Seafield Primary School

We have had a great week this week with a range of activities linked to our PBL topic and Play Challenges, finishing the week with Crazy Hair and an Achievement Assembly.

Things that went well.

• We had a whole school treat today ! The ice cream van came and we all got an ice cream!
• We had a play day on Thursday and took part in a range of play activities. Construction and Creative play, a range of board games, a times table treasure hunt and a Play Challenge to create a landmark from cardboard. Some of us made Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• Outdoor learning this week we were following trails, creating camps and looking for evidence of wildlife.
• PE – we played games and took part in an obstacle course.
• We were finishing our Project Based Learning Tasks ready to share.
• Writing a recount of our school year

Tricky

• Measure math’s calculations
• Writing

We had an amazing surprise today – an ice cream van came to our school!

The children had lovely manners when getting their ice cream and it was delicious!

Tickled Pink:

• This week we wrote about how to make a jam sandwich. We are very excited because next week, we swap our writings with a peer and make our jam sandwich based on their instructions.
• Yesterday, we had Play All Day where we did lots of fun activities bingo, Uno, dominoes, colouring, we made a farm out of Lego based on our class novel The Sheep-Pig and created lots of towers with our blocks. We also created different European landmarks out of spare cardboard boxes and other recycled items.
• We finally harvested our potatoes this week! We have spent a lot of time looking after our potatoes, feeding them compost and watering them and next week, we will cook our potatoes.

Green for Growth:

• In maths, we were learning about probability. A few of us found some of the words we were learning a bit tricky to remember.

No lead learner this week as next week is our last week of school.

We have had a great week in Primary 1/2!

Tickled Pink

• We have been learning about directions in maths and the children have loved exploring the Beebots!
• We had a whole day of play on Thursday and the children had lots of fun and were very creative during the whole school challenge.
• We loved playing ‘Cat and Mice’ in PE and most of the children preferred being the cat and chasing everyone to catch their tail.
• We were toy inventors this week during our topic lesson and made our very own ‘cup and ball’ game. The children designed their cup and then followed the instructions to create the toy.

Green for Growth

• Some children were finding it a bit tricky to use the Beebots – we must always hit clear before we start as it remembers all of the previous directions.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• In PE we were developing our running skills by timing the laps we were doing.
• In Maths we were learning about different units of measurement and focusing on length.
• We also learned about percentages and were able to convert fractions into percentages.
• In our HWB work we have been undertaking the Leans project and learning about what is fair and unfair.

Green for Growth

• In Writing we were recounting our year in P5/6.  There were so many highlights that it was tricky to do this and we will continue with it next week.
• In spelling we were learning  common tricky words and we still have to work on some of these.

Our Lead Learners this week were Niamh and Archie and they chose to focus on tucking your chair in when you leave you seat, being kind to others and not shouting across the room.

Tickled Pink:

• We wrote the instructions on how to grow a potato plant in writing this week and were able to use our previous knowledge of growing our own potato plant in school to help us.
• During outdoor learning, we had a walk around the school playground looking for bird nests. We found one right next to the nursery playground. After discussing what you would need to build a nest, we split into groups and tried creating our own. We then did a walking gallery to see everyone’s nests. Everyone did such a great job!

Green for growth:

• We created food chains this week and learnt lots of new terms like producers, consumers, prey and predators. We found it a little hard to remember which way around they all went when creating our own food chains.
• We were practising lots of different strategies when doing our division in numeracy this week. We are still finding dividing a little tricky but are enjoying trying out our different strategies.

Our lead learners this week are Lily and Leon.

We have had a lovely week in Primary 1/2.

Tickled Pink

• We have started a new topic, ‘Toys’, and the children enjoyed designing a toy that they would want to purchase at the shop. We compared toys from the past with our current toys and decided that we love the electronic toys we have! We looked at the different materials that toys can be made of and discussed what would be suitable for different toys,
• In maths we have been looking at fractions and the children have enjoyed using the playdough to show halves.
• For Health and Wellbeing we were looking at different tools that we could use to help us get to the green zone – this week we made our own rainbows for rainbow breathing! You use your finger to trace the arcs, breathing in as you go up and out as you go down the other side.

Green for Growth

• We were learning about forces as part of our toys topic and it was a bit tricky to work out what some of them were – push or pull or both!
• In maths, the P2s have been learning about quarters and have found it a bit tricky to find a quarter of a number. We will keep practising this – half it and then half it again!

Lead Learners next week are Eadie and Ernest.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• This week we have been working on algebra in numeracy. Miss Halliday thought that this would be tricky for us but actually it is really easy! We even did function machines and reverse function machines!
• Our comprehension work is getting better since we have focused on using joined handwriting and full answers.
• In French we have been learning the names of different items of clothing with Mrs Robertson.

Green for Growth

• We have been looking at 5 minute time intervals for maths, the past times are okay but the to times are really hard to grasp.
• In writing we were using a sentence starter as a stimulus but some of us found it hard to think of our own stories to write.
• Art was tricky as we were looking at 1 point perspective drawings.

Lead learners this week were Ben and Ella.

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots of great active learning activities. 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 6 and 7 footballers loved taking part in the third day of the school football league last week, especially because we won the league after a tense play-off final! Well done
• We enjoyed PE with Mrs Robertson because we were playing fun games
• We enjoyed finishing off our response writing task because we were able to choose our topic for this text
• Our Primary 6s have been enjoying working on their choice personal projects
• We all really enjoyed our buddying session and playing games with our buddies
• Some of us enjoyed our Sudoku activity in Maths

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

• Some of us didn’t enjoy the Sudoku task as much as other did
• Some of us found Debating a little tricky as we tried to complete our speeches
• Some of us found the Bleep Test in PE a bit difficult and tiring

Our lead learners were James, Sophie, Alexis and Preston.  They decided on the following three targets for the class; to be responsible while doing jobs in class, to be kind to our buddies and to finish our work without help. They spotted lots of learners in class meeting those targets which is wonderful news. Well done for a wonderful week, P6/7.

What a fantastic week we have had in Primary 1/2!

Tickled Pink

• We had our class assembly for the school yesterday and today for our grown ups and it was absolutely amazing! Everyone spoke clearly and were confident and the singing was wonderful – I am very proud of everyone! Every child practised their lines and all of our practising paid off!
• We have been learning about division in maths this week and the children have enjoyed sharing cubes out and are really confident sharing equally.

Green for Growth

• We have been learning classroom commands in French this week (eg. stand up, sit down, hands up etc), some children are finding it a bit tricky to remember the French words but we will keep practising.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace