Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink:

• We have enjoyed reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears this week for topic and had fun doing an experiment to grow gummy bears. We had to make predictions about what we thought might happen to a gummy bear when it is placed in either water, salt water or sugar water. Then we observed the changes and loved seeing how big they grew in the plain water – they felt so squashy and were nearly invisible in colour.
• We started looking at shapes in maths and had fun getting creative when making our own 2D shape drawings. We chose shapes to draw around to make the picture and then had to describe their picture by naming the shapes used.
• We have been learning more sounds this week and the children are all really enjoying the songs and actions. We played a new game which was super fun! One child had a headband with a letter on it and the other children had to do the action for the child to guess the correct sound then write the letter on the board.

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding number recognition and formation a bit tricky – we will continue to practise this daily.
• French was fun bit a bit tricky as the iPads were not all working correctly for us to use the ChatterPix app – hopefully next time they will be working better.

Lead Learners next week are Charley and Rose, Well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a great 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 enjoyed our PE handball session and progressing into game-play and we tried hard to involve everyone in our team during the games
• We enjoyed our Maths angle assessment and demonstrating our knowledge and understanding of angles
• We really enjoyed our session with our P1 buddies and working hard to create our Three Little Pigs puppets and retelling the story
• We enjoyed creating our religious education PowerPoints

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

• Some of us felt that our task with our P1 buddies was a little rushed
• Some of us felt that our writing task was a bit tricky as we were challenged to describe settings using pictures of quite different places
• Some of us feel that our up-levelling of vocabulary was a bit difficult

Our lead learners for this week were Julia, Jake, Che and Brodie 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. We will continue with these targets next week as they were only created and presented to the class on Wednesday. Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink

• In science we have been learning about forces. This week we learned about magnetic force and investigated magnetic and non magnetic materials.
• For maths we moved around different stations to use our 2D shape knowledge. We did a shape hunt, tangrams, hidden shapes game, explain the shape, cutting and sorting shapes and using online shape games.
• In RME we learned that Islam is one of the world’s largest religions. Muslims use the name Allah for God and they have a special person called Muhammed (PBUH).

Green for Growth

• Place value is fun but we are finding that textbook work can be tricky when we don’t read the questions. Our target is to read the question first before asking for help.
• In writing we have been enhancing our description skills but some of us forget that we must use adjectives to make it more interesting for the reader.
• For topic we have been looking at world maps but our teacher gave us a really tricky task of cutting out jigsaw pieces of the world to sort.

Lead learners next week are Olivia for being ambitious and Blake for being responsible.

Tickled Pink:

• This week in writing, we wrote a descriptive essay about Seafield. We wrote about where Seafield was located, our favourite places in Seafield and why they were special. We included lots of descriptive language and took on board all of the ways to make our writing more interesting.
• During our outdoor learning, we took maths outside! We drew shapes in chalk and wrote how many sides, angles and diagonals they had. It was fun taking what we had been learning in the classroom outside.
• We did some doodle art  on Thursday. We were given a piece of paper with a curved line on it and were told it could not be turned into a heart. We created drawings of snakes, swans, loch ness monster, boots, football strips, guitars and dragons.
• Thank you to everyone who attended our family breakfast, it was nice to show our classroom to our family members.

Green for growth:

• During P.E. unfortunately some of us weren’t listening to instructions which led to us being able to continue with our game.
• We found naming and sorting triangles in our maths a bit tricky this week.

Our lead learners are Ben and Jodie

We have had a great week in Primary 1!

Tickled Pink:

• We have been enjoying learning more sounds and singing the songs to go with them. Thank you to Joey who brought in some castanets for us to explore with the ‘ck’ song. He very kindly let everyone have a turn playing them as we sang along.

• We had lots of fun exploring colour by making a colour wheel. We explored the Primary colours and had fun mixing them to make new colours. We then used the paint to create our own wonderful artwork – it looks fantastic on our wall!

• We have started our topic ‘Fairy Tales’ and focused on the Three Little Pigs story. We listened carefully to the story and then retold it by acting it out using puppets. We also worked with our buddies to create stick puppets so we could all act out the story.

• We worked really well together to build a new home for the Three Little Pigs and learned all about different types of houses and what is needed to make a house.

• We loved trying Judo on Tuesday and had lots of fun playing games and learning some moves.

Green for Growth:

• We have enjoyed learning more about numbers using the Number Zoo stories, some children are finding it a bit challenging to form some of the numbers but we will continue to practise this.

Our Lead Learners this week were Freddie and Joey, the loved having their milkshake treat!

Our Lead Learners for next week are Ollie and Alice, well done!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week in school with lots of great learning activities. 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 enjoyed working on our portraits as we are now seeing the hard work involved in the preparation become clear in the excellent portraits we have created of our friends in class
• We enjoyed taking part in handball in PE as we worked on shooting skills and started playing games
• We really enjoyed learning a new multiplication method in Maths and our enjoyed our angles work too
• We really enjoyed making puppets for a well-known fairy tale with our Primary 1 buddies
• We enjoyed continuing with our detailed “All About Me” piece of writing as most of us moved onto the redrafting part of the task

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

• Some of us felt that learning the new multiplication method was a bit tricky and think we need a little more practice
• We found it a little difficult doing the tracing part of creating our portraits
• Some of us felt that our writing task was a bit tricky as it took quite a long time to complete the writing and then redraft it
• Some of us feel that our research for RME and Outdoor Learning was a bit tricky as we found it a challenge to find the necessary information

Our lead learners for this week were Che and Brodie and they set the following class targets for the week; to get your work finished, to be good in the playground and to use a ruler properly. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was fantastic to see. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink:

• Destination Judo were in this week teaching us some Judo moves. It was extremely fun and we learnt loads.
• In writing this week, we watched a video and read a fact file about Leopards and took notes to help with our descriptions. We worked hard on creating a descriptive piece of writing rather than an imaginative one.
• We made wind turbines as part of our climate change topic. It was little difficult to follow the instructions but we really enjoyed making them and testing them out.

Green for Growth

• During outdoor learning, we were playing a game to look at how the suns rays, the earth and greenhouse gasses interact.  Next time, we need to focus on using our listening skills, looking after our resources and making sure to look out for others.
• We set our glow accounts this week and it was challenging for us to set the accounts up and change the passwords.

Our lead learners are Georgia and Jack.

Tickled Pink

• In science we learned about forces. Some forces are called push, pull and gravity. We used ramps and toy cars to check the effect of friction on their movement.
• In maths, we learned about the properties of 2D shapes, and focused on pentagon, hexagons and octagons.
• P4s used the song ‘Flowers’ in handwriting to practise our joined up writing.

Green for Growth

• We feel that we need more practise in using chimney sums in numeracy.
• We still need to work on using information in comprehension to answer some questions.
• In PE, we need to try to listen better to Mrs Robertson when she is teaching us a basketball skill.

The lead learners for next week are Fatoumata and Harley.

Tickled Pink

• Revising place value in numeracy and learning through lots of games and written practice.
• Working as a team during a stem task to build the tallest tower using kapla.
• P4s writing about a message in a bottle and using at least 5 adjectives to bump up our writing.

Green for Growth

• Getting quicker at logging in to IDL every morning and doing our 3 daily tasks.
• Practising our handwriting and making sure that we form each letter correctly.

Lead learners for Monday are Cade and Ellie.