Christmas Art and Poetry

We have been busy creating Winter WonderLand-Scapes during art recently... all this snow has given us lots of inspiration!  We used blue sugar paper as the base and then blended different coloured chalks and pastels to create a very realistic vision of what we would see if we looked out a window into a snowy countryside.  We finished them off by adding a touch of white glitter to the hills and then attached them to our window frames.  They look amazing up on the wall outside our class! 

Mrs Russell read us lots of different styles of winter poems from her little book of poetry and then, using our art as our inspiration, we got to choose any type of poem to write.  We could write about anything at all and in any style as long as it was to do with winter.  Our ideas were great and the poems are amaaaazing.  You can read them all in between our landscapes!

Photos to come soon!!

(Written by P7 Room 19, via email.)

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.