Seafield Primary School

We have had a fantastic first week back at school! We have loved sharing stories about our Christmas holidays and playing with our friends again.

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• We have been learning about the months of the year as we have moved into 2025. The children are great at singing the months of the year song and we made our own class calendar.
• We have been practising the alphabet and putting the letters in order.
• We have started learning about ‘The Zones of Regulation’ which is all about how we understand and manage our emotions – we have linked this to the film ‘Inside Out’ and the children loved colouring in the characters linked to the four zones.

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• Some of the children have forgotten some of the numbers we were learning before the holidays so we are going over them.

Our Lead Learners next week are Lucy and Junior.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace!

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• It was our last session with Mrs de Luen in music. We learned to read music notes, So and Mi, on a musical grid. We have loved learning from her. We gave her a card and some biscuits to say thank you.
• We had PE with Miss Halliday this week and we did some Scottish Country dancing. We learned the Canadian Barn Dance and the Grand Old Duke of York.
• The P3s were part of the Nativity and they were FANTASTIC! They sang beautifully and acted so well. They completed 3 performances, 2 for parents, and they were so brilliant!
• We made some salt dough ornaments which are still drying in the classroom.

Green for Growth

• Rich tasks were tricky this week, we are going to use our meta skills to help us in future.

Our lead learners this week were Georgia and Blake.

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1!

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• We had our Nativity performances for the whole school and our grown ups – the children were all AMAZING! I am very proud of everyone and I know they are feeling very proud of themselves too!
• In maths we were looking at measuring weight and the children had lots of fun using the balancing scales to find out which toy/item is heavier and which is lighter.
• We have been learning more tricky words and the children love finding them in stories or listening for them in sentences said by teachers in the school.

Green for Growth:

• We have been looking at numbers 11-20 this week and some of the children are finding it a bit tricky to remember 11, 12 and 13… we will keep practising identifying the numbers.
• For Outdoor Learning we had a ‘snowball fight’, each snowball had a sum written on it and we had to work out the answer and write it on our sheet. Some of the children found it a bit tricky to write their answer in the correct place.

Our Lead Learners next week are Freddie and Emily.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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• In our Outdoor Learning session this week, we recycled some cardboard boxes to create Santa’s sleigh. We even had our Santa supplied by Henry and we pretended to be reindeers and elves to pull the sleigh.
• During Maths, some of us have been focusing on subtraction with exchanging. We have been working well and have been using the strategies that we have previously used to help us to work on these sums.
• We are entering a writing competition and this week started on our magical map essays. We only are allowed to use 100 words which we found a bit difficult but we are excited to see if any of us win!
• We enjoyed watching the P1-3 Nativity dress rehearsal this week. Lots of have siblings in these classes so we were excited to see them perform so well!
• We loved our handball tournament this week and can’t wait to hear the results about who won!

Green for Growth:

• We were working on money this week, we had lots of questions on decimal notation and how to work out money word problems. We will keep working on this.

Our lead learners this week are Adam and Emma Jo.

This week we have performed our Nativity for our families and friends and we enjoyed every second!

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• We learned and performed all of our parts in the Nativity.
• We learned some Christmas songs in Makaton.
• We enjoyed designing and drawing some Christmas jumpers.

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• We have been working hard on our topic of money in Numeracy this week, we are going to continue to improve our skills with notes and coins.
• Next week, we are going to be voting on our IDL topic for next term! Some of our options so far  are: animals, sports and space.

Our Lead Learners this week are: Evie, Lucas M, Miah and Lilidh! Well done everyone.

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• Learning to find right angles around the classroom using a right angle finder in maths.
• P3s did some free writing using Word on an ipad. Some of us were able to use the dictate function and immersive reader to listen to it back.
• P4s did very well in their Bench ball tournament up at Deans Community High School, they each got a certificate of achievement.

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• Learning about the nativity story with Reverend Boyd was hard because she was telling us about more people in the Bible story that we had not heard about.
• In reading, we had to make predications without looking ahead, some of us didn’t manage to not peek.

Lead learners this week were Chloe and CJ.

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• During outdoor learning, we were expanding our compass knowledge that we had been working on in maths. We drew 8 point compasses, then we gave instructions to our partners to help them navigate around the playground and finally, we played Simon Says with compass directions.
• We have been working on symmetry this week. We were looking at different points of symmetry, finishing complex shapes to show their symmetric side and drawing our own symmetric patterns.
• We enjoyed writing an imaginative recount about gaining superpowers and experiencing a day in the life as a superhero.

Green for Growth:

• We were recreating our Charles Rennie Mackintosh roses that we had drawn on Paint on our laptops. We found it a little tricky to work what tools and how to use them.
• We struggled this week to finish our list of materials and instructions for our Enterprise topic project. This is something we will really need to focus on this week.

Our Lead Learners are Jodie and Ruaridh.

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• Nativity rehearsals are going really well and the children are super excited to be performing it next week for the school children to see and then families.
• Our focus during topic this week is about Doctors and the children have enjoyed some role play and can talk about how to make an appointment and get a check up, and that sometimes you might need to get some medicine. We discussed that adults should always help us take medicine and check it is the right amount – and you never take medicine that has someone else’s name on it! We have also been learning the names of some the equipment that doctors might use to check us over.
• In maths we have been focusing on how to write numbers 11-15 this week and how we can build the numbers by doing a group of ten and then some extras.

Green for Growth:

• In writing this week we were describing a teddy bear – some of the sentences were a bit challenging but the children done really well with the help of a word mat and the describing bubble.
• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to recognise numbers 11-15 but we will keep practising.

Our Lead Learners next week are Olivia N and Elodie.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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• We have been working really hard preparing for our class assembly and were pleased at how well it went and the positive feedback we got from family members who came along.
• After our assembly Alfie played some songs on his guitar for the class and we enjoyed singing along.
• In maths we did some work on 2D shapes and we had to draw out the 2D shapes from the properties we were given.
•  In writing we had three suggestions that we had to pick from and everyone was making their own recount writing stories using one of the suggestions.  Our recounts were similar but different.

Green for Growth 

• When we were trying to do our personal blogs we had technical problems with the cameras and we will also work on improving the quality of our explanations.
• French was tricky as we are muddling some of the words with Spanish words we already know, we also need to work on our pronunciation.

Lead Learners

Our Lead Learners this week were Abbie and Matthew and they spotted lots of people achieving the targets they set.

This blog post was created by Abbie.

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•  We enjoyed exploring Dean Burn gardens this week. We had fun climbing trees, building dens and just exploring the woods.
• We learnt more about St Andrew during literacy in preparation for St Andrew’s Day tomorrow. We also used this as an opportunity to practice how we take information from a question to answer in full sentences.
• During writing, we imagined how our day would go if we were shrunk down to the size of an insect. Everyone had different ideas about where they were setting their story.

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• Some of our groups were working on co-ordinates this week in maths. We found it a little tricky making sure that we had drawn the graphs correctly and connecting the co-ordinate points.
• We struggled this week to get as much of our enterprise topic completed as we had wanted to. We had hoped to all be starting our instruction manuals this week however a number of groups didn’t get this started.

Our lead learners this week are Jason and Ben.