Primary 7v Class Blog

We got a silver award - well done all of you!

I’m sorry you couldn’t all come to Carronvale House! It was a lovely afternooon and there were lots of great ICT stalls.

We caught some of the action on our camera. 

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Laura (Mrs V’s niece who helped out in our class a while ago) has just sent a text to say that she will be going to Glasow University soon to study to be a teacher …. good luck, Laura!

John came to our class recently to help us learn how to edit our photograhs for our photoaday project. His mum is a teacher in our school and she told us that he has been named as The Young Photographer of the Year because he came first in the Scottish Photography Press Awards competition (First Scotrail Press Photography Awards 2006).

Well done, John!!

His mum showed us his trophy.

We also interviewed Mrs Tait. She is new to Falkirk Council and she told us all about her job ……… the camera card was full and we were not able to record the answer to the last question so we’ll write it here:

” The highlight of my job is working with pupils in schools. Visiting Carronshore and making this video has been great. On Tuesday of this week, I helped P1s in Airth Primary School with Reading. Working with all th children in all the schools is the highlight of my job.”

We’d like to say a big ‘Thank You’ to Mrs P and the 07 Allstars (we ‘borrowed’ this picture from their blog) who have offered to help us with our ‘Australia’ topic. They sent an email to say that they would like to be part of our new wiki project ….. it’s going to be very exciting learning together!!

The groups have chosen their topics and have begun to set up their individual spaces. Well done to Marc - his group is investigating Australian Celebrations and he has found a link to help them get started.

Mrs Wells (one of our classroom helpers) visited Australia last year and she has brought in her beautiful photograph albums for us to look at. We’re hoping to interview her next week!

We returned to school today after our Easter break to find the most wonderful surprise! Our friends Mrs P and the AllStars have sent us a beautiful book all about Australia …. and the card is fantastic, too!

We contacted them a few weeks ago and asked for some advice about our new topic, ‘Australia’. They gave us some great ideas and now we’ve set up a wiki and we’re going to write our own ‘Online Book’ based on the tips they gave us about what aspects to study. You can keep tabs on our progress by visiting our wiki Here. Thank you, too, to Mr Upton and the miniLegends for the links they sent us. They are going to be very useful.

We’re really looking forward to getting started on this, and we’d love to hear what you think. We’ll post regular updates on our individual blogs as well! We’d especially like to hear comments from anyone in Australia - what a great opportunity we have here to link our two cultures.

Many, many thanks again to Mrs P and the AllStars

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 Recently we went on a trip to find out more about life during WW2. We were split into 2 groups. One group was ‘evacuated’ - they really got a feel of what it must have been like … it was scary!

The other group went into a room and looked at real artifacts from the war. They talked about what they had found out.

The groups then swapped over …. it was great!

We took a short video of part of our visit. In it, we are just about to go and get the train to our destination in the countryside. When we got there, a man introduced us to the lady who had agreed to let us live with her. She wasn’t happy with the small amount of money she was given to feed us. She hoped we were very fond of cabbage soup!