Seafield Primary School

In p2/3 we have been working very hard on our IDL project, making job fact-files for children in the future that we are displaying around the outside of our classroom door for everyone to see.

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• In numeracy we all enjoyed learning how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000! We have worked very hard and are super stars at this now.
• In writing this week, we recounted the author visit from last week. We really enjoyed getting to remember and talk about everything that we did when the author visited.
• We are working very hard on our nativity and are enjoying practicing our new Christmas songs that we have added at the end!

Green for Growth

• We are going to try our best to remember to bring our wellies on a Thursday for our outdoor learning day.
• Next week we will be working hard in numeracy because we are staring to learn all about money!

Lead Learners this week are: Ernest for being resilient and Ryan for being kind.

Tickled Pink:

• The children loved the ‘Sharing Our Learning’ event, showing their grown ups all of their super work!
• For topic this week we were focusing on Dentists and how we can look after our teeth. The children decided which foods and drinks were good or bad for our teeth and spoke about how we need to brush our teeth twice a day! The children enjoyed some role play – making an appointment at the dentist and having a check up.
• For writing this week we were learning about describing words and came up with some super sentences about our class owl Fluffy.

Green for Growth:

• In Maths, we were doing some more addition with missing numbers, some of the children found this tricky so we will continue to look at this with the help of counters.
• Some children were finding it a bit tricky to sound out words they needed to write – we will continue to practice blending.

Our Lead Learners next week are Rose and Joey!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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• Mrs Baty from the Digital Team came to show us how to make digital posters using Adobe Express. We made posters about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle since that is our science topic. Our posters are fantastic, we can’t wait to share them on our Seesaw and Blogs.
• We have been working on dividing using remainders and are starting to use different t strategies, including using blocks or whiteboards.
• In music we learned that some notes can join together to create half beats and how these look when written down.

Green for Growth

We are continuing to work on angles (not angels!) and are looking at identifying right angles using a right angle finder.

Lead learners this week were Cade and Lily.

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• As part of Scottish Book week, we enjoyed reading outdoors in unusual places and drop everything and read in class.
• We have started planning our enterprise idea and have decided to create a design and instruction manual for the P2/3 class to follow and build. We broke up into our groups this week and decided on our design.
• A couple of our classmates decided they wanted to use their Cooper Cash to pay to be the teacher in class. We had a lesson on drawing 2D and 3D shapes as well as a writing lesson where we had to write about a sports person in 50 words. We have more planned for next week as well.

Green for growth

• In maths, some of us were learning about plotting coordinates. We found reading the coordinates quite easy however we did struggle a little with making sure the coordinates were on the lines instead of in the boxes.
• We were practising our French Numbers this week, a lot of us had forgotten our previous French number knowledge so we had to recap these before we move on to larger numbers.

Our lead learners this week are Zac and Frankie.

P1 have had a fantastic week celebrating Book Week Scotland and also Road Safety Week!

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• For literacy each day we have been reading a different story from the BookBug bag and doing fun activities linked to them. The children really enjoyed the sausage hunt in the classroom to find tricky words and making their own dogs based on the book ’10 Dogs’.
• We had a visit from an Author and Illustrator on Wednesday afternoon and the children engaged really well with the session. They got to draw some of the characters and make our own character too!
• We enjoyed PE this week, learning how to move our bodies in different ways like walking backwards, bunny hops and slithering like snakes. We played a new game called ‘Rob the Nest’ and the children worked well in their teams and counted their bean bags at the end.
• We loved Outdoor Learning this week, we got to take books out to the playground and find somewhere fun to read it. The children loved reading in the tyres and made our own campfire (even though it was freezing cold!!).

Green for Growth

• Some children found pattern work a bit tricky this week, we will continue to practise this and look for patterns in our environment.
• We have been doing addition sums with missing numbers and some children are finding it a bit difficult.

Our Lead Learners next week are Zaynab and Luna.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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• We had an author visit from Sophy Henn. She was fantastic and showed us how to draw some of her characters from her book, ‘Happy Hills’.
• For outdoor learning we had to find unusual spaces to read a book for Scottish Book Week. We found some very strange places.
• On a Thursday we have been getting a visit from Mrs de Luen to teach us about music. We have learned to keep the beat and rhythm at the same time.
• The p3s enjoyed getting a book bag from the Book Bug people.

Green for Growth

• In numeracy we have been learning division, it has been tricky but we have been using our knowledge of the times tables to help us.

Lead learners this week were Leon and Ellie.

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week, with lots of exciting 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 loved our trip to Mill Farm because it was a fun way to investigate the history of shale oil mining in West Lothian
• We enjoyed our PE lessons this week as it was fun to start getting into games in our tag rugby sessions
• We enjoyed our Maths lesson with Mr McConville from the High School, as it is a different way of learning
• We really enjoyed presenting our research and learning about Seafield Law to the Seafield senior citizen group because they enjoyed our presentations and were very positive about them
• We enjoyed our class assembly preparation sessions as we are starting to pull together all of the detail that we need and we were able to do it quickly

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

• Some of us felt a bit nervous about presenting our work on Seafield Law to the senior citizen group but we managed to handle the pressure
• We found our fractions work in Maths quite tricky and a little confusing so we will need to keep working hard on this next week

Our lead learners for this week were Annie, Niamh, Meg and Preston. They set the following class targets for the week; respect other people’s opinions, be responsible with equipment in class and do good work. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was fantastic to see.

Our school value award winners for this week are Kyle and Calla.

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

Tickled Pink:

• We drew poppies on Remembrance Day and took part in the 2 minute silence. The children were really interested to learn about why people wear poppies and were very respectful.

• We had our first nativity practice in the hall this week and the children were so excited to find out where they would be sitting and practising singing to the instrumental music.
• We have been focusing on days of the week and singing them in order. The children are becoming more confident each morning when we discuss what day it is.
• We started our new topic, People Who Help Us. This week we had some Police Officers visit the classroom and it was so exciting because we got to try on lots of police hats and uniform. We also have our own Police Station role play area in the classroom and the children have loved exploring it!

Green for Growth:

• Some children found reading comprehension a bit tricky this week, they need to make sure they listen to the story as it tells us the answers.

Our Lead Learners next week are Junior and Lucy.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace!

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• We enjoyed our first visit from Mrs de Luen who is from NYCoS. She taught us 3 songs and we kept the beat using a drum.
• In science we learned what the 3 Rs are: reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Our rich task this week was to use times tables to make arrays and arrange them into shapes.

Green for Growth

• We are still learning how to do recount writing and to remember to use time connectives at the start of each paragraph.
• In numeracy we are practising the times tables and multiplying up to 3 digit numbers.

Lead learners next week are Oliver and Finn.

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• We wrote a newspaper article about the school sports tournaments we have attended for our recount writing this week. We had to make sure we were writing in third person which we found a little tricky but we really enjoyed writing in a different style.
• We have started planning our enterprise project this week. In groups, we have created a poster detailing what our business will be and what materials we would need. Next week, we will present these to the whole class and decide what project to go forward with.
• We have been exploring the Zones of Regulation this week, learning more about the different coloured zones, what they mean, how we can tell what zone we are in and how we can regulate our emotions.

Green for growth

• We are still working on angles in maths. This week, some of us were working with protractors to measure and draw angles and some of us were focused on directional language. We had to be resilient to keep practising how to use the protractor.
• We are continuing to work on using digital tools to help with our learning. We need to keep developing our laptop skills to help us.

Lead learners this week are Ryan and Connor.