Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• This week we have been practicing our rounding skills in numeracy! We can round to the nearest 10!
• We have been learning about the harvest festival, we know what fruits and veg we can grow and what machines we can use to help during harvest!
• Everyone has enjoyed using Sumdog during our numeracy rotations.

Green for Growth

• Next week we are going to be ambitious in our numeracy and round to the nearest 10 and 100.
• We are also going to work on our listening skills when we are on the carpet.

This week our lead learners are Leo and Ryan for being kind and ambitious – Well done!

Tickled Pink

• For science, we wrote our own songs about what we have learned. We changed the words to a nursery rhyme to include words about magnets, magnetic force, push, pull, friction and gravity. We performed to P2/3.
• We have been doing rich tasks in maths that involve problem solving, team work and resilience. This week we did one about rounding numbers and another one about finding patterns with odd and even numbers.
• We enjoyed PE with Mrs Robertson because we got to use a basketball hoop in the hall and practise our skills.

Green for Growth

• Naming 3D shapes was tricky in maths, we forgot a lot of the names from last year.
• P4s found writing a character description hard in writing because Miss Halliday wanted at least 10 adjectives!
• In RME we have been learning about the 5 Pillars of Islam but we kept getting the Arabic words mixed up.

Lead Learners this week are Chloe and Rosa.

We have had a great short week in P1.

Tickled Pink:

• We have been learning more sounds in Phonics and the children have loved learning the new songs. We have also been playing different phonics games such as connect 4. The children have to name the letter they are covering and try to cover four in a row.
• We have been reading Little Red Riding Hood for topic this week and the children enjoyed learning a song called ‘I love Red’. We learned about long and short notes and fast and slow tempo.
• We have been focusing on counting groups of items and matching numbers or writing the correct number.

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to remember what some of the numbers look like but we will continue to practise this.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful short week with lots of exciting learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our last two weeks in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our climate change art lesson and thought that it was fun to show the positive and negative in one picture
• We enjoyed our learning about the Adobe Express computer programme over the last two weeks as we improved our digital skills
• We really enjoyed our buddying session with the Primary 1 children this week as it was great fun being outside and trying to teach them playground games and we also enjoyed our origami fox activity with the Primary 1s
• We enjoyed learning about inference using riddles to help us understand this concept
• We enjoyed our outdoor Maths work on bearings with Mrs Baird and our Mental Maths work in class with Mr Hamilton
• We really enjoyed our family breakfast at the end of last week as it was lovely to welcome our adults to school and share some activities with them
• We enjoyed writing our setting descriptions with a focus on descriptive language as we were able to choose the setting that we wanted to describe

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

• Some of us felt that our Adobe Express learning was quite tricky as there was a lot to learn and the live lesson was also a little difficult to follow
• We found our origami buddying task with the Primary 1s a bit tricky last week especially because we couldn’t get the noses to stay on the foxes!
• Some of us feel that our outdoor playground games session with the Primary 1s was a bit tricky as it was difficult to make sure all instructions were being followed

Our lead learners for this week were James, Darcey, Julia and Jake and they set the following class targets for the week; don’t swing on chairs, don’t lose classroom equipment and don’t talk back to the teachers. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was fantastic to see. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink:

• We have enjoyed reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears this week for topic and had fun doing an experiment to grow gummy bears. We had to make predictions about what we thought might happen to a gummy bear when it is placed in either water, salt water or sugar water. Then we observed the changes and loved seeing how big they grew in the plain water – they felt so squashy and were nearly invisible in colour.
• We started looking at shapes in maths and had fun getting creative when making our own 2D shape drawings. We chose shapes to draw around to make the picture and then had to describe their picture by naming the shapes used.
• We have been learning more sounds this week and the children are all really enjoying the songs and actions. We played a new game which was super fun! One child had a headband with a letter on it and the other children had to do the action for the child to guess the correct sound then write the letter on the board.

