Seafield Primary School

We have had a busy week this week and have been enjoying hearing all about our P6 campers adventures.

Things that went well;

• Measuring outdoors –  using different measuring equipment.
• Being back in class together and seeing our friends .
• Writing a recount of camp or the activities carried out in school.
• Getting camp letter for next year.
• PE

Things that were tricky

• Percentages
• Measuring a mile

Tickled Pink:

• We have enjoyed participating in a full class football match in P.E. We are still learning how to be safe and give each other space when someone is trying to pass the ball but we absolutely loved having a go.
• We are continuing to work on our multiplication. Some started on the 3 times table and found this to be quite easy. Others started their 4 times tables, they found it a bit tricky but enjoyed the challenge.
• We learnt how to say different family members names in French this week which we enjoyed.

Green for growth:

• We learnt about future verb tenses in literacy this week. It was a little tricky trying to decide what type of future tense to add to our sentences but we were resilient and worked hard.
• We learnt about different types of tractors for our farming topic this week. We tried our best to figure out what the different part of a tractor was.

Our lead learners are Georgia and Fatoumata.

Primary 6/7 have had an amazing week at camp and had so much learning to reflect on. We had a discussion in class on Friday morning and the children said that they would like to share the following reflections on their learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We loved doing the Zip Wire activity at camp and going down the wire at speed
• We loved our Laser Tag activity on Tuesday night where we had a challenge in two opposing teams
• We really enjoyed the Aeroball activity involving trampolines and a basketball shooting type activity
• We really enjoyed the Trapeze activity at camp where we had to climb up a pole and then jump off and hit a ball – while attached securely to a safety harness!
• We had fun doing the rifle shooting activity at camp
• We really enjoyed the Jacob’s Ladder activity at camp as we were able to help each other climb the “ladder” and use our teamwork skills
• Some of us enjoyed the chance to play football at camp during our free time
• We all enjoyed the archery and archery tag activities at camp
• We all thought the food at camp was great and some of us enjoyed staring seriously at the i-pad when the teachers were taking photos!
• Finally, we all had a wonderful morning in school on Friday morning taking part in lots of activities to help us learn about children’s rights. Our RRS pupil group really enjoyed helping to prepare the activities and assist teachers throughout the morning

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

• Some of us felt that Jacob’s Ladder was a tricky and challenging activity at camp
• A few of us found it tricky to do the trapeze activity too
• Lots of us found it a bit tricky to guess the songs that Tom (our PGL group leader) was playing on his mobile speaker
• Some of us thought that archery was a bit tricky as the technique was a little difficult and there was a bit of waiting around
• Some of us were a wee bit worried that the castle might be haunted
• A few of us weren’t happy about having to drink English tap water while at camp!
• Some of us found it a bit tricky to get to sleep while we were at camp

The children were a credit to Seafield Primary School whilst at camp and displayed our school values consistently. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink

• Using technology to practise our times tables and division skills – we have been using a website called 99math.com where we have to work together as a class to achieve an overall percentage of correct answers.
• Our handwriting is improving and we used a verse and chorus from Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’ song to practise with.
• Rights respecting Day on Friday was fantastic. We had 5 different stations to learn about our rights, water aide, competitions, outdoor learning, puzzles and a scavenger hunt for rights.

Green for Growth

• We are still working on writing a full answer in comprehension tasks and not just one or two words.
• Maths with Mrs Denholm was tricky where we were matching digital to analogue times.
• Some of us need to work on using our word books or dictionaries to check our own spelling in our writing.

Lead Learners for next week are Kellan and Ruaridh.

P1/2 have had a fantastic week!

Tickled Pink

• In maths we have been counting in 10s and the children are doing really well with skip counting.
• We have been discussing how to be a good friend and learning some nice songs about friendship.
• We had our class trip to Almond Valley (Mill Farm). We loved meeting and petting a rabbit called Theo, a ferret called Fabio and a guinea pig called Eclipse. There was lots of other animals that we got to see including a Clydesdale horse and little lambs, which were very cute! We had lots of fun playing and exploring the areas and the children were all very responsible and represented the school well!

Green for Growth

• The song about friendship was a bit tricky to learn but we are remembering most of the words now.
• French was a bit tricky to remember the different words to talk about weather but playing games and singing songs helps us.

Our Lead Learners next week are Robyn and Evie!

Have a lovely long weekend and I will see you on Tuesday 21st May.

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• In our writing this week, we wrote acrostic poems about our own monsters that we had created. We used alliteration and adjectives to make our writing interesting.
• Today was our Rights Respecting Day and we had lots of fun trying out all the different activities and learning more about our rights. We also wore blue and raised money for UNICEF.
• We absolutely loved our trip to Mill Farm yesterday. We had lots of experiences with animals and farming equipment which helped us with our farming topic.

Green for Growth:

• We are continuing to practice our multiplication and making sure to use our strategies to help us. We have been using skip counting, repeated addition and arrays as well as some time table songs which has made it a bit easier.
• During P.E., we have started to do some athletics. This week we were doing running, jumping and throwing. We had different sizes of hurdles and while we were apprehensive of some of the taller ones, we were resilient and challenged ourselves.

Our Lead Learners this week are Cade and Rosa.

Our primary 6 and primary 7 children have had another brilliant day at school camp taking part in lots of activities and enjoying the wonderful setting at Ford Castle. The weather was cooler today which was good. There was a little rain but not anything too bad. The food and staff have been fantastic. Here are some photos which show how much everyone has been enjoying themselves. We have been packing bags and tidying rooms getting ready to come home tomorrow. however, we are also looking forward to more fun activities tomorrow morning.

We have had a fantastic first day at school camp taking part in activities and settling into our rooms. It was a lovely sunny, warm day. We are looking forward to another fun day tomorrow and hopefully it might be a little cooler!

Primary 6/7 have had a great short week with lots of wonderful 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 this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We loved our volleyball sessions in PE as we developed our skills in game playing situations
• We enjoyed debating as we started researching and preparing speeches for our second class debate
• We really enjoyed learning about fake news and trying to figure out what we can trust online
• We enjoyed learning some Spanish and our fun Maths activity with Mrs Baty

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

• Some of us felt that our it was a little difficult to find arguments for our new debating topic
• A few of us found it tricky to get the ball over the net during our volleyball games in PE
• Some of us found it a bit tricky to think of memories for our leavers assembly

Our lead learners were Alieu, Chloe, Brodie and Shiva.  They decided on the following three targets for the class; to be resilient in PE, to not throw things in the classroom and to be responsible in the playground. They witnessed lots of learners in the class meeting those targets which is great news. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

We have had a great few days in Primary 1/2

Tickled Pink

• We have been focusing on rhyming words this week. The children have done really well identifying the rhyming sound and coming up with words that sound the same. We enjoyed Outdoor Learning, where we had to find a card with two pictures on it and then try and match the rhyming words to create a loop.

• For buddying this week we went outside to learn more playground games. We had so much fun making our own hopscotch, playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and different parachute games.
• We enjoyed being creative by doing a ‘Finish the Drawing’ task, the children were all given an arch and had to turn it into whatever they wanted (but not a rainbow!). The children created great pictures including handbags, flowers, cars and a pug!

Green for Growth

• We have been counting in 5s this week and some children are finding it a bit tricky to get started but once we get to 20 they follow the pattern (25, 30, 35, 40, 45 etc).
• We have been learning about different punctuation marks (question marks and exclamation marks). Some children found it a bit tricky to work out what kind of punctuation would be needed at the end of various sentences.

Have a fabulous weekend (hopefully sunny!)

Mrs Wallace