P7C
with Mrs Waterston
*TEAM WORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK!*
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NARRATIVE WRITING - AUTHORS AT WORK!
NARRATIVE WRITING - AUTHORS AT WORK!
As Mrs Gardyne said, we worked really hard on planning, writing, editing, drafting and publishing our own narrative stories.
We had lots of fun using our CREATIVITY, FOCUS and SENSE MAKING skills as well as COLLABORATING and COMMUNICATING when reading each other's writing to give effective TAG feedback.
*APRIL 2025 - Tech Gurus Martha, Lacey, Celia, Isla*
We recently completed our latest class novel 'Cirque Du Freak' by Darren Shan. It was an intriguing read, belonging to the Horror/Spooky genre with lots of twists and turns, which we really enjoyed!
Lots of us are interested in finding out what happens in Book 2 of the 12 Series Saga... Check out our 'WANTED' inspired posters of the 'freaks' from the Freakshow that featured in the novel.
Who intrigues you the most? Why?
*April 2025*
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LEARNERS LEADING LEARNING
Recently, we have been developing our LEADERSHIP skills.
We enjoyed planning and participating in a session with P2B at Letham Mains Primary. We worked collaboratively in groups to plan and teach lessons to design and build themed rulers and kingdoms, as part of their Kings & Queens topic. This aligned with the learning we did on Monarchy as part of our P7 focus on Government.
It was a fantastic experience involving lots of responsibility, independence, creativity and fun!
*MARCH 2025*
PE
We have and will be working with Mr Brunton for a few weeks for our Monday PE slot. This week we started a focus on Badminton, working on hand eye coordination by doing keepy uppies with tennis balls and shuttles. This involved our skills in FOCUS, DOING THE RIGHT THING, LEADING & using INITIATIVE.
Some PE Champ Stars have been recognised already - a shout out to JH, CB, ES and JM! ⭐
*February 2025 - Tech Gurus Jacob, Ru, Matty & Brodie H*
With Mrs Waterston, we are focussing on BASKETBALL.
We have now explored all of the MOVEMENTS needed to be successful in Basketball - dribbling, passing, pivoting, shooting. Over the next few sessions we will apply these skills to play friendly matches.
*FEBRUARY + MARCH 2025*
Welcome back!
Hope you had a great
February holiday! ❤
We have made new home tables and names like Fanta Fishes, Famous French Croissants, The Funky Floppy Flip Flops, The Fantastic Funky Freddos, The Fabulously Fantastic Froggy Flapjacks and The Floppy Funky Fishy Flamingos.
Check out our logos and LEGO challenge builds...
For this, we created co-operative learning placemats on things we liked beginning with 'F' for February to find commonalities.
We were using collaboration, communication and focus.
*February 2025 -
Tech Gurus Brodie & Brodie*
TIME DURATIONS! We have been exploring Durations of Time.
We enjoyed participating in some active challenges to estimate the length of time tasks would take. We then completed the tasks to compare the actual durations. We used lots of meta-skills including FOCUS, PROBLEM SOLVING, DOING THE RIGHT THING and COLLABORATION. How quick do you think you would be?
*sharpen 5 pencils *stand up/sitdown 20 times *hop 50 times
*write your name *measure, draw a rectangle *JANUARY 2025*
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TIME!
*JANUARY 2025*
This week we started a new Maths Time topic. On post its, we shared current knowledge and had a think about what we've still got to learn. As part of our LEGO challenge we collaborated to create a new Smart Watch or Time Device with some special features.
Check them out below!
🥳 HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY 2025! 🎉
In art this week, we made firework disco ball 'one word' collages! We used different paint techniques as you can see from the photos below. Creativity was the main skill we used!
We also did a word search to help us find a 'word' that we could try use as inspiration for the rest of the year. We had to be curious to solve problems in this task.
Some of our words were... adventurous, joy, achieve, organise, happy and calm.
*JANUARY 2025* - Tech Gurus Jacob & Matty
RME This term we are exploring Christian stories from the Old Testament.
To begin, we learned about the 7 Days of Creation. We took notes from a video and then worked in teams to illustrate one of the specific days with LEGO. Afterwards, we had to conduct a learning walk to try and work out which day each group had made. We enjoyed this task - it involved many skills including CREATIVITY, FOCUS, COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION, CURIOUSITY, SENSE MAKING and PROBLEM SOLVING.
