Fun start to the New Year!

Primary 7B have had a great start to the new term. We have demonstrated excellent behaviour and have already been on two trips to Renfrew High as well as having a cooking session with Pascal, the head chef from the Glynhill Hotel. Pascal has introduced us to many new ingredients and fresh produce. We cooked tempura sole, potato rosti and homemade salsa. We have challenged ourselves to try new flavours and many of us have been surprised by what we like! We all made a very tasty bacon pasta dish and delicious homemade vegetable soup at RHS. We also enjoyed a visit from Derek Lockett, Development Chef from Brakes, who made a lovely creamy warming winter soup. In all our cooking activities we have been learning and refining a range of skills. We had to chop, peel, slice, cook and grate our ingredients. We listened very well and the high school staff were very impressed by our manners and listening skills. We all enjoyed the experience and most of us were impressed by our efforts. The P7s have been set a homework challenge to practise their skills at home. It is fantastic to see the children enjoying cooking at home while practising these essential life skills. Some children have already sent photos in and parents have noted in their diary to share what their child has been doing. We want to see more of these photos and comments! So keep them coming P7!

Xmas Party

Primary 7 had a fabulous time at our Christmas party this afternoon! We had a Just Dance competition and showed off all of our moves - it was very difficult to judge the winners! We played party games like Musical Arms and posed for pictures in the Christmas photo booth! Here we are having lots of festive fun.

Book Week November 2016

BOOK CHALLENGE We had a fantastic week celebrating our love of books last week. It was an exciting week. Mrs Coyle issued us the First Minister's Reading Challenge and we are going to set ourselves challenges to encourage us to read more. We will be set challenges by our teachers and we are allowed to set our friends and even the staff some dares. VISIT TO WATERSTONES On the Tuesday we visited the book store Waterstones at Braehead. This was a great opportunity to explore the range of books in the store and look at the range of books from some of our favourite authors. We took time to choose books that appealed to us and made some fantastic purchases. The class were excited to see another title from the author RJ Paclacio. We are currently loving our class novel Wonder by this author.

BOOK CHARACTERS Some of us chose to dress up as a character from a book. Here are some of our costumes.

VISIT TO LIBRARY On Friday we walked to our local library to explore the facilities we have right on our door step. We had a chance to choose books and read quietly. We enjoyed a short story from a member of the library staff. All P7 pupils were issued today with a membership form to be completed and returned to the library if pupils wish to join. This is a fantastic local resource which will help us with our book challenges as well as special projects we will have next year. We really hope more people begin to make use of their local library.

Primary 7 enjoyed an afternoon with their peers and staff from Renfrewshire Council who work with children with visual impairments. Mrs Quinn and her team provided an afternoon of activities to allow the pupils to experience what it is like for children trying to learn with a variety of visual impairments. We were very proud of one of our class mates who openly spoke about her own visual impairment. We were very proud of her. It was a very interesting and fun afternoon.

Fun in Primary 7!

Food Technology with Pascal.

Primary 7b have been very lucky to work with a professional chef from the Glynhill Hotel. Pascal visited both Primary 7 classes demonstrating important cooking and food preparation skills.  It was a great afternoon which the kids loved.

Bollywood Dancing

As part of our Indian class topic Primary 7 took part in a Bollywood dance lesson which was carried out by 2 girls from street stuff dance group. Primary 7 were very enthusiastic and picked up the style and rhythm very well. It was an excellent experience filled with fun and laughter.