Primary 7
Mrs May has twenty-seven pupils in her Primary 7 class this year.
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Sports
- House Captains were elected before the Sports Afternoon. They encouraged
everyone who took part to do their best and organised the P4 to P7 relay race
which was the thrilling finale to the sports. The Cortachy Captains, Tamara and
Morgan, collected the House Trophy on behalf of everyone in Cortachy House.
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Following an exciting competition for the Southesk Sports Championship this year, the winners were announced at the end of the Sports Afternoon. From Easter to the morning of Sports Day six different events took place - standing long jump, high jump, long distance run, sprint, cricket ball throw and basket ball shoot. Points were awarded for each event resulting in Tamara being the winner for the girls with joint runners-up Caitlin and Megan. The boys' winner was Jordan and Kai was the runner-up. Throughout the competition and at the School Sports the sportsmanship was excellent. Everyone tried their best, had fun and cheered the efforts made by all. Follow this link to see some pictures.
Dalguise - 19 of the class, Mrs Cooper and Mrs May had a fantastic time at the PGL Activity Centre at Dalguise, Perthshire. You can find out more and see some pictures by clicking here.
Wild
Place - We wanted to see the work done by the GSK volunteers who had made a
great start to digging a pond in the Wild Area to
here are a few photographs taken of
the pond and some of the flourishing growth too.
Montrose Academy Library - P7 pupils visited the library to improve their research skills and find out more about what lies ahead for them next session.
Bodyworks - P7 had the opportunity to learn about about their bodies in a fun, hands-on way when the Glasgow Science Centre and GlaxoSmithKline visited the school. To see what happened follow this link.
Health/Eco Week - One of the challenges P7 did as part of their focus on health and Eco Schools was to design and make a game to encourage players to be healthy and eco-friendly. The games were great fun and if you click here you will see the pupils playing them.
Signs of Spring - Some of the class found some signs of spring in the Wild Place which you can see by clicking here.
Fractions Posters - Click here to see the posters the class made.
P4
Board Games - P7 were delighted to have the chance to play the board games
P4 had designed and made.
Click here to find out more.
Maths Puzzle Day - On Monday 8th
March P7 went to Montrose Academy to play maths games.
Here are some pictures and more
details.
World Book Day - P7 joined with P1 for paired reading (you can see some pictures of this by following this link) after taking part in a whole school ERIC in the gym. We also made small banners of our favourite books and designed our own book covers.
Water Rescue - The whole class went
to Montrose Swimming Pool to have a fun afternoon learning some serious lessons
about keeping themselves safe and knowing how to help anyone in difficulty near
water. Click here to see what they got up to.
Geology Workshop - We are learning about the structure of the Earth so it was really good to have an expert, Steven Wright, come to our classroom to tell us about rocks and volcanoes. You can see pictures of the workshop by clicking here.
Carbon Footprint - P6 and P7
calculated the size of their carbon footprints. Sarah explained how to do it
then helped everyone to
find ways of causing less damage to the Earth by cutting our production of CO2.
Click here to see some pictures.
Enterprise
Event - Primary 7 pupils took part in the Montrose Academy Cluster Enterprise
Event on Friday 19th February. The event lasted all day and they worked in
co-operative groups with pupils from other Montrose Primary schools to solve
various Eco problems. If you follow
this link you will see some of what they were doing.
P7 have had two visitors in the last few days. On Friday 5th February Ferryden's P7 pupils came to Southesk to join us in listening to Alex Johnston MSP talk about the changes we all need to make to achieve the targets set by the government to reduce our energy use. He also explained some of the different forms of energy generation, such as wind and hydro power. Mr Johnson gave us lots of interesting information which should help everyone on the Enterprise Event Day at Montrose Academy on Friday 19th February.
Shokk Kombat - P7 joined P5 in two taster sessions of Shokk Kombat. P6 had their own sessions. This was energetic fun giving everyone lots of exercise and anyone interested in doing more could go along to the Sports Centre to find out more. Here are some pictures of P7 in action.
World War 2, the Home Front - Here are some pictures of the work done by the class to make a book about some specific aspects of the war as part of their studies on the subject.
On Monday 8th February Nigel Watson came to school and he brought a World War 2 vehicle with him. Following a fascinating explanation of the desert vehicle we went inside and some pupils had the opportunity to try on a variety of real uniforms from World War 2. There are more details and some pictures which you can see if you click here.
Maths - Follow this link to see the class, working co-operatively, to measure things outside having first estimated their length. They also measured objects in the classroom then completed a table with their results.
At last we managed to have the final of the
Boomerang Competition. A mixture of being really busy and the weather meant it
had to
be postponed several times. After all the amendments made to the
boomerangs, following earlier test flights, everyone was pretty pleased at the
way their boomerangs flew. If
you click here you can see the winners and find out more about the competition.
On
Friday 22nd January P7 held a Burns Supper and Scottish Country Dancing
afternoon. Almost eighty guests, including P6 and members of staff, squeezed
into the P7 classroom to enjoy haggis, neeps and tatties, shortbread and tablet,
speeches, poems, music and fun. There were excellent performances and lots of
hard-working helpers to ensure the event was a great success. Well done P7!
After the feasting and entertainment everyone joined the rest of the school in
the dancing.
Our
Christmas party had a bit of a French theme but most of all there was food and
fun. Follow this link to see some of
the games.
Sophie is French and she has been coming to help us to learn to speak French with good pronunciation. She has also answered our questions and played games with us. Everyone has enjoyed her visits so we were sad to say goodbye to her as she has gone back to France. You can see the fun we had on her last day with us by clicking here.
The boomerang making and testing has carried
on through this term. Here are some
pictures of our test flights.
Everyone in P7 helped the school to make Children in Need fundraising a great success. Click here to see what we did.
Safe Angus - Click here to find out more about our day at Tannadice.
PhotoArch -
The class went for a walk
in the area around our school to take pictures of buildings and structures that
interested us for the PhotoArch competition.
Follow this link to see the
excellent photographs that were taken.
The class had a particularly busy day on
Friday 25th September as they were all helping at
the
MacMillan
Coffee Morning followed immediately
by presenting their class assembly, on the theme of Australia, to the whole
school and P7 parents. You can see
a few pictures of their assembly by following this link.
Also
on the subject of Australia groups gave their presentations to the class before
the October holiday and
pictures of this can be seen
by clicking here.
Here they are being very thoughtful.
They have been settling in to being the oldest pupils at Southesk and have been working co-operatively on various tasks and if you follow this link you can see a little of what they've been doing.