Ms Natascha Ziemons
P7A enjoyed taking part in Book Week. We created a door display of the front cover of ‘Voices in The Park’ by Anthony Browne and read to our P1 buddies. We also heard the story ‘Silly Billy’ and made our own worry dolls. We considered whether talking to a worry doll would be a good final step and why not. We then discussed why it is good to tell someone if we are worried and considered who we share our worries with.
P1 and P7 had great fun taking part in our Burns Buddy Ceilidh. They danced the Gay Gordons, Two Step, Canadian Barn Dance and Orcadian Strip the Willow.
As part of our Measure topic and considering ways in which we can make ourselves healthier,P7A have been measuring the playground, trying to find out how many laps of the football pitch we would have to run to run a mile. Later we will be running these laps a few times a week to improve our physical and mental wellbeing.
As part of the learning we are doing about democracy and the Scottish Parliament, we had a workshop led by a Parliamentary Education Officer last week. We learned lots of new things about how the Scottish Parliament works. We got to form our own parties and write our own manifestos. We also got to take part in a debate just like the ones they have in Parliament. It was very interesting and we would recommend it for anyone learning about the Scottish Parliament.
The P7s were invited to Broughton to have a Halloween Breakfast. The breakfast was great and included cereal, toast and PANCAKES! We really enjoyed ourselves. After breakfast there was a treasure hunt around the school. We got to go all over the school and meet some of the teachers. It was good fun.
The P7 classes went to Drummond High School to complete a STEM project led by some of the Drummond High School seniors. We learnt about how scarce water is and had to think of ways to make a water caddy which could be moved by one person on their own. We drew our deisgns, made our caddies, costed them and checked how easy they were to move. In the afternoon we presented our finished caddies to rest of the P7 pupils.We had great day and came up with some really good designs.
