Seafield Primary School

We have had lots of fun in Primary 1!  It is hard to believe that we have had 2 weeks at school already.  We have been learning lots of new things.

This week we are are tickled pink because we learned lots of different letters and how to say the sounds.  We learned s, t, a, i, and p.  We know all the songs and actions too.  We also had lots of fun doing PE and we learned how to play new games and our favourite is banana tig.

Our green for growth is practising how to write number 3 and number 5.  Some of us found this a bit tricky.

We love being in Primary 1 and can’t wait to come back next week!

Primary 6/7 have had a great second week back at school with lots of wonderful 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 PE sessions this week as we started working on our throwing and catching skills again for handball and played some great fun PE games on Friday
• We enjoyed our Spanish lesson as we started to learn new vocabulary and continued with practising greetings in Spanish
• We really enjoyed doing some gardening and weeding in the playground for outdoor learning because after we had finished, we could see a clear difference in the way the areas in the playground looked
• We enjoyed working on out portraits of each other in art and using a different process for trying to create portraits
• We enjoyed continuing with our detailed “All About Me” piece of writing as we enjoyed writing about ourselves, our families and our interests.

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

• Some of us feel that we need to work hard at getting a little better and more accurate with using protractors for measuring and drawing angles
• We found it hard using charcoal in art for creating our portraits of each other
• Some of us understand that we need to be a little more careful and think more about safety when playing football in the playground during breaks and lunchtimes
• Some of us feel that we need challenged more in the addition and subtraction Maths review work that we have been doing this week

Our lead learners for next week will be Che and Brodie and they will set new class targets for us to work on next week. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

P5/6 have had an exciting and happy first couple of weeks back and have enjoyed getting to know our classmates more.

Tickled Pink:

• We enjoyed some outdoor learning in the playground this week. We used different equipment to try and build the biggest structure we could. It was a great STEM activity and we had to think cleverly about the structure and stability due to how windy it was.
• In Maths this week, we were starting to look at shapes. We had a refresher session to remind us of different shape names and discussing the language around shape. We are ready to move onto 3D next week.

Green for growth

• We also looked at rounding in Maths this week, some of us were even rounding up to a million! We found it a little difficult to remember when we had to round up and down and will keep working on this.
• We are doing descriptive writing this term and wrote our first piece about the Jungle on Wednesday. We know that in our next piece we need to focus more on describing the setting and using descriptive language to engage our readers rather than writing more imaginatively.

Our lead learners for this week are Abi and Ruaridh. They are looking for pencils cleared away, those following the values and following classroom expectations.

We have had a great week this week with a range of activities linked to our PBL topic and Play Challenges, finishing the week with Crazy Hair and an Achievement Assembly.

Things that went well.

• We had a whole school treat today ! The ice cream van came and we all got an ice cream!
• We had a play day on Thursday and took part in a range of play activities. Construction and Creative play, a range of board games, a times table treasure hunt and a Play Challenge to create a landmark from cardboard. Some of us made Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
• Outdoor learning this week we were following trails, creating camps and looking for evidence of wildlife.
• PE – we played games and took part in an obstacle course.
• We were finishing our Project Based Learning Tasks ready to share.
• Writing a recount of our school year

Tricky

• Measure math’s calculations
• Writing

We had an amazing surprise today – an ice cream van came to our school!

The children had lovely manners when getting their ice cream and it was delicious!

Tickled Pink:

• This week we wrote about how to make a jam sandwich. We are very excited because next week, we swap our writings with a peer and make our jam sandwich based on their instructions.
• Yesterday, we had Play All Day where we did lots of fun activities bingo, Uno, dominoes, colouring, we made a farm out of Lego based on our class novel The Sheep-Pig and created lots of towers with our blocks. We also created different European landmarks out of spare cardboard boxes and other recycled items.
• We finally harvested our potatoes this week! We have spent a lot of time looking after our potatoes, feeding them compost and watering them and next week, we will cook our potatoes.

Green for Growth:

• In maths, we were learning about probability. A few of us found some of the words we were learning a bit tricky to remember.

No lead learner this week as next week is our last week of school.

We have had a great week in Primary 1/2!

Tickled Pink

• We have been learning about directions in maths and the children have loved exploring the Beebots!
• We had a whole day of play on Thursday and the children had lots of fun and were very creative during the whole school challenge.
• We loved playing ‘Cat and Mice’ in PE and most of the children preferred being the cat and chasing everyone to catch their tail.
• We were toy inventors this week during our topic lesson and made our very own ‘cup and ball’ game. The children designed their cup and then followed the instructions to create the toy.

Green for Growth

• Some children were finding it a bit tricky to use the Beebots – we must always hit clear before we start as it remembers all of the previous directions.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• In PE we were developing our running skills by timing the laps we were doing.
• In Maths we were learning about different units of measurement and focusing on length.
• We also learned about percentages and were able to convert fractions into percentages.
• In our HWB work we have been undertaking the Leans project and learning about what is fair and unfair.

Green for Growth

• In Writing we were recounting our year in P5/6.  There were so many highlights that it was tricky to do this and we will continue with it next week.
• In spelling we were learning  common tricky words and we still have to work on some of these.

Our Lead Learners this week were Niamh and Archie and they chose to focus on tucking your chair in when you leave you seat, being kind to others and not shouting across the room.

Tickled Pink:

• We wrote the instructions on how to grow a potato plant in writing this week and were able to use our previous knowledge of growing our own potato plant in school to help us.
• During outdoor learning, we had a walk around the school playground looking for bird nests. We found one right next to the nursery playground. After discussing what you would need to build a nest, we split into groups and tried creating our own. We then did a walking gallery to see everyone’s nests. Everyone did such a great job!

Green for growth:

• We created food chains this week and learnt lots of new terms like producers, consumers, prey and predators. We found it a little hard to remember which way around they all went when creating our own food chains.
• We were practising lots of different strategies when doing our division in numeracy this week. We are still finding dividing a little tricky but are enjoying trying out our different strategies.

Our lead learners this week are Lily and Leon.

We have had a lovely week in Primary 1/2.

Tickled Pink

• We have started a new topic, ‘Toys’, and the children enjoyed designing a toy that they would want to purchase at the shop. We compared toys from the past with our current toys and decided that we love the electronic toys we have! We looked at the different materials that toys can be made of and discussed what would be suitable for different toys,
• In maths we have been looking at fractions and the children have enjoyed using the playdough to show halves.
• For Health and Wellbeing we were looking at different tools that we could use to help us get to the green zone – this week we made our own rainbows for rainbow breathing! You use your finger to trace the arcs, breathing in as you go up and out as you go down the other side.

Green for Growth

• We were learning about forces as part of our toys topic and it was a bit tricky to work out what some of them were – push or pull or both!
• In maths, the P2s have been learning about quarters and have found it a bit tricky to find a quarter of a number. We will keep practising this – half it and then half it again!

Lead Learners next week are Eadie and Ernest.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace