Thank you for all your support and to all the pupils for their hard work this term. I look forward to seeing everyone on Monday 28th October. Have a great holiday . Here is our blog written by Hamish and Morgan:

Monday we had P.E with Miss Barkley for the whole afternoon because Miss Macdonald was at a meeting. We played a game where we  had to throw the ball to someone on your team who was on the other side of the hall, on a bench and they caught the ball then you would go join them on the bench. The aim of the game was to get your whole team on the bench. Then the P7s came in and we played benchball with them.

On Tuesday we had an open morning for our parents to come in and see our work. We did a topic task about how different life in Sparta and Athens was. We had to think about what rights the children living in each place had or didn’t have. We also did a sheet about our emotions and talked to our parents about it.

Last week  we made baby cards for the uni kids to send to the government because kids in other countries are dying of diseases that we have the cure to.

Recently we started to do Successful learners and Effective Contributors each day.  We have an envelope that will have someone’s name in it and if they have been listening, have not been in trouble and have been responsible and respectful for that day we get 5 dojos and a little sweet. If the people do not get it, Miss MacDonald does not say who it was. 

Last week we did a workshop with  Scotish Ballet , If you look on class dojo there is some videos of us. 

We also did writing about heroes and villains. We used Hercules as a model text to help us write our story. 

In maths we did our  end of unit assessment on place value and we did amazing!

We are moving on to fractions/decimals/percentages . It is going to be tricky but we will try our best. 

 We also did French,  with Miss Cox where we learned about Birthdays, numbers and colours. 

As you can see we have had a busy time but it has been fun. We hope you enjoyed reading our blog and have a great holiday. 

                              By Morgan and Hamish 

We have been working on communicating with our partner school in France the past two weeks. Myself and the lovely Mrs MacLelland are going to visit them for a week in Versailles. We will be sampling the local wine culture!

The children were working with primary 3 to make a film. Mrs Scotstoun and I are working on a way to upload this, but there is too much content. We’re trying to make a link… so watch this space. I will put the children’s letters in French on here. Can you translate? Ask the children to help if you get stuck! (or do like I did, and use google translate;-D )

The children used chrome books to write their letters. Great for typing skills.

Have a great holiday!

We cannot believe that the first term of Primary 7 has gone by so quickly. A big well done to everyone for all the hard work they have put in; let’s keep it up!

Fancy Dress Disco – This week we began to prepare for the annual P7 fancy dress disco. This is used to raise money to put towards P7 trips and is always a huge success. Pupils have come up with some really creative stall ideas and should continue to prepare for these over the holidays. Please do not go to any unnecessary expense! The discos will take place on 30th October- more details to follow in term 2.

Rose Bowl Projects – All pupils were issued with the Rose Bowl project guidelines on Monday. Every year we ask P7 pupils to create a detailed project on a topic of their choice. Support for aspects of the project such as bibliography and glossary will be given in class. Pupils should make a decision on their project topic and begin to research as soon as possible. Projects are due in the last week of term 3.

Open Morning – Thank you to all those who managed to come along to our open morning on Tuesday. It was great to see the pupils share their learning with you – they were very proud of their Google slides and forms. Thank you as always for your support.

World Mental Health Day – To recognize World Mental Health Day 2019 P7B took part in the BBC Teach live lesson about Growth Mindset and Wellbeing. We discuss how our wellbeing can fluctuate depending on what is happening in our lives. We discussed things that we could do to top up our wellbeing; suggestions included: chocolate, spend time with a pet, take a bubble bath. We also discussed the power of “not yet” and how we need to adopt a growth mindset; this is being able to tell yourself that you can improve, you may not be able to do something YET but you can still achieve your goals if you put your mind to it.

Loch Insh – Reminder that to secure a place for your child to take part in the Loch Insh Residential Trip, deposits of £90 are due by Friday 1st November.

I would like to wish everyone a happy, safe and restful holiday and I will see you all in term 2!

Miss McLean

Thank you so much to everyone who managed to pop along to our class this morning. If you haven’t had a chance, we would be super grateful if you could take a moment to fill out this short poll to provide us with some feedback (even if you couldn’t make it along today) everyone’s voice counts.

The poll can be found on the link below. This link is the same for all classes.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSceh-cBT-aI38UEo-HJzJuzAurMzLj00l-indhPb5FqzZ0FqQ/viewform

Thank you to everyone who took the time to come along to our open morning today – it was great to see so many faces in our classroom. All of the children really enjoyed having family members in to see them, and all of the work they have done so far this year.

This week, pupils will not have any spelling homework, but please do continue to read with your child every night if possible. There is no expectation that pupils should read their whole book every night, instead, choose a section of the book or focus on tricky words (try to vary the part of the book you read each night). Maths homework is a revision of everything we have done so far in P2, and as always, please ensure this is completed by Thursday.

Miss Cockburn

just a reminder about our open morning, tomorrow. You are invited to join us in our classroom any time from 11 o’clock until 1145. This is an opportunity to see what your children have been learning so far in primary six, to have a look at their work and to take part in some health and well-being activities with your children.

Today we were lucky to have two different visitors in our class. 

First we were visited by Mrs Kish, a geography teacher from the IRA. She will visit us a few times throughout the year to give us an introduction to the subject. 

Today we were learning about map symbols and what they signify. We played bingo to help us learn them. We really enjoyed this and got quite competitive!

We look forward to welcoming Mrs Kish back later in the year. 

We also had a visit from Police Scotland to discuss drugs. We got to see replicas of different types of drugs and if provided a great opportunity for us to ask any questions we had. The police officer helped to reinforce the key message that drugs and peer pressure may be a situation we find ourselves in as teenagers and we discussed how to seek help if you find yourself in this situation. 

A great link to this term’s topic of substance misuse. 

Today we took part in the Ness Book Fest Reading Challenge. This morning everyone read or listened to a book for 20 minutes. It was such a relaxing start to our day .

The children were very busy today painting their beautiful seascapes for art today.They loved cutting out and decorating their dolphins which they added to their paintings.

Miss Cockburn will be off tomorrow (04/10) and Monday, and Mrs Paterson will be in on these days instead. Miss Cockburn will then be in next week from Tuesday to Friday.

In P2B, we are also going to be collecting milk bottle tops to use with a variety of activities in our class, therefore, if anybody has any spare lids we would appreciate these in any colour.

Show and Tell is being done in groups from now on as so many children are keen to bring things in for this. Tomorrow, it is the turn of Group 2. This is the second half of the register, which is surnames from Mi to W.

Thanks

A wee reminder to all parents and carers that our first open morning of the 2019/20 session will be held on Tuesday 8th October from 11 – 11.45am. Pupils will be sharing their learning on our health and wellbeing topic ‘Substance Misuse’ and there will also be opportunity to have a look at our jotters to see the wonderful work we have been doing this term.

Hope to see many of you there!

Today in P2B we have been looking at bridges as part of our topic. We spoke about different kinds of bridges, and what these may be made from, before building our own. Each group had a different material. Once these were finished, we discussed why some blocks worked better than others and how we can make them better next time. Take a look at some of our creations below!