Seafield Primary School

Primary 2/3 had a fantastic first week back from their Easter holidays.

Tickled Pink:

• We started our new topic ‘Farming’ and discussed the different types of farms that can be found in Scotland.
• We wrote a recount of an activity we did during the school holidays and were so proud of our writing.
• In outdoor learning, we were putting our time knowledge to the test by becoming human clocks! We had lots of fun creating our clocks and pretending to be the hour and minute hands.

Green Growth:

• We’ve been continuing with multiplication this week. Some of us found counting in 5’s tricky when learning our 5 times table.
• During literacy this week, we had been learning about putting commas in a list. We are trying very hard to remember to use commas instead of ‘and’.

Lead learners this week are Ellie and Cade.

Tickled Pink

• We really enjoyed creating our gala day posters, hopefully you’ll see one from P5/6 in the Gala Day programme when you receive it.
• We were learning about chance and probability and had fun linking this to school life e.g. what was the likelihood of P1/2 arriving first to assembly.
• Some of the class are feeling more confident about mental maths now and so this was a highlight of the week.
• In outdoor learning we visited Deanburn River where we made a dam and were excited by the bone we found.

Green for Growth

• Some of the class found multiplying 4 digit numbers tricky.
• We also found it challenging doing French with Mrs Flynn and trying to remember the words for different items of clothing.

Lead Learner Update

The lead learners next week are Amelia and Faith.

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1/2 full of lots of Easter fun!

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed taking part in our Easter Service with the whole school, led by Reverend Boyd. We listened to the story of how Jesus died and came back alive again and focused on always trying to be good and do our best – if we do something wrong we need to say ‘sorry’. We loved joining in with the songs that we have been practising in class.
• We enjoyed some Easter literacy and numeracy, where sums and words were hidden in eggs for us to find and write down. We also enjoyed an egg hunt during outdoor learning!
• We had lots of fantastic entries for the egg design competition… Well done everyone who took part and a massive congratulations to Robyn who was the winner from P1/2!

Green for Growth

• In maths we have been focusing on Days of the Week again and practising writing them in order, this was a bit tricky but we are very good at singing the song!
• One of our craft activities was to draw a bunny using our hand – some children found this a bit challenging.

Have a fantastic holiday and stay safe… I look forward to seeing you all on Monday 15th April!

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had an amazing week with lots of great learning 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 enjoyed our persuasive writing task this week which was based around children’s right to education (Article 28 of the UNCRC) because it was fun to learn about why we need school
• We enjoyed our coding lesson in computer science because the tasks around a dance party and the scratch Easter challenge were great fun
• We enjoyed splitting into our debating teams and starting to research and prepare our speeches about school uniform
• We had lots of fun playing volleyball in PE
• We had great fun in buddying as we helped our buddies make paper flowers

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

• Some of us felt that we would have liked to continue with football in PE
• Our Primary 6s found some of the questions in the Euro Quiz to be quite tricky
• Some of us still found our Maths learning a bit difficult

Our lead learners were Paige, Rose, Lily and Oscar.  They identified lots of children in class meeting the targets that they set, which is great news. Well done for a great week, P6/7. Looking forward to another fantastic week next week as we come to the end of term! We would like to wish all of our children and families a Happy Easter and Ramadan Mubarak when the celebrations come. Have a lovely break.

We have had a great week in primary 1/2! It was lovely chatting to everyone at parents evening this week and sharing how well everyone is getting on!

Tickled Pink

– We have been learning about minibeasts this week and have enjoyed making our own butterflies to decorate our living things wall. We spoke about symmetry and tried to colour in our wings to match.

– In writing we chose a minibeast and drew it in our jotters then wrote descriptive sentences about it. These were fabulous sentences!

– In maths we have been learning about ordinal numbers and have been practising when lining up.

Green for Growth

– We have also been learning how to read numbers as words – some of them are a bit tricky but we will keep practising.

– We made paper flowers with our buddies to celebrate the start of spring. This involved cutting and rolling and sticking – it was a bit fiddly!

Lead Learners are Eadie and Harriet!

