Welcome back after the October Holidays!

In literacy we have been using a new website called Pixton. Pixton is an online comic maker. Everyone in the class signs into a class group and makes an avatar for themselves which can be used in their own comics. We have used this to create a few comics about plastic pollution and season themes.

In numeracy we have been focusing on fractions. We have been creating our own fraction board games, working on ordering fractions and have been working with equivalent fractions as well.

This term we are taking part in an Air Race Challenge. We are going to be programming and racing drones. We have also been researching careers in aviation. We are also going to be designing our own skins for the drones.

We are also planning a Poppy Scotland Assembly which we will present to the rest of the school. We will be hosting this assembly on Friday the 11th of November to mark Remembrance Day.

Please note that we have also handed out letters about leavers hoodies. Please return these to school ASAP.

From P7MO 🙂

Numeracy

We have started our Maths Transition LIVE sessions with Mrs Lundenberg from Armadale Academy.  These will take place every week and will help to enhance our numeracy and maths skills in preparation for transition.  In numeracy we have been learning more about Fractions, Decimals and Percentages.  This will help us during our Financial Education focus later next month as we look at converting currencies, working out interest rates and the benefits/cons of credit or store cards.

Literacy

In literacy we have been writing narratives and focusing on the finer details of description.  We have also been exploring digital literacy by transferring our writing into comics using the Pixton app.  We held a class vote and our new class novel is The Christmasaurus Cracker which is the brand new novel by Tom Fletcher.  In French, we are looking at describing our likes/dislikes, describing clothes and colours, and talking about the weather around the world.

Other areas

We have been learning about sustainability.  We found other uses for plastic bags such as jewellery and clothes!  We also learned more about energy, recycling and waste.  We built our own windfarms using lego or junk modelling. We also designed and created our own class scarecrow as part of a whole school challenge.  Her name is Betty and you can see her final version below!

We have started a new STEAM challenge called the Air Race Challenge.  We have been tasked with designing, building and operating a drone course which is very exciting!  We will be sharing details of our progress very soon!

We had the West Lothian Rangers Service visit us and we completed an outdoor learning workshop with them.  We had to use our problem solving skills to complete their challenges!

We have enjoyed:

L – I liked creating comics using our free writing, it was fun!

H – I liked helping at the coffee morning, it was nice to see everyone and we raised so much money for McMillan.

R – I liked the plastic bag challenge when we had to find another use for them, we made bracelets.