Primary 7a had a very busy and very successful first term and we are sure that this will continue in term 2. The children are approaching the year with a very positive attitude and this is creating a lovely atmosphere in our classroom.
We recently enjoyed some Judo lessons in school and it was fun to watch the children enjoying a new experience, although I am not sure if they were as pleased to be thrown around the mat. However, some of the children did give the coach some serious competition!
The children have also participated in weekly swimming lessons at Clydebank Leisure Centre and it has been fantastic to watch the progress that they have all made in only 5 weeks. They are very determined to do well and the staff have commented on the effort that they are putting into their lessons.
Last week, we enjoyed our final Halloween Party at primary school. The children had gone to a lot of effort to ensure that they had fun or scary outfits. They all had a great time! We also used the Halloween theme for art and writing last week and I am extremely proud to say that the children produced excellent pieces of work for their writing assessments. I am quite sure that they would be delighted to tell you about the progress that they have made!
We have another busy term ahead of us between now and Christmas (is it too early to mention that word?). The children will be continuing with swimming lessons for the next 4 weeks, as well as taking part in cross country, netball, gaelic football and football tournaments.
On Thursday 23rd November, primary 7 have been invited along to Clydebank High School for their first transition visit. During the morning, they will all take part in a maths, literacy and health lesson. The children are looking forward to this and I am sure that they will do a great job in representing Clydemuir Primary.
We have arranged for a member of staff from Lochgoilhead Outdoor Centre to come along to the school at 3.15pm on Tuesday 14th November, to talk to parents and the children who will be coming to Lochgoilhead next year. This presentation will give you an insight into what will happen and what the children will be involved in during their 3 days away (and your 3 days of rest!) as well as giving you ideas of the clothing etc that the children are expected to take with them. I hope to see you all there!
LITERACY
This term, our new class novel will be Kensuke's Kingdom. The children will be encouraged to read aloud in class, as well as doing some independent reading at home and I would appreciate your help in supporting this. We will use our novel to complete comprehension tasks as well as reciprocal reading activities and writing.
The children recently completed writing assessments and now have their own personalised targets for this term. Each week, the children are encouraged to use these targets to help with their development in writing and they are enjoying having access to these.
NUMERACY
The children are continuing to enjoy a range of mental maths activities, which are done on a daily basis. We use 50 Club, number of the day, bingo and we recently started doing a times table challenge which the children thoroughly enjoy. We are also using websites such as Education City, Sumdog and Kahoot to reinforce new concepts taught in maths. All of these are accessible outside of school and children all have their own logins and passwords to use these. Maybe they could try them out at home and show you what they can do!
INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING
Our focus for learning this term is going to be on Food and Health and we are going to be looking at food packaging, the effects that the media and marketing can have and doing some research into the sugar content of some of our favourite food and drinks.
HOMEWORK
After discussions with the class, we have decided that each week we will have a different focus for our spelling homework and we will work on a 4 week rotation:
Week 1 - write words 3 times and complete an active task
Week 2 - write words 3 times and write 5 sentences
Week 3 - write words 3 times and write a short story using as many words as possible
Week 4 - write words 3 times
We also decided that the winners of our weekly table challenge would be given the opportunity to have a 'homework break' if they win. I would still encourage the children in the winning group to practise their words for the weekly spelling test, however they do not need to do any other homework for that week!
I hope that this information has been useful for you and we would love to hear your comments about our blog.
Mrs McBeth & Primary 7a
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