WWII at Scotland Street School and The People's Palace!

Primary 7 had an excellent time last week exploring what life was like during The Second World War.  

We visited Scotland Street School in Glasgow where we got to dress up as kids from 1939 and take part in a morning's lesson at school with our very own strict school master Mr Valentine!  He was so different to the teachers we have in school today, he even brought out the dunce hat and the belt at one point! (Ahhh!)  

Model students?... pah!

At The People's Palace we got to take part in a rationing workshop where we found out what it was like for people trying to buy food fairly during the war.   

A week's ration

We also got to try out some of the war time artifacts; a baby's gas mask chamber, an ARP hat and some mend and make do clothing!  It was lots of fun! 

Baby's gas mask chamber

Lastly, we had a task to find out how many people could sleep comfortably in an Anderson Shelter over night.  Although we weren't in there long enough to actually sleep over night in it, we had great fun experimenting with how many of us could fit in! 

Our two groups came up with different suggestions:

1) 2 adults and 4 children

or...

2) 13 children!! (4 on each bench and 5 lying like squished sausages on the floor!)

Which would you think is the most comfortable now? ...hmmm!!

Clydebank Blitz

Overall it was an excellent day out and we learned a lot about what life would have been like for us if we had been around during those difficult war years.

Mrs R has posted the photo PDFs on Glow in the Primary 7 documents folder so log on and check them out!

Christmas Invasion!

Happy 1st of December everyone!

Our Christmas concert rehearsals are now well under way for our amazing show entitled Christmas Invasion... we won't tell you any more so as not to spoil the plot surprise, but it's not just an invasion of SNOW that has appeared in Bearsden this winter!!

Our dress rehearsal is this Friday and then our big performances are next week on Tuesday the 7th and Wednesday the 8th of December.  Contact the school office for tickets!

A Christmas Invasion over Bearsden...?!

The backdrop is now up and the classes are sounding fantastic on stage, well done to Mrs Park and all of the teachers and support staff for helping us out!!

Good luck to everyone taking part!

Bearsden Bandits!

After 6 weeks of Geocache adventuring in the great outdoors, P7 Room19's Bearsden Bandits club has sadly come to an end.  Our Geocaching club has been a great success with us exploring Mugdock Country Park in all weather conditions; our wellies definitely came in handy on more than one occasion that's for sure! We end our club for the season with a total of 7 finds and zero DNFs!! (We rock!!)

We are looking forward to the club starting back up in the spring so that we can go on some more adventures with WeeLezalee and Lowriepops!

Mugdock Gunrange!

Mrs R has posted the photo PDFs of our adventures in the Primary 7 Documents folder on Glow, so log on and check them out!

Until next time..... BEWARE OF THE MUGGLES!!!!

Halloween Discos

The House Captains and Vice Captains did a fantastic job organising and running discos for Primary 4&5 and Primary 6&7 to celebrate Halloween last month.

There was a fantastic tuck shop, dookin' for apples, some awesome tunes from the DJ and some super scary costumes! (Even the teachers managed to dress up for the night, although we are not sure whether their new looks were an improvement or not! Hehe!)

Miss Livia and Mrs Russell...?!

Check out all our photos of the night on Glow - you'll find them in the All Bearsden Pupils group!

Termly Update - Term 2

Primary 7 have had a very successful first term.  They have been enjoying the World War II topic and lots have taken part in events within and outwith school. 

This next term Primary 7 will be continuing work on World War II, focusing more on the Holocaust as well as the events which led to the end of the war.  Both classes will be going to the Theatre Royal in November to see a production of the novel Carrie's War which they have enjoyed reading in class.  Everyone is looking forward to the trip to Scotland Street School and the People's Palace as well.

In other news, lots of work will be going into our Christmas Concert this term, with Primary 7 focusing on songs from the Naughties!  The classes have rewritten some popular songs from The Charts and given them a Christmassy feel!

A super term lies a head for Primary 7 so be sure to check back on our blog for updates on our adventures!

What A Great Week!

UPDATE!! This week in Primary 7 we have had a great time! We did lots of exciting work as part of our World War II topic and on Friday we had an active day to help raise money for our school playground. Have a read at our thoughts…

“This week in P7 Room 19 we did great things - especially on Friday! In the morning we all got to come to school dressed down, everyone had been asked to bring in their Wii games and first of all we played Super Mario Bros Wii and then after that we played Guitar hero until lunch. After lunch we went to gym and did a special obstacle course where there were two teams, the white team won.”

