Seafield Primary School

We have had a busy week preparing for our Nativity and the children have been working hard learning the songs and speaking parts.

Tickled Pink

* We had fun learning about grid references and reading maps.

* In writing, we wrote recounts about a text we had heard.

* We continued to focus on safety during our Health and Wellbeing lesson and learned about medications,  how they can help us and how to store and use them safely.

Green for Growth

* In PE we need to further develop our space awareness skills to try and avoid bumping into each other.
* We are also trying to make sure we don’t lose the lids from our glue sticks and pens.

Lead Learner Update
Our lead learners this week are Bella and Joey who both listened to feedback and used this to become more responsible and ambitious. Well done! 👏🏻 

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots of fantastic 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 our Mandarin lesson this week as we learned about how to say the names of immediate family members in Mandarin and we also really enjoyed our Mandarin teachers pulling together a lot of our learning so far to show how we can have short conversations in Mandarin about saying hello, asking and answering about names and age, etc

• We all really enjoyed our Tag Rugby lessons in PE as we improved our passing skills and started to learn how to “underlap” after passing the ball

• We also enjoyed our rounding work in Maths as many of us made great progress and completed a very good amount of work

• Primary 7s really enjoyed their online transition lesson with the focus this week on Modern Studies and they were asked to consider creating their own country
• We really enjoyed our buddying session with the Primary 1s this week as we felt that our buddies are becoming more independent when we are doing tasks together

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

• Some of us found our Maths work on data handling a bit tricky

• Some of us were a little disappointed that our Bikeability session didn’t go ahead this week due to staff absence but we are looking forward to it next week

Our lead learners were Faith, Jake, Sebastian and Mason.  They decided on the following three targets for the class; to be responsible with resources inside and outside, to be respectful to all adults in the school and to be responsible outside in the playground. They observed lots of learners in the class meeting those targets which is great news.

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

Well done P6/7 for an excellent, busy week. Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 6/7 have had a great week with lots of brilliant 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 Rights Day on Friday morning as we continued to learn about Children’s Rights and take part in fun activities. We also did a great job with supporting our younger learners as they were taking part in the activities. A big shout out to our Pupil Group for Children’s Rights who put in a lot of work preparing activities and supporting teachers and learners on Friday morning

• We really enjoyed our fourth Mandarin lesson this week as we learned about writing characters in Mandarin as well as the radicals which are part of these characters

• We all really enjoyed our learning with estimation and rounding in Maths as we focused well and made very good progress

• We also enjoyed our Outdoor Learning on Thursday as it was the first time that we were able to get down to the field and play together for a while

• Primary 7s really enjoyed their online transition lesson with the focus this week on History and learning about the ancient Maya and Aztec civilisations
• We enjoyed our PE session and continuing to develop our Tag Rugby skills
• Finally, we really enjoyed watching the goals from the Scotland game again on Wednesday and discussing which goal was the best from the fantastic game!!

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

• Some of us continued to find our Mental Maths work a bit tricky

• One of our reading groups in class is finding the reading book that they have chosen quite challenging, although it’s a great and very interesting story
• Some of us felt that writing that characters in Mandarin was quite difficult, especially the character that the Mandarin teachers showed us for “biang”, a type of flat noodle!

Our school value award winners for this week are Faith and Jake. Congratulations!

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

We have had a great week this week in P2/3. It has been both Road Safety Week and Scottish Book week and we have participated in activities relating to both. We also had a Rights Respecting morning on Friday where we took part in activities in different classrooms and outside, learning about children’s rights.

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed having our Junior Road Safety Officers visit our class and talk about keeping safe when we are out and about. We had a colouring competition to do and will find out next week who the P1 to P3 winners are.
• We enjoyed reading and taking part in activities relating to Scottish Book week. We all got a bookbag this week and these were handed out to us by Mrs Denholm’s Granny!!!! We enjoyed meeting her and we liked having her visit our school.
• We enjoyed learning our tricky words this week, playing different games to help us learn.
• We were very excited to get our parts for the Nativity and learning the songs.
• We got our reward for winning the school honeycomb challenge last term , we got to watch part of Sing 2 in the hall as a treat. We will get to watch the rest of it on the last week of term.

Green for Growth

• Some of us are still finding counting collections of coins tricky. We need to keep practicing coins them and being able to identify how much each coin is worth. Remember we don’t have a 3p coin or a 7p coin.
• Keep working on counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
• We need to try really hard to take care of our resources, we have had 2 glue sticks without lids and quite a few whiteboard pens and felt pens also missing lids.

Our Lead Learners this week were Elodie for being Respectful and Harriet for being Ambitious – Well done girls.

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots of fantastic 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 comprehension and follow-up tasks this week that were linked to our class novel, “Kofi & the Rap Battle Summer”, because we developed our skills with more detailed answers using evidence from the book. It was amusing to hear Mr Hamilton having to rap quite a lot during the chapters we read this week!

• Our Rights champions enjoyed making great progress with preparation for our Rights Day in school next Friday

• We all really enjoyed our third online Mandarin lesson this week with our teachers from Southwest Jiaotong University and we thought it was great that it was quite easy to learn how to count from 11 to 19 based on our knowledge of numbers to 10. We also enjoyed learning how to ask and answer questions about name and age in Mandarin

• We also enjoyed starting our Recount focus in Writing this week and learning the different sections and type of language and structure that we should use

• The Primary 7s who were doing Bikeability this week really enjoyed learning about cycling safely on streets, despite the rather wet weather!
• We enjoyed starting our PE sessions on Tag Rugby this week
• Lots of us enjoyed our variety of Maths tasks this week including the Rich Task that we worked hard at on Friday morning

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

• Some of us continued to find our Maths work with scale a little tricky

• Some of us were a little disappointed about the lack of responsibility of some people in our class during our PE session with Mrs Robertson

Our school value award winners for this week are Mason and Sebastian. Congratulations!

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

Another busy but fun week in P2/3!

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• During Literacy Circuit, many of the class were able to demonstrate how much their blending skills have improved.
• In Maths we made right angle finders and hunted for right angles in the classroom.
• As it is Anti-Bullying Week across Scotland, we have been focussing on kindness.  Mrs Baird used one of the apples from her garden to show us that although we might look fine on the outside, we can be hurt on the inside by what people say and do to us.
• We are doing a really good job of learning how to structure a recount text correctly and we were able to write a recount text about a day in P2/3.
• We have been learning about different jobs and occupations and we drew about what job we would like to do when we grow up.

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

• From now on, we are going to really focus on kindness in the P2/3 class as we don’t want anyone to feel bruised and hurt on the inside like the apple.
• We’ve started learning our nativity songs and are looking forward to more song rehearsals and learning our speaking parts next week.

Our school value award winners for this week are Rose for Ambition and Perri for kindness. Congratulations!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.