Seafield Primary School

We have had a very busy week this week preparing for our assembly with lots of prop making and practicing our sketches. We have been continuing to work together in our home groups collaborating with each other. We are very excited about our families coming into our class on Friday morning.

Tickled Pink

• Great work this week during our comprehension tasks answering in sentences. We spoke about this as a target and most children did achieve this.
• We continued to enjoy measure challenges.
• We worked on our listening skills as home groups performed short dramas – learning what it means to be a quality audience.
• Reverent Boyd came to visit and talked to us in class.

Green for Growth

• We were looking at patterns in numbers to 100, ( 9-5 = . 19-5=. 39-5=, 99-5= )  and the relationship between add and subtract during our number talks. We realised that it is important that we keep working on our speedy recall of number bonds as this can help us when working with larger numbers.
• We need to continue to demonstrate our school values being kind and respectful to others.
• To continue to practice and increase confidence when using the microphone and performing in front of an audience.

Primary 6/7 have had a great week 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):

• Our Primary 7s really enjoyed their trip to The Risk Factory and learning about health and safety in lots of situations and scenarios. The Primary 7 pupils showed excellent understanding of the dangers and concerns in some situations and how to react and respond
• Our Primary 6 children enjoyed taking part in the very tricky Euro Quiz event as they represented Seafield Primary School. Some questions in the quiz were really tricky but the children came up with some great answers

• We all really enjoyed creating PowerPoints as we continued to work on our World War II research topics

• We enjoyed our music session run by visitors in our school on Thursday afternoon as we learned how to create relaxing and calming sounds

• We enjoyed flipping our learning and teaching Mrs Robertson about data handling in Maths

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

• The Primary 7s found their Maths transition lesson based on algebra and equations quite tricky this week

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

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

It has been lovely to see some Spring sunshine this week and classes have enjoyed being outside in the warmer weather for outdoor learning.

Many thanks to our families who joined us today for the Primary 2/3 assembly. All week the class have been learning their drama scripts, Scots language and facts about Scotland in the past. I was very proud of the performance they delivered. Many thanks to Miss Denholm and Mrs Baird for all the hard work that went into resourcing props and rehearsing. It was a braw assembly!

Lots of positives to celebrate this week, including Primary 1 being the first class to win the raffle ticket challenge two weeks in a row! This week our focus was on kindness.

Honeycomb challenge results:

P1 – 4

P2/3- 5

P3/4 – 8

P5/6 – 7

P6/7 – 5

Values Raffle Ticket Winners: Primary 1 had the most raffle tickets last week and received their extra break this week.

Milkshake Monday – Well done to those who received Lead Learner last week, it was lovely to see you all for Milkshakes and snacks today (Milkshake Friday) Thank you for your patience this week, you all demonstrated our value of respect when you kindly waited for your Milkshake treats so that P2/3 could use the hall for rehearsals on Monday. Very proud of you all! Well done t0 David, Minahil, Emily, Amelia, Ben, Junior, Cade, Olivia and Harley.

Any learners who miss Milkshake Monday due to absence or school events are welcomed to attend the following weeks celebrations.

Myself and staff are very much looking forward to welcoming families next week for Parent Consultations. During this event, the Scholastics Book Fair will be available for purchasing books and some stationary items. A percentage of sales made goes to school for purchasing new school library books. On Monday we will send out a price list for families if they wish to make a purchase.

Have a lovely weekend, hopefully the nice weather continues.

Mrs S Page

Next Week

Coming Up

Primary 1 have had an ‘awesome’ week. We were so pleased to be the raffle ticket winners again and got to enjoy some extra playtime out in the sunshine!

Tickled Pink (What went well this week):

• We have been learning about Spring time and we have learned a song all about it! We have created our own actions to go along with the words of the song. This was so much fun and we love to sing in Primary 1.
• During outdoor learning this week some of us used our imagination to build a camp fire out of sticks that we found in the playground. We then lay our jackets around so that we could all sit and we pretended to roast some marshmallows on the fire!
• We have had an anti-bullying focus in HWB and enjoyed creating our own ‘Kindness Monsters’ because ‘Kindness isn’t scary’!

Green for Growth (What we could do better):

• We are still working on our listening skills when we are on the carpet. We are practising taking turns when we are talking so that we don’t talk over each other.
• We are continuing to work on our kindness in the class and making sure that no-one is left out.

Well done to Ava and Elliot for being our Star Award winners this week!

Have a good weekend, Miss Robb 🙂

Tickled Pink (What went well)

• In writing, we are improving our persuasive writing techniques and using emotive language and rhetorical questions to share our point of view.
• Some of P6 took part in the Euro Quiz this week. It was lots of fun but hard work!
• We had lots of fun making kites this week. We were surprised by how well they flew.
• We have worked really hard on following the school values and being respectful to others.

Green for Growth (what we need to work on)

• Develop our technology skills by using Teams more, completing quizzes online and remembering to log out of the device when we are finished.
• We will continue to work on our focussing skills and find helpful ways to strengthen our concentration skills.

Our values certificate winners this week are, Ellie and Rosa.

We have had a lovely week in Primary 3/4. We have all been working really hard and having fun! On Monday we received our class pets, we now have two stick insects as a part of our class. We are so excited to welcome Pepper and Catherine to Primary 3/4!

Here’s what we would like to share about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• This week in Writing Miss White gave us all a story prompt that we used to create an imaginative piece! It was tricky but we enjoyed trying a new thing.
• We think that we have been working hard during Numeracy. We have been concentrating on fact families and how we can use this to help us!
• We have all really enjoyed our block of Gymnastics in PE with Mrs Bain. We have been doing rolls, jumps and balances! We are also doing Handball with Miss White and are learning new skills!
• Our Wordle streak has been fantastic this week! We love doing this in the morning, wordle today was oasis and Chloe figured it out!
• We also think that our handwriting has improved a lot and will keep on practising.

