Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful first week back, with lots of great 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:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We really enjoyed PE this week as it was our last Tag Rugby session and we played a lot of games
• We have enjoyed our learning focus on the Burngrange disaster and the learning that we did in Topic about this event and our newspaper report task in Writing about this tragedy which actually happened 78 years ago today
• Our Primary 6 pupils enjoyed starting their buddying sessions with the Nursery children
• We enjoyed finishing off our work on Fractions in Maths and creating posters to demonstrate our knowledge and learning
• We enjoyed starting our Burns focus again and starting to prepare for our Burns Supper by choosing our poems for recital and singing some of our Scottish songs again

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

• Some of us felt a little disappointed that we are finishing up with Tag Rugby as we have really enjoyed this focus in PE
• Some of us felt that it was a little tricky to research information about the people who died in the Burngrange Disaster
• Some of us feel a little worried about having to learn our Scots poems during our current Scottish focus

Our lead learners for this week were Preston, Harvey, Julia and Meg. They set the following class targets for the week; be sensible using laptops and devices in school, don’t be disrespectful and be kind to our pupil support workers. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was wonderful to see.

Our school value award winners for this week are Jake and Oscar.

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

Tickled Pink:

• We started Scottish Dancing during P.E. this week in preparation for our Burns Supper. We were a bit apprehensive at first but kept improving throughout the lesson.
• We concentrated on making sure we were hitting our core targets this week in writing and we enjoyed writing about a shipwreck. We will move onto creating our own poetry over the next couple of weeks.

Green for growth:

• We started fractions this week and found it a little tricky when comparing fractions on a number line. We made our own human fraction number line in class to help us and we also compared which fractions were higher or smaller.

Our lead learners are Georgia and Harris.

Tickled Pinks

• In our class we have a new teacher called Miss Love. She is very nice and friendly and we are looking forward to working with her this term.
• In numeracy, we were revising adding and subtracting which some of us actually found fun!
• We have been sent a secret mission from a mysterious source. It is a top secret mission for now, however, it involves an old ship. We will share more later on…

Green for Growth

• In PE, we have been learning Scottish dancing with Mrs Robertson. We focused on the Virginia Reel but we need to practise our left and rights.
• For maths, we have practised learning directions such as north, east, south and west, as well as clockwise and anticlockwise.

Our lead learners this week are Olivia and Grace.

We have had a wonderful first week back to school!

Tickled Pink:

• We have started our Scottish focus for this month and in art we looked at tartan patterns. We learned that tartan is made from vertical and horizontal lines and is a repeated pattern sequence. We tried out our new line techniques and created our own Scottish tartan!
• We have been learning all about Scottish animals and we drew our chosen animal and then stuck it on top of our tartan to create a fantastically Scottish picture. We are so proud of these that we have decided to put them on the wall outside our classroom door for everyone to see.
• In HWB this week we wrote all about our wonderful memories from 2024 and made some new year resolutions that we would like to work on for 2025.

Green for Growth:

• We have started to look at our times-tables in numeracy and are finding it a little tricky but we are excited to work hard next week to get better at them.

The lead learners this week are Murren for being respectful and Harriet for being kind.

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.

Tickled Pink

• 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.

Green for Growth

• 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!

Tickled Pink

• 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!

Tickled Pink:

• 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

Tickled Pink:

• 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!

Tickled Pink:

• 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.

Green for Growth:

• 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.

Tickled Pink

• 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.

Green For Growth

• 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.