By Kera and Dharia

“It's been a great Friday this week. I loved playing on the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS we should do it every week! (I still like doing our topic on World War 2 though.)”

By Euan

Guitar Hero CHAMPIONS!

“This (Friday) is the best day we have had at school.”

By Sarah and Katie

“I also really liked doing the Black Out freeze frames this week. I have had a good week!”

By Usaama

“At gym on Wednesday we had great fun playing bench ball.”

By Jamie

“Friday was a good day - we had a fun active day to raise money for the school playground. In class we were allowed on the Wii and to play on our DS then we had a fun batch of activities in the gym.”

By Paul and Tom

“This week we wrote a poem about Blitz Blasters which had to have onomatopoeias in them. We found out that to spell onomatopoeia easily it goes to the tune of Old Mcdonald Had A Farm! Friday was our active day and we had the BEST DAY EVER!!”

By Harleen and Olivia

“We made great Blitz artwork and wore fabulous outfits on Friday as part of our active day to raise money for the playground!”

By Cara and Heather

Our London Blitz artwork on our classroom window!

How To Survive The Blackout!

We can survive The Blackout!

Primary 7 Room 19 are now experts at surviving a World War II style blackout... from hanging curtains, avoiding 10 shilling fines and counting to 15, to painting white lines on lamp posts, clothing and even cows, their freeze frames tell it all!!

How to put up blackout curtains without getting arrested!

How to avoid attack from those pesky German bombers!

How to avoid walking into lamp posts and injuring pedestrians! 

How to count to 15, avoid the cows and use those headlamp covers!

SLF Lego Rocked!!

We had the best time at the Scottish Learning Festival on Wednesday!  SLF Lego in the morning was brilliant and then we had a great time exploring all of the other stalls in the afternoon with Mrs Russell and Mrs Park.

BPS SLF Lego Team with a very cool robot!

Our morning was split into two sessions; Lego Challenge and either Stop Frame Animation or Green Screen Filming. 

The Lego Challenge was excellent - we got to make ducks, a giant, a spinning top and football goals and fans.  We used the WeDo Lego software to programme our models so that they reacted in a way that was specific to our design criteria.  It was so much fun!!


The Stop Frame Animation challenge let us create a model based on a giant creepy spider and then we continued to reposition and photograph it until our short film sequences were complete - our creepy spidery models liked to eat EVERYTHING!!

The Green Screen filming using iMovie was a favourite with everyone who tried it out.  We got to film ourselves as robots and then make us appear in different images on screen.  We then altered our voices to make ourselves sound even more roboty and we added musical effects.  The finished films are hilarious!!

Overall it was such an amazing day and we are now all very excited about sharing our knowledge of how the WeDo Lego software works with our friends in school.

Mrs Russell has made a little film of our day which we showed to our friends back in class on Thursday.   They were all really impressed!
To watch our film, click play...

We are really proud of our achievements and Mrs Russell said we were a credit to our school.

BPS SLF Lego Team!

Girls' Netball Festival

Well done to all of the Primary 7 girls who took part in the Active Schools Netball Festival at The Allander Leisure Centre on Wednesday after school.  We had enough girls for almost 3 teams and everyone had a great time... even Mrs Templeton and Mrs Russell were desperate to get involved to brush up on their skills for the pupil vs staff netball game in June!! We are looking forward to more netball tournaments being hosted by the local schools in the near future... stay tuned!

SLF Lego!

The BPS SLF Lego team have been getting very creative with our WeDo Lego kit over the last two weeks in school to prepare for the Scottish Learning Festival at the SECC on Wednesday 22nd September.

Advertising!
We will be appearing on the RM stand between 10am and 12.15pm at The Scottish Learning Festival and in order to advertise ourselves we had a little competition to design a flier which RM would have printed for us to hand out to passers by on Wednesday! We each created our own flier with a Lego theme and then we got together and discussed which one we thought would represent BPS the best. After much discussion we decided that Lewis' flier would be the winning entry and we have uploaded them all onto the SLF Lego Glow group with Lewis' flier being the one to be printed!

  

Construction!

We decided to create Lego models based around the theme of our World War II topic and last Thursday we completed our model Spitfire plane which connects via USB to the computer to both power the motorised propellor and enabled us to create sound bites which, after much discussion about timings, meant that our Spitfire sounds like it can drop bombs and fire guns!

After this we split our group into two; one group focused on creating extras using other Lego pieces to make a scene from the Clydebank Blitz, whilst the other group got busy on creating an instruction manual on how to build our Spitfire.

