Seafield Primary School

Primary 2/3 had a great week!

Tickled Pink:

• As part of our Weather topic, we were learning about hot and cold climates. We discussed how countries nearer the equator are hotter and decided what we would take in our suitcase if we were visiting hot and cold countries.
• For outdoor learning, we learnt a rain dance and performed these with bells to learn more about weather in different countries. It didn’t rain while we were performing but we were happy to see that it rained later that evening.
• In literacy this week, we learnt what onomatopoeia was and explored some onomatopoeia words.

Green for Growth:

• Some of us struggled with two-digit by two-digit subtraction using the column method but we kept trying and Miss Cooper was very pleased with our progress.
• During music, we used instruments to make the sound of different types of weather and made our own composition. We found it a little hard trying to work out our composition but we had fun trying!

Our lead learners for this week are Harley and Grace.

Tickled Pink

• In PE we created games for the P1/2 class and they gave us some excellent feed back including words like fantastic and amazing.  We were also reflective and talked about how we could improve what we offered them if we did it again.
• In HWB we learned about food labelling.  We now understand the traffic light system and the vocabulary used in food labels.
• Some P6 and P7 pupils went to a Handball Festival at Deans Community High School and they found it really fun.
• We were delighted to learn that some of our poems were chosen to be included in a poetry book and we will now be published authors.
• Some P5-7 pupils went to Deans Community High School on Thursday to represent the school in the cluster  football league.  It was a really great experience and they won four games and lost two.
• We made water filters during outdoor learning  and created a cress experiment to learn about how to undertake fair tests.

Green for Growth

• We made various graphs during data handling lessons but kept forgetting to label them correctly.
• For Empathy Week we created posters and we found it really tricky to draw entwined hands.

Lead Learner Update

This week our Lead Learners were Georgia and Emma-Jo.

We have had a great week settling back into school routines.

Tickled Pink:

• We have been learning about tally marks this week and the children are very good at remembering that we draw the fifth tally across to ‘shut the door’. During Outdoor Learning we observed the cars passing the school and recorded tallys of their colour. The children loved this but it was a bit tricky to keep up when lots of cars were passing at once.

• We were learning about the Green cog from Emotion Works this week which is all about how we show our emotions using our face, body, actions etc. The children enjoyed dancing along to ‘I feel good’ and acting out the different emotions using our whole bodies.
• For drama we listened to the story ‘The Tortoise and the Hare’ and had lots of fun pretending to be the different animals and making ‘stills’ of the Tortoise winning the race.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found the tally marks a bit tricky. We will continue to focus on this next week.
• We were learning how to make fact families in maths. This was a bit confusing at first but then it started to click.

Lead Learners next week are Fraser and Evie!

Have a nice weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• Our assembly practices are going well and we can’t wait to perform it next week
• Fantastic PowerPoints for IDL using different transitions and animations.
• Using 2 hand chest throws and 1 handed under arm throws in PE with Miss Tillbrook.

Green for Growth

1. We are continuing to work on self editing in our writing lessons, checking that our stories make sense and have the correct spelling and punctuation.
2. Equivalent fractions are tricky but we are being resilient and will keep going.

Our Lead Learners this week are Ruaridh for showing respect and Kellan for demonstrating ambition.

Primary 6/7 have had an excellent first week back after the February break with lots exciting learning in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning through the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our Writing activity where we were developing our skills with using persuasive language to convince our reader that either cats or dogs are the best pets and we are looking forward to completing this task next week
• We enjoyed creating our own fitness activities in PE with Mrs Donald
• We really enjoyed our buddying activities and helping our buddies to learn how to play card games
• We enjoyed our final computing science session with the wonderful students from Edinburgh University as we learnt about coding using “Python” and sent messages to the International Space Station!
• We enjoyed our art activity where we were creating pictures of the famous Scots that we have been researching and learning about for our personal projects
• We enjoyed continuing to learn about and practise the grid method for multiplication in Maths

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

• Some of us feel felt that the famous Scot portrait art activity was a little tricky, especially the part where we used tracing with charcoal and then printing with those line drawings
• A few of us feel that the times table practise this week was a bit tricky as we were using more difficult times tables
• Some of us found the writing about cats or dogs a little difficult as this was our first persuasive writing task this session

Our lead learners were Logan, Shiva and Megan.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be kind to the adults in school, be responsible with school equipment and property and be resilient in your learning.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting all of those targets, which is great news. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7. Looking forward to another great week next week!

Primary 2/3 have had a lovely week this week.

Tickled Pink:

• We were learning about time this week. All of us were learning about o’clock and half past and some of us were learning about quarter past. We used practice clocks to show our answers.
• We had a focus on nouns, adjectives, and verbs this week. We looked through the books in our class library to hunt for these parts of speech.
• For our weather topic, we had lots of fun in outdoor learning learning about wind direction. We used wind vanes, compasses and a wind cone to work out which direction the wind was blowing.

