Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• Working on adverts for our shops.
• Writing full sentences and including capital letters and full stops.
• Having Miss Troup in for work experience to help us.

Green For Growth

• We have been recording the number of interruptions happening in our day and aiming to reduce this every day. It has went from 127 to 78 so far.

Lead learners are Charlotte and Milly.

We have had a wonderful week filled with learning, celebration and opportunities to come together as a school community.

Throughout the week, we continued to have a focus on Anti-Bullying by celebrating diversity and promoting kindness, respect and inclusion. As part of our learning, classes took part in a range of activities linked to Show Racism the Red Card, helping children explore the importance of fairness, equality and treating everyone with respect. It was fantastic to see so many pupils and staff wearing red or dressing down to help conclude the week and show their support for this important message.

We also took time to celebrate the many achievements and successes that happen both within and beyond our school doors. From classroom learning and sporting achievements to hobbies, clubs and community activities, our children continue to demonstrate the qualities of Scotland’s Four Capacities. We are proud to see so many pupils growing as Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens and Effective Contributors.

A huge thank you also goes to our parents and carers for your support during our recent Parents’ Evenings. The strong partnership between home and school plays a vital role in children’s progress and wellbeing, and we appreciate the commitment you continue to show towards your child’s learning journey.

This week also saw our school community come together for our Harvest Assembly, where we reflected on the importance of being thankful for what we have, helping others and supporting those in need.

After the break, we are looking forward to another busy and purposeful week. We will be collecting items for our local Partnership Pantry, and on Friday 30th October we will be holding our We Scare Hunger event. We hope our families will support this initiative by sending in a pantry donation and helping us make a positive difference to others in our local community. Children are welcome to dress down or come in fancy dress if they wish. To help keep our school a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone, please avoid masks and costumes that may be frightening or unsettling to others.

Thank you once again for your continued support. We wish all of our families a lovely holiday and look forward to welcoming everyone back after the break.

Kind Regards

Mrs S Page

Coming Up 

We have had a fantastic final week of term in P6/7.  We spent some time this week reflecting on what we have learned and looking ahead to next term.  We decided that we would like to share these thoughts with you about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• After reflecting on our learning this term and looking ahead to next term, we spent some time thinking of new targets and goals and updating our My World Of Work profiles.
• We were writing haunted house descriptions and trying to include everything we’ve been focussing on this term including figurative language, powerful vocabulary and sentence openers.  We were able to assess how effective our descriptions were by typing them into Adobe Express and using this to create images.  This led to a discussion about how important it is to give clear and detailed information to help the reader create an accurate picture in their minds.
• Some of us enjoyed taking part in Bikeability sessions and these will continue next term.
• We finally got to the end of our class novel Where The World Turns Wild after a few cliff hanging chapters this week and we enjoyed demonstrating our creativity when making posters relating to this.
• We also had a great last day, wearing red to ‘Show Racism The Red Card’, teaching playground games to our buddies and finishing with our Achievement Assembly.  We really do have a lot of talented people in our school!

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

• Despite feeling apprehensive beforehand, everyone felt the parent consultations this week were fair and honest and we are looking forward to working on our personal challenges and next steps after the holidays.

Our school value award winners for this week are Abi for being kind and Indi for being ambitious.  Well done!

Have a lovely October break and we look forward to seeing everyone when we return to class on Tuesday 27th October.

Primary 3/4 have had a fantastic final week of term and we are incredibly proud of all the hard work and effort the children have shown this term. We have loved learning through our Space topic and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who brought in space-themed crafts and creations from home. I have shared some photographs of these wonderful projects and have been so impressed by the creativity on display!

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We have continued to improve our transitions between lessons and activities, helping us make the most of our learning time.
• We earned our reward for filling our class star jar and enjoyed bringing in a favourite toy for some free play time.
• Our mental maths work has been going really well, and we can see growing confidence in the children’s number skills and problem-solving.

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

• We will continue to practise listening carefully and not shouting out when others are talking.
• We will remember that toys should stay at home unless it is a special reward day, and focus on our learning during class time.

Our Lead Learners this week are Zaynab for being Ambitious and Olivia for being Responsible. Well done!

A huge well done to all of Primary 3/4 for a wonderful first term. I hope everyone has a restful and enjoyable October holiday, and I look forward to seeing you all back refreshed and ready for another exciting term of learning!

We have had another busy week this week  – getting our STEM airport competition entry submitted and 2 nights of parents nights – we made sure that we were ready to showcase our work.

Tickled Pink

• • Our Harvest Assembly
  • Show Racism The Red Card and Achievement Assembly
  • Making our reusable bags proto type for next term.
  • Sewing skills.
  • Creating books for Primary 1
  • Maths Blooket
  • Submitting our Sustianable Airport for All – STEM challenge competition. We had an email from Edinburgh airport saying they had received our entries.
  • My world of work – logging some of our achievements.

Green for Growth

• Some of us were still finding addition and  subtraction with larger numbers with borrowing rather tricky.
• Continue to develop our listening skills when we are enthusiastic and motivated learners.
• Our 3D cardboard airport design- it was hard to build solar panels and buildings. We ran out of time to include it in the competition.
• Dealing with passwords for ICT – Logging into World of work and Giglets and Teams for some of us.
• Using Scratch for coding.