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding number recognition and formation a bit tricky – we will continue to practise this daily.
• French was fun bit a bit tricky as the iPads were not all working correctly for us to use the ChatterPix app – hopefully next time they will be working better.

Lead Learners next week are Charley and Rose, Well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a great week with lots of exciting learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our week in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our PE handball session and progressing into game-play and we tried hard to involve everyone in our team during the games
• We enjoyed our Maths angle assessment and demonstrating our knowledge and understanding of angles
• We really enjoyed our session with our P1 buddies and working hard to create our Three Little Pigs puppets and retelling the story
• We enjoyed creating our religious education PowerPoints

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

• Some of us felt that our task with our P1 buddies was a little rushed
• Some of us felt that our writing task was a bit tricky as we were challenged to describe settings using pictures of quite different places
• Some of us feel that our up-levelling of vocabulary was a bit difficult

Our lead learners for this week were Julia, Jake, Che and Brodie and they set the following class targets for the week; don’t swing on chairs, don’t lose classroom equipment and don’t talk back to the teachers. We will continue with these targets next week as they were only created and presented to the class on Wednesday. Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink

• In science we have been learning about forces. This week we learned about magnetic force and investigated magnetic and non magnetic materials.
• For maths we moved around different stations to use our 2D shape knowledge. We did a shape hunt, tangrams, hidden shapes game, explain the shape, cutting and sorting shapes and using online shape games.
• In RME we learned that Islam is one of the world’s largest religions. Muslims use the name Allah for God and they have a special person called Muhammed (PBUH).

Green for Growth

• Place value is fun but we are finding that textbook work can be tricky when we don’t read the questions. Our target is to read the question first before asking for help.
• In writing we have been enhancing our description skills but some of us forget that we must use adjectives to make it more interesting for the reader.
• For topic we have been looking at world maps but our teacher gave us a really tricky task of cutting out jigsaw pieces of the world to sort.

Lead learners next week are Olivia for being ambitious and Blake for being responsible.

Tickled Pink:

• This week in writing, we wrote a descriptive essay about Seafield. We wrote about where Seafield was located, our favourite places in Seafield and why they were special. We included lots of descriptive language and took on board all of the ways to make our writing more interesting.
• During our outdoor learning, we took maths outside! We drew shapes in chalk and wrote how many sides, angles and diagonals they had. It was fun taking what we had been learning in the classroom outside.
• We did some doodle art  on Thursday. We were given a piece of paper with a curved line on it and were told it could not be turned into a heart. We created drawings of snakes, swans, loch ness monster, boots, football strips, guitars and dragons.
• Thank you to everyone who attended our family breakfast, it was nice to show our classroom to our family members.

Green for growth:

• During P.E. unfortunately some of us weren’t listening to instructions which led to us being able to continue with our game.
• We found naming and sorting triangles in our maths a bit tricky this week.

Our lead learners are Ben and Jodie

We have had a great week in Primary 1!

Tickled Pink:

• We have been enjoying learning more sounds and singing the songs to go with them. Thank you to Joey who brought in some castanets for us to explore with the ‘ck’ song. He very kindly let everyone have a turn playing them as we sang along.

• We had lots of fun exploring colour by making a colour wheel. We explored the Primary colours and had fun mixing them to make new colours. We then used the paint to create our own wonderful artwork – it looks fantastic on our wall!

• We have started our topic ‘Fairy Tales’ and focused on the Three Little Pigs story. We listened carefully to the story and then retold it by acting it out using puppets. We also worked with our buddies to create stick puppets so we could all act out the story.

• We worked really well together to build a new home for the Three Little Pigs and learned all about different types of houses and what is needed to make a house.

• We loved trying Judo on Tuesday and had lots of fun playing games and learning some moves.

Green for Growth:

• We have enjoyed learning more about numbers using the Number Zoo stories, some children are finding it a bit challenging to form some of the numbers but we will continue to practise this.

Our Lead Learners this week were Freddie and Joey, the loved having their milkshake treat!

Our Lead Learners for next week are Ollie and Alice, well done!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace