Seafield Primary School

• We worked so hard on our creativity skills by having lots of stations to visit during our Seafield Scares Hunger morning. We particularly loved painting ghosts with cotton balls and making cotton bud and paper chain  skeletons.
• In Maths, we had fun making 2D shapes with playdough and naming them and during outdoor learning we went on a shape hunt.
• We looked at the Recount genre during our writing time and did some work on time connectives which will help us when we write a recount text next week.

Green for Growth (things that we need to do to improve our learning)

• When drawing 2D shapes some of the class need to use rulers to help them make better shapes.
• We learned about alphabetical order and we looked for words in dictionaries,  Some of us need to work on this more,

Many of the children enjoyed dressing up this morning and they are super excited about Halloween. Have a fun weekend everyone!

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful first  week back in school after the October break with lots of great learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our week in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• Lots of us really enjoyed our first online Mandarin lesson this week. We felt that it was really fun and fantastic to meet our Mandarin teachers online for our live lessons from across the world. We also really enjoyed learning about symbols and characters in Mandarin as well as amazing Chinese landmarks

• We enjoyed our Maths on Friday morning because it was linked to Halloween and not too tricky

• We were happy about our Seafield Scares Hunger day on Friday as lots of us enjoyed dressing up and we thought it was very important that we had collected food to help people in our community

• We also really enjoyed our outdoor learning this week as we were making skeletons from branches and other natural objects

• Many of us enjoyed our work on our class novel, “Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer”, as we learned more about the characters and the year 1994

Green for Growth (things that we need to do to improve our learning)

• Some of us found the work in Literacy a little difficult as some of the questions about our class novel were a bit tricky

• Some of us found our break times outside a bit challenging this week as some people were struggling to be responsible in the playground which meant that we needed to have a focus on our school values back in the classroom

Our lead learners for this week were Henry and Isla, who collected the information about how we felt about our learning this week.

Our school value award winners for this week are Noel and Matilda. Congratulations!

Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7. Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 6/7 has had a very hard working week as they prepared for their class assembly which took place for the whole school on Thursday and which was performed for parents and carers on Friday.

The class did an amazing job with their assembly, putting in such incredible hard work during research, planning and rehearsals for songs and scenes. Some pupils were absent during various rehearsals and performances but everyone stepped up to the mark and was willing to take on extra work and do additional rehearsals to cover for those who weren’t here. Everyone was involved in the assembly and did an incredible job.

We did some amazing learning as a class about some very important issues raised in our first class novel of the year, Divided City. We were also very lucky to have a visit from Nil By Mouth an organisation which tackles sectarianism and promotes acceptance of identity for all people.

The class also did an amazing job with the songs that they chose for assembly and they fitted in so well with the themes and issues which we raised and tackled. It was also very fitting that today was the Show Racism the Red Card day in school, as this fitted in very well with the work that we have been doing.

A massive congratulations to Primary 6/7 for their excellent performances yesterday and today.

Our school value award winners for this week are Isla and Henry. Congratulations!

Have a lovely holiday. We look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 28th October. Take care and stay safe boys and girls.

Tickled Pink

• P6s enjoyed their trip to Whitburn Swimming pool for their swimming assessment. They got to have some fun in the water and even danced the Macarena!
• For maths we started learning about area of shapes and that we need to add a tiny 2 after cm to show that it means cm squared.
• In literacy we played a new game called ‘Vocabularious’ where we had to match ambitious words to their pictures.

Green for Growth

• Continuing to work on spelling and taking our time to sound out and use our existing knowledge.
• We are are going to keep trying with the times tables and using the inverse for division. We begun a new game called ‘Fizz Buzz’ to help us learn the multiples of different numbers.

No lead learners this week since it is a holiday next week.

This week has been fabulous for Primary 3/4! However, we were very sad to have our last music session with Mrs de Luen, we will miss her!

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well)

• We think that we are doing well as we start new topics in Numeracy. Some of us have started looking at division!
• We really enjoyed our last lesson with Mrs de Luen. We have loved learning all about different areas of music.
• We all think that parents evening went well this week! We liked showing off our work to our grown ups and Miss White enjoyed meeting them.
• Some of us have enjoyed practicing our spelling words and learning all about homophones in Literacy. We are improving every week!

Green for Growth (things that we need to do to improve our learning)

• Some of us want to keep improving our writing. We are focusing on uplevelling our work!
• We want to keep practicing our listening, especially in PE. Some of us feel as though we are losing out on time because we are not ready. We are going to work on this!

Our value award winners this week for being ambitious is Emma and for being respectful is Miah! Well done!

Have a lovely holiday Primary 3/4, see you all when we’re back.

Tickled Pink

• Visit from PC Henderson talking about firework safety.
• P5s enjoyed their visit to Whitburn swimming pool.
• The class were taught by Miss Smythe today, a Victorian teacher. She came to us from 1875 and was very strict. She made us recite times tables, do joined up handwriting and sewing.

Green For Growth

1. Still working on rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.
2. Trying our best to read the questions ourselves without asking the teacher.

Primary 6/7 have had a great week in school with lots of wonderful learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our week in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We really enjoyed finishing off our character description writing as we felt there was great focus and lots of us managed to complete at least two character descriptions

• We enjoyed our assembly practice as we feel we are making progress and look forward to sharing this with our parents and carers next week

• Many of us enjoyed learning new strategies for dividing by two digit numbers and trying out these strategies in the work that we were doing

• We also really enjoyed our Art lesson as we continued creating our own artwork in the style of Keith Haring

• Lots of us enjoyed our developing our skills for handball in PE
• Many of us enjoyed our work in French with Mrs Flynn
• Some of the Primary 7s who were in the Primary 6/7 class last year, had their bike checks for their Bikeability course and enjoyed taking part in this
• Then class enjoyed welcoming PC Henderson to the class this week to hear his advice and guidance on fireworks and bonfires

Green for Growth (things that we need to do to improve our learning)

• Some of us found the work in Maths with dividing by two digit numbers, quite tricky and a little confusing

• Some of us found Maths work with Mrs Flynn, when we were creating 3d shapes, to be difficult especially with the cutting out and sticking the shapes together

Our lead learners for this week were Georgia, Matthew, Archie and Annie.

Our school value award winners for this week are Emma-Jo and Harris. Congratulations!

Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7. Have a lovely weekend.