Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• We started looking at measure in maths and had fun measuring the height of beanstalks using interlocking cubes.
• We enjoyed playing different games during literacy, especially the popcorn game. One person is the teacher and chooses a piece of popcorn(scrunched up paper with letter or word on it), then they read it to the student and they have to write it on the whiteboard and then the teacher checks it.
• We had a great circle time to talk about our next topic, People Who Help Us. The children identified some people who help us and spoke about what they know about them already and this helps plan what we want to find out.

Green for Growth

• In writing this week we were focusing on adding detail to our drawing and life-like hands. Some of the children found this tricky so we will keep practising.
• Some children found addition a bit tricky, we are going to keep working on this to increase confidence.

Our lead learners next week are Daisy Rymel and Ernest Gasior.

Tickled Pink:

• We have been working on our addition this week and explored using numicons to make addition sums up to 20.
• We created an information report about Autumn where we wrote about the leaves falling off trees and squirrels.

Green for Growth:

• We started practising our ball skills in P.E.  this week and found controlling the ball with our foot quite challenging.
• We did a spelling test this week covering our previous phonic sounds which was a bit tricky.

Our lead learners this week are Ellie Mae and Lily. They are looking for the following:

• Pushed in chairs
• Keeping our classroom tidy
• Neat handwriting.

Tickled Pink

• We created leaflets and posters about Seafield Primary School as part our Information Report writing task. We used lots of our core skills like punctuation and spelling as well as looking at the genre targets.
• P4 created book reviews about ‘How I Became a Dog Called Midnight’ and displayed these on the wall. A lot of us enjoyed the class novel and would recommend it to others.
• We did gymnastics with Mrs Robertson in PE, we were learning about basic poses like the tuck, pike, straddle and the str.

Green for Growth

• We found numeracy tricky because we have been practising doing chimney sums and some of us forgot how to do it.
• Comprehension was tricky because we have to answer in full sentences.

Lead learners this week were Frankie and Ryan.

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• In Outdoor Learning we had a choice of what to do in the playground.  Some of us chose to build dens, others chose to do gymnastics and others chose ball games.
• We started to learn about fractions. We had to think about how we could share out bars of chocolate, we even got a little taste afterwards!
• We finished reading The Boy at the Back of the Class.  It was a great novel but there were lots of sad parts as well as funny parts.
• We had lots of great ideas during our pupil voice groups.

Green for Growth

• Using a ruler and protractor to draw shapes was very tricky.
• We found it tricky trying to learn about the numerator and denominator in a fraction but a song helped us.

Lead Learners this week were Niamh and Henry and they chose the following targets:-

• Use a ruler correctly
• Don’t fight and
• Pay attention in class

It has been another super week in Primary 1/2! The children were really excited to show off their work to their grown ups as part of Parents Consultations. It was so lovely to talk to the grown ups and share how well the children have settled in to our class routine and discuss their fantastic learning so far.

Tickled Pink

• “Reading the Three Little Pigs was good fun because we got to cut out our own puppets and put them on the lollipop stick”. The children listened really carefully and were able to answer lots of questions and sequence the events of the story. I loved hearing the voices of the little pigs and big bad wolf when they were acting out the story!

• “Making rockets with our buddies was so fun and Fluffy the owl used them to fly to the moon!” All of the children were really engaged with this task – they had to choose their own resources from junk modelling and then with the support of their buddy they constructed their rocket. The children were super excited to show off their work to the classes! We discussed the skills that we were using through this task (Creativity, Collaboration and Communication were the main 3 that we identified).

Green for Growth

• “Remembering the shapes is a bit tricky”. We have been looking at 3D shapes this week. The children have been learning their names and exploring the 2D faces within. We had fun stamping with the 3D shapes to see what 2D shapes they made. The children also loved looking for cylinders and cubes within our classroom. Sphere is the shape that they were finding tricky to remember, so we will continue to look for them in our environment and naming them regularly.

Our Lead Learners for next week are Lucas Mackie and Olivia Johnson.

Have a fantastic October break, I can’t wait to hear all of the children’s stories when we return on Tuesday 17th October!

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• In music this week, we were learning about pitch and tone. We learned the pitches were called So, Mi and Do and played some games to test each other with them.
• We did some free writing about anything we liked which was fun. We like to have free choice sometimes but we still keep an eye on the core targets to make sure we are on track with our learning targets.
• We used toy cars in science this week when we learned about forces. We looked at the force called friction, this is when a surface slows down or stops a motion. We found that wool has the most friction and smooth wood had the least friction on our toy cars.