  Have a wonderful break! 

Tickled Pinks:

• We loved doing colouring in to calm music.
• We liked playing outside.
• Tidying up the classroom.
• We liked playing families.

Green for growths

• Listening to all the words and not talking over people.
• We need to get better at following our school values.

Our Lead Learners are:

Mila for being respectful and Jack for being responsible.

We hope you have a great holiday.

We have been working hard across the school this week and are proud of the enthusiasm and commitment shown by our pupils.

One of the highlights of the week was our second Pupil Council meeting of the term. Building on the excellent work already underway, the Pupil Council further developed their ideas around promoting sharing across the school. As part of this work, they have designed a pupil-friendly questionnaire to gather the views of children from across the school and identify areas where classes feel they can continue to develop their sharing skills and qualities.

Following the October break, the Pupil Council will meet again to analyse the results of the questionnaire and use this feedback to inform their next steps. This will include further planning around assemblies and exploring new strategies to encourage effective sharing throughout our school community. It has been fantastic to see our pupils taking such an active role in leading improvement and ensuring that everyone’s voice is heard.

A huge congratulations to our P6/7 pupils for their delivery of an amazing and extremely informative assembly! The school performance and parental performances were outstanding.

We have also been preparing for our upcoming Bikeability Level 2 training. Bike checks were carried out this week to ensure that all participating pupils are ready to begin their sessions. The training will start next week and continue after the October break for the second group of pupils. All pupils will have been told whether they are part of group 1 or 2. We are looking forward to seeing our pupils build their confidence, develop important cycling skills and learn how to stay safe while travelling on their bikes.

Looking ahead, we are excited to be preparing for our Harvest Assembly. As part of this, we will once again be supporting our “We Scare Hunger” initiative and collecting donations for our harvest collection. On Friday 30th October, pupils are invited to dress up or dress down if they wish and bring along a food pantry item to donate. Any contribution, no matter how small, will help support those in our local community who may need a little extra help. We would like to thank families in advance for their continued generosity and support.

As always, we are incredibly proud of the teamwork, leadership and positive attitude demonstrated by our pupils.

Next Week 

Coming Weeks

Primary 6/7 have had an excellent week with lots of interesting and engaging 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 put so much work into our class assembly rehearsals and performances this week and feel that our performance for our visiting adults on Friday morning was very successful and we really enjoyed sharing our learning. Our teachers were very happy with how well we presented our assembly on Friday morning and we are sure that our visiting adults enjoyed all of the amazing PowerPoints, songs, dramas, fashions show, etc. Thanks to everyone who came along

• We think that there are improvements in our class with becoming more responsible and respectful to other children and adults and we are committed to continuing to work hard at improving this

• Most of us feel that we are making good progress with our Mental Maths work and our listening and understanding of the important strategies has definitely improved since we started P6/7

• We felt that we made did some wonderful work with our descriptive writing this week as we developed our skills with using metaphors, similes and alliteration. We also started learning how to use personification this week as part of our focus on figurative language
• We felt that our measurement work in Maths went well as we learned about metric and imperial units of measurement and started to convert between different measurements, for example miles and kilometres
• We felt that we were more respectful in our basketball PE lesson this week
• Many of us believe that following our school values at break time and lunch time are improving
• The children in class who attend school football club are enjoying the activities and working with the coach

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

• Some of us were a little concerned about some of the class not being responsible during assembly rehearsals earlier in the week

• Many of us think that we need to keep working hard at demonstrating our school values in the playground and make sure that we listen effectively and respectfully to adults in the school

Our school value award winners for this week are Ella and Adam. Congratulations!

Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7 and a wonderful presentation of our class assembly to visiting adults on Friday morning. Have a lovely weekend.

Primary 3/4 have had another busy and enjoyable week in class.

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We enjoyed making 3D cubes with Mrs Denholm during our maths lessons and developed our understanding of 3D shapes.
• We used the La Luna mini clip as a stimulus for writing and created some imaginative and thoughtful pieces of work.
• We created our own Starry Night artwork, using colour and creativity to produce some fantastic pieces inspired by Vincent van Gogh.
• We have continued to improve our transitions between lessons and activities, earning class stars for being organised and ready to learn.

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

• We will continue to practise putting our hands up and waiting our turn to speak, rather than shouting out during class discussions.
• We will keep working on recognising and respecting our differences, while developing positive relationships and teamwork skills with others.

Our lead learners this week are Elodie for being Resilient and Fraser for being Respectful. Well done!

Well done to all of P3/4 for another successful week. Have a lovely weekend!

Tickled Pink

• Making adverts and posters for our shops after getting a letter from the shop keepers asking for help.
• PE with Mrs Robertson was fun because we were using basketballs and practising passing to each other.
• In writing we were practising using capital letters and full stops to make full sentences.

Green for Growth

• Lining up responsibly without touching or talking to anyone else.
• Counting backwards and saying the number that comes before.

Lead learners this week are Olivia C and Ayla.