Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• Writing a recount about Little Red Riding Hood.
• Drawing 2D shapes in our maths jotters using a ruler.
• Learning about the Yellow Zone as part of Zones of Regulation.

Green for Growth

• Dealing with small problems on our own, e.g. losing a pencil, someone pushing past us in the classroom without saying “excuse me” or not being able to find a whiteboard pen next to our desks.
• Finishing our work on time.

Lead learners this week are Olivia N and Milly.

We’ve had an industrious week in Primary 6/7 and have been working very hard putting the finishing touches on our assembly group presentations.

We decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We were trying to include figurative language and powerful vocabulary when writing descriptions about a busy football stadium or concert.
• We have been continuing to learn about internet safety and discussing what we should and shouldn’t post online.
• We made super progress with our assembly power points and have been developing our proof reading and editing skills while experimenting with different fonts and designs.
• In Numeracy we have been learning about partitioning and building decimal fractions.
• We have also been developing our self and peer evaluation skills and many pupils are now able to use the success criteria to help them write quality feedback.
• We enjoyed discussing and comparing rites of passage in RME.
• Some people really enjoyed working on chip shots in golf.
• Although there is still room for improvement, more pupils were making sensible choices and being respectful this week.

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

• Some people found a listening task tricky and decided they need to listen more carefully so they hear all the information.
• Most people feel confident about using similes in their writing  but feel they now need to include more metaphors.

Our school value award winners for this week are Ryan for being responsible and Ellie for being ambitious.  Well done!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to welcoming our family members to our class assembly next Friday.

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

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We have been working hard on our transitions between lessons and are becoming quicker and more organised when moving between activities.
• We enjoyed taking part in Dyslexia Awareness Week, learning more about what dyslexia is and how everyone learns in different ways.
• We finished our harvest artwork, which will be used as part of a future assembly.
• We wrote our first recount piece and enjoyed sharing our experiences through writing.
• We had great fun creating autumn artwork with Mrs Denholm, using a range of colours and techniques inspired by the season.

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

• We will continue to focus on our learning, giving every task our best effort and aiming to complete our work within the given time.

Our lead learner this week is Eadie for being Responsible, and our school value award winner is Lilidh for being Respectful. Well done!

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

Primary 1/2 have had a great week.

Our Tickled Pinks are:

• We are enjoying the work at school.
• Having fun making snakes.
• We loved milkshake funday.

Green for growths

• Work on our tidying up.
• Work as a team in everything we do.

Our Lead Learners this week:

Robbie and Maeve for being ambitious.

It has been a really positive week at Seafield, with lots of learning, discussion and reflection taking place across the school. This week, our children have been thinking particularly about inclusion and what it means to make sure everyone feels valued, understood and able to take part. As part of Dyslexia Awareness Week, pupils have been learning more about dyslexia and recognising that we all have different strengths and may learn in different ways. We brought this learning together at our assembly yesterday, where every pupil received a blue Dyslexia Awareness ribbon to celebrate what they had learned and to help raise awareness across our school community.

Our conversations about inclusion also link closely to our Seafield expectation of being SAFE. We want every child to understand that feeling safe at school is not only about physical safety, but also about helping to create an environment where everyone feels included, respected, listened to and comfortable being themselves. Our pupils have been thinking about the part they each play in making Seafield a safe and welcoming place for everyone.

There has also been lots of discussion about how pupils can use their voice to shape their learning and our school. Our Hub groups have now been established, creating further opportunities for children to share their views, contribute ideas and play an active part in school improvement. Classes have also been talking about their action plans for the session ahead, considering what is important to them, what they would like to achieve and how they can work together to make a difference.

It has been lovely to hear the thoughtful conversations happening across the school this week.

With Parent Consultations fast approaching, please look out for notification that bookings for appointments are open.

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs S Page

Next Week 

Coming Up 

Its been another busy week this week in class where the children have been working together developing their metaskills as they plan to enter a STEM competition.

Tickled Pink –

• We finished most of our initial sewing tasks- some wanted to challenge ourselves by sewing paper birds – the finished results are beautiful!
• We finished our shared class Plastic Bag Mockumentary! It is on display outside our class.
• Basketball was great fun this week and our skills are really developing.
• We are working on our Airport for All competition entry – designing a sustainable Edinburgh Airport.
• We really enjoyed our addition challenges this week adding large numbers  – tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions.
• Writing this week was good as we used lots of adjectives to describe a stormy night.

Green for Growth-

• We were working on multiple calculations using our 4 operations this week but some of us found this tricky mixing add, subtract , multiply and divide so we went back to focussing on a particular operation each day.
• Using different language and word problems during mental maths  – plus, minus, difference between etc.
• Remembering to do our class jobs – make sure devices are on charge, resources put away, make sure lids are on pens and glue sticks.

It’s been a super week here!

We held our first Pupil Council meeting of this session, and our pupils have chosen ‘sharing’ as the focus for their work. This links really well with our wider school focus on resilience, as well as our school value of kindness. The children already had some fantastic initial ideas, including creating sharing strategies for classes, delivering a class assembly about sharing, and surveying pupils to find out whether their work is making a difference. We’re looking forward to meeting again early in October to develop these ideas and plans further.

We’ve also had a lovely week exploring different cultures and languages across the school, ending with our dress-down day today. It has been wonderful to see children learning about, celebrating and showing an interest in the different cultures and languages that make our wider world such a rich and interesting place.

Just a couple of gentle reminders from school.

• At morning break, children have around 15 minutes for their snack and play, so we would ask that snacks are kept to a maximum of two items. Where possible, snacks that children can manage independently and that don’t require cutlery are helpful, allowing them plenty of time to eat and enjoy their break.
• Finally, a wee reminder that toys should stay at home please, unless children have specifically been asked to bring something into school. This helps us to avoid treasured items becoming lost or damaged and keeps everyone focused on learning and playing together.

As always, thank you for your continued support, and we hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

Mrs S Page

Coming Up 

Primary 3/4 have had an exciting week in class.

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We enjoyed taking part in Culture Awareness and Language Day, where we could dress down or dress as something that links to our culture.
• We became rocket scientists during our science lessons, exploring what makes rockets blast off and designing and testing our own paper rockets.
• We used pastels to create colourful shape artwork, linking our creativity with our learning in maths.
• We wrote recounts about our rocket blaster experience, helping us to organise our ideas and write about a real-life event in detail.

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

• We will continue to develop our teamwork skills by working positively with different classmates, showing kindness and encouraging one another during learning activities.

Our school value award winners are Perri for Kindness and Ava for Ambition. Well done!

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

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic 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 all enjoyed our PE session with Mrs Robertson this week as we started to focus on skills related to basketball

• We all really enjoyed making apple crumble and learning how to prepare and make food as well as focusing on where food contents originate from

• Most of us feel that we are making good progress with our topic presentations that we are researching and creating for our class assembly in two weeks

• We felt that we made good progress in our Maths work on place value with decimal numbers which will also help us with our Mental Maths
• We enjoyed our golf lesson in PE with Mr Hamilton and lots of us are making good progress with our swings and shots
• We felt that we focused well on our Writing task this week and most of us were able to complete the work and we enjoyed writing a description of a favourite person
• Some of us feel that we are making some good progress in class with improving our focus on school values and gradually becoming more responsible

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

• Some of us were a little concerned about some people not being responsible and respectful during the basketball PE lesson

• Some of us found some parts of making our apple crumble a little difficult, especially peeling and preparing the apples

Our school value award winners for this week are Ellie Mae and Jason. Congratulations!

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

Tickled Pink

•  We have been doing narrative writing this week about getting lost in the woods. We love getting to use our imaginations more!
•  We have been playing basketball with Ms Robertson in PE and are enjoying improving our skills.
•  We are timing ourselves doing our mental maths and have been enjoying challenging ourselves by beating the timer.

Green for Growth

•  We have been learning about how to manage friendship conflict and we are going to try to use the strategies we have learned to solve disagreements and avoid falling out with our friends.
• We are working on keeping our classroom tidy.