Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week. In school this morning, we discussed our learning during this week and decided that we would like to share the following important reflections:

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• Our writing task this week as we continued with descriptive writing. This week’s writing was also linked to our class novel and we were describing a favourite relative. We enjoyed this writing as we knew a lot about the subject that we were writing about.
• We really enjoyed our buddying this week as we helped our buddies make and colour a monster number line for Maths Week Scotland.
• We had a great time making dens and taking part in other activities during our Outdoor Learning at the start of the week
• We enjoyed doing a crossword puzzle and learning about different words and their meanings.
• Finally, we really enjoyed playing multiplying and dividing maths board games as part of our Maths Week Scotland activities.

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

• We feel that we need to keep working hard on completing our writing tasks a little more quickly.
• We think that we have to keep working on our times tables to help us answer questions more quickly for playing the kind of board games we were playing in class.
• We are continuing to work on tidying up after ourselves in the classroom

Our lead learners were Shiva, Paige, James and Chelsea.  They were looking for examples of being a good role model to our younger learners, being responsible around the school and looking after our playground equipment.  They are delighted to say that they saw lots of great examples of people achieving all three targets!

P1/2 have had a great couple of weeks!

Tickled Pink:

• Dancing was good fun as part of national health and wellbeing day – the children got to show off their moves in the hall with the other classes.
• Learning the ‘j’ sound was fun because we pretend to be jelly and wobble our bodies.
• We had our Family Breakfast which the children really enjoyed. They loved the pancakes and showing off our classroom.
• We had lots of fun with our buddies building a house for our class owl ‘Fluffy’ (the class named him!). They could use any materials and resources in the class and they were really creative when decorating the inside – one even had a hot tub for Fluffy to relax in!

Green for Growth:

• Counting ALL of the items in the picture was a bit tricky for some children but once they slowed down and made sure they touched one item for each number they said, it became easier. We will continue to practise this.
• Some children found the colour mixing activity a bit confusing at first but once they were mixing the paints to make their own new colours it made sense. They enjoyed reading ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’ at the beginning and discussing why the red and blue alien had a purple baby. They were able to sing along with the colour mixing song after the paint mixing and recall that red, blue and yellow are called the ‘primary colours’.

Our Lead Learners for next week are Lucas F and Miah. They have set the class the target of tidying up ALL of the rubbish after snack so we can follow our class rule of keeping the classroom tidy (and get a Sinclair Smile so we can get a reward!)

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 2/3 have had a fantastic short week this week. Here are some of things we have wanted to share:

Tickled pink (things that have went well)

• We talked about what makes a good friend and came up with the qualities that create a ‘good friend’ potion.
• We enjoyed creating acrostic poems with our names.
• We explored lots of ways to use our addition knowledge including sumdog, dice activities, column sums and using the whiteboard and counters.

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

• During outdoor learning, we were using twigs, leaves and rocks to talk about place value. Some of us found this a bit tricky.
• We spoke about 2D shapes and thought about how many sides and corners different shapes had. We found this tricky to start with but started to understand more throughout the task.

Our lead learners for this week are Oliver and Cade.

Primary 6/7 have had a couple of fantastic weeks before and after the long September weekend. In school this morning, we discussed our learning over the previous two shorter weeks in school and decided that we would like to share the following important reflections:

Tickled Pink (things that went well)

• Working with our buddies in Primary 1/2 to help explain games to them and to help with attaching ribbons to the school fence to display our data for travelling to school
• We enjoyed our outdoor learning session last week when we were exploring our local area and building hammocks, dens and discovering different types of trees
• Our Primary 7 children enjoyed starting their transition lessons and learning about South America
• We have been enjoying our handball sessions with Hannah from West Lothian Handball Development and our hockey sessions on a Friday
• We enjoyed our science learning as we created (and then modified) our boats and worked on making them successfully float
• Our National Fitness Day workout was a lot of fun on Wednesday and our Health & Wellbeing champions enjoyed helping to create and organise the sessions
• We enjoyed our writing task about Ahmet’s journey from Syria to the UK as we worked hard to describe how difficult this journey must be for refugees leaving Syria and other countries
• It was fun spending time with our younger learners again in our pupil voice groups this morning and supporting them to give feedback on how welcoming our school is
• We really enjoyed learning so many different ways of saying hello in languages from around the world

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

• We feel that we need to keep working hard on our writing as it was a bit tricky trying to describe Ahmet’s journey, especially trying to consider how Ahmet would have felt during the long difficult journey
• We feel that we need to keep working hard on our place value in Maths as we know how important it is to help with lots of our number work. We also feel that trying to stay focused and on task in Maths is something that we can work on improving
• Some of us felt that some of our reading tasks were a little tricky this week, particularly trying to read some new tricky words during our reading lessons
• We found writing sentences for our homework a little tricky with the 2D shape vocabulary that we have been focusing on for our spelling tasks over the last two weeks

Our lead learners were Sophie, Rose, James and Chelsea.  They were looking for examples of being polite, being responsible during working time and tidying up after ourselves.  They are happy to say that they saw lots of great examples of all of three targets!

