Primary7b Kirklandneuk

Term 3

2012-01-19T15:22:00.000-08:00

Keep reading to the bottom of the page. New information added regularly throughout the term!

THE NEW KIRKLANDNEUK

We have settled in well to our amazing new school. There are so many aspects that we really love in the school such as the teaching wall, new carpets, break out space, ICT suite and many many more. We feel so fortunate to have such a lovely environment to learn in and are very excited about our last two terms of Primary 7.

CHILDLINE
Over the past two weeks our class have had an assembly and a workshop from the charity Childline. The Visitors from Childline were highlighting the service that Childline provides and raising our awareness about abuse. We enjoyed the activities during the workshop.

HEARTSTART
This week we have been revising our life saving skills as part of our Heartstart programme. We have revised how to deal with a serious bleed, choking incident and a heart attack. We used the dummies to practise CPR and took turns to put a casualty into the recovery position.

BUDDY PARTY
We were very fortunate to receive special ladybird invitations from our buddies inviting us to a special party. We had a great time in the infant break out area reading the book "What the Ladybird Heard" and enjoying catching up with our buddies.

CONSTRUCTION SKILLS
We were very fortunate that representatives from Construction Skills visited our class this week to complete a team challenge of building a Giant Tetrahedron 4m by 4m using only wooden dowels and elastic bands. Our class cooperated so well to complete the challenge and felt very proud when we saw what we had created. Many thanks to Irene and Laura for visiting Kirklandneuk.

JOYNING THE LEARNING
This term our class are studying World War II as our JTL topic. We have already created our Learning Plan and have learned about why WWII began. Our class are all very interested in the topic and can't wait to begin transforming our classroom into something very special!

WW2
We are really enjoying our new topic on WWII and beginning to create some super displays in our class which we will be showing off at our open evening in a couple of weeks. The breakout space is great for doing our painting and messy activities.

PACE WORKSHOP
We are very excited as we are visiting St James Primary in Renfrew next week to perform a show with some pupils from the school and PACE theatre group. The theme of the show is anti-sectarianism. We are busy learning our song in preparation for the show. Photos to follow next week!

TERM 2 HIGHLIGHTS

2012-01-03T03:43:00.000-08:00

OUR BUDDIES

As part of our Health and Wellbeing we were learning about the dangers of fireworks and learning how to keep safe on Bonfire night. We completed a Critical Skills challenge to create a Firework Safety leaflet to help inform our buddies about the dangers associated with fireworks. It was good to have a real audience to present our work to and we enjoyed spending time with our buddies.

JAPAN TOPIC - KENDO DEMONSTRATION

As part of our Social Subjects topic on Japan, we were very fortunate to have two experts in the Japanese Martial Art of Kendo. Gerry and Dave kindly gave up their time to demonstrate Kendo to the two Primary 7 classes. The children were intrigued to learn about the sword and how they score points in the sport. They asked lots of questions. Here are some pictures of the afternoon.

KARATE DEMONSTRATION

We were also very lucky to have another session on the Japanese martial art of Karate. Paul and Alex came to demonstrate their expert skills in the sport and then allowed us to try out some karate for ourselves. The class loved the session as you will see in the pictures.

ENTERPRISE
Primary 7 organised a selection of games and sold some Christmas crafts as part of our Enterprise. We are hoping to raise funds to put towards our Leavers' Dance in June. We had a raffle, sold bird boxes and created games such as Christmas Matching Pairs, Christmas pick and mix and the Snowman's snowflake. We practised our selling skils through our drama activities to encourage as many customers to take part. We had a great morning.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Our class performed a beautiful Christmas song called "Birth of Jesus". Our class worked hard to learn the song. Mrs O'Brien was very impressed by P7B at the concert. Well done team!

OUR NEW SCHOOL
In January we will be returning to our newly refurbished school. It will be fantastic to spend our final two terms in such a lovely place. There is so much to look forward to in term 3. Looking forward to it already!

END OF TERM 1

2011-10-14T01:26:00.000-07:00

We cannot believe that Term 1 of Primary 7 is over already. We have had a great time so far and are looking forward to next term.

Our topic on Slavery has been excellent. We have all found it very interesting and shocking at times too. We have written slave diaries imagining how the slaves felt as they were captured and forced into slavery. We had to describe the horrendous conditions the slaves suffered on the slave ships. We have also made annotated maps of the Congo, slave ship research posters and we will finish off our topic making biographies. We learned how to make bar graphs in Numeracy Across the curriculum about slave ship voyages. Here are some examples of excellent work.

In PE this term we have developed our skills in Short Tennis. We have learned about the scoring system, developed our skills in serving and worked on keeping control of the ball. We were able to apply our skills to a proper game situation when we visited Robertson Park to play on the tennis courts. We were very fortunate to have a lovely warm day and we had a fantastic time playing on the courts. Here are some pictures of The future "Nadals and Murrays" playing.

We enjoyed the last day of school with two exciting things. The Anti-bullying group reps led a fun circle time on the theme of bullying. We enjoyed the games and discussed our views on what bullying is and how we can get support if we need it.

And we enjoyed our End of Term reward with our cinema afternoon. A great way to end the term!

Primary 7B Term1

2011-09-09T04:34:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Primary 7B blog. We’ll update our site regularly so you can keep up with all our latest news.

Primary 7B have made a great start to the new term taking on all our new roles and responsibilities. It has been an exciting start to the term for a number of pupils who have been voted for important roles in the Pupil Council, House Captains, Anti-Bullying Group, Rights Respecting Schools and Eco-Schools. The class have also been supporting their P1 buddies, by helping them settle into their new routines and have enjoyed reading to them.

Our class have been busy establishing our learning community by getting to know each other and setting our class rules. We have also created our class charter for the Rights Respecting Schools Award. We have begun our Social Subjects topic on Slavery and created our Learning plan last week. We are looking forward to our topic and think that it will be very interesting.

Primary 7 is an important year for us, so we are determined to work hard, behave well and achieve our goals.