Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pinks

• Everyone in class has showed kindness this week. Someone helped me up when I fell.
• I have enjoyed playing doggies and ponies with my friends.

Green for Growth

• Getting better at tidying up.
• Be nice and respectful to the classroom.

A huge thank you to Blackburn United Community Football Club for providing football taster sessions for all of our Primary 1, 2, 3 and 4 pupils in school. The children thoroughly enjoyed the sessions. Many thanks to Logan, the coach who came to work with the children, and to Blackburn Community Football Club for gifting football tops to all of our Primary 1 children.

We have had a busy week this week and Lead learners Jacob and Sofia have been keeping an eye out to see who is demonstrating our school values.

Tickled Pink –

• We were working hard on our sewing tasks.
• We were being creative as we began thinking about our Edinburgh Airport competition entry – We have to design a sustainable airport that will be inclusive for all.
• Rounding and estimating activities, we are quite confident with these tasks and know why it is important to be able to estimate.
• Our Reading book activities and creating our design for an ebay/ amazon advert.
• PE – Basketball
• We created 3D shapes and made them into Angry Birds.

Green for Growth-

• Mental maths was quite tricky for some who forgot different ways of solving a problem.
• Some of our spelling words were tricky this week  – erosion, excursion we need to practice our spelling and  vocabulary. We will be using dictionaries to help us understand meanings of tricky words.
• Writing was a bit tricky this week – Our title was the Playground Problem – some of us found it tricky to get started.

It has been a busy week in Primary 6/7.  We decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We have been working on Place Value in Numeracy and most people now feel confident about comparing and sequencing 5,6 and 7 digit numbers.
• We continued our RME topic by discussing rites of passage and learned about the Jewish Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah celebrations.  We were surprised to learn that Jewish boys had been celebrating this occasion for longer than Jewish girls and this led to a short discussion on equality and the reasons why this might be the case.
• We were entertained by Sebastian who chose to spend the Seafield Schillings he had earned to  ‘Be The Teacher’.  He created a power point to introduce his topic and then ran a sea turtle design competition for his peers (and Mrs Baird)
• In PE with Mrs Flynn we enjoyed playing handball and we also enjoyed developing our golf skills further with Mr Hamilton.
• We have been working on our Sustainability power points which we will share during our class assembly.  This should be a treat for our audience as we have also been enthusiastically writing raps and planning recycled fashion outfits!
• We learned about description texts and some people felt the planning format sheet really helped them to organise their writing into paragraphs

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

• We learned more about similes and metaphors and we are going to aim to include these in our description texts next week.
• We have seen an overall improvement in the number of pupils being respectful in class and some pupils are going to continue to work  on this.

Have a fantastic long weekend everyone!

It’s been another busy and enjoyable week in school, with lots of opportunities for our children to learn, get involved and try something new.

This week, our P1/2 and P2/3 pupils enjoyed a fun football taster session from Blackburn Football Club. The children had a great time getting active, practising their skills and enjoying the experience together. P3/4 will have their turn next week, and we’re sure they’ll enjoy it just as much! Many thanks to Blackburn United for gifting each Primary 1 pupil with a Blackburn United training top! We look forward to uploading a picture soon, with our pupils showing off their new tops!

Some of our classes have also enjoyed visits from our community partner, Sandra Boyd, who has been helping the children to learn more about Harvest. The pupils really enjoyed these sessions and have been given the choice to get involved further by helping to prepare materials for a future assembly. It has been lovely to see the children so engaged and enthusiastic about contributing.

Our Pupil Council groups have now been allocated, and all children who expressed an interest in taking part have been told which term they will be joining the Pupil Council. We are delighted that so many of our pupils are keen to have their voices heard, share their ideas and play an active part in our school community.