Our Clydebank Blitz scene is now complete - it has a large crane like the Titan Crane at Clydebank and it has a ship which we have tried to make look like an old replica sitting in the River Clyde.  We researched old ships and cranes online and that gave us some ideas for our construction.  We think that with the help of some green screen technology (as well as a green jumper sleeve and a green rubber glove!), our Spitfire should be able to fly over our river scene to Clydebank with its propellor spinning, firing guns and this time STOP the Luftwaffe from creating a path of destruction similar to that of 70 years ago!

Instruction Manual!
We completed our instruction manual on Friday there and it is fantastic! We deconstructed our Spitfire and using the same style as a real Lego instruction booklet, we drew each section of the plane, took photos of them and illustrated how it all fits together.  We then used Comic Life to create our own Lego instruction booklet using all of our drawings and photographs.  We have inserted captions as a guide and we are looking forward to seeing if our class mates can build our Spitfire from it too!!

If you would like to see our instruction booklet or try to make the Spitfire for yourself, click on the link below. (It is a large file so please be patient!)

Bearsden Lego Spitfire 

We can't wait for SLF Lego on Wednesday and we are really excited to find out what sorts of animation and green screen technology films we  will be creating too!


Inayah, Jamie, Paul, Lewis, Victoria, Abigail, Tom, Rennie and Mrs Russell!

Termly Update: September 2010

The P7s are really excited about their final year in Bearsden Primary School and want to make it their best year yet!

Topic  The topic this term is WWII.  The classes will be using Reciprocal Reading skills to enjoy the book 'Carrie's War' by Nina Bawden.  An exciting theatre trip has also been planned to see a production of Carrie's War in Glasgow in November.  As part of the WWII topic, P7's RME will be looking at Judaism and Jewish Holocaust.

In Music, the P7s are also going to script, act and film their own music video based on classic WWII songs.

So far we have looked at the events leading up to the start of WWII, Hitler's background, 1939 and 1940.  We have been particularly enjoying researching evacuation and have made our very own gas masks and boxes as well as ID cards and name tags!

PE  Both classes will have PE on Fridays, Room 19 will have an extra PE session on Wednesdays and Room 20 on Mondays.

Election  Our House Captain elections were a great success again this year, with some really fantastic election speeches.  Well done to our new House Captains and Vice Captains and good luck for the year ahead!

Assembly  As ambassadors for the rest of the school, all P7s are expected to wear full uniform, shirt and tie for Friday assemblies.


We are going to have a great year in Primary 7 and we are all very much looking forward to all of the exciting things that we will be taking part in.  We hope to do our very best and end the year ready for our move to secondary school!

CROSS COUNTRY

Our Cross Country runners took part in the final competition of the
Dunbartonshire Schools Cross Country League on Saturday at
Kirkintilloch. Every one of the runners gave 100% and the results were
fantastic.
However, our sympathies go to Catriona Booth who was lying in second
place in her race with only about 100 metres to go, when a painful
hamstring injury forced her to pull up.
The P7 boys team finished 2nd winning silver medals
John Brechany - 10th
Nicky O'Brien - 11th
Blaine Lang 18th
In the girls p7 race Caitlin Trotter finished in 3rd place winning
individual bronze.
Well done to all the runners who took part.
John Brechany Catriona Booth
Nicky O'Brien Caitlin Trotter
Blaine Lang Lauren Lyon
Adam Stanley Nicola Brechany
Andrew Turnbull Erin Halliday
Max Harris Lucy Scott
Martin Zelenka Kirsty Donaldson
Jamie Brennan Katie Simpson
Fergus Hempel Courtney Trotter
David Johnston Rebecca Munro
Murray Mackay Iona Cadger
Jack Buchanan Hannah Linden
Euan McClenaghan Laoise Rogers
It was great to see so many of you there and doing so well. A credit to
the school

Cross Country Winning Results

Once again our Cross Country runners have done us proud. In very
difficult slushy and icy conditions at Mugdock they managed to win 16
medals.
This
is the biggest haul of medals so far for Bearsden Primary.
Congratulations to all the pupils who took part. The P7 results are as
follows.
P7 BOYS TEAM:- 2nd PLACE- SILVER MEDALS
John Brechany 8th
Nicky O'Brien 9th
Blaine Lang 16th
As this team was only put together at the last minute on Friday this is
a great result.
P7 GIRLS INDIVIDUAL:-2ND PLACE - SILVER MEDAL
Catriona Booth 2nd
Caitliin Trotter 5th
Again there were not enough runners to make up a team, however, if
there had been there was a strong possibility that they would have
achieved gold medal position.
Amazing results! Well done runners you certaily deserve your medals!
Plenty of room for more runners. Why not come along to the final race
on Saturday 13th..you never know you COULD just win a medal!

