Congratulations to all our P7 Cross Country Runners.

On Saturday 21st November 26 of our runners took part in the Cross
Country Competiton at Mugdock. Despite difficult conditions- and the
odd lost shoe- they won an amazing total of 14 medals.
In
the P7 girls race, Catriona Booth finished first winning gold and
Caitlin Trotter came in second to win silver. They also won first team
place along with Lauren Lyon who came in 8th. Robyn Taylor came in 16th
and Rachel Stevenson 22nd.
In the boys event John Brechany finished 8th, Nikki O'Brien 14th,  Euan Burns 29th , 
and Luke Rusell 33rd.
Congratulations to each and every one of you.
We are very proud of you all :-)

Privy Room Uncut?

Another busy couple of weeks for Primary 7... have a read at our thoughts!

On FRIDAY THE 13th, we started practicing social dancing for our Christmas Dance.  The jury's still out on whether we LOVE the dancing with a partner bit, however we are really looking forward to getting all dressed up... it is only a few weeks away now!


On Saturday the 14th of November, 20 runners from P5-7 took part in the first cross country race of the season.  Brendan and Euan commented on their performance in the boys' race:  

"It was really really really muddy and we were really slow!"   

Even though it was a very muddy Saturday morning, we still managed to achieve fantastic results;  In the P7 girls' race Catriona Booth finished 3rd, Caitlin Trotter 7th and Lauren Lyon 14th. This means the girls won the 1st team place - 11 points ahead of the team in 2nd place!! Well done to everyone who took part!

Our Privy Room from the book Carries War which we are reading as part of our reciprocal teaching, is totally finished!!! It has now got a little garden with a wall behind and we made a shovel for its compost heap which would no doubt start to mount up very quickly!! (Yeugh!) 

We are now going to use it like the Diary Room in Big Brother and make a movie, its sooo exciting!! We are going to dress up as different characters from World War II and make Privy Room entries on camera.  We have all been busy planning out exactly what we want our characters to be like; we know everything about their backgrounds and we even know what they are going to be talking about once they get in there.  We will all get a chance to make a short clip and we are starting our filming next week!! It's going to be GREAT!! Definitely STAY TUNED as there will be some very memorable characters making an appearance that's for sure!! We can't wait!!


We tea stained our Evacuation Letters this week to make them look old and slightly crispy - they now look FANTASTIC! Check out our photos of them down the side of our blog!


In class we also wrote a story called "THE BELLIGERENT BLITZ!" which was about the emotions and panic which people faced when an air raid siren went off during The Blitz of WW2.  We are going to upload our pieces of writing to our WW2 group on Glow so that we can read and peer assess them.

Miss Gallacher has been teaching us about The Holocaust.  The best part was learning about a Jewish man called Ernest Levi.  He was an amazing man because unlike so many people, he managed to survive! We watched a video about him when he was in school and he was talking about his distraught life during WW2.  It was very sad learning about the concentration camps!

In other non WW2 related news...  **CONGRATULATIONS**  to the seven primary 7s who attained their Level D maths this week, they should all be really proud of themselves!

Our resident origami expert Raymond was invited along to primary 6 room 17 to show Mr M's class some of his fantastic paper creations on Friday.  GO RAYMOND!  



Finally... On Friday the 20th of November, as a school we decided to "Do Something Different" for Children in Need.  Everyone (even the teachers!) took part in a Pyjama Day... it was so much fun! The Pupil Council, along with some primary 7 helpers, ran a Swap Shop and we had a raffle and lots more!  Everyone had to pay a fine for not wearing our uniforms - it was worth it to be so comfy though! 

DRUM ROLL.... Bearsden Primary managed to raise £435 for Children in Need!!  Well done everyone!!

PHEW!! Another week over... Have a great weekend everyone!!


Written by Primary 7, Room 19 - via email.

Celebrity Skydivers!

Bearsden P7 teacher L. Russell and last year's P2 teacher C. Sheldon will be making a celebrity appearance in the Bearsden and Milngavie Herald's next issue, celebrating their fantastic skydives which they did in October to help raise a huge amount of money for Mphunzi School in Malawi.

Make sure you get yourselves a copy of the newspaper and show all your friends and family!!

Here are another couple of photos as a sneak preview...

READY...SET...JUMP...!!!

 

(We think this flying chipmunk impression is ace! hehe!!)

CROSS COUNTRY 21st November 09

CROSS COUNTRY

The next race is on Saturday 21st November 09. Details are listed
below.

VENUE Craigend Visitor Centre, Mugdock Country Park,
near Milngavie

RACE TIME Primary 5 Boys and Girls – 2.2km – 10am
Primary 6 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.20am
Primary 7 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.40am
All distances approximate

ENTRY FEE £2 per athlete per race

RESULTS Results will also be posted on the
internet at www.garscubeharriers.co.uk Click on the Downloads page.

Names and money have to be given
to school by Thursday 19th November AT THE LATEST as names have to be
forwarded to the event organizers.

The Privy Room is complete!!!.... and a lot lot more!!

Another great week in the life of P7 Room 19...

Wahoo! We finally finished our WW2 garden privy!

It looks good enough to use and it even has it's own

toilet paper...awesome!! (If you like the feel of

newsprint that is!!) Updates to follow on our

“Privy Room” adventures!

This week we painted our German U-boats which

look amazing! It was lots of fun but very messy :)

U-boats were German war submarines which went

under the surface of the water.

We have also been making paper Japanese aircraft

to represent the attack on Pearl Harbor; the

significant point during WW2 which caused the

US to enter the war. We have started to hang them

up around the classroom.

Work on our WW2 personal project began this

week too. We had to email Mrs Russell our

introductions so she could give us feedback. In

language we learned how to skim text in books

and online to help us understand the meaning

of a source quickly and allow us to decide

whether it would be useful to us in our research.

We started learning a bit about the Holocaust

and how Anne Frank was involved. We began

making Holocaust Journals... a bit like Anne

Frank's diary!

Our evacuation letters are almost finished now.

We had to write them in the old style handwriting

which was difficult but looks great! We can't believe

that's how people used to be taught how to write!!

The letters 'f, s, r, h and k' were favourites!

Some of the girls in primary 7 have been getting

together at lunchtimes to start planning a dance

for the Bearsden and Milngavie dance festival.

It's for primary seven girls, and they have to
make up a dance and choose some music and then

perform it at Milngavie Town Hall on Monday

the 30th of November. There are ten girls in the
dance group and they are working with Catriona

Sheilds who is helping a bit with the dancing and

supervising. It's really fun and it's a nice way to

spend a cold lunch time!

In other news, we finished watching a dvd about

racism on Monday with Mrs Monkman, and on

Wednesday we played a great game in the gym called

“Cat and Mouse” with Mrs Russell... it was hilarious!

And finally... a huge well done to the Indian Dance girls

who performed at George Square last weekend. It

was a cold and wet day, but they carried on regardless

and brought home trophies for all their hard work!

Photos to follow we hope...!

Sayonara ;) !

Written by P7 Room 19... via email!

Anderson Shelters, U-boats and Japanese Aircraft over Pearl Harbor...

Anderson Shelters...

German U-Boats...

Japanese Aircraft over Pearl Harbor...