P7m

Numeracy

We have been learning how to use the four operations with negative numbers.  We have moved onto algebra and solving algebraic equations using function machines and stories! Our times table knowledge has been very useful here!  We are continuing to enjoy our Transition project with Mrs Lundberg at Armadale Academy every week.

Literacy

In literacy we wrote some lovely Christmas stories and a letter to Santa persuading him not to cancel Christmas!  We were able to use persuasive language and present two sides of the argument.  In addition, we backed up our main points with valid reasons!

IDL

We created beautiful oil pastel drawings of a coral reef after learning about the damage that is being done to them through climate change.  We have also created newspaper reports in groups, detailing the damage caused to the ocean by extreme weather and nuclear testing.

Other areas

Mandarin – We have finished our block of Mandarin but we will continue to practise and use the vocabulary we have learnt over the last 8 weeks.

P.E – We have really enjoyed our block of dance, it has improved our listening skills and developed our co-ordination and rhythm to a higher level!

Other – We designed Christmas cards for the Sibbalds card competition and the winning entry was from our class!  Congratulations to them! Sibbalds commented on the high quality of entries they received from our class as a whole, so well done to all!

-We also worked in groups to design a fantastic STEM challenge as part of a whole school project.  Our part of the project involved creating a snowball launcher with very specific criteria which we met and exceeded!

Christmas – We are looking forward to our Christmas party tomorrow evening!  Everyone who is attending the party must have completed and returned a contact form as no child will be permitted to leave the party unaccompanied.  All children must be collected by an adult in the front playground at 8pm.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all from P7m!

We have enjoyed:

LW– I have really enjoyed Netball because it was fun!  I also liked Algebra because it was something different.  I discovered that I was quite good at learning Mandarin too!

CH – I found Algebra interesting because it got my brain working.

LMcD – I liked rugby because it was fun learning how to pass properly.

RTM – I have enjoyed Algebra, it has been the best topic in Numeracy so far.

EM – I liked Netball and I am excited for the after school club starting.

HM – Mandarin was really interesting!

P7m

Numeracy

We have been learning how to convert between currencies, the differences between credit and debit cards, what an APR is and how to calculate a monthly interest rate.  We were given a group budget to plan a holiday and created group SWAYs to showcase our learning. We are also continuing to participate in our Transition project with Mrs Lundberg at Armadale Academy every week.

Literacy

In literacy we created our own spooky stories! This was so much fun and we particularly enjoyed sharing these stories with the rest of the class!   We are studying poetry at the moment and we are looking forward to creating our own poems in different styles.

IDL

We have moved onto learning about Oceans.  From our class discussion, we had some fantastic ideas for IDL which we will be taking forward in our learning!

Health & Well being

We are completing Health & well being check ins over the next week.  We continue to model the school values of Ready, Respectful, Responsible and Safe.

P.E

We are learning Netball and Tag Rugby this term.  We have been focusing on the skills needed for these games such as throwing, passing and footwork.  We continue to do P.E inside and outside during the week.

Other areas

Mandarin – We are taking part in an 8 week block of Mandarin. We can say basic greetings, our name and count to 10!  We have also tried writing Chinese characters during our LIVE  weekly lessons.

 We have enjoyed:

Z – “I like doing rugby, it is fun”

C – “I am enjoying learning how to play netball”

F – “Writing my own spooky story was good; I think it was my best one yet!”

R – “I really enjoyed doing the abstract art and I like learning about budgeting”.

P7m

Numeracy

We have been learning different fraction strategies to find the equivalent fraction and simplifying a fraction.  We have also been learning how to convert between fractions, decimals and percentages, both with and without a calculator.  We are currently revisiting the four operations in word problems and we will continue to improve our accuracy in our times tables.

Literacy

In literacy we have been working hard on up levelling our writing by using more complex adjectives and connectives.  We had fun pretending to be art critics and did our own reviews on a famous painting called ‘Jeunesse’. We have also created fact files on a chosen influential person and written newspaper reports about Rosa Parks.  We are continuing to read our class novel, ‘The Hunger Games’.

IDL

We are finishing up our study of Black History Month with a focus on racism and what we can do to help stop discrimination in our society.  Our next topic is Oceans.  We are looking forward to finding out lots about micro-organisms, life cycles and climate change.

Health & Well being

For Health and Well being, we have been learning about various challenges that people face on a daily basis when they have autism, ADHD, dyslexia and/or cerebral palsy.  This has led to great discussion about how we should treat other people.

P.E

We have been learning the skills needed for invasion games, such as Basketball .  We worked on teamwork, throwing and catching, shooting and passing.  We also did Tennis and held our very own mini tournament.  We have completed a bleep test and later in the year we are going to repeat that and compare our scores!

Other areas

Spanish – We have learned how to use daily phrases in Spanish.  We can hold a short conversation saying our name, age and when our birthday is.  We can also share our likes and dislikes.  We can ask questions about feelings and respond with detail.

We have enjoyed:

L – “We wrote our own ‘I have Dream’ speeches based on Martin Luther King.”

H – “ I really enjoyed doing our fact files on a chosen influential person.  I chose Nelson Mandela”.

A – “ I enjoyed doing our portraits of a chosen influential person , I drew Marcus Rashford”.

E – “ Writing a response to the painting ‘Jeunesse’ was different.  It made me happy and I enjoyed creating a review about it.”

R – “ I enjoyed learning how to draw portraits”.

K – “ Art has been really interesting, especially doing the abstract pictures”.

Z – “I enjoyed preparing and presenting my personal presentation as part of Home Learning.”

L – “ We have started learning tag rugby which is a fun game that really tires you out!”

What we will be learning next:

We will be learning Mandarin for the next 8 weeks as part of a West Lothian Council Initiative for 1+2 languages.  These lessons will be live streamed via Teams and we are looking forward to meeting our Mandarin teachers next week!

This term we are going to focus on Netball, Tag Rugby and traditional Scottish Dancing for P.E.