Happy new year to everyone! I can't believe that we are in term 3 already. As always, it is going to be another busy few weeks for us, especially as it is almost time for our residential trip to Lochgoilhead.
LOCHGOILHEAD
We leave on Wednesday 7th March at 9.15am and come back on Friday 9th March. The children are already very excited and have now written down their choices for who they would like to share a room with. Mrs Barclay and I are open to bribes (in the form of chocolate!). As a group, we have also decided on our activities. Our daytime activities will be kayaking, raft building, Jacob's Ladder and rock climbing and our evening activities will be Night Line and Robot Wars. Each of these activities looks and sounds like it will be a lot of fun!
LITERACY
Both primary 7 classes will be reading Divided City as their class novel this term. As this novel is based in Glasgow, we will be looking at the history of the city as well as finding out about famous scots, landmarks and sporting culture. This book focuses on a divide in Glasgow with the emphasis on religion and football. We will also look at discrimination and sectarianism in other cultures and beliefs. Our novel will link to our topic for this term which is Scotland.
As part of our novel study, the children will take part in a workshop with the charity 'Nil by Mouth' on Thursday 25th January. This workshop educates children on sectarianism and the effects in Scotland.
We are very lucky to have the opportunity to spend a day on the Glasgow City Sightseeing bus which will collect us from the school on Thursday 22nd February and take us to some of the famous landmarks in Glasgow as well as the areas which are used in the setting of the story. This was a hugely successful trip last year and the children are very excited about exploring their city.
MATHS
P7a will be working on fractions, decimals and percentages this term as well as being introduced to algebra. P7b will revise some whole number concepts as well as learning about data handling and time.
OTHER INFO
Primary 7b will start swimming lessons on Thursday 18th January. This will continue for 10 weeks.
Our Robert Burns competition will take place on Thursday 25th January. Each class will put forward 3 children. Primary 7a are learning 'Address to the toothache' and p7b are learning 'My love is like a red red rose'. The winner from each class will then take part in a Burns competition in Knoxland Primary School.
FINALLY
Our senior children will be auditioning for their annual school show in the middle of term 3. The show will take place at the end of May and therefore scripts will be distributed in the next few weeks to allow children time to prepare for their auditions and then learn their part in the lead up to the Easter holidays. The children will be performing a comedy play called 'Cinderella and Rockerfella'.
Thank you!
Mrs McBeth
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