P7A 2024/25

Setting and Characters

We have been looking at Francis, a short story with a tense and spooky atmosphere. This will inspire our writing next week, and today we used our artisitic skills to sketch our charcter in our tense and spooky setting.

Term 3 Overview

Click the document icon to the right to access our Term 3 Overview, detailing the events and learning that will take place this term.

Time for Some Fun

In maths today, we were practising telling the time. We made headbands, then attached clocks to them and had to ask questions to find out what time was showing on our clock. It was really funny!

Get Sketching

With some of our Parent Council money this year, we have purchased these fabulous sketch books to help with our art. We explored styles of writing to create a front cover, and have already started looking at shading.

Christmas Lunch

Today was our Christmas Lunch. We helped our P1 buddies to pull their crackers and shared with them the Christmas stories we had been writing just for them. It was a lovely day and a delicious lunch! CLick on the photo to the right to see more photos.

P7 Christmas Party

We had a fantastic time at our P7 Christmas Party. We played lots of games including Musical Arms, Pass the Parecel and Corners. We also did some dancing including the Canadian Barn Dance and the Gay Gordons. We were really pleased to have some great S5 and S6 helpers from the IRA to support us. And a huge thank you to all the families who donated our delicious party food. We are definitely in the festive spirit now!

Children in Need Success

A huge congratulations and thank you to Ashie House Team for organising our Children in Need event on Friday 15th November. The team held a dress down day and ran stalls and activities in the muga. They raised the fantastic sum of £351.42!

Trip to UHI Newton Room

P7A had a fantastic trip to the UHI's STEM hub, the Newton Room. We learned all about energy - where it comes from, how it is used and how it can be turned into electricity. We explored different types of energy and looked at how energy moves, changes and can be wasted. We created our own batteries using wires and a glass of coke, and then created circuits to use that energy in different ways! It was great fun and really interesting. Thank you so much to the parent helpers who helped make this happen, and to our fabulous leader Tim! Here are some photos from the day. Click on the link here to see the full folder of photos.

Dr Cummins' Maths Lesson

We are so lucky at Lochardil to have the IRA maths teacher Dr Cummins deliver 2 maths lessons a term with our P7s. This helps him to get to know what we can do, and our P7s to become familiar with him and the style of secondary school lessons. This week, he challenged us to draw complicated shapes without lifting our pencils or going over any lines twice. Here is the website he used in case anyone wants to try these at home!

https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/without/

Well done to our Lochardil Girls Football Team who competed in their first tournament of the season this weekend! They did really well and showed real determination and team spirit. Great representatives for our school. Well done!

Term 2 Overview

Please click the link to the right to view our Termly Overview for P7s for Term 2. This gives lots of information about events, activities and learning opportunities for this term.

S'mores

To celebrate Halloween and as a reward for the fantastic work we did at the Halloween Disco, we had a campfire and made S'mores.

Maths Relay

For the last day of term, Mrs Scotson's Maths Class did a Maths Relay. In teams of 4, teams worked on one maths question at a time, testing out all of their skills. The speed and competition defintiely got our classs inspired and the teams were working furiously to try to figure out the correct answers before the other teams. The winning team - Team Do-nut - answered 6 questions correctly with all teams close behind.

Restart a Heart Day

Our class took part in national Restart A Heart Day and practised what to do in an emergency. We watched a Live Stream by the Scottish Ambulance Service. We all had a go at CPR. This really important skill might help one our pupils one day, and is definitely worthwhile.

Open Morning - 08/10/24

We were delighted to have lots of our parents and families in our clasroom this week for our open morning. We carried on the theme of Health and Wellbeing and did some leadership and team building activities. We built the tallest towers out of spaghetti - which turned into huge structures! We Passed the Mic and answered some fun and interesting Would You Rather questions. We built our future goals out of lego, and we did a blindfold drawing game where we had to use our description skills to help our blindfolded partner draw our picture. There was lots of noise and activity. lots of fun and lots of learning. Click the arrows by the photo to see more.

Archive Centre Trip

Our P7s had a fantastic and interesting trip to the Archive Centre today. We learned all about the centre and it's role before getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the vaults and conservation lab. Our class were really interesting in the conservation work and learned that the oldest document they hold is from 1299! The Archive Centre staff had also looked out some interesting photos, maps and documents including the speeches and leaflets from the day our school opened and some maps of Inverness from the 19th Century.

Click on the photos here to see lots of other photos from our day.

IRA Visitors

We have been really lucky this week to have three IRA teachers visit our classroom. Every week, we have PE on a Wednesday with head of IRA PE Mr Morrison. This week, we were looking at basketball drills. Dr Cummins from the maths department is coming in every 4 weeks to cover some core maths skills with us. This week we were focusing on strategies for subtraction. And Mrs Kish from the geography department also came in this week and did a lesson on map symbols. We loved the map symbols bingo activity. These sessions really help us meet and get to know some of the staff that might be our teachers next year, and allow us to ask any questions we might have. They also show us that IRA lessons might not be as difficult as we imagine!

Maths In Action

This week, Mrs Scotson's maths class have been looking at simplifying and equivalent fractions. We loved this active learning activity where we worked in teams to find the matching sets of equivalent fractions. We also loved fractions problem solving to challenge our understanding of how fractions work. See if you can figure these out?

Chess Club

Well done to Kenny on his first successful Chess Club session! We had 4 really exciting games on the go and sorted out all our chess sets for next week. Chess Club is available for all P6s and P7s on a Tuesday lunch time so come along and test your strategies!

Cauliflower Cards

We don't like to mention the C word this early, but we are getting all prepared for our Cauliflower Christmas Cards today. Look at some of these fab christmas bauble designs, just the silver ribbon to add. Forms have gone home tonight with instructions of how to turn these designs into Christmas Cards, wrapping paper or even mugs.

Tea and Chat

Today, we started a really cool P7A tradition of Tea and Chat - a hot beverage and a blether. Today's topic of conversation was "What should be keep in our classroom", talking about the activities or ideas that we like and that are going well. Our biscuit of choice was the custard cream and the most popular beverage was hot chocolate. Cheers and Pinkies Up!

Kirking of the Council

Thank you so much to the House and Vice Captains who represented our school so well yesterday at the Kirking of the Council. We paraded through the streets of Inverness with our flag before attending a church service at Ness Bank Church on the theme of Kindness. Then we were invited back to the Town House for a reception where we met lots of VIPs and enjoyed some lovely food. We are so proud at how well you all represented the values of Lochardil. Click on the picture to the left to access more photos from the day.

Term 1 Overview

Click on the file icon to the right to access our overiew for Term 1. This includes lots of information about the work we will be covering this term as well as some important dates.

Microbits

This week, we were introduced to Microbits - small programmable computers that will help us develop our coding skills. We learned about different inputs, programming the buttons to display different emotions and then using logic to create a Heads and Tails coin flipper. They are a lot of fun and there are lots of possibilities to explore. Click on the arrows by the picture here to see more photos of our learning.

Our Values

As we have been building our P7 Class Charter, we have also been learning about Values. We have explored lots of different values and identified the ones that are important to us. Then, we created these Value Shields to help us use our values in difficult situations.

P7 would like you to meet the House and Vice Captain teams for this year. We look forward to watching them build their leadership skills and represent our houses and our school.

Welcome to P7, Class of 2025!!

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