Green for Growth

• In PE, we finished our block of handball with Mrs Robertson and our block on hockey. We have enjoyed doing these and wish they could continue longer.
• In RME we have learning about the Torah, this is a special book for Jewish people. We thought some of the words were really tricky to say out loud.
• For reading, we have been practising prosody, this means fluency and expression. This can be hard but it is getting easier every time we practise it.

Lead learners this week were Charlie and Harris.

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• 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 tessellation which means tiling shapes without gaps.
• 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 were Jason and Ella.

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

Tickled Pink

• Everyone loved our outdoor learning session with Rob from Kids Gone Wild on Monday. We went on an adventure to explore Seafield Law. The children walked safely with their partner and demonstrated great road safety skills as we crossed each road. After we entered the nature reserve the children were free to explore their surroundings and they found a muddy puddle. Before jumping in the children had to work together to find out how deep the puddle was – they found a great stick and dipped it in to measure the depth. After deciding that the puddle was not too deep – the children had lots of fun jumping in and splashing. We had lots of fun singing ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and acting out the different parts of the story as we went through the long swishy grass and squelchy mud. We found some autumn leaves during our walk and so later on in the week we learned about the different seasons and how trees change throughout each year. We have some conkers in our classroom that the children have been enjoying looking at and feeling. They discussed how the shell is spiky and the conker is smooth. A couple of the conkers were still in their shell and so we discussed how they come out of the shell because it dries out as it is not getting water anymore. The children have been observing the conkers in our classroom as they have started to split open and one of the shells actually had TWO conkers in it – this was very cool to witness!

• It was European Languages Day on Tuesday and the children loved learning how to say hello in 10 different languages. The favourite was saying hello in Japanese (Konnichiwa). We also coloured in some flags which the children done a great job of, ensuring they used the correct colours.
• The children enjoyed watching a story about shapes where the character went on a shape hunt. There was a house in the story which was made up with lots of different shapes. The children were given time to think about what shapes they could see and then paired up with a friend to share answers and then share with the whole class. The children worked really well together and they came up with so many answers!

Green for Growth

• Some of the children found it a bit tricky to draw 2D shapes (particularly triangles). We will continue to practise this through mark making activities.
• For art this week we made autumn trees. We drew around our hand on brown paper and then cut it out to make the tree trunk. This was a bit fiddly for some children and we will practise our cutting skills regularly. The children had lots of fun stamping the leaves onto their tree using corks and paint (the children discussed the ‘autumn colours’).

Our Lead Learners were Miah and Lucas F, who set the class the target of keeping the classroom tidy. They were happy to say that the class have done really well and we earned smiley faces from the janitor each day which helped us reach the target of 10 faces so we could get an award (we had extra play outside on Friday with bubbles, chalk, football and lots of games of tig).

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 2/3 had a great week! Here are some things we wanted to share:

Tickled Pink

• Everyone worked really hard to learn their phonic sounds this week. Some of the sounds were very tricky but we tried our best and succeeded.
• During Maths Week Scotland, we used our whiteboards to show off our problem solving skills.
• We created our own obstacle courses in outdoor learning this week. We loved challenging other groups to try out the course we created.

Green for Growth

• It was European day of language on Tuesday. As a class, we listened to Disney songs sang in the language the film was set in. We found it difficult to guess the languages, but loved hearing the songs!

Our lead learners for this week are Ellie and Leon. They are looking for everyone to tuck in their chairs, not swing in chairs and to keep our classroom tidy.

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• We explored pulse in music and used a xylophone and a metallaphone to accompany the Lean on Me song.
• This week in hand ball we enjoyed competing in matches.
• We really enjoyed visiting  number game stations as we celebrated  Maths Week Scotland.
• We enjoyed writing description texts about our favourite relative.
• During outdoor learning we made refugee dens.
• We learned how to check in each morning using Teams. This means we can share how we’re feeling with our teachers without everyone else knowing.

Green For Growth

• In Maths it was pretty hard using a protractor.
• Some people thought it was tricky creating surrealism art.

The Lead Learners this week were Che and Harvey. They chose to look for

• people bringing in their homework
• looking after school resources and
• stop chating when the teacher is talking

The blog this week was written by Abbie.

Mrs Baird and Mrs Denholm were also Tickled Pink that many pupils can now remember their passwords and log into Teams independently.

Have a great weekend everyone!