Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• P4 worked on their information handling skills on Monday where they worked out time tables for different real life contexts.
• We researched and painted an animal that is native to Scotland. Some of us chose to use watercolours while others used pen or pencil.
• We learned that verbs are action words. We played some matching games and created silly sentences with the verbs.

Green for Growth

• Equivalent fractions have been super tricky this week, we will continue to work on them in the future.
• P4 need to continue to show respect and have good listening skills for all adults in the school.

Lead learners were Ryan for being respectful and Adam for being ambitious.

Tickled Pink

• During outdoor learning we  planted flower bombs.  Each flower bomb had 30 seeds and we’re looking forward to seeing if they grow.
• We wrote persuasive texts to share how we thought our classroom could be improved.
• In PE we were developing our tennis skills.
• We used Dragonistics cards to sort data and then drew conclusions from what we found.
• We learned about food hygiene when we visited the nursery to use their cooker to make soup.  It was delicious with many pupils asking for second helpings and all the staff eating what was left at the end of the day!

Green for Growth

• We had some tricky words to learn for spelling this week and we might need to revisit these.
• We found some of our division tasks tricky but by sorting the number into groups it was easier.
• It was quite difficult to peel and cut the vegetables for our soup.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Mason and Calla.  The were focusing on having a good attitude towards others and looking after the table resources.

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

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed taking part in our Children’s Rights Day on Friday morning and visiting lots of different classrooms and teachers to learn about rights in many different ways
• We enjoyed outdoor learning and exploring the area around a couple of small burns and playing ‘Camouflage’
• We really enjoyed drama with Mrs Baty and developing skills with miming
• We enjoyed our persuasive writing task this week where we had to persuade our audience that children should read more
• We had a great day on World Book Day, dressing up as adjectives and celebrating reading and we enjoyed buddying this week as we were able to read to our buddies

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

• Some of us feel felt that learning about BODMAS and the correct order of operations in Maths was quite tricky
• A few of us feel that our persuasive writing was a bit tricky as we had to develop our arguments in a bit more depth following feedback on last week’s writing
• Lots of us enjoyed our judo session this week but some of us felt it was a bit tricky too

Our lead learners were Chloe, Caleb, Alexis and James.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; try to wear school uniform most days, tidy up after yourself and be resilient during our writing tasks.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting all of those targets, which is wonderful news. Well done for an excellent week, P6/7. Looking forward to another great week next week!

Tickled Pink:

– we loved dressing up as an adjective for World Book Day! Lots of great ideas to be sparkly, sporty, sleepy and more! Throughout the day if the children heard a bell ringing they had to stop everything and read a book for 5 minutes. The children engaged well with this and were very excited each time they heard the bell.

– we read Room on the Broom and used the book as inspiration for decorating our door. The children loved doing a draw along video to draw the witch. (They turned out fantastic!!) We also wrote a persuasive text about why we think Room on the Broom is a great book!

– today we had lots of activities planned for Rights Respecting School day… including a quiz, fruit taste, scavenger hunt and active play. We discussed the rights that these link to and enjoyed working in our hub groups all day!

Green for Growth:

– in maths we were looking at the number after and number before and some people found this a bit tricky. We introduced number lines and explained how if it is less the number gets smaller and we move towards zero… and if it is more then the number gets bigger so we jump forward. We will keep practising this to help develop a good number sense.

Our lead learners next week are Struan and Olivia!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Another busy week this week

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Things that went well !

• Our visit from Scottish Water  – we learned more about the water cycle and filtration, carried out experiments to test the pH,  test the turbidity of different liquids and test how different items dissolve in the water! We learned to flush the 3 P’s ( pee, poo and paper) We also examined our water samples we collected from various locations  around the village.
• Our Internet of things, Data collection monitors – Looking at the types of information they collect and brainstorm initial ideas for a class project. We have 2 monitors in our class currently monitoring, light, motion, carbon dioxide and humidity we will examine the data collected and make predictions about the information gathered.
• Project Based Learning Big Questions ! Starting to share some ideas and plan more creative supporting models.
• Outdoor learning – creating a raft and testing its ability to float and durability.
• Trip for P5 to West Lothian College for a sustainability event.
• World Book Day and dressing up as an adjective.
• Rights Respecting Schools Day – A Round Robin of Rights Based activities in our Hubs

What was tricky.

