Seafield Primary School

Health Week ! We have had a great week with lots of taster sessions, guest speakers and the opportunity to taste different fruit.

On Monday we had a session from Adam from Livingston Rugby Club and a talk from Ann who is fundraiser for Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance. She told us there are 2 helicopters based in Scotland, Helimed 79 is based in Aberdeen and Helimed 76 is based in Perth. Ann’s job is to work in a team to raise 5.8 million pound each year to pay for the 2 helicopters.

On Tuesday we had a visit from Dr Brogan who spoke to us about staying healthy, the importance of good sleep and reducing the amount of screen time. before bed. We had a taster session from Nicole at Astrogymnastics which we really enjoyed. We then had a dance session with Emma at the community Centre.

On Wednesday we had Mrs Joanna Coull come in for fitness session and she really put us through our paces! We also made fruit kebabs with Mrs Bonner.

On Thursday we had a taster session from One Mind Martial Arts Academy and a football session at the Community Centre.

Friday is our Sports Day and we were lucky enough to have Sports Captains from Deans High School assist us.

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We loved dancing with Emma Stewart this week, she made it fun and we loved the music.
Rugby and football were great, we liked playing the games with the coaches and trying out new skills.
Mrs Coull’s keep fit class was so hard but really fun. She kept going and didn’t need a break at all.

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The only thing we would change is the heat. We have loved health week this year but the school is very warm.

Our lead learners this week are Emma-Jo and Jodie.

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• We have enjoyed learning about money and singing ‘Money, money, money’ by Abba. We can identify the coins and order them and count collections of coins to find out how much there is. Zac enjoyed exploring the coins and finding different ways to make 20p (he managed 7 variations!) and Ellie enjoyed playing a shop game on the iPad, she got 201/202 questions (WOW!).
• Writing was fun because we got to write our own stories called ‘My Adventure with Sparkles’. We then shared our stories with the class. Sparkles was very tired after all of his exciting adventures… he went to space, the park, the zoo, football stadiums, scuba diving and more!
• Outdoor learning was really fun this week – we played a game with a partner who was giving directions to collect objects in the playground whilst blindfolded. After picking up an object they had to bring it back to their partner. The items were worth different amounts and then the children added up their scores to see which pair got the most. It was a bit hard to hear the directions.

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• Maths was a bit tricky when we were doing the treasure grid task to find the objects. With some help we managed to find them all. It is important to take our time reading the steps and follow the route with our fingers.

Our lead learners are Zac and CJ.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace!

We have had a busy week again and have been enjoying the nice weather. We have been completing our Bear Scotland competition which has involved us carrying out some STEM challenges and making out final bridge. We have also had to submit a Poster/ Power-point about our learning

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We went down the River Almond for outdoor learning.

We had a visit from Senior Leadership Team from our cluster schools and they were impressed by the warm welcome they received.

Great Information Reports this week.

Our First Learning together time was held on Friday.

We have had a busy week in P6/7. Our P7s have been preparing for their high school transition visit days next week and are looking forward to it. The P7s have also been taking part in a transition house competition where they have made a great effort to contribute towards their house’s points by completing a variety of interesting tasks! 

Our Tickled Pink for this week were: 

• We enjoyed outdoor learning this week and getting to explore in and around the river. 
• We enjoyed challenging ourselves in maths this week to use our problem solving and reasoning skills to solve equations and think critically about data. 
• We enjoyed writing this week as we were able to decide our own topics for our information report and got to share information about things we are interested in. 

Our Green for Growth for this week is: 

• We found it challenging to complete our science investigation write ups and would like to continue to use our new science vocabulary more regularly. 
• We found researching in topic to be challenging this week as we were researching types of renewable energy that we had not heard of before. 
• We found it tricky to correctly pronounce the weather terms in speaking during French. 

Our lead learners for this week were Oliver and Harrison. They were looking for: 

• Ambition.
• Responsibility.
• Good listening.

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• Outdoor learning was really fun this week and we have been enjoying the lovely weather! We were learning about grid references and the rule of ‘going along the corridor and up the stairs’ to make sure we get to the right box. We played a class game of connect 4 where the children had to say a grid reference and then put a coloured cone. We have played other games in class using grid references like guess the square and introduction to the game Battleships.
• Learning about how the land of the local area has changed over the years was interesting – we got to see Seafield and Livingston developing on the video. We then had fun exploring Google Maps, looking at the school and our own houses. We even spotted Zac playing football on Google Maps near the school!
• The children have loved doing more times tables this week and challenging themselves. We did some colouring in for times tables and games too.
• Learning about being safe in the sun was interesting because we learned about how sun cream is made and how it protects us and acts like a shield. The children wrote about how to keep safe in the sun and the different things you should do (wear a hat, sun cream, glasses, drink plenty of water and spend some time in the shade).

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• Some of the children were working on the 8 times table and found it a bit challenging but they are excited to keep practising. The colouring in times tables sheet was a bit tricky because there were so many boxes to work out and colour in.

Our lead learners are Noel and Connor – well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a great week enjoying the sunshine and going outdoors as much as possible, we have been remembering to bring our sun cream and hats. Our lead learners this week were Sophie and Megan who were looking for evidence of great work and demonstrating school values.

Things that have gone well.

• Learning about measuring volume and converting ml to litres, we did this outside using the water tray outside.
• Planning in our Teams for building our competition entry for Bear Scotland.
• Testing  and measuring cantilevers using metre sticks and water bottles to weight the cantilever, measuring out volume of water in the bottle and considering how we could make a fair test.
• Using Bamboo run to build aqueduct structures – Measure the volume of water at the start and the end of the run.
• Spanish – Learning Happy Birthday.
• Outdoor Learning

Things that were tricky.

• Dividing with multiples of 10
• Times tables
• Spelling

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• On Tuesday we went to Glasgow Science Centre and we had a great time. We went to the Planetarium and learned about the solar system. We also went to the IMAX to go under the sea. There was lots for us to touch and play with and we learned lots.
• We enjoyed doing tennis in PE with Mrs Robertson. We did keepy uppys with the tennis balls.
• We replanted our butter bean plants into soil. Those that didn’t grow got a new bean to try again.

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• We still need to work on our French pronunciations.

Lead learners this week were Harvey and Georgia.