Burns Supper

We are excited about beginning to plan and prepare for our Burns Supper in January! We will be learning all about Robert Burns and reciting some of his most famous work.

School Camp

It’s the highlight of P7! We will be having a meeting to discuss our upcoming trip in February to Lendrick Muir school camp. At the meeting we can discuss any questions or concerns you have. An email/letter/tweet will be sent your way in January!

During the first week of term, the P7 pupils created a Class Charter. We

discussed the importance of children having rights and thought about how we are each responsible for ensuring those

rights. In groups, we then worked together to create rules and expectations which we think are important for a happy and productive classroom. Here they are!

We will make sure that we use positive language and make positive choices when we feel angry or upset. We will

think about our resilience strategies to help us!

We need to use our growth mindset strategies to help us to challenge

Lego Competition

Sone of the P7s were lucky enough to be given the opportunity to participate in the biggest STEM competition in the world run by LEO and Napier Uni and I am delighted to say they came 4th out of 14 schools- well done guys!

MILITARY MUSEUM TRIP

The P7s had a fantastic day out at the Military Museum in Wilkieston where they got to look at some incredible exhibits and handle some weapons. They were also given a tour of a trench Ian made based on the trenches used in the war. It was a fantastic trip and well worth a visit if you fancy it!

Play for Peace Concert

Three of our P7 girls were selected to read WW1 poems at a special Remembrance Day Concert at Napier University. They read beautifully in front of

Sighthill Primary School

Wee enough to care,

big enough to inspire!

Growing Together

Safely Happily Successfully

Maths and Numeracy –We will begin to work on developing competency skills for multiplication and division. Specifically, being able to use different and effective strategies for solving different for multiplication and division calculations, including the Chinese method of multiplication-which is a lot of fun!)Literacy – within literacy, we will be continuing to develop our writing skills, paying close attention to imaginative and functional writing, which will link closely to our WW2 topic. We will continue to focus on comprehension skills and grammar & punctuation work, ensuring we carry it over into our everyday written work. Health and Wellbeing – we will continue to develop our growth mindset and work on creating and maintaining positive relationships in the classroom and out, in preparation for school camp.IDL – our topic will be WW2, a brilliant topic to learn about. We will look at many aspects of the war. We will focus on researching and analysing information from different sources.

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Maths and Numeracy -We have successfully covered addition & subtraction, and can now use one or more strategies to complete questions. The children are able to describe, plot and record the location of different coordinates and managed to create fun emoji pictures using their skills! We have also been working weekly on problem solving work, completing it as a group or in pairs. We quickly learned all our angles and will continue to reinforce what we have learned.

Literacy- We have focused a lot on our tools for writing, particularly on using descriptive language and various techniques such as alliteration, similes and metaphors. We are continuously trying to up-level our written work. We enjoyed working on our “6 word stories” written work inspired by Ernest Hemmingway. We have also analysed different pieces of writing and extracted the

relevant information to create a new piece of text. We are continuing to read daily in class and will begin a new class novel linked to our new topic.

Health and Wellbeing- The children have settled well into Primary 7 life. We are continuing to spend time working on peer relationships, expectations for the year and using our growth mindset strategies. We have had a very busy few months and have been working exceptionally hard in school and outside school with all our community and external links.

IDL -We completed our Titanic topic and enjoyed

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Our Learning Journey so far…

Where will our learning go next?