Seafield Primary School

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.

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.