Seafield Primary School

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

Tickled Pink

• Exploring the musical instruments was great fun – the children enjoyed playing their instrument on the beat.
• The children were really excited to do money again in maths – we were singing ‘Money, money, money’ and then collecting coins and identifying them before ordering the coins from smallest value to biggest.
• In PE we were practising different skills including balancing, catching, throwing and dribbling. The children done really well with this.

Green for Growth

• In maths we have started learning about skip counting in 2s and the link to the 2 timestable. Some children are finding it a bit tricky but they are all loving our counting by 2s song that we listen to each day.
• We were revising tally marks and bar graphs today and some children found it a bit difficult to take the information and create the bar graph.

Lead Learners are Lucas M and Daisy R, well done!

Have a great long weekend!

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots of 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 loved our volleyball session in PE as it was fun to start playing games and see how the skills that we’ve been working on translate into game situations
• The Primary 7s enjoyed their literacy transition work on the novel “Holes” this week as they started get a little further into the story
• We really enjoyed continuing with our writing activity where we had to write a response text about the short animation “Coin Operated” as it is an interesting short cartoon
• We enjoyed our art activity with Mrs Denholm to design a paddle board because we could create our own design for this competition
• We enjoyed learning about division again in Maths as it was great to review what we know about division and extend our strategies for doing mental division calculations
• We enjoyed hearing about the artist Keith Haring and had fun trying to create artwork using his unique Pop Art style

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

• Some of us felt that our Writing task was a wee bit tricky as it was a bit difficult to come up with paragraph ideas because it was such a short animation
• A few of the Primary 7s found it difficult to start thinking about our nursery and primary school memories as we start preparing for our leaver’s assembly
• Some of us found Maths a bit difficult as our division calculations needed us to use our times table knowledge quickly and accurately

Our lead learners were Alieu, Chloe, Brodie and Shiva.  They have decided on the following three targets for the class; to be resilient in PE, to not throw things in the classroom and to be responsible in the playground. We are continuing to work on these targets next week so we will report back on our progress with them next Friday. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink

• During outdoor learning, we found a new area which we named Jess’s Jungle.  When we found an abandoned tent we decided to be explorers and created our own dens.
• We wrote explanation texts to explain about Seafield Gala Day and did a fantastic job peer and self assessing these.
• We enjoyed trying hurdles in our PE lesson and found that ‘Jump Master Jake’ excelled with these.
• We loved being an audience for the P2/3 assembly and really enjoyed their French weather song.

Green for Growth

• We found time durations difficult to grasp during our maths lessons.
• Although we understood the importance of scale we found it tricky trying to do our own drawings to scale.
• During a cool down game in PE, chosen by Henry, we found it difficult trying to think of lots of different ways to move.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Matthew and Julia and they were please to report that everyone managed to achieve their sitting safely on a chair target.

Tickled Pink:

• We had our class assembly today! Thank you to everyone who came along. We enjoyed sharing our learning with you and loved being able to show our assembly which we worked so hard on.
• We have been working on lots of different times tables this week. Some groups have been working on the 4 and 8 times tables while others have been working on the 2 and 5 times tables. We liked using our iPads on the times tables games and using the multiplication mats.
• For our writing, we wrote about a day at the beach. We thought about all the fun activities that you could do at the beach and then wrote about them in a recount.

Green for growth:

• We looked at different features of a church for our RME lesson this week. After, some of us created a leaflet about everything you could find in a church whereas others labeled the features on a picture. Some of us found it tricky to remember the different features that we had learnt.

Our lead learners for this week are Olivia and Blake.

Tickled Pink

• In PE we did rounders with Mrs Flynn. We went down the field and we enjoyed getting outside and playing a good game. We also enjoyed PE with Mrs Baird where we played lots of games involving throwing and catching.
• For maths we have been learning to read quarter to and quarter past on an analogue and digital  clock with Mrs Egan.
• In writing we wrote about an outdoor learning session we had where we created homes for pet rocks, it was fun.

Green for Growth

• In French we were learning about the seasons because we already knew some of it but we did learn some new things.
• We went to other classes on Monday afternoon to help them out, it was interesting being in another class for a while.

Lead learners this week were Zac and Abi.

Tickled Pink

• For topic this week we were learning about farming and where different foods come from. The children worked collaboratively to sort foods into the correct group and then enjoyed playing with some farm animals and making their own farms.

• For outdoor learning this week we took part in a bug hunt. The children had a container with a magnifying glass as a lid – this helped them to see the bug up close. We found lots of worms, slugs, woodlouse and one centipede.

• For buddy time this week we enjoyed reading to our buddies! The P1/2s done fantastic with their reading and then the P6/7s challenged them to a tricky word hunt in the book before drawing their favourite part of the story.

Green for Growth

• In maths we have started looking at money, learning all of the different coins. We done a coin rubbing activity and some children found this a bit tricky.
• During our French lesson we were learning about the country France. We found out lots of information and some children found it a bit tricky to remember the key facts.

Our Lead Learners are Miah and Ernest!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We started learning about time in maths. We have recapped o’clock and half past and began looking at quarter to and quarter past.
• For outdoor learning we helped the rights respecting team by posting leaflets through doors in the community.
• As part of pupil voice, we had group descriptive feedback sessions and decided to change the table layout in the classroom to better suit our learning. We think that sitting in twos will help us to concentrate better.

Green for Growth

• Our topic is a project based learning idea based around gaming. We have so many ideas but we have to remember that we need to start at the beginning and not think about cut scenes and xp points just yet.
• In literacy we are continuing learning about speech marks and not forgetting the other punctuation.
• Division with remainders has been tricky for a lot of us in numeracy.

Lead learners next week are Zac and Abi.

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots of interesting 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 loved our outdoor learning on Monday as it was great fun delivering leaflets to houses in our school community about our work in school on children’s rights
• We enjoyed our PE with Mrs Denholm because of the Olympics theme and the variety of activities
• We enjoyed our writing activity where we had to write a response text about the short animation “Coin Operated” as it was something quite different for a writing task
• We had great fun with our buddies and loved that they were reading to us this week and we enjoyed exploring the books together
• We had lots of fun in with volleyball in PE this week
• Our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at the Rotary Club quiz had great fun and represented the school fabulously. They also did a wonderful job managing to achieve fourth place out of fifteen schools

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

• Some of us felt that the “Coin Operated” writing task was a wee bit tricky as it was a bit difficult to think up different themes for each paragraph in this response text
• A few of the Primary 7s found the Literacy transition lesson on “Holes” a bit tricky as the questions from the DCHS English teacher were difficult
• Some of us found the Maths work with time a little tricky, especially the work with time measurements of less than a second

Our lead learners were Megan, Alieu, Logan and Chloe.  They had decided on the following three targets for the class; to show respect to others including teachers, pupils support workers and other children, to focus well in Writing and Debating and to try to wear uniform to school most days. They identified lots of children in class meeting all three of the targets that they set, which is great news. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

We have had a busy week this week.

Things that have gone well.

• Scale in Maths- we were using a key – 1cm is 25km – we then had to calculate distances.
• Bleep Test -PE
• Outdoor learning – Delivering RRSA leaflets around  the village and talking to people about children’s rights..
• Health and Wellbeing – listening to a sentence and doing the drawing – Comparing the drawings. We recognised that everyone thinks differently, even when we all listened to the same instructions.

Things that have been tricky.

• The Bleep Test was fun but very tiring!
• Writing about the water cycle.
• The mental maths challenges