Green for Growth:

• This week we started a new type of genre in writing, persuasion. We wrote about school friends and why having them was good. We found coming up with our series of arguments quite difficult.
• Some of us were using the jump method for subtraction in numeracy which we found very tricky.
• During our gymnastics P.E. lesson, we learned that we needed to listen carefully to instructions to make sure we know what we are doing and are being safe.

Our lead learners are Fatoumata and Oliver.

We have had another busy week this week in P5/6.

What went well;

• Outdoor learning – Collecting control water samples, Looking at different collection points – Dean Burn at different locations and different puddles. Considering moving water and pools of water. We all returned with dry feet!
• PE – Creating a group algorithm dance / gymnastic routine relating to our class novel, retelling the story so far thorough expressive movement.
• Creating a fair test and changing variables when setting up a Cress growing experiment.
•  Project Based Learning Brainstorm – As Scientists and Global Citizens investigate a Big Science Question to share at Seafield Science Showcase.
• Microbits coding with Edinburgh University Students.
• Send a picture of nature to astronauts at the International Space Station.

Tricky –

• Some issues with technology this week after the February Break
• Division and times tables
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We have had a lovely week in Primary 1/2.

Tickled Pink:

• We have enjoyed learning about Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday in RME. We have been doing lots of activities related to pancakes – Writing instructions on how to make them, tricky word pancake game, pancake cafe role play and even had some pancakes in class to practise spreading the toppings all by ourselves!

• We have been working really hard in maths this week doing lots of subtraction sums and the P2s have been doing sums that have missing numbers meaning they have to work out the answer by adding.
• We have enjoyed taking part in Mental Health Week by doing an activity each day that makes us happy (Dancing, Going Outside, Colouring in, Listening to Music and Playing with Friends).
• We had a live lesson with the author, Tom Nicoll, and illustrator, Ross Collins. They read us two stories and we did a draw along with the illustrator.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found the draw along with the illustrator a bit tricky as he was going too fast, but they turned out great!
• We have been learning about Chinese New Year… some people found it tricky to make their paper chain dragon.

Have a fantastic holiday,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 2/3 have had a fantastic week.

Tickled Pink:

• We watched an author live where an author read us his stories and told us a little about how he writes them. This was followed by a draw along of a cheetah with the illustrator of the book which we all really enjoyed.
• We’ve had a Sumdog competition going on throughout the school this week in celebration of Number Day. The whole class have enjoyed competing against other classes to try and see who will get to the top of the leaderboard.
• As part of Children’s Mental Health week, we were challenged by the Health and Wellbeing hub to do a few wellbeing tasks in class throughout the week. We have enjoyed activities such as a just dance party and meditation.

Green for growth:

• As part of our narrative writing, we based our writing on a story where a sheepdog gets lost while trying to bring a sheep back to the farmer. Some of us found it tricky to predict what was going to happen and when linking our writing to the story.
• A few of us where learning how to use the column method when doing our subtraction sums. We found it hard to make sure the method was written correctly but had lots of practice throughout the week.

No lead learners this week as we’re off for the February break. I hope that everyone has a lovely holiday!

Primary 6/7 have had an excellent week with lots exciting learning in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning throughout the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed learning about algebra on Friday morning with Mr McConville from Deans Community High School. We all made good progress learning how to balance equations
• We enjoyed football in PE, particularly the passing game that we played and we also enjoyed fitness in PE with Miss McGregor
• We made a great start with our creative writing activity this week and enjoyed using the idea of a school pupil with amnesia from our class novel Restart
• We really enjoyed our outdoor learning as we researched and discussed what a “Moss” is and then went out to investigate at Easter Inch Moss
• Our representatives in the Rights Respecting School pupil group enjoyed our Steering Group meeting as we discussed arranging our Rights day and other ways of promoting children’s rights
• Our Primary 7 learners enjoyed finding out about a wide variety of jobs at the NHS carers fayre at Howden Park Centre on Wednesday

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

• Some of us feel that we need to keep working on our passing in football in PE
• A few of us feel that we need to keep working hard to think of ideas for our imaginative story in Writing
• Some of us feel that we need to keep practising our reading homework questions
• A few of us feel that we need to be a bit more careful during outdoor learning to avoid getting wet

Our lead learners were Chelsea, Megan, Sophie and Preston.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be resilient in writing our story based on Restart, be responsible and kind outdoors and be respectful in class and to the teacher.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting all of those targets, which is great news. Well done for a wonderful week, P6/7. Looking forward to another great week next week!