Seafield Primary School

We have had a great week in primary 1/2!

Tickled Pink:

– Drama was really fun as we were listening to the story ‘Three Goats Gruff’ and telling the story by making still pictures and acting out the scenes.

– We were learning about Area in maths this week and the children worked together to measure the area of a table using post it notes and the area of our rug using pieces of paper. We then counted how many altogether to tell us the area… the table is 150 post it notes!

– Writing was fabulous this week as the children got to colour in the picture and then write descriptive sentences about what they could see… I was very impressed with what they wrote!

Green for Growth:

– For health and well-being we had to match emotions with faces… some children found this task quite tricky to draw the lines between the emotion word and face.

– During PE we learned the Canadian Barn Dance, the children done super but some found it quite tricky to remember which was they needed to move for some of the steps.

Lead Learners next week are Lucas M and Robyn, Well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• For Scottish Languages Week we researched national dishes from countries that don’t speak English and tried to say these in their native languages to the class.
• We were confidently able to read and interpret data from pie charts during our lessons on data handling.
• Mr McConville, a Maths Teacher from Deans Community High School, joined us on Friday for Number Day.  We had great fun learning about the rules of mathematics!
• We entered the Young Writers poetry competition and are looking forward to seeing if any of our poems get published.

Green for Growth

• We ran out of time to complete all the tasks Mr McConville set so we’re looking forward to working on these again next week.
• We’re also going to be busy practising for our class assembly, we hope lots of parents and carers will be able to join us for this on Friday.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Harvey and Matthew.

Tickled Pink

• It was Languages Week Scotland this week and the class enjoyed learning some new languages! We learnt our numbers in Spanish and had a Portuguese taster session from one of our learners in class.
• We enjoyed our gymnastics this week and have learnt a few more rolls and balances.
• We took part in our hub groups today and some of us went around different classes to present the work we had been doing in our groups. Some of our class presented PowerPoints to other classes about how to be safe online which was very informative.

Green for growth

• We have been doing lots of work on subtraction this week and have found it quite tricky. We will keep using our practical materials to work out these tricky problems to show our resilience!
• We finished our Scottish topic this week with lessons on creating a timeline of Seafield and the school and on Scottish food. We created a menu of a Scottish dish however some of us did struggle to think about what Scottish foods we would serve for starters, main course and desserts.

Our lead learners are Chloe and Brandon

Tickled Pink

• We have had a fun week taking part in lots of Scottish based activities for our Scottish topic. On Wednesday, we watched the P5-7 rehearsal for their Burns supper that they were performing for senior citizens. On Burns day, we learned more about Robert Burns and what is eaten during a Burns Supper. A few of us were lucky enough to perform our Scottish Poems that we learnt in front of the whole school at assembly!
• We made bird feeders this week as part of the RSPB Birdwatch. We loved making them and can’t wait to see what birds will show up in our gardens!
• In our writing this week, we watched The Gruffalo in Scots and did a writing piece based on it where we learnt new Scots words to include in our writing

Green for growth

• During maths, a couple of our groups were doing subtraction with exchanging. A lot of us found this quite tricky to do but using our manipulatives helped us to keep trying to practice.
• We used BeeBots this week to help us with directional language which some of us found east but others had trouble working out the direction they were going.

Our Lead Learners this week are Olivia and Rosa.

Tickled Pink

• Learning about the Earth, Sun and Moon and how they relate to each other in space.
• Watching our classmates, Ben, Ella and Jason recite their Scottish poems in the special Burn’s assembly.
• Playing battleships when learning about coordinates in maths.

Green for Growth

• Writing narrative stories using description bubbles and remembering the genre and core targets.
• Recapping fractions in numeracy and remembering to add ‘th’ after the number
• Placing different towns and villages on a map of West Lothian,

Lead learners are Ruaridh for resilience and Kellan for ambition.

What a busy few weeks we have had in the upper school learning about Robert Burns and preparing for our Burns Supper for the Seafield DISCO group (Drop In Senior Citizens Group).  We have been learning Scots poems from a variety of poets and writing our own poems in Scots too .  We have been learning Scottish dancing with help from the Deans Community High Sports Leaders and we also learned some Scottish songs. We wrote letters to Tesco Bathgate asking for food donations and also made our own invitations and programmes.

All this preparation culminated in our Burns Supper yesterday which was thoroughly enjoyed by all!

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

Tickled Pink:

• For writing this week the children were writing descriptive sentences about a snowman using the describing bubble to help us think of adjectives. The children all done fantastic with this!
• The children enjoyed outdoor learning this week. We were exploring the playground and found lots of ice! We spotted some autumn leaves that were still on the ground and had been frozen inside the ice which was really cool to see!

• In maths, we have started looking at subtraction and the children loved playing squashy subtraction with the playdough.
• The school were set a task to do something kind for another class this week, P1/2 enjoyed making friendship bracelets and a picture for P2/3. Threading the letter beads on to spell the children’s name was a bit tricky to ensure it is the correct way round! P1/2 were very happy to receive their picture from P2/3 and the Kindness jar which we will use if we are feeling a bit down.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found alphabetical order a bit tricky, they were given three letters and had to sort them into the correct order. We will continue to practise this and singing the alphabet song to help us.
• During Buddy Time, we made snowflakes. Some of the children found folding the paper a bit difficult and cutting through the paper as it was so thick after it had been folded. They turned out great though and we will continue to develop our scissor skills.

Our Lead Learners are Lilidh for being kind to everyone (including teachers!) and Daisy R for being ambitious in maths and challenging herself to do extra sums.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots exciting learning and more visitors coming into school to inspire us and help us with our learning. 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 our Scottish dancing again with the S6 sports leaders as we continue to prepare for our Burns Supper
• We enjoyed writing our own poems using Scots language
• We all engaged brilliantly with the Edinburgh University students who came to work with us in Computing Science with the Microbits
• We really enjoyed the Pupil Voice sessions on Friday morning as we discussed the importance of equality and diversity in school and helped the younger learners in our school community take part in the discussions
• We enjoyed lots of our learning in Maths this week, especially working with dragon data on Friday morning with Mr Hamilton and the Maths lessons that had with Mrs Donald and Mrs Egan

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

• Some of us felt that we need to keep working hard on learning about our famous Scottish people to make more progress with our projects
• A few of us felt that learning and remembering the dance steps for our Scottish social dancing was a bit tricky
• Some of us are finding it a bit tricky to learn our Scottish poem for the recitals in class next week
• We know that we need to keep working hard on practising singing our Scottish songs for the Burns Supper next week

Our lead learners were Alieu, Olivia, Lily and Jessica.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be resilient in football in PE, don’t talk back to the teacher and don’t be silly.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting those targets, which is great news. Well done for a wonderful week, P6/7. Looking forward to another fin packed week next week!

We have had a really busy week this week in preparation for our Burns Supper for the senior citizens of the village. We have been writing and reciting poems, improving our Scottish dancing skills and learning about Scottish settlements.

Things that have gone well.

• Singing with P6/7 class – Scottish songs
• Microbits with Edinburgh University students
• Our daily timed number task
• P6  Nursery Buddy Visit
• Writing our Scottish Poems
• Bench Ball
• Scottish Dancing with Deans Sports Captains
• Investigating strength of ice during outdoor learning.

Things we found tricky.

• Maths –
• Using some Scots vocabulary
• Dance

Our Lead Learners Isla, Faith and Amelia were kept busy looking for children demonstrating our school values and taking care of our resources.