do the whole grid?

The learning grid provides a week of learning experiences which will progress the learning of the P7 class. Different families have different remote learning styles and priorities. My advice is to do what you can – if you don’t think you can manage everything decide what you will prioritise and start there. There are ‘Keeping Busy Ideas’ for anyone who is finished the grid and is looking for more!

What should we be doing every day, can I do all the learning on a Monday and nothing the rest of the week?

Each family will approach learning at home in different ways. I’d advise to choose 1 task from each of the areas for each day.

e.g. Monday: Reading (LITERACY), Mental Maths (NUMERACY), PE with Joe Wicks (HWB), RE (Across the Curriculum)

Being in a routine can help with mental and emotional well being. Maybe as a family you could create a timetable for the week? Remember to include your physical activity for each day too, and regular breaks!

 

 

We can’t type onto the document?

Unfortunately lots of the resources and files posted are PDF format which would mean you have to hand write and upload a photo of work or type directly onto word online.

What do I do when I’m finished my work?

Please upload to OneNote under home learning with a new page for each week of learning. Or email directly to me – I will have a look and give feedback where appropriate. Then – relax!

Remember to come on TEAMs at least once per day to check in – like the post or leave a comment so I know you are there!

If there are any other questions please leave them as a comment and I’ll check back in over the week!

It’s a wonderful day to have a wonderful day!

 

Primary 7 Learning Grid

Hi P7 Families!

A short week this week – I hope you all had a lovely break Monday and Tuesday!
Click this link for all of the learning materials for the week
We are in Week 5 – all of the materials you should need should be in there, additional activities are in the ‘Keep Busy’ folder, if you would like some inspiration to keep busy!
As we are getting further into our Learning at Home journey it can be difficult to be motivated, but I know that having a busy plan for the day has helped our household to keep our minds and bodies active. Below is a suggested To Do list for this week;
Suggested to do list;
  • Talk together and come up with a timetable  – one bit of literacy, one bit of numeracy and one bit of something else each day is a good way to do it – if you are using your device, screen shot the learning grid and cross things off as you complete them. In our house we plan for the week, but you might like to plan day by day – This is a good habit to get into and a life skill that will help with your studies as you get older. You are not expected to do everything on the learning grid – everyone is in a different situation, but aim to do as much as you can.
  • Please log in to TEAMs every day, if you can. We are monitoring learning engagement so please come on at least once per day to give me a wee hello or a ‘like’
  • Join in with our ‘Meet Now’ live on Wednesday at 2.30pm – when you come on to the team you will be able to click ‘Join’ on the meeting post on the TEAM – it would be great to speak to as many of you as possible, it is a ‘just for fun’ thing so please join us – all you need is a device and pencil/paper. It is nice that we can stay connected whenever we can through this!
  • All of the above is on the understanding that your wellbeing is in good form – your happiness and mood are very important – use our Hive of Wellbeing for ideas of how to manage your wellbeing – if you are upset, worried, angry etc. it will be hard for you to learn properly – but please keep in touch so that I can support you. Email via glow at any point!
I won’t be on TEAMs all day everyday as I have lots to do in the background – but I will answer your questions as quickly as I can, remember to help each other!
I’ll be on TEAMs from 8.40 – 9.15am approx for a good morning check in,  then again around lunchtime for a check in and finally around 2.30pm to see how you are getting on with your planned tasks! Mrs Kerr will be on TEAMs every Thursday, and every second Friday 🙂
As with every week, please find time to complete our Wellbeing Check in – you can do it daily, once over the week or a few times (depending on how you feel!)
Mrs C 🙂

Welcome Back P7!

Good Morning P7 children and families!

I have emailed all pupils via GLOW this morning with their ‘Back to School’ tasks for the day – this is also available here (click the link)

Welcome Back to School P7, and via TEAMS.

Mrs Kerr and I are working on our new learning grid for the week and will have that posted tomorrow morning!

Today an idea might be to agree as a family what this week is going to look like for you, your learning, your well-being, your physical activity…

Would you benefit from agreeing a loose timetable? Are there periods of time where you will agree to be away from your screen? How long do you think you should be spending outdoors? Are there any passions or interests you could explore during this time? How many of the tasks on the learning grid are you able to get through? What are your priorities?