Valentine's Disco

Primary 6s and 7s enjoyed a fantastic night at the Valentine's Disco last Thursday!  We had so much fun dancing together and we enjoyed the healthier tuck shop too.  The house captains did a tremendous job organising such a great night!!

Mrs Russell has now posted the photos from the night on Glow.  They are in the documents tab on the Primary 7 group page.... have a look, they're brilliant!

LCross Country 30th January at Oxgang

Well, the competition went ahead thank goodness and despite freezing
weather and icy conditions our runners did extrememly well.
In the P7 girls race Catriona Booth finished 3rd, Caitlin Trotter 7th
and Lauren Lyon 11th. This means that the girls win silver medals for
finishing in 2nd team place.
In the P7 boys race John Brechany finished in 13th position.
Unfortunately he was the only P7 boy running for the school so was
unable to be considered for a team position. Come on P7 boys! Come and
help John win a team position.
In the P5/6 girls race Nicola Brechany finished 2nd, Kirsty Donaldson
18th and Erin Halliday 19th. This means they finished a VERY creditable
5th team position out of 11 teams. They were only 4 points short of
winning silver. Next time girls! Courtney Trotter, Hannah Linden,
Rebecca Munro and Jennifer Wilson also ran well on the day, especially
as for some of the girls it was their first competition.
In the P5/6boys race David Johnston finished 19th, Jamie Brennan 26th,
and with Murray McKay our 3rd boy to finish 30secs ahead of Fergus
Hempel,this meant that the boys team position was a worthy 7th out of
the 14 that took part. Well done everyone and keep up the good work for
the next race on Saturday 27th February at Mugdock - 10am start.

Cross Country 23rd January

The competition on the 23rd January at Mugdock has been cancelled and
is not
being rescheduled.
The next race will be on the 30th January at Oxgang......hopefully!

Happy 2010 Everyone! We're BAAAACK!

We have been up to lots since we came back to school and we are only a couple of weeks into 2010!

On the first day of term we had an afternoon workshop which helped us to become deaf-aware.  We all got a chance to use finger spelling and we played some games which were to try and give us the opportunity to see what it would be like not to hear so well.  Check out the photos of some of the letters we were able to finger spell.

We have now moved seats and we are trying to work really hard because we only have 6 months left of primary 7.  It is quite scary to think of it like that really!  Mrs Russell was at Bearsden Academy this week helping to organise our transition glow group for us getting info for moving into S1.  It'll be here before we know it!

M and M Productions came and performed Beauty and the Beast for us.  It was nice to see the performance and it was quite funny.  The infants really enjoyed it the most however!

Our Rainforest topic is up and running and we are looking forward to transforming our class into a rainforest of our own.  So far we have made the forest floor and put up lots of green paper to set the scene... next week all the 'making' of things begins!  So far we have found out about where rainforests are in the world, why they are found where they are and what the climate is like.  We know all about the rainforest strata and water / nutrient cycles too.  Soon Zoolab will be visiting us with their rainforest creatures so we are really looking forward to that!!

Mrs Russell is very proud of us for the standard of our homework at the moment.  We have been researching current news and writing our own reports each week then submitting them by glow mail to her.  Mrs Russell then reads them all and gives us feedback.  It is better doing this kind of homework this way - we feel much more independent!!

At the moment we are all very busy learning our Burns poetry and creating some fantastic pieces of Burns art ready for our Scottish afternoon.  We are learning To a Louse and some people have even managed to learn all 6 verses already!

We have been using the snow outside as our inspiration for creating some very cool snowboarders on our class windows.  We designed our own boards and made silhouettes of boarders pulling some funky moves!  Photos to follow once everyone is on the slopes!!!

Bu-bye for now!! :)


(Written by P7, room 19 - via email.)

Cross Country 16th January

This competition has been postponed and will now take place on 30th
January.
All other details as before.

Cross Country Competition 16th January

The next race is on Saturday 16th January at Kirkintilloch.
Assembly time 9am at Oxgang Primary School.
Make sure you get a form from Mrs McAulay and return it by Friday 15th
if you wish to enter.