Can you guess which is which?
*JANUARY - 2O25*
PE - SCD
P7C have been working on Scottish country dancing in PE. We were working as a team, FOCUSSING, COLLABORATING and COMMUNICATING, to take part in The Dashing White Sergeant.
~Tech Gurus Matty and Finn *December 2024*
SPELLING: Hold/Grow A Sentence!
SPELLING: Hold/Grow A Sentence!
Spelling Day 4 allows us to apply the pattern we have been learning. Recently we have been up levelling our sentences by adding interesting vocabulary. We made use of thesaurus' and partner work to vary and extend our ideas. This meant we were sense making, being creative and doing the right thing.
Spelling Day 4 allows us to apply the pattern we have been learning. Recently we have been up levelling our sentences by adding interesting vocabulary. We made use of thesaurus' and partner work to vary and extend our ideas. This meant we were sense making, being creative and doing the right thing.
By Tech Gurus Matty and Finn
*December 2024*
ANGLES
To help us explore angles further wemade maths active! We communicated and collaborated to use giant protractors to measure and draw angles. We then swapped with different groups to work out the degrees.
By Tech Gurus Matty and Finn
*December 2024*
Frida Kahlo
This week we were making Frida Kahlo portraits for our art lesson.
We were using meta skills to help us draw them😃... including CREATIVITY, FOCUS and ADAPTING.
By Tech Gurus Matty and Finn - December 2024
AZTEC GODS
We have also been CREATING with Mr Connell to build portraits of Aztec Gods.
Check them out below...
Over the past few weeks, P7C have been exploring 4 games in P.E including Sink The Ship, Battle Ball, Yoshi and Hula Huts.
They are mostly running activities which are all very fun.
Check out our evaluations ABOVE on our:
Spatial Awareness, Fun, Decision Making, Leadership.
*By Tech Gurus Brodie H, Louis and Brodie McG*
*By Tech Gurus Brodie H, Louis and Brodie McG*
Mexico!
Mexico!
Our new topic is Mexico - so far we have learned about the geography of Mexico and have been mapping all of the main landscapes (like mountains and rivers ).
*By Tech Gurus Martha ,Isla and Jacob - November 2024*
We have been learning about Mesoamerican civilisations. Right now we are doing posters to tell information about where they lived, what they did for jobs, how they made things, how they produced food and way more!
*By Tech Gurus Brodie H, Brodie M and Louis S - Novemver 24*
SPOOKY SELFIES IN P7C !!!!
SPOOKY SELFIES IN P7C !!!!
*By Tech Gurus Jacob, Martha and Isla - November 2024*
*By Tech Gurus Jacob, Martha and Isla - November 2024*
in p7c we have been creating spooky self portraits inspired by tim burton. His style is very gothic and creepy.
here are the ones we did:
Famous Mathematicians and Numeral Systems
In P7c we have been making some posters about mathematicians and important numeral systems from the past. These include Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Roman Numerals, the Phoenician number system, Albert Einstein and many more!!!
Check out our posters below to find out something new!
*by Tech Gurus - Jacob , Martha and Isla ---- October 2024*
NUMBER
SYSTEMS
FAMOUS MATHEMATICIANS
Rugby Tasters
We have been doing rugby tasters with a coach called Graham for three weeks.
It has been very fun and good for our health ! :)
*by Tech Gurus - Jacob , Martha and Isla ---- October 2024*
Our
Our
WWII Journey..
WWII Journey..
We have learned loads throughout our WWII topic! This week we rounded off by looking at VE Day.
The Blitz!
The Blitz!
Letters from the Lighthouse
Letters from the Lighthouse
by Emma Carroll
by Emma Carroll
We have really enjoyed exploring this novel.
Lots of mystery alongside WWII links!
We had fun this week using macaroni speech marks to structure dialogue within our writing.
*October 2024*
Tools for Writing Intervention
Tools for Writing Intervention
Since the September weekend we have been working hard to develop our use of PUNCTUATION. Each week we learn a new mark to add to our team of Punctuation. We are working hard to use these marks correctly and are aiming for 80% of our class to achieve (at least 6) accurately punctuated sentences by the October break!
We are striving for this 6 consecutive times.
Our team so far: ABC . , ? ! " "
After each lesson, we use a RUN CHART to track progress!
