On Thursday we split up into House teams and moved round nine different activities. In the P7 classroom, we used our knowledge of shape, measure and design and our problem solving skills to build towers (up to 186cm tall) and bridges:

Our pallet wasn’t ready to harvest, but we got our recipes ready for the competition.

The children produced amazing animals from recycling for our homework project.

We’ve been working on our descriptive language skills (metaphors, similes, adverbs, alliteration and personification) to create shape and concrete poems about animals:

We have been learning about the Scottish Parliament, how a democracy works and our rights and responsibilities as citizens. As part of our learning we gave evidence to the committee discussing a change to the age of criminal responsibility. These were the results of our discussion:

Everyone was very impressed by the mature and thoughtful way that the P7s took part in the debate and gave reasons to support their opinions.