• Maths Challenges – A range of different questions requiring a range of strategies to solve.
• PE – we were all very tired afterwards!
• When P5 were at the college the P6 children in class found part of the math’s tricky.

Tickled Pink:

• Today was our Rights Respecting Day and we had a fantastic time. We got to go round lots of different activities learning all about our rights to play, to be healthy and to education.
• For World Book Day we dressed up as an adjective which was lots of fun. Some of us came as sporty, sparkly, magical and different colours! We also had stop everything and read time and even took our books outside to read in an unexpected place.
• We enjoyed a Judo session with Destination Judo this week. We loved trying out all the different moves the instructor taught us.

Green for Growth:

• As part of our Weather topic, we tried to make tornados by swirling bottles that were filled up with water and tipped upside down. It didn’t work for all of us but we enjoyed seeing the ones that did work.
• Some of us were doing missing number subtraction sums this week and found it a little tricky to use the number line when working out our sums.

Our lead learners this week are Sofia and Leon.

Tickled Pink

• We loved working in a round robin today for Rights Respecting Day. We worked in our hub groups and did 6 different rotations all day: quizzes, play, posters and more all about Rights of the Child.
• Miss Tillbrook started teaching us all about Scottish Wildlife as part of a new topic. We are working independently to research a Scottish native animal and we will use that information for an activity next week.
• It was a lot of fun yesterday for World Book Day. We dressed up as adjectives, we had everything from sporty, cool, comfy to stylish, colourful and dark. Throughout the day, a bell sounded and we had to stop everything to read for 5 minutes, it was a lot of fun.

Green for Growth

• We started fitness challenges in PE with Miss Tillbrook that was hard. Our arms and legs were almost aching by the end of each station.
• For writing, we are persuading someone to read our favourite book but are finding it hard to think of ideas to persuade them.

Lead learners this week were Abi and Harris.

Tickled Pink

• We are so proud of ourselves for doing our class assembly twice this week to an audience. We performed for the school on Wednesday and then for our families on Friday morning. Both went really well and we are so happy that we got to show off all of our hard work.
• In maths we have been learning about equivalent fractions which is going well.
• We wrote a persuasive letter to the teachers to persuade them to let us have extra break that day. It worked so well that we were given an extra 10 minutes outside!

Green for Growth

• We are working on our handwriting skills in class. We practise twice a week and are starting to understand the importance of good presentation.
• For comprehension, we sometimes find it tricky to find the correct information, so we are working on using clues from the text to help us.

Lead learners this week were Ruaridh and Kellan.

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed music this week as we were exploring Boomwhackers. The children took it in turns to play along to different nursery rhymes and songs.
• For writing this week we were looking at persuasive texts and writing our own about whether cats or dogs are the best pet. The children done really well with this and all included their opinion by writing ‘I think….. because…’.
• During outdoor learning we played a few class games including Duck, Duck, Goose and Fruit Salad. We had lots of fun!

Green for Growth

• Some children found maths a bit tricky this week as we were focusing on numbers 11 to 20. We are going to keep practising reading and writing these numbers.
• Some children are still a bit unsure with tally marks too. We will continue to practise when making decisions (like which activities we want out during literacy, which story to read etc) and during outdoor learning.

Our Lead Learners are Lucas Y and Lucas F.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots engaging 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 taking part in handball this week both in school with Mrs Donald and at the West Lothian handball qualifying event with Mr Hamilton. A wonderful effort from all
• We enjoyed presenting our famous Scot projects to the rest of the class
• We really enjoyed our buddying activities and teaching our buddies how to play various different games
• We enjoyed football in PE and the football team enjoyed taking part in the first morning of cluster football league games on Thursday. A great effort from all players has left us second in the league table before the next round of matches

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

• Some of us feel felt multiplication work in Maths was a little tricky
• A few of us feel that our persuasive writing was a bit tricky as we get used to writing in a different format and style again
• Some of us found learning about empathy in Health and Wellbeing a bit difficult

Our lead learners were Alexis, James, Logan and Shiva.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be polite to adults around school, don’t shout out in class and be a good role model.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting all of those targets, which is great news. Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7. Looking forward to another great week next week!