Learning in lockdown looks different for everyone, make sure you strike a good balance and identify when things aren’t working out, and what you can do to help it.

Many thanks for you continued support. I am thinking of you all regularly,

Mrs Conway

P7 Weekly Learning Grid

Good Morning P7 children and families!

I am missing you all greatly but look forward to catching up with you all on TEAMS today 🙂

Here you will find the grid which has your learning for this week;

P7 Learning Grid 30.03.20

I have emailed you on GLOW with your spelling tasks for the week and with the link to the OneDrive folder for week 2. The files in OneDrive will also be available in TEAMS under FILES.

Remember the ‘Additional Tasks’ link that was posted in TEAMs – this is a list of things you can choose from to add to your daily timetable;

Additional Tasks P7

Have fun – stay safe – and, wash your hands!

Mrs C

P7 Weekly Round Up

 

Weekly Highlights

Literacy

This week our writing focus was the NARRATIVE genre. It has been so long since we wrote a ‘story’! After learning about genres of fiction, through our Sky Studios trip, we settled on the SciFi genre and watched a clip about ‘Pandora’ (the setting of Avatar) – from here we were able to plan our narrative then begin the writing process. We have been working hard on inclusion of figurative language in our writing and this gave us the perfect opportunity.

Numeracy

We continue to move through our learning about fractions, decimals and percentages. This week we nominated one numeracy slot as a ‘Chooseday’ where we had a range of fractions/decimals/percentages learning opportunities and were able to choose which skills we wanted to explore as we learned! Mrs Conway was so impressed with our engagement, focus and teamwork! We are building our confidence in working with fractions.

HWB

This week we looked at positive and negative influences in our lives and discussed the impact of these influences on our decisions and our general happiness. We have revisited our class charter this week and had a good discussion about surrounding ourselves with positive influences. We have also been looking really carefully at the advice we have regarding the Coronavirus and how to wash our hands effectively.

Pupil Voice

Aleks, Harley, Jay We learned how to do a jump shot in Basketball – we use  BEEF to help us – balance, elbow, eyes, follow through…

Hannah,  one day of the week we get to do a ‘chooseday’ in numeracy – this is where we get to choose our own tasks and use our skills. I’d like the creativity challenge because I got to make a quiz for my classmates.

Abi Everyday this week we used handwash/sanitiser to clean our hands. Now we have got ‘Wash Your Lyrics’ in the toilets to give us different songs to sing apart from Happy Birthday.

Joshua, Ryan B,  We have learned about fractions. We learned when you multiply fractions you multiply the numerator and denominator.  To simplify fractions you make it into it’s simplest form e.g. 12/24 would be 1/2,

Haseeb, Harley, Hannah We had Taiko drumming this week, we had to do body movements. You get to speak and shout while you do it like ‘sah’. I enjoyed learning about the different cultures where it started.

Home Learning

After a class discussion this morning it was apparent that some children are feeling anxious about the media attention surrounding the Coronavirus. It may be helpful to discuss fears and worries this weekend and look into some of the helpful information shared on the Government and NHS websites.

To lift our spirits we used the ‘washyourlyrics’ website to create handwashing posters using our favourite songs! Maybe you could make one for your own home 🙂

P7 Weekly Round Up

What a busy week we have had, but what a fantastic amount of learning we have squeezed in!

Weekly Highlights

Literacy – We had an amazing writing session on Tuesday where we stepped into the character of Graham from our class novel. We imagined what Graham would feel like and what might prompt him to run away from home. There were so many excellent examples we will spend some time next week adding them to our excellent examples literacy wall.

Numeracy – This week some of us have been testing out our growth mindset to the extreme as we try to get our head around long multiplication. The steps involved in the algorithm method can be quite confusing. We are looking at using different methods to help us learn it but we will continue to work on this together!

