Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots of interesting 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 loved our outdoor learning on Monday as it was great fun delivering leaflets to houses in our school community about our work in school on children’s rights
• We enjoyed our PE with Mrs Denholm because of the Olympics theme and the variety of activities
• We enjoyed our writing activity where we had to write a response text about the short animation “Coin Operated” as it was something quite different for a writing task
• We had great fun with our buddies and loved that they were reading to us this week and we enjoyed exploring the books together
• We had lots of fun in with volleyball in PE this week
• Our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at the Rotary Club quiz had great fun and represented the school fabulously. They also did a wonderful job managing to achieve fourth place out of fifteen schools

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

• Some of us felt that the “Coin Operated” writing task was a wee bit tricky as it was a bit difficult to think up different themes for each paragraph in this response text
• A few of the Primary 7s found the Literacy transition lesson on “Holes” a bit tricky as the questions from the DCHS English teacher were difficult
• Some of us found the Maths work with time a little tricky, especially the work with time measurements of less than a second

Our lead learners were Megan, Alieu, Logan and Chloe.  They had decided on the following three targets for the class; to show respect to others including teachers, pupils support workers and other children, to focus well in Writing and Debating and to try to wear uniform to school most days. They identified lots of children in class meeting all three of the targets that they set, which is great news. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

We have had a busy week this week.

Things that have gone well.

• Scale in Maths- we were using a key – 1cm is 25km – we then had to calculate distances.
• Bleep Test -PE
• Outdoor learning – Delivering RRSA leaflets around  the village and talking to people about children’s rights..
• Health and Wellbeing – listening to a sentence and doing the drawing – Comparing the drawings. We recognised that everyone thinks differently, even when we all listened to the same instructions.

Things that have been tricky.

• The Bleep Test was fun but very tiring!
• Writing about the water cycle.
• The mental maths challenges

Tickled Pink:

• We enjoyed writing about a recount of a birthday this week. We either wrote about our favourite birthday party or a favourite birthday party that we attended.
• We have planted potatoes this week as part of our farming topic and are excited to watch them grow.
• We have been practicing for our class assembly this week and have been working hard on remembering our lines.

Green for growth:

• We were working on our times tables this week. Some of us are finding the 2, 4 and 5 times tables a bit hard but we are trying our best.
• We did a multiplication treasure hunt during outdoor learning however we found it a little tricky writing the answers to the sums as well as trying to find the letters.

Our lead learners this week are CJ and Chloe.

We have had a great first week back after the Easter holiday!

Tickled Pink

• Everyone done fantastic with their recount writing about what they done during the holidays.
• The children created fantastic Gala Day Posters for the competition, our theme this year is Movies.
• As a class we played boggle, I was so impressed with how many words the children came up with!
• In PE we did an obstacle course which involved using a range of gross motor skills. The children loved the limbo and stepping logs.

Green for Growth

• In Music we were playing the Boomwhackers – some children found it a bit tricky to play on the beat.
• In Maths we were being ‘Sign Detectives’ and had to work out if the sum was addition or subtraction. Some children needed support for this by the adult asking where the largest number was because that will help us work out what sign we need to use.

Our Lead Learners next week are Murren and Leo.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic first week back with lots of great 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 enjoyed making our competition entries for the Gala Day programme competition because of the freedom we were given to choose different ideas around the movie theme
• We enjoyed our activity with Mrs Denholm to design our own sustainable school
• We enjoyed continuing to prepare for our first class debate this week as we considered what our arguments are going to be and how to argue back to the other team’s arguments
• We enjoyed our writing activity as we were able to write about our own opinions of the class novel that we read last term
• We had lots of fun in PE this week
• We had great fun in buddying as we played games and got to spend time with our buddies again after the break

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

• Some of us felt that writing was a wee bit tricky as it was tempting to summarise the story from the book when we had to make sure we were including our judgement about the book and how the author had written it
• A few of us found the work with train and flight timetables a little tricky in Maths
• Some of us found the Gala Day poster difficult because it was hard to choose which movie images to use

Our lead learners were Paige, Rose, Lily and Oscar.  The had decided on the following three targets for the class; to be responsible outside in the playground, not to make silly noises in class and to be respectful to all adults in school. 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.

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed writing a recount about our Easter Holidays and everything we got up to during the time off.
• We spent a long time working on our Gala Day poster competitions for the Gala Day programme this year.
• In maths we have been learning about Carroll diagrams and making up our own set of criteria for it.

Green for Growth

• For literacy we have focused on using speech marks and remembering that they only go around the spoken words.
• In RME, Mrs Flynn was teaching us all about Joseph and his coat of many colours, there are so many to remember.
• We did some drama about the Great Fire of London but it was hard at first to not giggle when others are acting.

Lead Learners this week are Ben and Noel.

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.