P7A Update to September

Dear Parents,

P7A have settled in really well to life in Primary 7, working hard and meeting high expectations whilst enjoying the learning experience.

So far this year there’s been a lot going on…

In maths there’s been a focus on revision of maths topics in preparation for the upcoming NSA assessments to give children more confidence and opportunity to achieve their best.

Mental maths has been using New Wave resource but we will switch things up to Big Maths after the September break.

We’ve also had our first transition event with teachers from Maths teachers from St. Margaret’s visiting to teach a maths lesson with this to continue throughout the year as we prepare for high school.

In Literacy we have been writing Recounts and have now just started work on Information Reports, this has been in preparation for our upcoming topic as Non-fiction writing will be the most useful preparation for this.

We are reading the excellent Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, using this for comprehension tasks and looking forward to watching the newly released animated movie when we finish the book.

In HWB we have established our Class Charter identifying how we will be Ready, Respectful and Safe in class and throughout the school. We’ve revisited Zones of Regulation and done some work on Fairtrade Fortnight. Fingers crossed for our competition entries.

In PE we aced the delayed P6 Deans Cluster Cross-country event, winning 1st place school for both boys and girls with so many top 10 places, but everyone gave it their all and represented the school with distinction. We now get to send children to the P7 event though that will be tougher with longer distance and hillier course! Best get in training now.

We have also had taster Judo sessions and they proved a big hot and lot of fun …

P7A have also been outside quite a bit, clearing up our own woodlands and trips to Deans Woods for conkers. We will be playing a game of conkers at some point soon though Mr McGurn hasn’t explained yet how the game is played… pictures for that to follow.

 

Here is the Forward Plan Overview for P7 in Term 1…

Lots of exciting learning opportunities lie ahead for P7A in the coming weeks and months, and we will share them here with our Lead Learners taking on the responsibility of blogging our learning journey.

Have a lovely September Weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A