Seafield Primary School

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.

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