PYP 7 - Wecome Back

First of all, we would like to welcome back all PYP 7 pupils to St. Francis and wish everyone a happy new year. One in which we hope will be full of learning opportunities fulfilled and challenges met by our best efforts.

Our new Unit of Inquiry, which was introduced last week, gets fully underway this week. In this unit we will be looking at communication and the role in which technology has played over time in developing the ways in which we interact and communicate. A key element of this unit, considering how active modern societies have become communicating online, will  be learning the responsibilities to make our pupils good digital citizens.

Central Idea:

Technology has altered ways of communicating causing new responsibilities to evolve.

Lines of Inquiry:

The origins of communication; its purpose and tools used.

Circumstances that lead to the innovation and technological evolution of communication.

Social consequences of changes in communication.

Pupils have already been engaged in some thought provoking activities to help them grasp the main concepts of the unit and to show their prior knowledge, share their interests and raise questions into how we might tackle this exciting unit. 

PYP 7 Omega new boy Samuel tries out a video recorder

PYP 7 Beta ready for action about to explore a wide variety of 'ancient' (pre-smartphone!) technology.  

Boys from PYP 7 Beta during the provocation for our new unit of inquiry

Pedro, Lucas and Alex typing a letter

Homework this Week

Homework this Week

Language Homework

Watch video and create a list of 10/13/15 (differentiated number) of ‘ambitious’ words.  

Maths Homework

Number Problems

UOI Homework

Lição de casa de Português

Lição de casa de Português

Para 03/03/2017

Grupo 3

Grupo 2

Grupo 1

Our week of learning - PYP7

This was a busy week for PYP7 – with assemblies, bazaar performance practice and finishing off bazaar items.

In Language we have used the week to consolidate our punctuation work from throughout the term.  Maths this week has been all about geometry – with each class working on plotting shapes on coordinate grids. Our Unit of Inquiry this week has centred on making PSAs (Public Service Announcements) that allow our schoolmates to benefit from our study into conflict resolution.

Check out some these photos from the week’s excitement:

Lição de casa de Português para 09/12

Grupo 1

Grupo 2

Grupo 3

This week's homework

This week's homework

Language 

Subject-verb agreement(A)

Subject-verb agreement(B)

Subject-verb agreement(C)

Maths

Square numbers(A)

Square numbers (B/C)

Unit of Inquiry

Conflict Homework

Our week of learning - PYP7

This week saw us continue our look at play-scripts, with scripts being written with character descriptions, spoken lines and stage directions. We also had an opportunity to perform Readers theatre. Readers Theatre is a dramatic presentation of a written work in a script form. Readers read from a "script" and reading parts are divided among the readers. No memorization, costumes, blocking, or special lighting is needed.

In Maths this week we have revisited our fractions skill of finding a common denominator. This time we are using it to add and subtract fractions. Our answers have been expressed as improper fractions and so we need to be able to convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers.

In our Unit of Inquiry, we have been exploring conflicts within St Francis, with the aim of taking action to solve these issues around the school. We have used thinking routines to consider the information we have collected and we are ready to spring into action.