Learning highlights

• National Fitness Day led by the HWB Mini Champs was fun and exciting.  It was good to get the whole school involved.
• Hands Up Survey – it was fun to get outside and use the ribbons to create a visual display of how we travelled to school.
• Music – listened to different songs in the Gospel Music genre and compared ‘Shackles’ and ‘Lean on Me’.

Tricky Tasks

• Handball was fun but tricky because it was difficult to catch the ball at times.
• Negative numbers was  a bit challenging for some parts.

This week’s Lead Learners were: Kyle and Meg.  They were looking for us to Be Responsible and Be Respectful.

Learning Highlights

• Outside exploring our area in outdoor learning where we walked around the Law and played camouflage hide and seek which was good fun.
• We have been lucky enough to have some music lessons from Mrs de Luen from NYCoS who taught us a Hello song and how to read rhythms and beats.
• Some of our pupils have been using their Halliday Bucks to pay to be the teacher. Miss McIntyre (Jodie) taught us British Sign Language and Mr Ewart (Ruaridh) taught us some fun games to warm up with in PE.

Tricky Tasks

• We have been learning about tessellation in maths and using properties of 2D shapes to see which ones can tile properly.
• We have also been completing Sumdog assessments which are tricky.
• We have been learning to login to Glow using new passwords and we will eventually start using Teams.

Our lead learners this week are:

Ella and Jason.

We had a great week in P1/2!

Tickled Pink

• The children enjoyed learning more sounds and playing games to practice the sounds we have learned so far. We played a game where there was one child at the front and I held a letter flashcard above their head. The rest of the class had to do the action for this sound (silently) and the child at the front had to make the correct sound to match the letter. They were super at this! We then made it a bit trickier – the child had to write the letter on the board to practice formation.
• 2D shape has been really fun – the children loved copying pictures using the shapes and then being creative and making their own designs by drawing around the shapes. They were then able to say what shape they used for each part of their picture. We looked around the classroom and found things that were squares, circles, rectangles, triangles and ovals.
• For health and well being we were learning about keeping our teeth healthy and the children practiced brushing the teeth in the smartpals. The children were very excited to be given their own toothbrush and tooth paste to take home from ChildSmile.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found it a bit challenging to draw around the shapes and say the correct shape name. We will continue to practice this to develop fine motor and pencil control.

Our Lead Learners for next week are Lucas Y and Fraser.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Learning Highlights

• During outdoor learning we made walking sticks, fishing rods, relaxed in the hammocks and looked for insects.
• Some pupils enjoyed communicating and collaborating while learning about place value.  They also received positive comments from teachers walking past about their leadership skills.
• The P6 pupils really enjoyed working with the Deans High School Sports Leaders during the handball sessions.
• We loved having our family come in for the Family Breakfast on Wednesday and enjoyed working on up levelling sentences with them.

Tricky Tasks

• We found writing 4 and 5 digit numbers in words tricky.
• It has been really challenging trying to get everyone back onto glow but we won’t give up.

Our Lead Learners this week were Abbie and Jake and they chose to focus on:-

• Be responsible
• Follow the rules
• Play fair in the playground

We’ve had a wonderful week in Primary 6/7. We are continuing with our brilliant class novel “The Boy at the Back of the Class,” which is inspiring learning around diversity, empathy, refugees and anti-racism.

Some of our learning highlights from this week:

Writing – we enjoyed continuing with our writing task to describe Syria and particularly enjoyed the video that helped us to learn about different aspects of life, people and places in Syria.

Outdoor Learning – some of us really enjoyed trying to identify different types of trees during our outdoor learning session this week.

Numeracy – we enjoyed learning how to count in thousands linked to our work on place value.

Art – we loved learning about the art of Giuseppe Arcimboldo and trying to create our own artwork inspired by his paintings.

PE – we enjoyed our handball session this week with Hannah from West Lothian Handball Development.

Family Breakfast – we enjoyed welcoming our families into school on Wednesday for breakfast.

Buddying – we enjoyed spending time with our buddies and learning together with them.

Maths Beyond Number – we enjoyed learning about shapes and finding out new vocabulary related to 2D shapes.

Some of the learning that we found a little tricky this week:

Art – some of us found drawing fruit for our art task a bit tricky.

Outdoor Learning – some of found that identifying trees was quite tricky during outdoor learning.

Numeracy – a few of us found our place value work with counting in thousands a little challenging.

Our Lead Learners in Primary 5/6 this week were Rose and Sophie. They were assisted by last week’s Lead Learners, Olivia and Brodie. The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows:

• Being respectful to equipment
• Being kind to adults in school
• Staying focused on our work

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. The trickiest target was focusing on our work and this is definitely something for many of us to keep working hard on

Well done Primary 6/7 on another fantastic week and we are looking forward to another great week next week.