Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots exciting learning and more visitors coming into school to inspire us and help us with our learning. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning throughout the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our Scottish dancing again with the S6 sports leaders as we continue to prepare for our Burns Supper
• We enjoyed writing our own poems using Scots language
• We all engaged brilliantly with the Edinburgh University students who came to work with us in Computing Science with the Microbits
• We really enjoyed the Pupil Voice sessions on Friday morning as we discussed the importance of equality and diversity in school and helped the younger learners in our school community take part in the discussions
• We enjoyed lots of our learning in Maths this week, especially working with dragon data on Friday morning with Mr Hamilton and the Maths lessons that had with Mrs Donald and Mrs Egan

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

• Some of us felt that we need to keep working hard on learning about our famous Scottish people to make more progress with our projects
• A few of us felt that learning and remembering the dance steps for our Scottish social dancing was a bit tricky
• Some of us are finding it a bit tricky to learn our Scottish poem for the recitals in class next week
• We know that we need to keep working hard on practising singing our Scottish songs for the Burns Supper next week

Our lead learners were Alieu, Olivia, Lily and Jessica.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be resilient in football in PE, don’t talk back to the teacher and don’t be silly.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting those targets, which is great news. Well done for a wonderful week, P6/7. Looking forward to another fin packed week next week!

We have had a really busy week this week in preparation for our Burns Supper for the senior citizens of the village. We have been writing and reciting poems, improving our Scottish dancing skills and learning about Scottish settlements.

Things that have gone well.

• Singing with P6/7 class – Scottish songs
• Microbits with Edinburgh University students
• Our daily timed number task
• P6  Nursery Buddy Visit
• Writing our Scottish Poems
• Bench Ball
• Scottish Dancing with Deans Sports Captains
• Investigating strength of ice during outdoor learning.

Things we found tricky.

• Maths –
• Using some Scots vocabulary
• Dance

Our Lead Learners Isla, Faith and Amelia were kept busy looking for children demonstrating our school values and taking care of our resources.

Tickled Pink:

• We have moved onto narrative writing this term and have enjoyed using our imaginative writing skills to create stories.
• We learnt more about Seafield as part of our Scottish topic on our local villages and explored what the differences were between a town and a village.
• As part of our Be Kind week, we gave a sticker picture to each P1/2 as well as a kindness jar filled with lots of lovely messages to the whole class.

Green for Growth

• We are still practicing our poems for our class performance on Monday. We’ve all been trying to learn the poem by heart and trying to add actions as well.
• We were learning North, South, East and West during maths this week and were struggling to remember which direction was which but we did come up with our own mnemonic’s to help us remember. Our favourite’s were Never Eat Soggy Waffles and Naughty Elephants Squirt Water.

Our Lead Learners this week are Blake and CJ who are looking for good lines, being responsible outside and showing resilience in their work.

Happy New Year and welcome back!

We have had a fantastic first week back at school.

Tickled Pink:

• We have started focusing on our new whole school topic ‘Scotland’. The children enjoyed using Google Maps to explore our local area. They were very good at moving about on the screen to get themselves from school to their house.
• We have also started learning a Scottish poem… I was blown away with how well the children knew their poem after only 1 day!! We will keep practising this at school (and home) so the children are confident reciting the poem on Monday 22nd January.
• In Maths we have been learning about the months of the year and enjoyed singing along to a song to help us remember the months. We have made a class calendar and added children’s birthdays to it. The children are making their own calendar which we will finish next week.

Green for Growth:

• Some of the children were getting a bit muddled with the order of the months (September – December). We will continue to practise this!
• Some of the children found alphabetical order a bit tricky, they enjoyed singing the song but needed support to fill in the missing letters in the alphabet maze.

Our Lead Learners are Murren for being kind, and Emma for being ambitious – Well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Happy New Year from primary 2/3. We have had an amazing first week back to school and can’t wait to see what 2024 has in store!

Tickled Pink:

• We decided on which Scottish Poem we wanted to perform and will be practicing these throughout the next couple of weeks. We will perform these to the class on Monday 22nd January and some of us will be lucky enough to perform to the whole school during our Burns assembly!
• We learnt about the new year and discussed how new year is celebrated in different countries, made new year resolutions and learnt part of Auld Lang Syne.

Green for growth

• In P.E. we’ve started gymnastics where we began with learning different balances. Some of us found it tricky to keep the bean bag balanced on our head while balancing on one leg but we were resilient and found ways to improve our balance by choosing our strongest leg and using our arms to help.
• During literacy, we have looked at alliteration. Some groups struggled to find adjectives that fit into our alliteration sentences but we worked together to try and come up with different describing words to use.

Our lead learners for the upcoming week are Cade and Grace.

We have had a wonderful last week of term!

The children have enjoyed various Christmas activities, crafts and games. They tried really hard to follow the instructions to draw their reindeer and Santa – they did a fantastic job!

The children took part in a Christmas Assembly with Reverend Boyd – joining in with the songs (It was on a Starry Night).

We went to the cinema to see ‘Wish’ yesterday which was a great film and the children done themselves proud as they represented the school on our trip.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and I look forward to hearing all about your holidays in January!

Stay safe and Merry Christmas,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a fantastic week of festive activities and celebrations. We started the week finishing  our final preparations for our Conscious Christmas Ethical Class Enterprise which was taking place on Wednesday. We had Power- points to present to parents and family members sharing our business plan, our strategies and the skills we developed throughout the topic. We made a selection of items for sale in our groups, decorations, crochet baubles, origami, art work, wind chimes and some Christmas games and  we were  a very successful sales team.  We had a small selection of items remaining at the end of the session and the children decided to sell all of these at 10p each in the infant playground. We have repaid our initial investment to the Community Council and paid our expenses and have a total in the region of £95, we will clarify this next session as donations are still coming in. We will be voting on who we are donating this money to and considering if a small percentage of the amount will be used for new felt pens or glue sticks for the class.

We had a lovely assembly with Rev Boyd on Tuesday, our school disco on Wednesday and a trip to the cinema to see Wish on Thursday, followed by an Achievement Assembly on Friday and class talent show.

Have a wonderful Christmas everyone and look forward to seeing you in 2024!

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots exciting learning and some activities linked to the forthcoming festivities. On Friday morning, we discussed our learning over the week and decided that we would like to share these reflections about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that went well):

• We enjoyed practising our times tables during our mental maths activities this week
• We all enjoyed our festive story writing for our buddies as we began to redraft and create the books which we will give to our buddies
• We all engaged well in our outdoor learning sessions on Monday, the Primary 7s with Rob and the Primary 6s with Mr Hamilton
• We enjoyed the mental maths work that we did which involved flipping the tables in the classroom
• We really enjoyed our Tag Rugby games again in PE and worked hard to involve everyone in our team and to focus on safety
• We enjoyed our Christmas dinner in school on Wednesday and loved seeing the P1-3 dress rehearsal of their amazing nativity, “Donkey for Sale”

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

• Some of us feel that we need to keep working on our data handling skills in the maths work we did with Mr Hamilton this week
• A few of us felt that the times table work in mental maths was a bit tricky as we need to work on our speed of recall
• Some of us found our fitness session in PE with Mrs Donald challenging (and tiring!)

Our lead learners were Lily, Jessica, Paige and Coby.  They were looking for examples of the following targets that they set for the class; be kind to all of your peers, be ambitious in your story writing and keep resources clean and tidy.  Our lead learners saw lots of the children in class meeting those targets, which is wonderful news. Well done for a great week, P6/7. This will be our last blog post before the holiday, so we would like to wish all of our families a very happy Christmas.