Next Friday, 25th September, we will be celebrating European Day of Languages and using this as an opportunity to explore languages, culture and the many different things that make each of us unique. Children are invited to dress down if they wish, wearing something that represents a little bit of who they are. This could be linked to their cultural heritage, faith or religious observance, interests, hobbies, favourite things, sports or clubs. Please note that professional football club tops should not be worn.

There are lots of ways children might choose to take part. They could wear something tartan to celebrate their Scottish heritage, a top linked to a local football or sports club they support or play for, pink because it is their favourite colour, or a sari or another item of traditional clothing that celebrates their family or cultural heritage. They might simply choose something connected to a hobby, interest or club that is important to them. There is no expectation to buy anything special and taking part is completely optional. It is simply a chance to celebrate the wonderful mix of cultures, languages, interests and identities that make up our school community.

Finally, a reminder that Monday 21st September is a holiday for school pupils, so P1-P7 children should not attend school. ELC will remain open as normal.

We hope all of our children and families have a lovely long weekend, with plenty of time to relax and recharge. We look forward to welcoming everyone back next week for another busy week in school!

Take care

Mrs S Page

Next Week 

Coming Up

Tickled Pink

• Enjoyed playing with my friends and playing with lego.
• I liked doing work at school and having some calm time.
• We loved playing football with Blackburn United.

Green for Growth.

• Getting better at sharing at toys and helping each other.

P3/4 Have had another busy week of learning.

Tickled Pink

• Learning to write recounts of our weekend.
• Practising 2D shapes using games and puzzles.
• Learning to draw portraits of our friends using proportion.

Green for Growth

• Using number lines or counters to help us in numeracy.

Lead learners are Maisie and Sophia.

It has been another great week in school, with our final two Learning Breakfasts taking place for parents and carers of our Primary 3/4 and Primary 6/7 classes.

These sessions have provided a valuable opportunity for families to come into school, hear about our school improvement priorities, and spend time working alongside their children. We would like to thank all parents and carers who attended throughout the programme. Your support and engagement are greatly appreciated and help strengthen the partnership between home and school. Those who noted they would like further conversations, will be contacted within the next week or so.

This week has also seen an exciting development in pupil leadership. All classes have now put forward the names of pupils who are interested in joining the Pupil Council for this session. We have been delighted by the level of enthusiasm shown across the school, with many pupils expressing an interest in taking on this important role.

We are looking forward to working with our pupils to develop an approach that allows as many children as possible to be involved in shaping school life. It is wonderful to see so many learners share their ideas, represent their peers, and make a positive contribution to our school community.

Thank you to everyone who has helped make this such a successful week. We look forward to sharing further updates.

Next Week

Coming Up

Primary 6/7 have had a great week with lots of interesting and engaging 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):

• We all felt that it was great to have our family Learning Breakfast on Wednesday and we all really enjoyed seeing our adults who were able to attend and we thoroughly enjoyed the delicious breakfast. We also enjoyed sharing some of our classroom activities with our adults

• We felt that we took part well in our spelling tasks on Friday morning, demonstrating a very good focus on our work and developing our understanding of vocabulary and spelling patterns

• Our Primary 7s who were able to attend the Cross Country event this week, all felt that they tried their best and put in very good effort in the competitive running events. We also all felt very positive about Noel coming third in the boys cross country event. Well done!

• We all really enjoyed having Matt from Veolia visit us This week and all of the fantastic learning that he shared with us about recycling of waste water and sewage. We also really enjoyed the fun activity that he did with us which help show us the importance of recycling
• We all felt that we did very well with our sentence uplevelling activity this week as we added wonderful descriptive detail to sentences to improve them
• We felt very positive about our place value work in Maths
• We all continue to enjoy our PE lessons focusing on golf and starting to learn about and practise putting this week

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

• Some of us have been finding our 2D and 3D shape work a little tricky
• Some of us felt that there was some inappropriate silliness during Matt from Veolia’s visit

• We also feel that over the week it can be difficult to focus on our learning if everyone in class isn’t being responsible

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

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