Today the children brought home a sunflower that they planted a couple of weeks ago – we have been looking after them in the classroom but now the children are responsible for helping them grow at home.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• In maths, we have been learning about data handling and have been working on our tally marks. Some of us even took surveys during our indoor playtime using our tally marks to work out our classes favourite colours, fruit, jobs and animals.
• We were practising lots of different passes in our P.E., we felt like we were best at the chest and shoulder passes.
• During our writing, we wrote a persuasive essay on why we should a class pet. We had lots of fun trying to convince Miss Cooper and Mrs Egan to try and get a class pet. Mrs Egan was very impressed with the writing that we done.

Green for growth:

• We did a subtraction assessment in maths which we found a little bit tricky. We will keep practising our subtraction and are excited to move onto multiplication.
• We were finishing off our extreme weather presentations today. Although learning new digital skills is a bit difficult, we are still enjoying making our PowerPoints.

Lead learners for this week are Finn and Ellie Mae.

Tickled Pink

• P4 enjoyed their morning at the P4 Sports Festival on Thursday morning. Although it was wet and windy, we took part in tennis, judo, football, cricket and other games. Fun was had by all.
• We have been recapping our times table and some of us were able to do them backwards and timed! The best time was 13 seconds for the 8 times table.
• For RME we are learning about the Easter Story and have been making our own Easter wreaths retelling the story of Jesus’ Crucifixion.

Green for Growth

• We are so sad to say goodbye to our student teacher, Miss Tillbrook. She has been with us for 10 weeks and is now off to continue her journey at University. We wish her all the best and hope she visits soon.
• Comprehension has been tricky this week because we have been doing it as a 4 door challenge.

Lead learners this week were Jodie and Zac.

Primary 6/7 have had a brilliant week with lots of great learning in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning through the week and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our buddying session with Primary 1/2
• We enjoyed our art lesson with Mrs Baty, creating our “neurodoodles”
• We had fun learning about the persuasive language used in adverts
• We enjoyed continuing to learn about BODMAS in Maths with Mrs Donald
• The Primary 7 children enjoyed their trip to the Risk Factory and learning about safety in lots of different ways

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

• Some of us feel that our Health & Wellbeing learning was a bit tricky this week
• A few of us feel that our persuasive writing was quite difficult as we worked on making sure that each paragraph identified and explained one argument about why children should read more
• Some of still found our Maths learning about BODMAS to be a bit difficult

Our lead learners were Lily, Oscar, Chloe and Caleb.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; to be ambitious during our debating work in class, to be kind outside in the playground and to be polite to everyone. Our lead learners identified lots of the children in class meeting all of the targets, which is great news. Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7. Looking forward to another wonderful week next week!

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

Tickled Pink

• We have been learning about plants as part of our Living Things topic. The children loved doing art this week as they had to sketch a vase of flowers. The children really focused on this and took their time and they look amazing!
• We had lots of fun in PE exploring the hula hoops. We played different games and done challenges like getting the hoop from one end of the line to the other without letting go of each others hands. The children loved playing rock, paper, scissors as they jumped across the line of hoops.
• We enjoyed going on a shape hunt in the playground as part of our Outdoor Learning. We had to record a tally mark for each shape that we saw and then total them up at the end.

Green for Growth

• We have started looking at doubles in maths and some children are finding it a bit tricky to remember the big numbers (eg. double 8 is 16).
• Some children were finding it a bit difficult to remember the order of the months of the year. We will continue to practise this and discuss the season that each month links to,

Our Lead Learners are Ryan and Olivia!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• After learning about water cycles on Monday, we made water cycle bags during our outdoor learning. We are taking these home to watch the water cycle process happen in these bags. We loved drawing on the bags, mixing the food colouring into the water and pouring the water into the bags.
• We learnt about Pop Art this week and spoke about Andy Warhol. We created our own pop art portraits and we enjoyed trying out unusual colours for them!

Green for growth

• We have started a teamwork focus in P.E. this week. Some of us found it very tricky to listen to others and were sometimes not using our resources correctly. We hope to keep trying to improve our teamwork skills.
• We have been creating PowerPoints about extreme weather. We found creating them quite hard but we are enjoying using the laptops to create something we can present.

Our lead learners this week are Lily and Oakleigh.