Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a brilliant couple of weeks, with lots of great learning activities in class and online. On Friday morning, we discussed our last two weeks in school (because of the school closure due to the storm last week) and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We have really enjoyed our two online lessons about Adobe Express over the last two weeks as we have been learning new skills and functions on this amazing resource and we thought it was great that we got some freedom and choice during these sessions too
• We have enjoyed beginning to design and create our Gala Day posters for the competition to design the front cover of the Gala Day programme
• We enjoyed learning about negative numbers in Maths and considering the different real life situations where negative numbers are used
• The rest of our tickled pink learning that we want to share is all in relation to our Burns Supper. We have loved lots of different aspects or our learning over the last few weeks including the Scottish songs that we have been singing (Auld Lang Syne was definitely one of the favourites), writing and reciting Scots poetry, and the Scottish dancing for our Burns Supper was a highlight too. We are really looking forward to sharing all of this with you next Friday.

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

• It has been an amazing week with lots of enjoyment and we only wanted to focus on the Tickled Pinks and our wonderful Burns Supper!

Our lead learners for this week were Jake, Oscar, Calla & Alieu. They set the following class targets for the week; pay attention when the teacher is talking, don’t be silly on the laptops and be responsible with class resources. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was great to see.

Our school value award winners for this week and last week are Brodie, Shiva, Niamh and Che.

Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7 and an absolutely magnificent Burns Supper which our Seafield Senior Citizens group thoroughly enjoyed. Have a lovely weekend.

P2/3 have had a great week this week. Eadie, Ryan and Struan did a fantastic job standing up and performing their Scottish poems for the schools Burns assembly. Well done!

Tickled Pink:

• We have been working on our group work this week and it has been going amazingly! In our groups we did research on Scottish animals and learned how to use Padlet to feedback our information to the rest of the class. We also worked in our groups during RME to draw and label the inside and outside of a church. This was an amazing piece of work and the team work that we used made them even better – We decided in our groups to split the work up which was a fantastic strategy!
• In Health and Wellbeing we are learning about safe and unsafe substances. We had a class discussion about the different things we think are safe and unsafe and made a chart to sort them.

Green for Growth:

• In numeracy we have moved on to our 5 times table and are going to continue to practise some different strategies that we have learned to help us like times table flowers!

Our lead learners this week are Evie, Lilidh, Robyn and Eadie – Well done!

Tickled Pink:

• This week we have been working hard on fractions. We are able to find fractions of a quantity, and find where fractions lie on a number line.  We also loved the fraction song, which we were able to dance to!
• We enjoyed PE this week, as we joined the P2/3 class, and played lots of fun games with the parachute.
• During Literacy, we learnt about onomatopoeia, and we were able to create our own onomatopoeia pop art pictures, which we really enjoyed!

Green for Growth:

• We would like to continue working with fractions and finding fractions of a quantity.

Our Lead Learners next week are Georgia and Cade.

Tickled Pink:

• For outdoor learning this week we were practising tally marks and recording what colour the cars were that drove past us. After 10 minutes we had to count the tally marks and see what colour was the most popular.

• We have been learning about Lunar New Year and enjoyed making our very own paper snakes to celebrate the year of the snake. We all followed the instructions really well and they turned out super!
• We have finished learning how to write all of the capital letters in handwriting and are looking forward to starting new handwriting jotters to practise writing on the lines.

Green for Growth:

• Some children keep forgetting that when we draw a fifth tally mark it goes across to make a group – we will keep practising this.
• Some children are getting a bit confused when doing subtraction sums – they are adding on instead of taking away.

Our Lead Learners next week are Milly and Jaxon.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• We have started looking at subtraction in Maths and the children are loving being Subtraction Ninjas… they have enjoyed playing squashy subtraction with the playdough and exploring new games on the iPad.
• We have been learning about Scotland this week – including about famous Scots like Robert Burns and Steven Brown. We loved drawing our own McCoos and having a wee party to celebrate Robert Burns… we tried shortbread and irn bru! Click the link to see our McCoos … P1 McCoos

• We were using the describing bubble to help us write descriptive sentences about a Hen and her Chicks. The children came up with super sentences!

