We have made a great start to Primary 7 in 7SW!

We began reading our new class novel ‘Divergent’ by Veronica Roth. We learned about all of the different factions and even created our own!

We are in the process of applying to be a member of the leadership team. Our first step was to write a persuasive letter to Mrs Angus about our skills and qualities and why we would be suited to the job. Our next step was to create a PowerPoint presentation which will be presented to the year group on Friday the 25^th! Miss Smillie is so excited to see our presentations after all the hard work which has gone into them inside and outside of school!

In numeracy, we have been revising the four operations and will soon begin consolidating our knowledge of place value.

Pupil Voice:

‘I enjoyed designing my own faction to link to our class novel’ – E

‘I enjoyed creating facts about myself and making equations for my peers to solve’ – T

‘I enjoyed going outside for PE. We were working on our stamina’ – M

‘I enjoyed being able to see all my friends again’ – S

We can’t wait to tell you more in our next blog and look forward to sharing more of our learning!

16^th June 2023        Primary 6W Blog

It has been a very busy few weeks in P6W.  Here are a few of the things we have been working on;

• We have been continuing our topic on Space. We have been learning about how gravity works on our planet and on other planets in our solar system.  We have been researching star constellations and making our own constellation torches to help us recognise the more common ones we can see in the night sky.  Ove the next few weeks we are going to be learning about the life cycle of a star and finding out more about “The Big Bang Theory.”
• In literacy, we have been working on our longest piece of writing yet. We are creating our on Sci – fi story using a selection of story starters to inspire us.  Once we have finished writing the story we are going to redraft it on the laptops.
• In numeracy we have been reviewing, revisiting and revising number work from the beginning of the year. This includes lots of words based problems. Over the next few weeks we are going to be using our budgeting skills to plan a holiday for Mrs Welsh and her family.
• In Maths we have been developing our understanding of symmetry. We have been learning about rotational symmetry and will be investigating tessellations over the last few weeks of term.
• As part of our Fitness Fortnight Tasks we have been preparing for Sports Day by practising sack, egg and spoon, wheelbarrow, piggyback and three legged races. We have also been working on Athletics Skills and learning the rules to Rounders.
• In art we have been creating clay model sheep as part of our competition entry for this year’s Royal Highland Show. We are keeping our fingers crossed for a rosette.
• As part of transition week, we had an opportunity to spend some time with our new teacher, Miss Smillie. We shared information about ourselves by creating a “Two Truths and a Lie” poster and by writing a letter of introduction.
• We have spent some time with our buddies over the past few weeks. We visited them at nursery but also spent some time during transition week, showing them how to play safely in the playground and sit nicely during snack time.
• We celebrated success at the Cluster Cross Country race where we had a first place boy and third place girl.
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LT- We are writing extended narratives at the moment and I’m really enjoying it. My story is about planes and gangs. EG My story is about a girl who’s with a friend and she goes to Disney world.

A C-G We are enjoying Sports week. Today we are taking part in a Yoga and football session run by the Primary 7s and this afternoon we are running a potted sports afternoon for the Primary 2s.

CD- In Numeracy we have been learning about algebra. We have learnt to use symbols and letters to represent numbers.

Last week we go to meet our new teachers and started to learn about our transition topic- The Egyptians. RH we did some drawings of Pharoahs and the Pyramids and we wrote our names in Hieroglyphs.