Seafield Primary School

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

Tickled Pink:

• We enjoyed making our own weather charts this week – recording the weather each morning, after break and after lunch. We discussed how the weather changes a lot in Scotland throughout the day and how it is important to dress appropriately.
• We have been focusing on number bonds in maths and the children loved playing ‘Candy Canes and Fairy Lights’ (our Christmas version of snakes and ladders). The children have to move their counter and answer the sum that they land on. If they land on a snowman they can climb up the candy cane…but if they land on an elf they need to slide down the fairy lights.
• We are super excited for our Nativity next week – rehearsals have been going really well and we wore our outfits one day!

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding the tricky words quite hard to read and remember because they are not words that sound like how they are spelt.
• Some children found reading comprehension a bit tricky – they needed to find the missing word in the text and copy it. With support, the children are able to find the words and also orally answer the questions.

Our Lead Learners next week are Leo and Perri,

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

We have had another busy week this week preparing for our Enterprise showcase and practicing our songs for our Christmas assembly. Our Lead Learners , Niamh and Kyle have been kept busy identifying all the super learning.

Tickled Pink – Things that have gone well.

• Outdoor learning activities this week were playing team games –  the best was a huge class game of hide and seek!
• Microbits – North Pole Finder challenge
• PE – Fitness tasks and a Celebrity Jungle Challenge
• Picking a Christmas Advert and looking at how advertisements can help sell a product or service.
• Brass – new children starting to learn an instrument.

Green for Growth – Things that were a little bit tricky!

• Although some people found the micro bits really enjoyable but some found the coding quite tricky.
• Some people found using a compass tricky, especially when measuring the radius and diameter.
• Some of the timed fitness tasks were tricky.

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots of interesting and motivating learning. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning over the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We all enjoyed the creative writing for our winter themed stories which we are going to redraft and share with our buddies. We are planning to make the stories into a book to give to our buddies
• Many of us enjoyed our fitness sessions in PE and although it was hard work, we knew that we were improving our fitness
• We enjoyed our Mental Maths sessions this week as we think it’s important to develop our skills with calculating sums in our head and not always writing them down
• We really enjoyed our Tag Rugby in PE again as we continued to develop our skills with playing small sided games.

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

• Some of us feel that our fitness session in PE was quite challenging and tiring.
• A few of us reflected that developing our mental maths skills this week was a bit tricky at times as we needed our times table knowledge to be a bit better
• Some of us found planning our creative stories in writing to be a bit tricky as we tried to plan how our story would develop and end

Our lead learners were Paige, Coby, Alfie and Oscar.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; not to talk while the teachers are talking, to show the values around the school and to avoid being silly.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting those targets, which is excellent news. Well done for an fantastic week, P6/7.

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week which culminated in an amazing presentation of our learning to our guests on Friday morning in our class assembly. The children did an incredible job and we are very proud of them. Later on Friday morning, we discussed our learning over the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We all enjoyed rehearsing for and presenting our class assembly. It was a wonderful success and performing with Ethan our drumming teacher at the end of the assembly was an amazing way to end the assembly.
• We very much enjoyed taking part in our outdoor learning activity this week as we worked on creating outdoor art with natural items that we found in the woods. We created some fantastic pieces of art.
• We enjoyed our Maths lessons this week and felt that they were fun
• We really enjoyed our Tag Rugby session in PE as we moved on to playing small sided games.
• We enjoyed being able to continue researching and writing our information reports about our chosen topics

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

• Some of us feel that it was a little tricky having to finish our writing quite quickly due to limited time available because of our assembly rehearsals.
• A few of us reflected that we found our Maths work on negative numbers a little tricky.
• Some of us found the artwork that we were creating in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh quite challenging

Our lead learners were Alfie, Oscar, Rose and Brodie.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; to respect our classroom equipment, to avoid shouting out when people are talking and to avoid throwing items in the classroom rather than passing them.  Our lead learners observed lots of the children in class meeting those targets, which is wonderful news. Well done for an amazing week, P6/7 and an absolutely incredible class assembly.

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

Tickled Pink:

• We loved doing a tricky word hunt in the classroom – practising reading and writing the words we have been learning.
• In maths we have been looking at number bonds and the children are becoming more confident at working out the different ways to make the different numbers.
• We enjoyed being a quality audience for the P6/7 class assembly – it was really exciting seeing our buddies singing and sharing their learning.
• We have been practising our Nativity and it is looking fantastic! We have been using the microphones this week and trying on our costumes (very exciting!!)

Green for Growth:

• Some children found it tricky to bounce the ball on the beat during our NYCOS music session. We will continue to practise this skill and game.
• Some children are getting a bit confused between types of weather and the seasons. We are going to be focusing more on the weather next week by keeping a weather chart record of each day. (The children loved making their own weather mobile this week).