HWB – Our new unit of Building Resilience is ‘Take a Moment’ – we had a great class discussion centred around the feeling of stress and what it looks like/feels like/sounds like for different people. Please use the home guidance sheet issued for homework to support your child in their emotional literacy and building resilience.

Pupil Voice

Joshua – ‘I liked gymnastics this week because we used different equipment like the vault.’

Zainab – ‘The sky studios trip was really good. We made a trailer.’

Marcella – ‘I liked the sky studios trip. It was fun and we all made our own trailers. We learned about things like special effects.’

Brooke – ‘I learned how to work a camera at Sky Studios.’

Mirren – ‘I liked going to the NHS careers fair and seeing how many jobs there are.’

Harley – ‘At the careers fair I learned there’s a ‘gammy foot shop’ (which we think is the mobility shop on further discussion…) in livi that helps people.’

 

Home Learning

In light of our current learning about what stress feels like please take some time this weekend to explore some of the Take a Moment resources as a family. Watch this clip as a family and use it to prompt discussion about what brings stress and how you deal with it, we talked about some stresses which come and go quickly and others that hang around for a while. Next week we will look at positive steps we can take to react to those stressful moments – practical ways to ‘take a moment’ – click below to access the video…

 

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P7 Weekly Round Up!

Another busy week in P7!

Weekly Highlights

This week saw us with a big focus on ENTERPRISE as we prepared our stall for the Christmas fair. We chose to make stickers to sell and started by creating a  business plan. We worked out how much our materials had cost, how many stickers we wanted to make and how much we needed to sell them for in order to make a profit. We were delighted to cover our costs and make a profit which is going towards a new promethean board for our school!

In literacy this week we have been thinking more carefully about writing a quality exposition. We know that an exposition gives one point of view. It begins with a statement of position. This week we have learned all about the suffragettes and even had a real life suffragette in the classroom! We retained so much knowledge from this activity which we used to argue that the suffragettes were justified in their use of violence to gain the right to vote.

In numeracy this week we have been showing a real growth mindset through our work on word problems. We find this really difficult and have spent time as a whole class looking at strategies for working out these problems. Mrs Macdonald has been using a bar model to help us work out word problems so this is a strategy we are exploring. Krystian suggested we look at one word problem each day in maths and working with our talk partners to share ideas, this is something we will start after the Christmas holidays.

Next week we have our upper school election on the same day as the General Election – we have been working in our political parties to write a manifesto and create a party political broadcast which we will present to the upper school next week. Pupils will then complete a polling card and cast their ballot to elect the upper school prime minister.

Pupil Voice

Oliwia I learned to use the bar model for word problems, it was good.

Haseeb Word problems were quite challenging but now I’m getting used to it I’ll use bar models.

Aleks I loved PE with the nursery this week – they are funny!

Ryan T We did a new thing at Scottish Country dancing where we did a high school level dance to Cotton Eyed Joe.

Ambra I loved learning about the suffragettes – the best bit was hearing about the suffragettes telling their story, what is was like and how they were feeling.

Aria I liked trying something new for PE doing the basketball game.

 

Learning at home

To celebrate our Big Build team winning a runners up place in the national competition – this weekend spend some time at home discussing the different types of buldings in our local area  which ones are old, which are new, how do you know?

Thursday is the General Election – talk about where your polling station is and how you decide who to vote for. If possible, take your child to the polling station with you to give them the real life experience!

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P7 Weekly Round Up!

Another busy week in P7!

Weekly Highlights

This week has marked the end of our Big Build competition entry preparation. It has been a busy few weeks for the children involved, who have given up lunchtimes and any free class time to get it all organised! Mrs Scott has led this project with the P7 group and had Ian from Crudden homes in on Wednesday to discuss the progress and organise a visit to take final photos and have a presentation on the ideas behind the Big Build.

We also had our second transition visit this week with Group B – we enjoyed a science lesson with Dr  McAllister and a swimming session in the pool where we made our way across the breadth of the pool and back, then competed in teams to collect the most ‘sinkers’.

