Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• We learned about where money came from and how it has changed over time as part of Talk Money Week. We designed our own banknotes and discussed the special design features that notes have to stop people trying to forge them.
• For writing we did research on a famous person and wrote and information report about them. Some of us chose footballers, singers and actors.
• In health and wellbeing we are focusing on neurodiversity and learning about it through a programme designed by the University of Edinburgh.

Green for Growth

• We have started learning Scottish Dancing as in PE. It is really tricky remembering all of the moves and keep in time to the music at the same time.

Lead Learners this week were Harris and Abi.

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning during the week and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about how our week went:

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We enjoyed our Halloween games for PE this week
• We really enjoyed our first drumming session in Music this week
• We all really enjoyed our Drama lesson where we created scripts for a fairy tale
• In Art, we loved creating artwork in the style of Picasso
• We really enjoyed finishing our first Information Report on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child this week as well as our free writing activity

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

• Some of us felt that we need to develop our researching skills to help us prepare for writing an information report
• A few of us reflected that we need to keep working hard on developing our learning about money in Maths
• We felt that we need to keep working on developing the level of detail in our writing

Our lead learners were Alexis, Caleb, Logan and Alfie.  They looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be responsible when walking through the school building, focus more on our work and be kind and responsible in the playground.  Our lead learners spotted lots of our class meeting those targets which is great news. Well done for a fabulous week P6/7.

We have had a fantastic week with lots of fun Halloween activities. The children loved dressing up today for ‘We Scare Hunger’ and made lots of donations for our Kindness Cupboard (Thank you!)

Tickled Pink:

– The children enjoyed using the oil pastels to do some pumpkin pop art. The pumpkin was split into sections with different patterns (spots and stripes) which they coloured neatly, making sure they stayed in the lines. They turned out super!

– In maths we did some spooky Halloween word problems for addition and also done some estimating to guess how many eyeballs were in the jar. We spoke about accurate guesses and then counted them together (there was 41 in total!)

– We enjoyed making firework crafts with our buddies and learning how to be safe with sparklers and bonfires.

Green for Growth:

– Some of the children found writing a bit tricky this week as they had to finish sentences about the witch. We are going to continue working on sounding words out to help us spell them.

Our Lead Learners next week are Emma and Lilidh.

Have a super weekend and stay safe!

Mrs Wallace

Primary 2/3 has had a fantastic week!

Tickled pink:

• We have been continuing to work on our addition and working hard on trying different strategies. Some of us have been finding the missing number in sums up to 50, and others have just finished learning about more than, less than and equal to.
• We all looked amazing in our Scare Away Hunger clothes and donated lots to our kindness cupboard and food bank.

Green for Growth:

• We researched facts about different jobs. We enjoyed it but it was tricky to write down all the facts we found out.
• We started learning about symmetry this week. We struggled remember to draw all the lines but still enjoyed learning about what shapes were symmetrical.

Our lead learners this week are Fatoumata and Grace. They are looking for pushed in chairs, rubbish being picked up and being resilient.

Tickled Pink

• In science we learned about forces. We learned that magnets have a force and we sorted out magnetic and non magnetic materials into categories.
• For maths we have been learning about symmetry. We used mirrors to find lines of symmetry in different shapes.
• Primary 4 are in trouble with their teacher! They wrote absolutely terrifying spooky stories for Halloween and now Miss Halliday can’t sleep at night after reading them!

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 were Noel and Connor.

What an exciting week we have had in P5/6!

Tickled Pink

• We had our first resilient drumming session.  As you can see from the photos we all found it tremendous!
• In PE we played a variety of Halloween games and Julia taught us a new game.
• We learned to convert fractions into decimals, a catchy song helped us remember this.

Green for Growth

• We found decimals tricky to start with but they got easier throughout the week.
• In our business groups we were trying to decide on a product to make but it was difficult trying to listen to everyone’s  ideas and write down possible resources, prices etc.
• During our Fractions Talk task it was tricky trying to work out what fraction of the shape was coloured.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Isla and Darcey and they were focusing on:-

• Being prepared for outdoor learning
• Being respectful and
• Trying to focus and not shout across the table

P1/2 have had a great week!

Tickled Pink:

• For writing this week the Primary 1s were writing what they could see in Autumn. They enjoyed exploring the autumn tuff tray with leaves, sticks, conkers and animals (our favourite was the squirrel!). The children drew fantastic pictures of things they might see in Autumn and then tried to write it too.
• We have been learning about doctors this week as part of our People Who Help Us topic. The children have loved listening to stories and sharing their own experiences. We learned what an appointment is and had lots of role play in the classroom being receptionists, doctors and patients.
• We have been learning about the importance of washing our hands with soap. We carried out an experiment to see what happens when we wash our hands with just water versus when we wash our hands with soap. The children loved this and made nice posters to remind people to wash their hands.

Green for Growth:

• As part of our measurement focus, the Primary 2s were learning to measure length and height using a metre stick. This was a little bit tricky but we are going to continue this next week.
• In PE some children were finding it tricky to bounce and catch the ball whilst moving. We will continue to practise to develop control and co-ordination.

Our Lead Learners next week are Leo and Harriet.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a very busy week this week and have represented our school well by demonstrating our values of being kind, responsible, respectful, ambitious and resilient. Well done P5/6

Things that have gone well;

• During outdoor learning we have been investigating clean water. We made water filters and also learned about the importance of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
• In our writing we were researching and planning an information report about refugees.
• In Maths we were learning about perpendicular and parallel lines and we also learned about equivalent fractions, creating these using playdough was lots of fun!
• Our IDL topic this term is to create a business enterprise and we have been working together and developing many meta-skills while we have been creating and planning our enterprises in 3 groups.  We wrote letters to the Community Centre Management Community asking for a loan to start up our businesses and we also plan to make our business sustainable by using recycled products too.

Things that have been tricky:

• We have been multiplying to find equivalent fractions and this has been tricky at times.
• Using dictionaries to write definitions and sentences with our Word Boost words was difficult.
• It was also very challenging trying to find information online about refugees to help us write our information report plans.

 Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were

They chose to focus on

• Coming prepared for school
• Trying not to chat across the table and
• Being ambitious

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed writing an information report about Seafield Village this week. We all had a title, a general statement, descriptions and an evaluation and they were excellent!
• In outdoor learning we explored our local area in preparation for our report writing. We went to the bing and had a walk through the forest area and played camouflage hide and seek.
• Each maths group had a Sumdog competition, the winners are: Harris, Kellan and Jodie!

Green for Growth

• We feel that we can do even better in PE next week, especially with our listening skills but we know we can do it.

Lead learners this week were Kellan and Jack.