🌳 P7AL have embarked on a mission to make our school environment a little greener! 🌱🌍

Today, we've started planting fruit trees around our premises, not only to beautify our surroundings but also to contribute to a healthier ecosystem. 🍎🍐🍊

By planting these trees, we're not just enhancing the aesthetics of our space, but we're also providing habitats for local wildlife and helping to combat climate change. 🌿

From exploring antique toys to household items and Victorian clothing, we journeyed through the lifestyles of the past, gaining invaluable insights along the way.

Hands-on learning at its finest! 🏛🔍

Inspired by the talented Sarah Bowie, we immersed ourselves in her world, sketching vibrant characters. Adding a twist, we blended literature with maths, solving intriguing problems. To top it off, an Adobe Express live lesson fuelled our creativity, resulting in stunning posters showcasing our beloved books.

Under his guidance, they eagerly absorbed valuable skills such as passes, safe tackling techniques, and engaging team-building exercises.

These sessions not only honed their individual rugby abilities but also emphasised the importance of effective communication within a team setting.

Coach Jonny's expertise provided a dynamic and educational experience, leaving the P7s with newfound rugby knowledge and enhanced teamwork capabilities.

Their resilience shone through as they navigated the RGU grounds. 

The P7s demonstrated their commitment to making a positive impact, contributing to the success of the charitable endeavor.

We dove into Children's Mental Health Week with a fantastic workshop by EA Reach.

Engaging discussions about what matters to us, teamwork games encouraging communication, and a focus on finding out more about each other, made this an important and thought-provoking session. 

Huge thanks to EA Reach for fostering such a positive environment! 🙌

We spent the afternoon getting to know each other, doing some arts and crafts and reading stories together. 

We can't wait for our next buddy session! 

All of the P7s were so engaged and worked so well with the Red High pupils and their brilliant problem-solving activities 👏🏻

The P7s worked hard this week to create their very own board games for the P4 classes. Our board game theme was Shape and Space. P7AL designed some very innovative and creative board games, the P4s had a great time!

We took 10 minutes at 10am to read our class novel together. This gave us time to talk and discuss the book with each other, time to relax and escape into a great story. After our webinar with Susie Dent, we discovered that research has shown that when you read and write positive words more frequently, this can positively impact your mindset. 

We also had an Adobe Express Live Lesson in which we made posters using 'Adobe Create' to spread awareness of mental health and the importance of keeping a healthy, happy mind. 

We talked about how everyone is unique and ‘dyslexia is not a disadvantage, merely a different way of thinking’ - Richard Branson.

We had a great day celebrating all things ‘Spain’ 🇪🇸

The P7s were brave and tried new foods typically native to Spain. Eva brought in her beautiful castañuelas and Faye showed us some fabulous fans from her Spanish holidays!

A massive thank you to Josh who also made each child and adult a yummy Spanish cupcake. They were delicious!

Well done P7!

As an introduction to this topic we have been analysing the Stone Age cave painting as a method of communication, to warn other tribes, to decorate their homes and for entertainment.

The children have utilised pastel pencils and tea bags to create a blended, textured book to resemble the chalk and earth Neolithic people used. 

📚 Happy World Book Day 📚

To celebrate World Book Day we adopted the theme of ‘Harry Potter’ to influence our learning. This morning we had a potion lesson 🧪 We then took a trip to Gringott’s bank to exchange magical money and muggle money 💰 Today has been a reminder for the class that books are amazing and can transform our imagination and creative thinking!

We upcycled our old T-shirts to make new tote bags.

P7 really enjoyed the informative and interactive session and have learnt a lot about the fashion industry.

Fantastic effort from all the boys and girls! We are all so excited about our next session.

Over the past weeks we have researched the planets; their terrain, their temperatures and what order they orbit the sun.

We have collated some excellent facts about the Solar System and created iMovies to showcase these. 

Well done P7!

The class really enjoyed creating their own Space themed digital stories and this tied in really well with our current topic.

Brilliant effort from everyone today, well done!

Parents can view our digital stories on Google Classroom. 

Peter began creating his work when he became so fed up of wasting paint, that he started to use his left overs to create abstract backgrounds with a space theme. We liked this artist as it linked to our learning in World Around Us, and we thought his use of bold and bright colours really captured our own personal interpretations of Space.  

We have used oil pastels to achieve the abstract backgrounds as well as planet interpretations. The class used blending techniques to capture the three dimensional and multi tonal appearance of Space. In the foreground is the focal point: a rocket which pops out against the background.  

Well done P7!