Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink:

• We have been focusing on 3D shapes again and had fun playing a game called ‘Corners’ during outdoor learning. We have also been stamping 3D shapes to find out about their faces.
• In literacy this week we have been focusing on vowels, a e i o u. We have been learning to read words that have a vowel in the middle like h-a-t or b-u-s.
• For topic this week we were doing Billy Goats Gruff and we had to work in a team to design and build a bridge to help the goats get across.

Green for Growth:

• Some children were finding it quite tricky to blend sounds together to read words – we will continue to practise this daily.
• We are learning how to count in French and are finding it a bit tricky to remember all the new words.

Lead Learners next week are Olivia C and Iver.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We are learning about Islam in RME and are almost finished making our own models of a Mosque. We can’t wait to share the finished results with everyone.
• Everyone was together for writing this week. We used a picture stimulus for a book called ‘The Mysteries of Harris Burdick’. Our writing was so fantastic, we are going to type them up for display.
• For outdoor learning, we were learning to give clear instructions by making our partner turn 90 degrees left, right or to move forward.

Green for Growth

• For a maths rich task, we did a Tarsia puzzle based on a times table. This was quite hard to figure out but most of us managed to complete it eventually.
• Using a thesaurus is a new skill P4s are learning, we are getting better at alphabetical order.

Our lead learners next week are Grace and Georgia.

Tickled Pink:

• We started our Mini Hubs this week and were sorted into either right’s respecting, numeracy, literacy, digital, health and wellbeing, and 1+2 languages groups. Some children in our class were lucky enough to become mini champs, vice champs and librarian’s for these groups.
• We had a much better week in P.E. and were learning how to keep control of the basketball when dribbling and shooting.
• During Art, we linked our artwork to our topic of climate change to show the effects of global warming. We look forward to everyone these at the parent consolations next week.
• In outdoor learning, we went on a 3D shape hunt where we tried to find different 3D shapes in the world around us.
• We enjoyed creating 3D shapes out of toothpicks and blue tack during maths.

Green for Growth:

• For writing, we researched a famous person, wrote down facts and then wrote a descriptive essay about them. For some of us, we struggled to write down enough relevant facts before we did the writing on the next day meaning that some of our writing time was lost to looking up more facts.
• We created 3D nets this week, we found drawing them out correctly a little difficult.

Our lead learners are Ella and Henry.

P1 have had a super week!

Tickled Pink:

• We read Jack and the Beanstalk this week for topic and the children enjoyed doing various activities related. We used cubes to measure different beanstalks to celebrate Maths Week Scotland. We also took part in a drama session and worked with a partner to act out different parts of the story.
• In literacy we have been practising all of the sounds we have learned so far and have enjoyed playing different games including the bean matching game.
• We have started looking at adding in maths and talking about how we work it out.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found the adding a bit tricky but we will continue to practise this.
• Some children are unsure what some of the numbers look like and so this makes it a bit challenging to write the correct answers.

Lead Learners next week are Emily and Zaynab.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• Veolia came to visit and we learned about sustainability and had fun using our origami skills to make paper hats.
• We worked in groups to create  illustrated Hajj pilgrimage guides and shared them with the class.
• PE on Tuesday  was fun as we were practicing our passing skills and shooting skills in Handball.
• During outdoor learning we visited Seafield law and were working towards our Heritage Hero award.
• We did traditional playground games with our buddies.

Green for growth

• During outdoor learning we will continue to develop our risk assessment skills especially when visiting new and unfamiliar areas.
• We had some challenging word boost words.
• Work on our lining up skills.

Lead Learners were James and Darcey and they chose to focus on using appropriate voices in class,  use equipment correctly and  line up sensibly and respectfully.

Next weeks lead learners are Faith and Harvey.

Blog post created this week by Jake.

Some of our findings during our visit to Seafield Law.