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

• We want to take more care of our resources in our classroom. Some of us are not being responsible for the things we use in School.
• We want to make sure that we are always displaying our School values and keep this up every week!

Our school value award winners for this week are Chloe and Murren! Super work!

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday!

Primary 1 have had a fantastic week this week! We have been working very hard and are so proud that we won the raffle ticket award! We got to have extra playtime which we enjoyed very much.

Tickled Pink (What went well this week):

• We have been working very hard in our literacy lessons – we learned the tricky words ‘like’ and ‘have’ and created actions to help us remember them!
• In numeracy we have been focusing on measurement and we created some wonderful drawings based on the character ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. After we drew our pictures, we used a ruler to measure how long they were. We learned that when we are using a ruler to measure, we need to start at 0 and always make sure that we write the unit of measurement (cm). You will be able to see our wonderful display from this lesson on our door wall – we are so proud of this work!
• In science we did two experiments. We looked at floating and sinking with raisins and we loved that we got to do this with our families at our breakfast! We then did a different experiment with our buddies where we worked together to make a maze and used magnets and paper clips to guide our characters through. This was so much fun!

Green for Growth (What we are working on):

• Primary 1 are working hard to continuously show our school values throughout the day. We are focusing on kindness and respect in our classroom with our friends and resources.
• We are also working on remembering to put our hands up when we want to share something with Miss Robb or the class. We have spoke about respect and are beginning to understand why we should take turns at sharing and why we should wait for someone to finish what they are saying before we speak.

Well done to Minahil and David for being our Star Award winners this week!

Have a good weekend,

Miss Robb 🙂

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful, busy week 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):

• We have all very much enjoyed Science Week and lots of the activities that we have taken part in. Lots of us enjoyed taking part in a live lesson at the beginning of Science Week where we learned about light sources, reflection of light and how light moves, particularly in relation to the Solar System. We also enjoyed learning about making paper helicopters and the processes and components that made the paper helicopters rotate successfully. We did a Science Week activity with our buddies about magnets and how they work and created a fun activity with a maze. We also did some learning in class about how valuable items can deteriorate and how to protect them. Finally the children who volunteered to share our Science Week learning at assembly on Friday enjoyed creating our presentation and sharing with everyone in school
• We all really enjoyed getting on to playing games in badminton and demonstrated some of our great skills and control that we have been working on in PE during the games

• We all really enjoyed our WW2 topic work on Friday morning as we started some research into lots of interesting WW2 topics

• We enjoyed getting out for some fresh air and movement during outdoor learning once the weather had improved on Thursday afternoon

• We enjoyed finishing off our fractions, decimals and percentages work in Maths

• We really enjoyed our reading activities this week

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

• We were a little frustrated that there was quite a lot of silliness during our outdoor learning walk yesterday

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

Well done P6/7 for a brilliant Science Week. Have a lovely weekend.

Today we celebrated the end of our Science week with a school assembly, sharing the fabulous activities pupils had experienced across the week.

P1 shared their floating and sinking raisins experiment, making predictions about whether the raisins would float or sink.

P2/3 shared their fantastic models, they had to scientifically engineer them to be over 25cm tall, withstand wind for 1 minute and they had to light up.

P3/4 explored changing states in a very messy science experiment!

P5/6 explored physical reactions when carrying out mentos and coke experiment. They made predictions, recorded results and experimented with different cokes, containing different volumes of sugar.

P6/7 researched different famous scientists and made posters about chosen scientific topics, driven by the theme of Science week ‘be curious’

Once again, it was lovely to see families attending our learners breakfasts. I continued to share the progress we are making with our positive relationships policy and have now begun to create some visuals and actions to match our school values. I will be speaking to the pupil council about this further in the lead up to the Easter break. Actions and visuals will be launched after the break.

Feedback is always very welcome and this week, I was able to talk to families about how we celebrate our fantastic learners. It was suggested that each week updates were shared on our Snippets. With this in mind, please see below some fantastic news:

Honeycomb challenge results:

P1 – 3

P2/3- 3

P3/4 – 8

P5/6 – 7

P6/7 – 5

Values Raffle Ticket Winners: Primary 1 had the most raffle tickets last week and received their extra break this week. Primary 1 received lots of raffle tickets for showing the school value of kindness.

Milkshake Monday – Well done to those who received Lead Learner last week, it was lovely to see you all for Milkshakes and snacks on Monday this week. Keep working hard! Well done to Sophia, Sonny, Lucy, Harriet, Ryan, Lildh, Niamh, Jake and Olivia.

Next Week

Coming Up

Thank you for your continued support.

Have a wonderful Weekend!

Mrs S Page

We had great fun in P5/6 celebrating Science week this week!

Tickled Pink (What went well)

• We really enjoyed our experiments using coke and mentos – we had to use our prediction, observation and recording skills.
• We really enjoyed developing our skills at badminton – we were so disappointed when the badminton festival was cancelled because of the bad weather.
• In maths, we are improving our skills with comparing fractions
• We loved outdoor learning this week, we had a good time developing our skills outdoors.
• Some of us had the opportunity to show how responsible we are by helping with younger classes at wet playtime.

Green for Growth (what we need to work on)

• Following the school values – being responsible for our behaviour, being respectful to others in our class and being kind by using by kind words.
• Trying our best to finish our work in the time we have been given.

Our values certificate winners this week are, Cade and Jack.

Have a lovely weekend!