P7B Mrs Walker

Last Term..................We Are Nearly There Folks!

Posted 20 May 2022

P7B are already exhausted the first few weeks into their final term!  We have had a rugby lessons, sports day, science lessons at Knox Academy (great fun), we're learning all about being Company CEO's in Topic and learning our lines, songs, actions and dances for our End of Year Show.  We are "rocking it".

P7 Rugby Festival 

Posted 24th March 2022

The class had a great morning at the Rugby Festival.  The weather was also great!  We put our "touch rugby" skills into practice and had a number of games against the other P7 classes with the help and support of some of the S2s from Knox Academy.  Here are a few  photos from our morning.

Fraction Problem Solving

Posted 21st March 2022

Some of our more active numeracy work to try and get to grips with fractions.  The cooperative groups were tasked with "demonstrating" a couple of real life fractions problems to show that they understood the process and that they could "visualise" the answer without having to use an algorithm.  

Rugby Taster with the Rugby Development Officer

Posted 14th March 2022

Today we had our first rugby taster with the new Rugby Development Officer Colin.  Everybody through themselves into the experience.  We are having an inter class tournament next Thursday (24th March).  Here are a few photos from our session.

Topic Work - Government

Posted 4th March 2022

We have started our new topic looking at the role of Government in society.  So far, we have learned about the different styles of Government around the world, the different political ideologies and the major issues and priorities Governments have.  Each cooperative learning group in the class took the different issues and "ranked" them according to which they believed was most to least important to them.  Some very interesting results!

World Book Day

Posted 4th March 2022

As part of our World Book Day celebrations we visited the nursery to read them some stories.  I'm not sure who enjoyed themselves more?  Maybe you can work it out.

Frida Kahlo Inspired Artwork

Posted 11 February 2022

Inspired by Frida Kahlo, the class have been re-creating some of the artists most famous still life paintings using only black paper and coloured overlays as part of their Spanish, Mexico and the Aztec topic.  I think you will agree that they have been making an amazing job.  

Excellent Effort in Class

Posted 07 February 2022

P7B have been making a huge effort over the past few weeks in their Spanish Language, Mexico and The Aztec topic.  Lots of examples are shared below.  We have all enjoyed learning Spanish together and trying to remember that a "v" often sounds like a "b" and "h" doesn't always get sounded, "j's" sound like "h's" and "ll" sounds like a "y".  We are exhausted keeping all the pronunciation rules in our heads!  Big Writing in Scot's language was fun as well as you can see from the photos.

This term we have also started our Digital Citizenship work - so far we've learned about Digital Resilience, Get the Media balance right, the curiosity gap and avoiding clickbait!

Big Writing - Poetry

Posted 23 January 2022

We have been learning about poetry in Big Writing over the last few weeks.  This week we were writing animal themed poetry using different rhyming schemes.  I think you will agree but we achieved our success criteria.  Enjoy our poetry.

A Busy Start!

Posted 13 January

We have had a very busy start to the Term!  We have already written some beautiful Haikus based on a winter theme, stories using Aztec glyphs to create our own codices and map work to find out more about Mexico, its place in the world and its main geographical features.  Our Spanish pronunciation is coming along too. 

Timetable - Term 3

Posted 11 January

Happy New Year to everyone!  Please find below the timetable for P7B for this term.  We are looking forward to a very busy term in P7 and we will update you throughout the coming weeks with examples of our work.

Scot's Week

Posted 30 November 

This week we are learning about all things Scottish to coincide with St Andrew's Day.  Keeping with our Science Topic we have been researching and drawing famous Scottish Scientists/Conservationists/Discoveries (Alexander Fleming, Dr Elsie Inglis, John Muir and Dolly the Sheep).  We have also been learning some Gaelic vocabulary.  Here are our work in progress art projects - I think you'll agree that they are very good.

Substance Misuse - Health & Wellbeing Topic

Posted 26 November

This term we have been learning about substance abuse and the effect that it has on your health and wellbeing.  A sensitive topic but one that has been well researched and discussed by the children.  Each of the class cooperative learning groups researched a different illegal substance and produced a poster to explain it's dangers.  We then carried out a "three stay, one stray" activity where the "expert" in each group visited all the other groups and passed on their knowledge.  Please have a look at the work that we produced.

COP24 Topic

Posted 17 November

P7B have been working hard sifting through the outcomes from the COP26 conference within our science topic.  Here is some photos of our work.

Science Experiments

Posted 16 November

We keep forgetting to take photos in our excitement at doing practical science.  We forgot to take photographs of our "bouncy egg" experiment, our CO2 balloon expanding experiment and our red cabbage acid rain indicator!! Sorry, but hopefully you have been told all about it at home.  Here is the latest two that we have set up.

P7 Football Tournament

Posted 9 November

P7 enjoyed a great (if not a little wet) football tournament on Monday 8th November bringing together all the skills that they have learned in PE across the year group.  Everyone managed to participate in a variety of roles from player, referee, team captain and time keepers.  Roles were rotated throughout the tournament to work on critical sports skills.

COP26 Comes to the Classroom

Posted 5 November

The P7s were very lucky today to have two Kenyan Environmental scientists come to visit whilst they were in the country speaking at COP26.  An amazing presentation on the effects of Climate Change and their efforts to offset carbon emissions with their work in keeping the native mangrove swamps healthy.  Thought provoking and a great insight for the children as part of our COP26, Climate Change and Science topic.

Anderson Shelters

Posted 8 October

We hope you enjoy looking at our Anderson Shelter models.  Some interesting facts that you should know about them are:-

It would not protect you from a direct hit - Sandbags were used to protect from the concussive waves of bombs - they were prone to flooding because they were partially underground - people grew vegetables on top of their Anderson shelters - effective camouflage - poor people were provided with them, richer people had to pay for them (around £5) - they were painted green to blend in.

Cash for Kids - Radio Forth Challenge

Posted 6 October 2021

We have been nominated by Nancy in our class to take part in the Cash For Kids appeal and raise as much money as we can in the next 10 days (well 9 at this point!).  I've attached details below but we are going to have our first class event this Friday 08.10).  The class have decided to have a dress down morning and are aiming for everyone to donate £1-2 to take part.  I will update you with further fund raising ideas as the class come up with them but feel free to make a donation of your own using the link / QR code below.  

What Have We Been Up To

Posted 15 September 2021

Our first few weeks in class have been very busy.  Here is a small selection of some of the work that we have been up to:

Our Class Timetable - Term 1