Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful first week back after the October break, with lots of exciting 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:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our PE lessons this week as it was fun to start working on our skills for tag rugby
• We enjoyed our Maths lessons on rounding this week as we are feeling more confident with the strategies needed for rounding and estimating now
• We really enjoyed working on our climate change projects as we added more detail and focused on making sure that we were using our own words to create our presentations
• We enjoyed our outdoor learning project about Seafield Law, both being outdoors at the bing and working on our projects for the DISCO group
• We enjoyed our climate change art work as we are now getting close to completing these amazing works of art
• We really enjoyed our Maths lesson with Mr McConville from Deans High School because it was interesting to use the vertical whiteboards to solve the Maths problems in our groups

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

• Some of us felt that our French assessment was a bit tricky as we couldn’t remember all of the language and vocabulary that we had learnt previously and also because we have recently been learning Spanish in class
• We found it tricky to find all of the numbers needed for Mr McConville’s Maths lesson
• Some of us feel that outdoor learning didn’t work as planned because we ran out of time to get to all of the areas that we needed to visit

Our lead learners for this week were Oscar, Archie, Shiva and Kaiden. They set the following class targets for the week; underline your date and title when working in your jotter, use equipment appropriately and be resilient in your school work. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was fantastic to see.

Our school value award winners for this week are Alfie and Amelia.

Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

We have had a good week in Primary 1.

Tickled Pink:

• The children have been enjoying singing the alphabet song and learning about the order of the letters. We have had lots of games about sorting the letters and finding them.
• We had fun doing a draw along video to learn how to draw a hedgehog as part of our mini Autumn topic. The children have been exploring our Autumn tuff tray and looking out for signs of Autumn.
• Everyone is doing really well with addition in maths and loved making sums with the playdough.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found it quite tricky to work out what letter comes next in the alphabet – we practised singing to song and it helped us to work it out.

Lead Learners are Molly and Flynn.

Have a good weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We really enjoyed the Handball with Mr Hamilton because it was good exercise.
• Paired reading with our P1 buddies was lots of fun.
• We learned about area in Maths with Mrs Baird and once we knew the formula we found it easy to calculate areas.
• Some pupils were using Adobe Express for their Seafield Law presentations and learned how to share a project so it could be worked on by several devices at once.

Green for Growth 

• We had a fantastic time doing two rounds of exercises with Mrs Coull to celebrate World Mental Health Day but our legs and arms were sore afterwards  so we need to work on improving our fitness.
• Writing with Mr Hamilton was tricky as we had to describe a character and setting and include lots of detail.

Lead Learner Update Our Lead Learners this week are Shiva and Oscar and they have chosen to focus on:-

Be resilient in your work

Remember to underline the date and title

Use equipment appropriately

The blog this week was created by Brodie.

We hope everyone has a fantastic October break!

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1 and it was so lovely to speak to all of the parents during our appointments.

Tickled Pink:

• We loved doing a letter scavenger hunt this morning during phonics, practising reading the sounds and forming them on our paper.
• We enjoyed exploring all of the puppets for the different fairy tale stories we have covered for our topic and talking about which one was our favourite.
• We have been using playdough to help with addition, making the correct number of balls to show the numbers that we need to add together then counting them all and writing the total number for our answer.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found it quite tricky to remember some of the names of our 3D shapes – we will keep practising this.
• We have been doing blending this week and some children were finding it a bit tricky to remember some of the sounds.

Our Lead Learners for after the holidays are Olivia N and Milly.

Have a great holiday and I look forward to hearing all of the stories on Tuesday 22nd October!

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• It was Challenge Poverty Week and we learnt a little bit about what poverty means and how it can affect people in different ways. We created our own Challenge Poverty badges with different designs.
• For outdoor learning this week, we created leaf rubbings with paper and crayons. We then challenged ourselves to make pictures and designs with our rubbings. We had trees, rainbows, self-portraits, angels and deserts.
• We wrote about a day in the life of Seafield Primary School and described what we would do throughout the day as a pupil at this school.
• For world mental health day, we had a brilliant fitness session with a parent helper today. Everyone loved it, even if we were all a little tired.