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to count tally marks – we will keep practising.

Lead Learners will be announced next week as we were not in school today… I hope everyone stays safe and has a lovely weekend!

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed creating our own Scots poem and some of us will be reciting them at our Burns Supper.
• In art we did Scots words pop art and it was fun trying to make the pop art stand out.
• We all enjoyed Miss White’s party because it was her last day with us, we had a lot of fun.
• We finished our fractions topic and we were all happy  we had finished working on such a tricky concept. What an achievement!

Green for Growth

• We were learning coordinates with Mrs Baird,  we understood how to plot co-ordinates on a grid but it was tricky to solve problems about co-ordinates.
• We were trying to learn our Scottish poems off by heart for our whole school Scottish assembly and some of our poems were written by  Robert Burns and so we have found them a bit tricky to learn.

Lead Learner Update

Our lead learners this week were Jake and Oscar they choose to focus on

do your reading homework

be responsible in class

do your work and don’t talk across your table.

Many pupils in the class achieved these targets. Well done!

The blog this week was created by Shiva.

Tickled Pink:

• We really enjoyed exploring Seafield further this week in Outdoor Learning. We went down to the fallen tree and explored climbing trees and crossing the burn over the tree bridge and making our own bridges as well.
• We enjoyed practising our Scottish dancing this week and have been working on the Virginia Reel.
• This week has been all about preparing for the Burns supper that we are hosting for the DISCO group and our class assembly. Not only have we been learning Scottish dances, we have been practising Scottish poems, writing our own Scots poems and singing Scottish songs.

Green for growth:

• We found our fraction maths work this week a little tricky. Some of us are working on equivalent fractions and were struggling of understanding what these were.
• We are working hard creating our Scots poem even if we are finding it a bit difficult to work out how to rhyme some of the words!

Our lead learners this week are Ryan and Noel.

Tickled Pinks

• This week for outdoor learning we went to Deanburn Gardens. We explored the woods and were able to climb trees, dig and splash around in the swampy puddles. We enjoyed this because it was fun and trying something new.
• Miss Love taught us about symmetry in maths. We had 4 tasks: ipads, lego patterns, painting symmetrical pictures and making symmetrical patterns out of marshmallows (which we ate afterwards).
• Today we had our hub group where we all go to different teachers and learn different things. Cade enjoyed the H&W because we learned about exercise and sporty days.

Green for Growth

• In numeracy we have been using play dough to help us learn fractions, some of us need to keep working on splitting the whole in halves, quarters, thirds, fifths, eigths, etc.

Lead learners this week are Fatoumata and Lily.

P2/3 have had a brilliant week this week!

Tickled Pink:

• We have been enjoying learning all about Scottish animals – we have been researching them and have made information posters all about them to display in class.
• In science this week we have been looking at living and non-living things – we worked together to write a sentence about living things and then ‘bumped it up’ to a sentence with detailed information. It was amazing!

Green for growth:

• We have still been working on the 2 times table and feel like we could use some more practice so we are going to continue with this next week.

Our lead learners this week are Ernest for being resilient and Ava for being responsible – Well done!

Tickled Pink:

• We had lots of fun during Outdoor Learning. We went on a Winter Scavenger Hunt and had to look really hard to find the different winter items.
• We have started looking at weather this week and have been completing a weather chart daily to track it.
• We were writing about monsters this week and got to draw our own monster to write descriptive sentences about. The monsters all looked fantastic and the children done really well with their sentences using the describing bubble.

Green for Growth:

• We started looking at tally marks in maths this week and some children were finding it a bit tricky to remember that the 5th one goes across.

Our Lead Learners next week are Iver and Olivia C.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace!