Seafield Primary School

Happy New Year from primary 2/3. We have had an amazing first week back to school and can’t wait to see what 2024 has in store!

Tickled Pink:

• We decided on which Scottish Poem we wanted to perform and will be practicing these throughout the next couple of weeks. We will perform these to the class on Monday 22nd January and some of us will be lucky enough to perform to the whole school during our Burns assembly!
• We learnt about the new year and discussed how new year is celebrated in different countries, made new year resolutions and learnt part of Auld Lang Syne.

Green for growth

• In P.E. we’ve started gymnastics where we began with learning different balances. Some of us found it tricky to keep the bean bag balanced on our head while balancing on one leg but we were resilient and found ways to improve our balance by choosing our strongest leg and using our arms to help.
• During literacy, we have looked at alliteration. Some groups struggled to find adjectives that fit into our alliteration sentences but we worked together to try and come up with different describing words to use.

Our lead learners for the upcoming week are Cade and Grace.

We have had a wonderful last week of term!

The children have enjoyed various Christmas activities, crafts and games. They tried really hard to follow the instructions to draw their reindeer and Santa – they did a fantastic job!

The children took part in a Christmas Assembly with Reverend Boyd – joining in with the songs (It was on a Starry Night).

We went to the cinema to see ‘Wish’ yesterday which was a great film and the children done themselves proud as they represented the school on our trip.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and I look forward to hearing all about your holidays in January!

Stay safe and Merry Christmas,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a fantastic week of festive activities and celebrations. We started the week finishing  our final preparations for our Conscious Christmas Ethical Class Enterprise which was taking place on Wednesday. We had Power- points to present to parents and family members sharing our business plan, our strategies and the skills we developed throughout the topic. We made a selection of items for sale in our groups, decorations, crochet baubles, origami, art work, wind chimes and some Christmas games and  we were  a very successful sales team.  We had a small selection of items remaining at the end of the session and the children decided to sell all of these at 10p each in the infant playground. We have repaid our initial investment to the Community Council and paid our expenses and have a total in the region of £95, we will clarify this next session as donations are still coming in. We will be voting on who we are donating this money to and considering if a small percentage of the amount will be used for new felt pens or glue sticks for the class.

We had a lovely assembly with Rev Boyd on Tuesday, our school disco on Wednesday and a trip to the cinema to see Wish on Thursday, followed by an Achievement Assembly on Friday and class talent show.

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and look forward to seeing you in 2024!

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots exciting learning and some activities linked to the forthcoming festivities. 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 practising our times tables during our mental maths activities this week
• We all enjoyed our festive story writing for our buddies as we began to redraft and create the books which we will give to our buddies
• We all engaged well in our outdoor learning sessions on Monday, the Primary 7s with Rob and the Primary 6s with Mr Hamilton
• We enjoyed the mental maths work that we did which involved flipping the tables in the classroom
• We really enjoyed our Tag Rugby games again in PE and worked hard to involve everyone in our team and to focus on safety
• We enjoyed our Christmas dinner in school on Wednesday and loved seeing the P1-3 dress rehearsal of their amazing nativity, “Donkey for Sale”

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

• Some of us feel that we need to keep working on our data handling skills in the maths work we did with Mr Hamilton this week
• A few of us felt that the times table work in mental maths was a bit tricky as we need to work on our speed of recall
• Some of us found our fitness session in PE with Mrs Donald challenging (and tiring!)

Our lead learners were Lily, Jessica, Paige and Coby.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be kind to all of your peers, be ambitious in your story writing and keep resources clean and tidy.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting those targets, which is wonderful news. Well done for a great week, P6/7. This will be our last blog post before the holiday, so we would like to wish all of our families a very happy Christmas.

Tickled Pink

• Our class had our Nativity performances this week and although we were a little nervous to perform, we loved showing off all our hard work.
• We have started looking at subtraction and did lots of activities and created a poster about what we already knew about subtraction.
• We enjoyed hearing the story from Mr Walsh today and wearing our festive wear!

Green for growth

• We did a maths assessment this week about what we have learnt about addition this term. We found some of the questions a little tricky but we worked really hard.
• Today, we followed a video about making paper snowflakes. We struggled a little to cut through the paper as it was all folded up but we kept trying and made beautiful snowflakes.

Tickled Pink

•  In Maths, symmetry was good using mirrors to help us create symmetrical designs.
•  Outdoor learning was fun.  We enjoyed jumping in ‘Bonners Battle Bog’ in the muddy swamps with our muddy boots.
• In PE we played an outdoor Cluedo type game where we had to do laps of the kick pitch to find out ‘Who Killed The Christmas Turkey?’

Green for Growth

• In our enterprise business some of the groups struggled to get along with each other and make decisions.
• We found it tricky to use a pair of compasses to draw circles.
• We’ve had to work really hard to get our enterprise products finished.

We are looking forward to having lots of parents visit our class on Wednesday to hear all about our enterprise topic and hopefully buy our products!

Blog post written by Henry and Kyle.

We have had a very exciting week in Primary 1/2!

Tickled Pink:

– The children were shining stars during our nativity performances! The sang beautifully and looked amazing in their costumes. We hope the audience enjoyed it as much as we did!!

– In maths we had a snowball fight which the children loved… the sums were printed on snowballs and scrunched up and thrown about. The children had to get a ‘snowball’ and work out the answer and record it on their sheet next to the correct number.

– We have enjoyed doing some Christmas crafts over the week too and are looking forward to taking them home next week.

– The children have loved exploring our Christmas Post Office in our role play area. Making pictures, putting them in envelopes, writing names and then posting it in the post box. We have had some great deliveries from the post office as the children acted out being a ‘postie’.

Green for Growth:

– Some children found the snowball fight maths a bit confusing when it came to recording their answer.
– Some children found their sound a bit tricky this week ‘th’ as it sounds quite similar to ‘f’ sometimes. We will keep practising reading our sounds and writing words that have the sound in it.

Have a lovely weekend and Well done again to all children for taking part in our nativity – you are all superstars!!

Mrs Wallace

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.