Seafield Primary School

We have had another fantastic week in Primary 6/7, with lots of our learning linked to our fantastic class novel “The Boy at the Back of the Class”. This is allowing us to consider themes around diversity, empathy, refugees and anti-racism.

Some of the learning that we enjoyed this week:

Camouflage – we loved learning to play this game during outdoor learning. Please remember that we have outdoor learning every Monday and children should bring their outdoor learning clothes, etc.

British Red Cross Workshop – we had a visitor from the Red Cross running workshops with us this week. Lots of us really enjoyed the workshop about empathy and refugees, particularly learning about Hamza’s story.

British Red Cross Workshop – We did another workshop on First Aid with the Red Cross and we really enjoyed learning essential skills like how to do CPR and help people in emergency situations.

Writing – lots of us really enjoyed our writing task about describing Syria and finding out more about this country and the civil war

Spelling – We enjoyed learning the “ie” and “ei” patterns this week.

Maths – lots of us loved learning about place value and digits.

Some of the learning that we found a little tricky:

Maths – some of the practice tasks from the text book about place value were a bit tricky

Reading – some quite tricky words to read in the texts that we were reading in class this week.

Writing – some of us found it a bit tricky knowing what to write about for describing our best friends.

We had a wonderful week and we are looking forward to another great week next week.

We have had a great week this week with lots of learning taking place in class.

Things that went well.

• P6 took part in a series of workshops this week with the Red Cross where they learned about First Aid, Empathy and Migration and Building Communities
• Some people really enjoyed challenging themselves to complete more complex add and subtract calculations. some people chose to work with numbers with numbers beyond 1000.
• Outdoor Learning in Deanburn Gardens we spent time exploring the environment.
• Bear Scotland Competitions – Designing a Winter Safe Logo and naming a Gritter.
• Our Class novel – The Boy at the Back of the Class
• Class Charter

Things that were a bit tricky.

• Technology Trauma!! Getting everyone logged into Glow and using IDL and Sumdog
• Some people found subtraction tricky
• Literacy – writing task and getting used to giving feedback.

We have had a fantastic week in P1/2. The children have settled really well and are enjoying exploring our classroom and playing with new friends.

Tickled Pink:

• The children enjoyed learning the names of the days of the week by listening to the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and singing along with a song (first repeating each day then singing it quiet, loud and fast – loud was definitely the class favourite).
• We have been learning different sounds and performing an action to help us remember the sound (My favourite song so far is for a – a, a, ants on my arm)!
• We had fun in PE and Outdoor Learning, playing lots of games and being active.

Green for Growth:

• Remembering the new sounds and writing them can be a bit tricky but we will continue to practise taught sounds daily.
• Saying what day comes next is something that we will continue to practise to help us remember the order of the days of the week.

Our Lead Learners are Eadie and Struan. Well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• During Outdoor Learning we started tidying up the playground by pulling out the weeds.
• We learned about the importance of mathematics in our lives and thought of as many occupations as we could that used maths.  We also learned about number systems used in the past.
• We created character descriptions from our class novel ‘The Boy At The Back Of The Class’.

Green for Growth

•  We had some tricky words in spelling and we had to work hard to learn them.
• We did a maths assessment to find out what we still need to learn and that was quite hard.
• It was difficult trying to remember as many emotion words as we could so we’ll do more Emotion Works activities and revise the orange cog again.

We have had a fantastic last week in P2/3!

We enjoyed taking part in the whole school community litter pick… it felt good to do our bit to keep our environment clean!

It has been a fun week with 2 learning together sessions.. the children in my dance group done amazing and performed our routine at the end of the talent show.

The talent show was amazing – well done to all performers and those who auditioned!

I hope you have a lovely summer and I look forward to hearing lots of stories when we return to school in August.

Have fun,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a fantastic week this week and especially enjoyed our trip to the Royal Highland Show on Thursday.

We have won a silver prize in the bear Scotland competition – Can you Cantilever?, our prize will be delivered next week and Alfie has won the snowboard design competition and will be getting a snowboard made for him with the design. Our football team attended an event with other schools and did really well and the remainder of the class went bowling with Mrs Baird.

It was exceptionally busy at RHS and the sun was shining but we had a wonderful day. We took part in some RHET workshops looking at peat and making water filters, clay dams and art work with mud. We investigated oil seed rape and saw how oil is extracted from the black seeds. We learned about hemp as a food source and tasted some hemp flour pancakes , bread and oil and also had a delicious risotto with barley, asparagus, broad beans and peas. We enjoyed the activities at the Honey bee area , making our own candles, spotting the queen bee and tasting the blossom and heather honey! We watched different displays and participated in different activities with our groups from chainsaw carving, to ferret displays, showjumping and showing, mountain bike displays, sheep shearing and food tasting at different supermarkets. We returned to Seafield proudly wearing our Aldi cowboy hats !

Tickled Pink:

We have had a great week in P2/3. The children really enjoyed exploring the beebots, programming directions to move it around the mats. We also enjoyed playing different games during phonics to practise the sounds we have learned this year.

Green for Growth:

We looked at sudoku puzzles this week for problem solving. This was a bit tricky but when we worked together on the board we could figure it out.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Wallace

We have had a fantastic week filled with many exciting activities. The children have loved every event and really impressed me with their energy and enthusiasm!

The activities included: dancing, gymnastics, enjoy a ball, talk with doctor, football, martial arts, fruit salad, fitness class and today’s super sports day!

Here are some photos from our events

Our Lead Learners are Ben and Ruaridh!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace