Seafield Primary School

We have had a fantastic last week full of fun Christmas activities!

• We had lots of fun on our first school trip to the cinema on Wednesday to see ‘The Wild Robots’. The children were very responsible and safe and loved going on the bus!
• We loved our Christmas party – playing games and lots of dancing! We all done the ‘Grand Old Duke of York’ dance and had so much fun!
• We were super excited by our special visit from Santa at the end of our party. We have all been very good this year and all got a lovely present.

Have a fantastic Christmas everybody and be safe!

I look forward to seeing you all in 2025 and hearing your exciting stories,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• This week, we finished our enterprise topic and invited the P2/3 class to 0ur classroom to try and recreate our designs based on the instructions that we had created. We really enjoyed having them visit us and received some fantastic feedback about our work.
• We loved getting out of the classroom to visit the cinema and watch The Wild Robot. As most of the class had read the book before, it was really interesting to see it on screen even if Ros’s voice was different from Miss Halliday’s.

Green for Growth:

• We researched how Christmas is celebrated in different countries and created either a PowerPoint or an Adobe web page based on what we found out. We did find it a bit hard to research the information and then add this onto the PowerPoint.

No lead learners this week as it’s the last week of this term. Primary 5/6 wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tickled Pink

• We loved watching the wee ones during their Nativity dress rehearsal and during their performance  we enjoyed curling up and watching Incredibles 2.
• In writing we worked hard to write recounts about The Snowman film using notes that we had taken.
• We took part in a Handball event with P5/6 in the Community Centre showing good sportsmanship and engagement.
• We used our learning about 3D shapes and creativity to create sweetie gift boxes which we gave to the DISCO group for their Christmas party. As you can see from the photo below they looked great and the senior citizens were very appreciative.
• We enjoyed our Christmas lunch on Wednesday while singing along to some Christmas songs
• Watching the little ones assembly

Green for Growth

• During outdoor learning we played a Cluedo type festive game and some people felt it was really hard work because it was more like PE
• In Maths some people found simplifying fractions difficult.

Lead Learner Update

The lead learners this week were  Preston and Harvey and they choose the following targets

respect all the teachers,

be safe in the playground

and pay attention in class.

Blog written this week by Alieu

Tickled Pink

• It was our last session with Mrs de Luen in music. We learned to read music notes, So and Mi, on a musical grid. We have loved learning from her. We gave her a card and some biscuits to say thank you.
• We had PE with Miss Halliday this week and we did some Scottish Country dancing. We learned the Canadian Barn Dance and the Grand Old Duke of York.
• The P3s were part of the Nativity and they were FANTASTIC! They sang beautifully and acted so well. They completed 3 performances, 2 for parents, and they were so brilliant!
• We made some salt dough ornaments which are still drying in the classroom.

Green for Growth

• Rich tasks were tricky this week, we are going to use our meta skills to help us in future.

Our lead learners this week were Georgia and Blake.

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1!

Tickled Pink:

• We had our Nativity performances for the whole school and our grown ups – the children were all AMAZING! I am very proud of everyone and I know they are feeling very proud of themselves too!
• In maths we were looking at measuring weight and the children had lots of fun using the balancing scales to find out which toy/item is heavier and which is lighter.
• We have been learning more tricky words and the children love finding them in stories or listening for them in sentences said by teachers in the school.

Green for Growth:

• We have been looking at numbers 11-20 this week and some of the children are finding it a bit tricky to remember 11, 12 and 13… we will keep practising identifying the numbers.
• For Outdoor Learning we had a ‘snowball fight’, each snowball had a sum written on it and we had to work out the answer and write it on our sheet. Some of the children found it a bit tricky to write their answer in the correct place.

Our Lead Learners next week are Freddie and Emily.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• In our Outdoor Learning session this week, we recycled some cardboard boxes to create Santa’s sleigh. We even had our Santa supplied by Henry and we pretended to be reindeers and elves to pull the sleigh.
• During Maths, some of us have been focusing on subtraction with exchanging. We have been working well and have been using the strategies that we have previously used to help us to work on these sums.
• We are entering a writing competition and this week started on our magical map essays. We only are allowed to use 100 words which we found a bit difficult but we are excited to see if any of us win!
• We enjoyed watching the P1-3 Nativity dress rehearsal this week. Lots of have siblings in these classes so we were excited to see them perform so well!
• We loved our handball tournament this week and can’t wait to hear the results about who won!

Green for Growth:

• We were working on money this week, we had lots of questions on decimal notation and how to work out money word problems. We will keep working on this.

Our lead learners this week are Adam and Emma Jo.

This week we have performed our Nativity for our families and friends and we enjoyed every second!

Tickled Pink:

• We learned and performed all of our parts in the Nativity.
• We learned some Christmas songs in Makaton.
• We enjoyed designing and drawing some Christmas jumpers.

Green for Growth:

• We have been working hard on our topic of money in Numeracy this week, we are going to continue to improve our skills with notes and coins.
• Next week, we are going to be voting on our IDL topic for next term! Some of our options so far  are: animals, sports and space.

Our Lead Learners this week are: Evie, Lucas M, Miah and Lilidh! Well done everyone.

Tickled Pink

• Learning to find right angles around the classroom using a right angle finder in maths.
• P3s did some free writing using Word on an ipad. Some of us were able to use the dictate function and immersive reader to listen to it back.
• P4s did very well in their Bench ball tournament up at Deans Community High School, they each got a certificate of achievement.

Green For Growth

• Learning about the nativity story with Reverend Boyd was hard because she was telling us about more people in the Bible story that we had not heard about.
• In reading, we had to make predications without looking ahead, some of us didn’t manage to not peek.

Lead learners this week were Chloe and CJ.

Tickled Pink:

• During outdoor learning, we were expanding our compass knowledge that we had been working on in maths. We drew 8 point compasses, then we gave instructions to our partners to help them navigate around the playground and finally, we played Simon Says with compass directions.
• We have been working on symmetry this week. We were looking at different points of symmetry, finishing complex shapes to show their symmetric side and drawing our own symmetric patterns.
• We enjoyed writing an imaginative recount about gaining superpowers and experiencing a day in the life as a superhero.

Green for Growth:

• We were recreating our Charles Rennie Mackintosh roses that we had drawn on Paint on our laptops. We found it a little tricky to work what tools and how to use them.
• We struggled this week to finish our list of materials and instructions for our Enterprise topic project. This is something we will really need to focus on this week.

Our Lead Learners are Jodie and Ruaridh.

Tickled Pink:

• Nativity rehearsals are going really well and the children are super excited to be performing it next week for the school children to see and then families.
• Our focus during topic this week is about Doctors and the children have enjoyed some role play and can talk about how to make an appointment and get a check up, and that sometimes you might need to get some medicine. We discussed that adults should always help us take medicine and check it is the right amount – and you never take medicine that has someone else’s name on it! We have also been learning the names of some the equipment that doctors might use to check us over.
• In maths we have been focusing on how to write numbers 11-15 this week and how we can build the numbers by doing a group of ten and then some extras.

Green for Growth:

• In writing this week we were describing a teddy bear – some of the sentences were a bit challenging but the children done really well with the help of a word mat and the describing bubble.
• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to recognise numbers 11-15 but we will keep practising.

Our Lead Learners next week are Olivia N and Elodie.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace