Seafield Primary School

We have had a great week this week. The P5 children have been designing Walk to School Posters so that everyone knows that it is walk to school week next week.  Our Health and Wellbeing mini champs have also gathered together items for our clothing treasure chest and they will be donated to West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network . We will continue to collect new and nearly new clothes for children and adults.

Things that went well:

• Outdoor Learning – making bridges and climbing!
• Bear Scotland Teams meet and introducing a competition! Can you cantilever?
• Math’s – Data handling and measuring
• Writing Information reports
• Coronation, Celebration, Congratulation letters to the King and Queen.
• Walk to school preparation
• Ready to Read Comprehension
• Spelling

Things that were tricky

• Getting all of our homework in for Friday!
• Pie Charts
• Writing Feedback – peer assessment – knowing targets for information reports.
• PM comprehension

Shiva was our Special Person this week and our Mini Health Champions have had lots to do this week getting us ready for the Health and Wellbeing Showcase at Southdale Primary, Mrs Denholm and Mrs Baird were very proud.

Please check your email for information around a competition for Walk to School Week which takes place from 15th – 19th May 2023.  Walk to School Week

Tickled Pink

• Learning about inheritance and characteristics. It was fun to do the drawing game with the Mr Men and Little Miss characters. We had to choose a mum and dad then draw our character to look like them and then the class had to guess who the parents were.
• Learning about empathy with Mr Hamilton and watching a video about Tendi’s story about climbing Mount Everest. It was about keeping safe and the stuff you need. I liked it because I got to find out about what other people have done in their life.
• Drawing the hands on our clocks and writing the numbers on the digital clock to match. We can now tell the time to o’clock and half past.
• Designing our Gala Day posters for the competition was fun because we got to do lots of drawing and use the new pens to colour in.

Green for Growth

• Learning how to do subtraction chimney sums with exchanging. It was easier when we used the tens sticks and ones cubes to show the numbers.

Our lead learners are Ella and Ruaridh.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• Reading quarter to and quarter past time on an analogue clock.
• Making Coronation Plates that will be displayed in the Bowling Club for the big day.
• We are very happy and proud of ourselves to be the first class to win the playground SeaBee competition. We had to demonstrate the values in the playground to gain a honeycomb to add to the wall, the first to read SeaBee with 10 honeycombs win and we got 11!! Our prize is to dress down next Friday and watch a part of a film.

Green for Growth

• Homophones in spelling, some of the words are really difficult to remember which one is which like, vain/vein and steal/steel.

Lead learners this week were Henry and Faith who were watching out for people following the values in class.

It has been a short week this week but we have been busy. We found out that Alfie has been shortlisted to the final 4 entries of our snowboard design competition! Well done Alfie. We have had to vote for our favourite of the remaining finalists and we should hear the result in a few weeks.

Things that have went well this week.

• Outdoor learning at the burn where we developed our team work skills and practiced our balancing.
• Maths this week learning about data handling.
• Learning about the King’s Coronation and creating paper plate art to display for the community.
• Creating a Coronation Celebration card to be sent to Buckingham Palace next week.
• Learning more about the human body and impressing our teacher with our maturity.

Things that were tricky.

• Looking and interpreting data from Pie charts.
• Using a protractor accurately.

Tickled Pink:

• We have enjoyed reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as our class novel and listening out for boost words and similes. We have heard quite a few similes since we learned about them last week.
• We had lots of fun doing dancing in PE from different countries to link in with our class assembly.
• We are becoming more confident with our lines for the assembly and are looking forward to practising in the hall next week.
• We learned lots about King Charles III and made placemats for the event that is being held at the Bowling Club to celebrate the King’s Coronation.

Green for Growth:

• Some of the children found it a bit tricky to remember the dance moves but are getting better each time we practise (well done!).

Have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• Using atlases to enhance our mapping skills and extend our knowledge of continents and countries.
• Writing an information report, turning it into a power point then presenting our work
• Learning to play and listen to a high D and a low D on an ocarina

Green for Growth

• Identifying quarter past and quarter to on an analogue clock
• Maintaining stamina and resilience when running for longer times in PE
• Using conjunctions in our writing to extend and enhance sentences.

Jason and Jack were our lead learners this week and focused on keeping the classroom tidy and organised.