Critical Thinking linked to World Cup Mascots

This morning Primary 7  have been doing some critical thinking about the World Cup Mascots from 1966 England's Willie to 2014 Brazil's Fuleco.

We had to consider a range of questions and discuss answers and justify reasons for our answers. 

"I thought my group worked well together.  We discussed our ideas but overall we were in agreement with each other and were able to present our arguments in a clear and consise way."  Niamh

 

 

 

 

These are the points we had to consider:

Which one is the most colourful? Odd One Out? Connect neighbours by shared feature.
Which are your favourite 3 and why?
Which mascot would make the best/worst pupil / teacher and why?
If you had to take parts of 4 mascots to make a new one, which mascots would you choose and why?

Angry Birds Angles

In Primary 7 this week we have been revising our knowledge of describing, naming, drawing and measuring angles.

To describe angles we have been using the vocabulary obtuse, right, obtuse and reflex.
We found a lovely PowerPoint to help explain the different sizes of angles.

http://www.powershow.com/view/3c090f-MTlhN/The_Angles_powerpoint_ppt_presentation


We then created some Angry Bird scenes and measured the angles to sling the birds to hit the targets.

Charlie's Angry Birds Angles.

 

To view the rest of our amazing examples view Mrs Lawrie's blog page.

 

http://mrslawriestcuthberts.blogspot.co.uk/

Write on!

Two weeks ago, our writing task was completely free choice. We were allowed to choose out genre and format and we are spending lots of time and effort to produce excellent pieces of work. There is a wide variety of writing including: diary entries, play scripts, comic strips, stories, news articles and reports. We started this process on 24th September and we hope to have them finished after the holidays with our best ever writing! As we have been writing, we have been thinking very carefully about all aspects of VCOP and aiming to up-level our work. We have been making good use of all our resources, including our peers, to assess and edit each draft.

We have been learning about World War 2 in many different ways and have created story boards using still images of our drama. Hopefully these will be finished before the holiday and can be added to our class Scrapbook.

Samples of our Scrapbooks

The P7 pupils have been busy lately.We have recently been designing new scrapbooks to our liking to replace the PLP folders. We are really excited about our scrapbooks as they are a new resource to the school and everyone is excited.The top scrapbook is Jack's, the right one is Katy's, the bottom one is Niamh's, and finally the left one is Adele's.

Our Dogfight Pictures

We have also been learnig about World W
ar 2 and that explains the second picture. In the picture it is a dog fight between British planes and a enemy planes and the spotlight's making it visible,the bottom plane art has a message which says battle of Britain aircraft.

A busy few weeks!

We have been so busy over the past few weeks. Our World War 2 study is well under way and we are learning so much every day. It was great to watch some clips of children during WW2 and imagining what life was like for them. We have written excellent imaginary letters to our parents asking to go on a dream school trip back in time, if only it were true! We used Touchnote to create postcards of our trip and hopefully they will arrive on our doorsteps soon. This week we formed our new cooperative learning groups and they have been a huge success already - you can check out our 'Cooperation Station' in this photo and our very creative team posters! We look forward to hearing your comments.

Primary 7

Welcome

Hello Primary 7 and friends!

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Mrs Malaczynska

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