Green for Growth:

• In maths, we were learning about circles and how to calculate the circumference, radius and diameter. Some of us found it a little tricky to remember which measurement was which.

Our lead learners this week are Isla and Adam

Tickled Pink

• We started to make our outdoor learning presentations for our Heritage Hero awards and enjoyed using Adobe Express to do so.
• We really enjoyed our first Hub Group session of the year and the responsibility we were given in our roles as Mini Champs.
• In P.E  we played handball games and used the skills we had been learning.
• In Maths, we were working our perimeters of shapes and we learned about rectilinear shapes.

Green for Growth

• We have been working on inference skills to further develop our understanding of texts.
• We looked at our accuracy statistics when doing activities on Sum Dog and realised we should work on improving the accuracy of our answers and not just the speed.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead learners this week were Faith and Harvey and they were working on…

• Use appropriate voices in class
• Use equipment appropriately
• Line up sensibly and respectfully

Many of the class were able to achieve these targets.  Our Lead Learners for next week are Kaiden and Archie.

Our blog this week was compiled by Preston.

Tickled Pink:

• We have been focusing on 3D shapes again and had fun playing a game called ‘Corners’ during outdoor learning. We have also been stamping 3D shapes to find out about their faces.
• In literacy this week we have been focusing on vowels, a e i o u. We have been learning to read words that have a vowel in the middle like h-a-t or b-u-s.
• For topic this week we were doing Billy Goats Gruff and we had to work in a team to design and build a bridge to help the goats get across.

Green for Growth:

• Some children were finding it quite tricky to blend sounds together to read words – we will continue to practise this daily.
• We are learning how to count in French and are finding it a bit tricky to remember all the new words.

Lead Learners next week are Olivia C and Iver.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We are learning about Islam in RME and are almost finished making our own models of a Mosque. We can’t wait to share the finished results with everyone.
• Everyone was together for writing this week. We used a picture stimulus for a book called ‘The Mysteries of Harris Burdick’. Our writing was so fantastic, we are going to type them up for display.
• For outdoor learning, we were learning to give clear instructions by making our partner turn 90 degrees left, right or to move forward.

Green for Growth

• For a maths rich task, we did a Tarsia puzzle based on a times table. This was quite hard to figure out but most of us managed to complete it eventually.
• Using a thesaurus is a new skill P4s are learning, we are getting better at alphabetical order.

Our lead learners next week are Grace and Georgia.

Tickled Pink:

• We started our Mini Hubs this week and were sorted into either right’s respecting, numeracy, literacy, digital, health and wellbeing, and 1+2 languages groups. Some children in our class were lucky enough to become mini champs, vice champs and librarian’s for these groups.
• We had a much better week in P.E. and were learning how to keep control of the basketball when dribbling and shooting.
• During Art, we linked our artwork to our topic of climate change to show the effects of global warming. We look forward to everyone these at the parent consolations next week.
• In outdoor learning, we went on a 3D shape hunt where we tried to find different 3D shapes in the world around us.
• We enjoyed creating 3D shapes out of toothpicks and blue tack during maths.

Green for Growth:

• For writing, we researched a famous person, wrote down facts and then wrote a descriptive essay about them. For some of us, we struggled to write down enough relevant facts before we did the writing on the next day meaning that some of our writing time was lost to looking up more facts.
• We created 3D nets this week, we found drawing them out correctly a little difficult.

Our lead learners are Ella and Henry.

P1 have had a super week!

Tickled Pink:

• We read Jack and the Beanstalk this week for topic and the children enjoyed doing various activities related. We used cubes to measure different beanstalks to celebrate Maths Week Scotland. We also took part in a drama session and worked with a partner to act out different parts of the story.
• In literacy we have been practising all of the sounds we have learned so far and have enjoyed playing different games including the bean matching game.
• We have started looking at adding in maths and talking about how we work it out.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found the adding a bit tricky but we will continue to practise this.
• Some children are unsure what some of the numbers look like and so this makes it a bit challenging to write the correct answers.

Lead Learners next week are Emily and Zaynab.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace