Seafield Primary School

It’s been a short but fun week in P2/3

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We loved getting to work with lots of different pupils, staff and in different areas in the school during our Rights Day on Friday and everyone had a fantastic morning.
• We really enjoyed our NYCOS music session with Mrs Gray and we showed a good understanding of tempo and rhythm.
• In Literacy, we worked hard to read about different animals and then we wrote lots of facts about them.
• In RME, we continued to learn about caring and treating others how we would like to be treated.  We listened to some Christian stories and we are looking forward to hearing some Muslim ones next week.

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

• We will continue to talk about rights and we want to try to learn more before we are assessed for our gold RRSA award in June.

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

It has been a quick week for Primary 1 with a holiday Monday and an in service, but we’ve still managed to pack in lots of fun!

Tickled Pink

• We had our rights day today where we got to go around different classrooms to do activities linked with our rights. We particularly loved the obstacle course  and the smoothie bike to make our own healthy smoothies!
• We enjoyed searching the playground for different bugs during outdoor learning this week. We used information we have been learning for our topic to think about where we might find different insects.
• We have been learning to name parts of our body in French and even learned to sing Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in french!

Green for Growth

• We are continuing to practice our school value, respectful, to show good sitting and listening on the carpet and to take turns when speaking to others.

Our Lead Learners this week are Charlotte and Lucie!

We have had a busy and enjoyable time in school this week. The children have shown great enthusiasm across different aspects of learning throughout the week.

Mrs S Page

Next Week 

Coming Up

It has been an eventful week with lots going on. Today we had another inclusion and diversity themed assembly, linked to deaf awareness week which is 4th-10th May. We celebrated a staff birthday and there was a real sense of community and kindness felt in the hall as we sang ‘you are a star’

Next week, we have a holiday Monday and an inservice day on Thursday, so it is sure to be a bit of a quick week!

Honeycomb challenge results:

P1 – 3 earned

P3/4- 2 earned

P6/7 – 1 earned

Values Raffle Ticket winners this week were P5/6, fantastic news, well done!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, enjoy your Monday holiday!

Mrs S Page

Next Week

Coming Up

It has been a fun week in Primary 1. We have been talking about our classroom and thinking about the opportunities we have for play, what areas we like best and those we would like to change.

Tickled Pink

• We have been learning about numbers and how to make them by adding on from 10, for example 10 + 6 = 16
• We have been learning to identify coins and add them to make a total
• We have been making words with letters
• We have been learning about the parts of the plants – roots, stem, leaves and flower and what each part does.

Green for Growth

• We are working on our school value, be responsible, we are trying hard to keep our classroom tidy after we play, making sure everything returns to where it belongs.
• We will be continuing to work on our reading next week and new books will be issued.

Have a lovely weekend

Primary 6/7 have had a brilliant week in school with lots of fantastic 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):

• Lots of us enjoyed Writing this week as we started our focus on the “Explanation” text type by writing about wind turbines. Most of us managed to complete the writing task and enjoyed learning about this genre of writing
• We enjoyed creating our Seafield Gala Day competition entries for designing the front cover of the Gala Day programme because many people included excellent drawings and designs

• We all really enjoyed getting some Article 31 free time and fresh air with our time outdoors this week with the lovely weather

• Our Primary 7s enjoyed making decisions about the songs that they are choosing to sing at their leaver’s assembly
• Our Primary 6s enjoyed working on their projects because they are making good progress and adding good detail

• Lots of the Primary 7s enjoyed their second English transition lesson about the excellent novel, “Ghost Boys”
• Most of us enjoyed our Maths lessons about Distance, Speed and Time this week, as we learned about how to do the calculations using different formulae
• We felt that we did very well as we started our WWII topic presentations which will continue next week
• Many of us enjoyed working on control and passing in our focus on football in PE

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

• Some people found creating our Gala Day competition entries a little stressful due to the deadline for them being submitted
• Some of us were a little disappointed that we weren’t able to leave the school this week for Outdoor Learning as we didn’t have another adult to come out with us

Our school value award winners for this week are Emma-Jo and Henry. Massive congratulations to them!

Well done P6/7 for a wonderful week in school. Have a lovely long weekend and see you all on Tuesday.

We have had a super week in P2/3 and have enjoyed the fact that the weather has been lovely and we have been able to go outdoors more for our learning.

Tickled Pink –

• We worked really hard on our maths volume activities this week and enjoyed using the water tray to investigate millilitres and litres.
• We using rulers to measure accurately in cm.
• We made different food chains in different habitats
• We started learning about farming.
• We talked about the London Marathon and the difference between marathon running and sprinting – we took part in some running challenges in PE.
• We were delighted to find out in assembly that we were getting new resources for the playground.
• We enjoyed meeting Eden as we learned about what babies need to grow.
• We made our own wee Superworms!

Green For Growth –

• Using time connectives in our writing.
• We found some of the real life problem solving relating to volume quite tricky.
• Putting some of our tricky word cards in alphabetical order.
• To get better at our times tables.
• Make sure we are always kind to each other and use kind words.
• To be responsible when we have NYCOS music sessions.
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Tickled Pink

• For outdoor learning we used the stimulus of ‘James and the Giant Peach’ to create minibeast hotels. We designed them with a partner before we left school and thought about which creatures to attract and how. We then went to Deanburn Gardens and created the hotels with the same partner. The results were fantastic, we are very proud of our hard work.
• In writing we have started learning how to write an explanation report. We learned how a wind turbine creates electricity from wind power and wrote about it in our jotters.
• Mrs Flynn started teaching us Spanish and we learned how to say the colours. We used this to complete some work which will continue next week.

Green for Growth

• We are continuing to learn about time, we have looked at the months, weeks and days of the year. This can be tricky because there are different numbers of days in each month and the problems we are solving mean we have to know them off by heart.

Lead learners this week are Frankie and Ellie.

We have had a really good week in school. Our P2/3 and P3/4 classes attended West Lothian College for a STEM Big Build event, where pupils had an amazing time working together and developing their problem-solving skills. This continues to be a wonderful partnership link for our school and a fantastic opportunity for our learners.