Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a great week with lots of enjoyable 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 this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• Lots of us really enjoyed our Art lesson when we were using cotton buds to practise pointillism and we had lots of fun trying different ways of creating artwork using this method

• We all really enjoyed our buddying with the Primary 1s this week as it was lots of fun making the firework pictures with our buddies

• We all really enjoyed our second online Mandarin lesson with our teachers from China and we are delighted that we can now count to ten in Mandarin

• We also really enjoyed our online art lesson with the National Galleries if Scotland on Friday morning as it was great fun to learn how to make sculptures creatively with different materials

• We are still really enjoying our class novel, “Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer”
• The children who were taking part in the first Livingston North football event on Friday morning really enjoyed getting the chance to play games against other schools and it was brilliant to represent Seafield Primary School at the event

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

• Some of us found our work with scale in Maths a little tricky

• Some of us found the other Maths work that we were doing this week on place value to be a bit difficult, however, some people also really enjoyed it

Our school value award winners for this week are Kyle and Zac. Congratulations!

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

We have had a busy week this week with lots of learning going on in the class. We have also welcomed Mrs Page to our school and she has enjoyed visiting our classroom and getting to know us all a bit better at break and lunchtimes. It has been money week and we have been learning about the importance of money, recognising and using different coins and carrying out calculations. We also read a book called,  “No Money Day” and talked about savings and Food Banks.

Tickled Pink

• We had great fun learning about our skeleton! We were finding out about bones and tried to feel different bones in our body. We then worked together to use masking tape to mark out where some of our bones are.
• We had good fun in PE working in pairs and talking to each other to complete different challenges. We used hoops to balance between our tummies and had to complete a course and put the hoop on a chair without using our hands.
• We started listening to our Nativity Songs this week!
• We came up with some possible ideas for rewards for winning the Honeycomb Playground award – we shared our ideas with Mrs Page and she will make a shortlist of 3. Next week we will vote!

Green for Growth

• We found money tricky this week and we would all benefit from handling money more, recognising different coins and notes and counting collections of different coins.
• It was tricky naming the 3D shapes this week. We need more practice.
• Writing a recount this week was a bit tricky! We wrote either about Halloween or Scare Hunger away and had to use words like….First…. Next….. Then…….After that. It was hard to remember to use these words.

Tickled Pink

• We have continued to practice handball in PE, getting ready for the P5 Handball Festival which takes place next Thursday.
• We have begun to practise for our class assembly which will be on Friday 28th November at 9.15am. Some people have already learned their lines even though they only got them yesterday!
• For outdoor learning this week, we used our maths skills to measure the area and perimeter of the kick pitch, the park area and the entire school grounds. We used trundle wheels to measure in metres.

Green for Growth

• We are still working on joining up our handwriting and using cursive more regularly.

Lead learners next week are CJ and Cade.

• We worked so hard on our creativity skills by having lots of stations to visit during our Seafield Scares Hunger morning. We particularly loved painting ghosts with cotton balls and making cotton bud and paper chain  skeletons.
• In Maths, we had fun making 2D shapes with playdough and naming them and during outdoor learning we went on a shape hunt.
• We looked at the Recount genre during our writing time and did some work on time connectives which will help us when we write a recount text next week.

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

• When drawing 2D shapes some of the class need to use rulers to help them make better shapes.
• We learned about alphabetical order and we looked for words in dictionaries,  Some of us need to work on this more,

Many of the children enjoyed dressing up this morning and they are super excited about Halloween. Have a fun weekend everyone!

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful first  week back in school after the October break 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 this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• Lots of us really enjoyed our first online Mandarin lesson this week. We felt that it was really fun and fantastic to meet our Mandarin teachers online for our live lessons from across the world. We also really enjoyed learning about symbols and characters in Mandarin as well as amazing Chinese landmarks

• We enjoyed our Maths on Friday morning because it was linked to Halloween and not too tricky

• We were happy about our Seafield Scares Hunger day on Friday as lots of us enjoyed dressing up and we thought it was very important that we had collected food to help people in our community

• We also really enjoyed our outdoor learning this week as we were making skeletons from branches and other natural objects

• Many of us enjoyed our work on our class novel, “Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer”, as we learned more about the characters and the year 1994

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

• Some of us found the work in Literacy a little difficult as some of the questions about our class novel were a bit tricky

• Some of us found our break times outside a bit challenging this week as some people were struggling to be responsible in the playground which meant that we needed to have a focus on our school values back in the classroom

Our lead learners for this week were Henry and Isla, who collected the information about how we felt about our learning this week.

Our school value award winners for this week are Noel and Matilda. Congratulations!

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

Primary 6/7 has had a very hard working week as they prepared for their class assembly which took place for the whole school on Thursday and which was performed for parents and carers on Friday.

The class did an amazing job with their assembly, putting in such incredible hard work during research, planning and rehearsals for songs and scenes. Some pupils were absent during various rehearsals and performances but everyone stepped up to the mark and was willing to take on extra work and do additional rehearsals to cover for those who weren’t here. Everyone was involved in the assembly and did an incredible job.

We did some amazing learning as a class about some very important issues raised in our first class novel of the year, Divided City. We were also very lucky to have a visit from Nil By Mouth an organisation which tackles sectarianism and promotes acceptance of identity for all people.

The class also did an amazing job with the songs that they chose for assembly and they fitted in so well with the themes and issues which we raised and tackled. It was also very fitting that today was the Show Racism the Red Card day in school, as this fitted in very well with the work that we have been doing.

A massive congratulations to Primary 6/7 for their excellent performances yesterday and today.

Our school value award winners for this week are Isla and Henry. Congratulations!

Have a lovely holiday. We look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 28th October. Take care and stay safe boys and girls.