Seafield Primary School

Primary 2/3 have had a great week!

Tickled Pink:

• Some of us have been working hard doing addition using the column method. It was a little tricky at first but we were resilient and kept going!
• We’ve been enjoying improving our hockey skills in P.E.
• It’s been Road Safety week and we spoke about how to be safe when crossing the road and made our own posters on how to be safe.

Green for growth:

• We’ve been practicing our Nativity and just need to make sure that we are singing in time.
• Some of us have been adding several single digits together in maths and have been finding this very tricky. We will keep practising though.

Our lead learners this week are Finn and Ellie Mae.

Tickled Pink

• In science we learned about forces. We learned that two of the forces are called- pushed and pull.
• For maths we have been learning about symmetry, how to draw and identify the lines of symmetry.
• We took part in the Sumdog  competition where we focused on number bonds and times tables.

Green for Growth

1. We are practising our handwriting and making sure we write the letters correctly on the line.
2. For reading. we are trying to be both fluent and expressive, this is called prosody.

Lead learners this week are Zac and Adam.

We have had a fantastic week celebrating Anti-Bullying Week and Book Week!

Tickled Pink:

• For Anti Bullying Week we learned all about being kind and designed a sock as part of our school competition.
• For Book Week we have explored the books within the bags and completed related tasks – the children’s favourite was ‘Penelope Snoop – Ace Detective’ and they got to be detectives using the magnifying glasses to see the tiny words. The children also enjoyed learning about different types of bears after reading ‘Five Bears’ and drawing a bear following the instructional video. We had a great time at our Teddy Bear Picnic and loved having the grown ups in to explore the book bags further. We also had a visit from an author this week who read her story ‘The Ladybird who Found her Spots’. The children loved listening to the story and drawing their own bugs.
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• We have been learning about the Police this week as part of our topic – People Who Help Us. We made our own Police Badges and learned about finger prints. Today we had a visit from a Police Officer who let us hold the handcuffs and baton. We then done some role play in our class police station.
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Green for Growth:

• Some children found maths a bit tricky this week – we were focusing on number bonds of 2, 3, 4 and 5.
• Some children found PE a bit tricky as we were dribbling with our feet and trying to pass the ball to our partner.
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Lead Learners next week are Evie and Ryan!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 2/3 have had a really busy week with it being both Scottish Book week and Anti Bullying week!

Tickled Pink:

• We had a lovely teddy bear picnic this week. We shared our teddies names and answered questions about them.
• We all enjoyed receiving our Read, Write, Count bags at the end of our amazing Scottish Book week and had lots of fun showing our goodies off to our grown ups!
• As part of Anti Bullying week, we discussed what bullying is and how there is different types of bullying. Some of us also wore odd socks on Odd Sock day to raise awareness!
• We had a special visitor into class on Thursday. An author came to read her story about a ladybird with no spots which we all loved.

Green for growth:

• We had a great time doing outdoor learning with Rob from kids gone wild but after going up the Bing, we were all too tired for the walk back to school!
• When drawing our special people after reading the P3 read, write, count book “All kinds of friends”, we tried our best to not draw stick people and add features to our people which was quite tricky for some.

Our lead learners for this week is Leon and CJ.

We have had a busy week this week as it has been Anti Bullying week and Scottish Book week. With our Rights Respecting Team we are Learning about Article 19. Our Lead Learners Georgia and Jake have been kept busy identifying all the children who are being great learning ambassadors for our school.

Tickled Pink

1. We really enjoyed our outdoor learning this week when we were creating outdoor sports challenges, there was some timed strength tasks, a cross country circuit with water jumps and a moss trampoline!
2. We took part in an Anti Bullying live lesson and created our own Anti bullying poster and wore odd socks this week for Anti Bullying week.
3. We celebrated Scottish Week and entered a book cover design competition.
4. We created some lovely fractions art.
5. Our enterprise project.
6. Our Drumming session

Green for Growth

• Adding and subtracting fractions
• Dictionary work for some of us
• Times tables

Tickled Pink

• We made our own compasses in science using a magnet, water and a plastic lid. We learned that the north pole in a magnet always faces north when it floats in water.
• For Scottish Book week we used our prediction skills to write our own endings to the class novel ‘The Wild Robot Protects’.
• For Anti Bullying week, we learned that bullying is not just a one off incident, it is when someone is wanting to hurt us more than one time and on purpose.

Green for Growth

• We did den building in outdoor learning. Working in teams was tricky when we didn’t communicate with each other or when one member didn’t want to listen to ideas.
• Maths has been had, we are learning the times tables and they are tricky to memorise.
• In PE, we have been learning the Canadian Barn Dance and the Military Two Step.

Lead Learners this week are Ben and Jodie.

Tickled Pink:

– The children have enjoyed learning about money as part of the UK’s Talk Money Week. We have been exploring the coins and notes and learning to identify them. We set up a shop in the classroom and the children have loved buying/selling things.

– We learned about Remembrance Day and why people wear poppies. Some of the children shared stories about their family members and what they know about Remembrance Day.

– We have started learning the songs for our Nativity ‘Donkey for Sale’. We are super excited and the children have been fantastic!! They found out their role today too.

Green for Growth:

– Some children are finding it a bit tricky to identify the coins.

– We have been learning a new tricky word today ‘was’… some of the children found it a bit challenging as they can’t sound it out and blend it because the a makes an o sound. We will continue to practise this.

Lead learners next week are Struan and Lucas F.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• This week was Talk Money week so as part of our topic Local Jobs and Places we work, we decided to create our own shop. We had lots of fun working out what we could buy with our money and how much change we needed to give.
• We started learning the songs for our Nativity! We are impressing Miss Cooper and Mrs Wallace with our fabulous singing skills.
• During outdoor learning, we found lots of symmetry in our playground and were able to take pictures of these.

Green for growth:

• Some of us were working on counting on during addition and found it a bit tricky to keep the big number in our head.
• During our information report writing on ducklings, some are finding it tricky to write something for each feature of the report.

Our lead learners for this week are Harley and Oakleigh.

Things that went well.

• We took part in a Kids Gone Wild session where we were set the challenge of creating a shelter, fire area and a plan for sourcing clean water .
• It was computer science week and we took part in some online Teams sessions, to create our own game, we looked at  coding and algorithms and worked together in groups to create our own dance algorithm sequence.

• We have secured a loan from Seafield Community Education Centre to start us off on our Enterprise Project.
• We took part in tasks relating to Talk Money week.
• Visit from Rev Boyd and we made some crosses for the Remembrance Service on Friday.
• We attended the Remembrance service on Friday and represented our school well.

Things that were Tricky.

• Some of our Maths word problems were tricky as there were several steps to work out before the final answer.
• It was quite tricky researching and recording our reliable sources  for a UNCRC writing task.
• Some people found the algorithm sequence  of steps tricky especially when working in a bigger group.