In numeracy this week we continue to work on addition and subtraction and discuss, explore and experiment with different strategies, always aiming for accuracy. We finished our week by revising the rules of the standard written algorithm (tower sum, chimney sum) for addition and are beginning to use this mathematical language as we move forward. Perhaps you could have a timed challenge working out 3/4/5 digit addition against each other at home this weekend?

In literacy this week we took part in the Book Week Scotland activities by entering the Scottish Book Trust 50 word fiction competition – we used our writing lesson to recap the rules of a narrative and used the context of a conversation to write our entries. The competition is available to adults and children and the context changes on a monthly basis. If you would like to enter the competition yourself you can do so at this link;

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/50-word-fiction

 

Pupil Voice

Mirren At transition we did swimming and science and it was really fun!

Aleks At transition we did lots of fun stuff in science about a bunsen burner.

Brooke We had to plug the rubber cord into the gas tap and then you push it down and turn it then the same person or the other person would light it with the lighter.

Daniel We did the 50 word story and it was fun.

Finlay In maths we used numeracy skills to do tower sums but we are calling them something different

Mirren We used leadership skills to help the nursery with PE.

Daniel We used teamwork in science (transition) when we had to figure out whether cotton, felt or bubble wrap kept the water warm (Brooke an insulator). We used a silver cup which would usually make the water cool down.

 

Learning at home

This weekend please take the time to read for enjoyment – we used book week Scotland to launch our new class reading challenge – we are going to try to read to the height of Mrs Conway. Every time we finish a book we will draw around the spine of it and add it to the ‘pile’ by sticking it on the wall –  Mrs Conway has agreed a whole class treat if we get to the target by June!

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P7 Weekly News

Happy Maths week!

Some of our maths week activities this week included looking at Tangrams, multi step word problems and negative numbers. Today we worked in groups to solve clues to find the culprit in our murder at the movies problem;

Tangrams proved super tricky – maybe it is easier using the online game?!

https://www.abcya.com/games/tangrams

Have a go as a family – which of you is the best problem solver?!

 

Our Risk Factory visit was exciting – all of P7 together!

We don’t want to say too much to keep the mystery alive for future classes.. but we were given the opportunity to react to a number of different scenarios;

What would your child do if they were in a house and a fire started?

What would they say if they had to phone 999, do they know what information they would need?

Can your child keep themselves safe by making safe choices and following safety information?

There were a number of interesting discussions had on the day – the fire brigade supplied us with leaflets, but we will continue to look into fire safety, especially in the run up to Bonfire Night.

 

Next week we will be presenting short 2 minute presentations on our animal science topic!

I can’t wait to hear them all 🙂

 

Some of us chose pieces of work for our WOW wall today – if you child has a device that they can bring to use in school, I can highly recommend downloading the OneNote app and logging in using their Glow login – it makes it much easier to access their profile. We have a range of devices in class that can also be used for this 🙂

 Ambra is really proud of her Wonder drawing Aria is really proud of her Wonder poemAbi is really proud of the drawing she did for our class charter Ryan is really proud of his character study

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Conway

Primary 7 News!

What a busy week! I feel like we have earned our long weekend after this week!

It was a big week for our class as we prepared for our first class mass of the year. We used our lolly sticks to assign jobs, having them on a first come, first served basis – some of the jobs we needed doing were readers, offertory, slideshow technicians and music technicians! Father Simon thanked the class for a lovely mass 🙂

 

Writing this week was a roaring success as we wrote free verse poetry from the viewpoint of Auggie and Via from our class novel, Wonder. A few examples were posted to twitter and some others were added to our wall display.

 

A huge thank you to the families who came along to our ‘Meet the Family’ event on Thursday evening! Mrs Scott and I enjoyed meeting, chatting and getting to know you all 🙂 if you weren’t able to make it, I have popped some information home with the children today for you to enjoy together over the weekend! A wee reminder about our family photo challenge for the September weekend;

After experimenting with QR codes (and getting it to work!) – I would also like to share this SWAY presentation for some top tips for P7 – click on the image below to view it 😉

As always – you can follow our adventures on twitter; https://twitter.com/Mrs_Conway10

Homework begins again from next week – issued on a Wednesday, handed in on a Tuesday!

Have a fab long weekend!

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