Tickled Pink:

• We wrote a descriptive essay about a haunted house during writing. We used lots of interesting adjectives and vocabulary. Some people forgot it wasn’t to be a narrative story however, everyone worked hard and produced good writing.
• We started addition in numeracy this week. We were focusing hard on our tasks and learning some new strategies even if we found them a little difficult, we were resilient.
• On Wednesday, we had a visitor from Veolia waste management who described the process of what happens when you flush your toilet. We also learnt about recycling and how to run a business. We had a blast!

Green for Growth

• During P.E., unfortunately, some of our class didn’t listen and weren’t respectful to the teacher or the equipment. That meant we had to come back to class early and reflect on our actions. Hopefully, we can all do better next week.
• We joined in to a few live lessons this week on climate change as part of Climate Action Week. At the start of the week, we struggled with paying attention and taking down notes however, the majority of the class did manage to take down notes and listen more.

Our lead learners are Emma Jo and Noel.

Tickled Pink

• This week we have been practicing our rounding skills in numeracy! We can round to the nearest 10!
• We have been learning about the harvest festival, we know what fruits and veg we can grow and what machines we can use to help during harvest!
• Everyone has enjoyed using Sumdog during our numeracy rotations.

Green for Growth

• Next week we are going to be ambitious in our numeracy and round to the nearest 10 and 100.
• We are also going to work on our listening skills when we are on the carpet.

This week our lead learners are Leo and Ryan for being kind and ambitious – Well done!

Tickled Pink

• For science, we wrote our own songs about what we have learned. We changed the words to a nursery rhyme to include words about magnets, magnetic force, push, pull, friction and gravity. We performed to P2/3.
• We have been doing rich tasks in maths that involve problem solving, team work and resilience. This week we did one about rounding numbers and another one about finding patterns with odd and even numbers.
• We enjoyed PE with Mrs Robertson because we got to use a basketball hoop in the hall and practise our skills.

Green for Growth

• Naming 3D shapes was tricky in maths, we forgot a lot of the names from last year.
• P4s found writing a character description hard in writing because Miss Halliday wanted at least 10 adjectives!
• In RME we have been learning about the 5 Pillars of Islam but we kept getting the Arabic words mixed up.

Lead Learners this week are Chloe and Rosa.

We have had a great short week in P1.

Tickled Pink:

• We have been learning more sounds in Phonics and the children have loved learning the new songs. We have also been playing different phonics games such as connect 4. The children have to name the letter they are covering and try to cover four in a row.
• We have been reading Little Red Riding Hood for topic this week and the children enjoyed learning a song called ‘I love Red’. We learned about long and short notes and fast and slow tempo.
• We have been focusing on counting groups of items and matching numbers or writing the correct number.

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to remember what some of the numbers look like but we will continue to practise this.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful short week with lots of exciting learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our last two weeks in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our climate change art lesson and thought that it was fun to show the positive and negative in one picture
• We enjoyed our learning about the Adobe Express computer programme over the last two weeks as we improved our digital skills
• We really enjoyed our buddying session with the Primary 1 children this week as it was great fun being outside and trying to teach them playground games and we also enjoyed our origami fox activity with the Primary 1s
• We enjoyed learning about inference using riddles to help us understand this concept
• We enjoyed our outdoor Maths work on bearings with Mrs Baird and our Mental Maths work in class with Mr Hamilton
• We really enjoyed our family breakfast at the end of last week as it was lovely to welcome our adults to school and share some activities with them
• We enjoyed writing our setting descriptions with a focus on descriptive language as we were able to choose the setting that we wanted to describe

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

• Some of us felt that our Adobe Express learning was quite tricky as there was a lot to learn and the live lesson was also a little difficult to follow
• We found our origami buddying task with the Primary 1s a bit tricky last week especially because we couldn’t get the noses to stay on the foxes!
• Some of us feel that our outdoor playground games session with the Primary 1s was a bit tricky as it was difficult to make sure all instructions were being followed

Our lead learners for this week were James, Darcey, Julia and Jake and they set the following class targets for the week; don’t swing on chairs, don’t lose classroom equipment and don’t talk back to the teachers. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was fantastic to see. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.