We really enjoy the suspense and build up to find out what % we get!
^ ^ ^ ^ Take a look at how we're doing so far! ^ ^ ^ ^
Spelling
Spelling
In 7C we do Spelling every week!
*On a Monday we elect new Spelling Managers. They take on a leadership role within the group. We all listen to our new words, try to remember them, work out the pattern and collaboratively spell them. We then write them in our jotter, check dictionary definitions and if you are finished you can write some sentences to show you understand the meaning.
*On Tuesdays we write them in our jotter again with the Spelling Managers saying them aloud to their groups. Once we have written them all down we find out how many syllables each word has and think about what type of words they are.
*On Wednesdays we do Hold a Sentence. Spelling Managers create sentences for their groups and model them, with their group repeating and identifying how many words in the sentence. Sometimes we use different voices/expression!
*On Thursday we up-level our sentence work by thinking about synonyms and other elements of VCOP! We do this in more active ways.
<<<<<<<<<< Check out our Spelling gallery!
*Tech Gurus - Celia & Ruairidh - September 2024*
Code Cracking
This week we have been exploring code cracking from World War II.
We made some and we cracked some.
During this we learned a bit about Alan Turing who is a very famous mathematician and would crack German codes using an enigma machine during WWII!
As you can see we have pictures of the class cracking the codes that we made in pairs... it was a great challenge!
*Tech Gurus-Celia & Ruairidh- September 2024*
World War II Homework💣
We have been working on World War II homework and here are some of the results...
There were Anderson shelters, drawings, medals, research, posters and planes.
*Tech Gurus-Celia & Ruairidh- September 2024*
We have been learning about why and how children were evacuated during World War II.
We made tea stained evacuee tags, and some flyers too about the WWII evacuation scheme using the 5Ws.
This was also known as Operation Pied Piper.
*Tech Gurus - Jacob & Louis- September 2024*
EVACUATION TAGS
EVACUATION TAGS
Who's Who? of WW2
Who's Who? of WW2
In P7C we have been had a go at creating symmetrical art of people who had a leadership role in WWII. We learned who they are, what side they were on and what country they led. We also found out some information about the kind of leaders they were and discussed qualities of a good leader. Some of these people were Hitler, Mussolini, Winston Churchill and Hideki Tojo.
*Tech Gurus - Jacob & Louis- September 2024*
A LONG WALK TO WATER
A LONG WALK TO WATER
These amazing posters, made in P7C, are about our class novel a Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park (FUN FACT... A Long Walk To Water is actually based on a true story!)
A long walk to water is about two people in South Sudan - one running away from a civil war, the other trying to find water.
*Tech Gurus - Jacob & Louis- September 2024*
SOUTH SUDANESE TUKULS
Tukuls are South Sudanese huts. They are the equivalent to the homes we live in. They are made out of mud, straw, clay and wood for the fences.
We had a go at making our own... what do you think?
*Tech Gurus - Jacob & Louis- September 2024*
HEALTH & WELLBEING
HEALTH & WELLBEING
In 7C this week we created our class charter. We looked at the UNCRC articles that are important to us and each designed our own medal as our signature. We agreed what our mission is as a class.
We aim to follow our charter at all times.
*Tech Gurus -Matty & Louie - August 2024*
These are our Zone Stones. Everyday we put them on a zone that we feel.
Mrs Waterston will check in with us if we are not in the green zone.
*Tech Gurus - Matty & Louie - August 2024*
Co-operative Learning - Home Teams
Co-operative Learning - Home Teams
*August 2024*
Over the first few days in P7 we created new home teams where we made team identities. Check out our common thread names and logos...
Each week we collect table points which equal lego pieces. On Fridays we take part in a Lego Challenge where we work collaboratively to build against a criteria. Check out our 1st and 2nd place from this week... winners get cushions for the week!
(Theme was inspired by House Captain speeches, A Long Walk to Water work and WWII destruction)
The Learning Pit
The Learning Pit
We have been thinking about a 'growth mind-set' and the ways in which you can approach a challenge. We completed a 'Give One, Get One' activity where we shared the negative and positive thoughts or sayings we might use when faced with something challenging. We then used these ideas to design a poster symbolising a challenge as a 'journey'.
We aim to use 'The Learning Pit' analogy in 7C this year to become
more resilient learners and better problem solvers.
*August 2024*
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