Welcome back and Happy New Year! Last week we settled quickly back into our routines and everyone has been working very hard. Mrs Cook was very proud of every single one of us last week because we were so well behaved and tried hard at everything.

During Buddy Time this term our buddies will be helping us with our laptop skills, helping us to practise spelling words and playing games with us such as French colour bingo and subtraction noughts and crosses.

We loved Reward Time on Friday because we got to play in the other p1 classrooms with our friends from all 3 P1 classes.

Our new topic is Transport and we are interested in lots of different aspects of this. Four of us wanted to know all about trucks and roads so we looked at photographs and video clips to see what we could learn from those. Three of us had the idea of inviting a truck into school to visit us so Mrs Strachan in the office kindly arranged her husband to bring in his truck on Friday. This was very exciting because we all got to go inside it. We also took metre sticks out to measure different parts of the truck. The wheels were 1 metre tall, nearly as big as us!

This is what we learnt last week:

I learnt ‘ch’. Cody

Chicks has a ‘ch’ sound. Eryn

Trucks have wheels nearly the same size as me. Rebecca

Trucks have a bed to sleep in at night because they work so much. Konstancja

You can take away numbers. Five take away two is three. Frankie

Ten take away one is nine. Euan

Truck drivers can be away for a week then they get to go back home. Luke

Trucks have engines that are so big. Makinley

The truck wheels are bigger than me! Ethan

Ten take away five makes five. Olivia

The truck was very big and tall. It had steps to get in. Ella-Rose

The truck had a bed in it. Hope

The engine makes the truck’s wheels move. Kyle

Choo choo has a ‘ch’ sound. Nola

The truck was grey inside. Ayleigh.

We are all very excited to be back and are looking forward to a very busy term!

Demi is ‘very excited to be learning about our times tables!’

Harry is looking forward to starting our new topic all about different religious beliefs.

Murdo is excited for practicing our school show about fairytales, which we are starting to learn our songs for!

We also had a discussion about what skills we would like to develop this year…

Jessica and Ailie are really looking forward to developing and working on their writing skills.

Harry is looking forward to learning more times tables and becoming an expert on them!

We will also be developing our gymnast skills and practicing lots of different moves, as well as our team building skills through lots of team games.

We wish everyone a happy new year!

Mrs Henderson and Mrs Wells

P7H School Blog

In PE on Tuesday, we started gymnastics and parkour. We learned different moves, jumps and shapes and then used these to create a routine.  (Hannah)

P7s are developing an enterprise project which will run in school next Friday morning.  We have been working in groups to create interesting stalls. We have been creating advertising and asking classes for donations. (Holly)

In numeracy, we were talking about different countries and their currency. We were investigating different exchange rates and how to calculate equivalent amounts in each country.  (Abigail)

A new behaviour policy has been introduced across the school. Good behaviour will be rewarded by earning 5 minutes of reward time each day, Bonus 5, Hot Chocolate Friday, Praise Postcards and verbal praise. There are 7 stages of consequences including non- verbal and verbal cues, time out and loss of Reward Time. (Brooke)

In French, we have been learning how to say parts of the body including head, arm and finger. Our confidence is really starting to improve (Megan)