Our Lead Learners next week are Lucas Y and Harriet.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

It has been a very excitable week in Primary 5/6 as the children has been counting down to December and discussing advent calendars.  A few snowflakes earlier in the week added to the excitement! We will have festive themed days to look forward to soon.

Tickled Pink

• In the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here fitness sessions we had great fun competing against each other,
• Many of the class enjoyed their introduction to algebra and showed great determination and perseverance when trying to figure out the value of X.
• We all loved the P6/7 assembly and thought they had clear voices and great presentation skills.

Green for Growth

• Some of the class found it tricky learning about algebra and were confused when finding the value of letters in equations.
• In outdoor learning, using the hammock was challenging and several people got stuck in the mud!
• We continued to work in our enterprise groups and one group found it difficult when trying to crochet.

Lead Learner Update

The Lead Learners this week were Darcey and Che.  They chose to focus on

• staying on task
• not chatting across to people at other tables
• and doing your class job properly.

Primary 2/3 have had a fantastic week.

Tickled Pink:

• We got an opportunity to see a sneak peek of the Primary 6/7’s class assembly which we all enjoyed. We thought their singing was amazing!
• We’ve been continuing to practice our nativity. this week with the microphones. We can’t wait to show our show to all our grown ups!
• We started our PowerPoint presentations about different jobs this week. We’re really excited to finish these.

Green for growth

• One of our math groups were working on adding two digit numbers together with regrouping. At first we found this a little difficult but we kept practicing!

Our lead learners are Lily and Sofia.

Primary 6/7 have had an excellent week as we have continued to practise for our class assembly. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning over the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We enjoyed taking part in our outdoor learning activity this week as we decided to collect data about vehicles travelling through Seafield. We will work with this data over the next couple of weeks and consider how to display and analyse it.
• We had a wonderful time during our buddying session with Primary 1/2 this week, taking part in colourful science activities to consider how water helps colours to move around
• We really enjoyed our Tag Rugby sessions in PE as we continue to work on passing and movement
• We appreciated being able to choose our own topics to research for an information report in Writing this week
• In Maths, we enjoyed starting to learn about negative numbers

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

• Some of us feel that it was a little tricky finding the information that we needed for our information report in Writing
• A few of us reflected that we found our Maths work on Thursday a little difficult
• Some of us found parts of the online Primary 7 assessments that we were doing this week a little tricky

Our lead learners were Rose, Brodie, Alieu and Oscar.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; to be polite, to show respect to others and to demonstrate a good focus on our work.  Our lead learners observed many of the children in class meeting those targets, which is great news. Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink:

– We have started practising our nativity in the hall this week and the children are doing fantastic with their lines and singing!

– We enjoyed learning how to do different types of rolls in PE… the favourite was the teddy bear roll. The children all tried very hard and made sure that they were performing safe movements.

– We celebrated science day (which was on 10th November) with our buddies by carrying out some experiments. We made our own walking rainbow and done the skittles experiment.
The walking rainbow is formed by the water moving up the paper towel known as Capillary Action. The colours come from the pen that we drew on the edges and dipped into the water.

The skittles experiment is a result of the warm water dissolving the sugar shell and it demonstrates concentration gradient as the sugar moves to a lower concentration. The colour from the shell moves and with the sugar and creates a rainbow wheel.

Green for Growth:

– Some children found it challenging to remember the tricky words that we have been learning… we will continue to practise these.

– Some children are writing some of the numbers backwards, we will continue to focus on correct formation.

Our Lead Learners next week are Olivia and Eadie!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

We’ve had a great week in P5/6!

Tickled Pink

• In PE we prepared for our I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here challenge next week by working on various fitness moves including Jumping Joeys (star jumps), Dunny Squats and Tricep Dingo Dips. Many children asked for this to be added to Teams so they could try it out at home so you may be encouraged to join in!
• We finished our block of work on Fractions by creating posters which showed what we had learned.
• As it was Road Safety Week, during Outdoor Learning we investigated car stopping distances.
• We had our last Resilient Drumming session where we put on a performance.  Unfortunately the video clip was too big too add to this post.

Green for Growth

• We were creating information reports about different occupations to make a book for the P1/2 class and Mrs Wallace and it was tricky choosing what occupation to write about.
• It was tricky trying to convert mixed numbers into improper fractions.
• When we were looking at stopping distances we also counted drivers who were either smoking or using their mobile phones.  This is something we would be interested in investigating further.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Julia and Harvey and they chose to focus on

• looking after the resources on our desks
• being respectful while others are talking
• staying on task

The pupils also chose to spend their dream team dollars (class currency) on 10 minutes free time today.

I hope you all have a great weekend!