Seafield Primary School

We have had a great week this week in P5/6. We have had a focus on developing the young workforce this week thinking about our skills and qualities and which jobs might suit us.

Our Lead learners this week were Alexis and Abbie.

Things that went well.

We made our bridges in our Teams using icing sugar and biscuits. We were given 75g of icing sugar and 12 biscuits to create a strong bridge that will span 15cm. We still have to test the strength of them – can they hold 5 toy cars and 10 jelly babies?

We had a Teams chat with an engineer from Bear Scotland to give us tips for our cantilever project.

We used our bridges to investigate making a cantilever with a biscuit and measure how far it went out.

TTE made a cantilever of 4cm

Project27 made a cantilever of 4.1cm

3 Koala Constructors made a cantilever of 3cm

3ngineers made a cantilever of 3.8cm

The Tulips made a cantilever of 4cm

We had a Developing the young workforce jobs question time with adults who do different jobs.

Animal Quiz on My World of work – looking at skills for work- which animal are you?

Things that were tricky

• Making the bridge – making sure the icing sugar was a good consistency to hold the biscuits.
• Times tables tasks
• Logging onto Teams to complete an assignment.

Tickled Pink:

– Doing the Animal Me Quiz to find out our strengths and what animal we are most like for our World of Work Week. It told us about our strengths and suggested jobs for future. We then made masks of those animals to show off at our assembly.

– Times Tables work in Maths was fun – the children are getting much faster at recalling the facts.

– Dancing in PE was fun because the children got to make up their own dance routines with a partner and perform it to the class. They had to include a type of turn, travel and use different levels. The dances were super!

– Listening to the different people talk about their jobs was so much fun – the children really enjoyed hearing about the jobs and asking questions too. We heard from a Police Officer, Fire Fighter and Marine Engineer.

Green for Growth:

– Some children found writing a bit tricky this week. They were writing an information report about a career of their choice. With a bit of support they were able to write good descriptive sentences.

Our Lead Learners next week are Fatoumata and Charlie – Well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Yesterday we had a career event to celebrate World of Work Week.

We have been focusing on the 12 skills that we use regularly in our learning.

We had volunteers come in to talk to the children about their career. They shared what they wanted to be when they were younger, how they got to do the job they are doing now and what skills they use.

It was lots of fun and the children loved hearing from all of the different volunteers.

A massive thank you to the parents who came in – you were fab!

Here are some pictures from the event.

Tickled Pink

• Performing our class assembly for the school and our grown-ups. Everyone did brilliant and should be really proud of themselves!
• Practising the times tables in maths was fun because we are getting faster at them.
• Learning directions (left, right, forward and backwards) and telling our partner how to move when they were blindfolded to get to the fence.
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• Practising telling the time was fun – we used hula hoops outside and a long ruler to be the minute hand with a short ruler to be the hour hand. Mrs Wallace shouted out a time and we had to show it on our clocks and then write it digitally too with the chalk.

Green for Growth

• Some of the language when we learning directions and movement was a bit tricky for some children (like clockwise and anti-clockwise, half turns and quarter turns).

Our lead learners are Harris and Imogen.

A big well done to everyone again for their amazing performance at our class assembly!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• During outdoor learning we made a hammock, we used bug finders to look for different insects, we made a human totem pole up a tree and climbed over rocks in the river.  We brought some special rocks home to add to the playground.
• We used biscuits to get some ideas of how we could build bridges for our Bear Scotland project.
• In PE we learned how to use the golf clubs to do driving shots.
• For Data Handling we conducted our own inquiries and created graphs to show the results.

Green for Growth

• We found it difficult to find conclusions from a variety of graphs.
• When we were making the icing sugar cement for our biscuit bridges it was tricky to get the consistency correct.
• It was also difficult to recreate our Kapla designs using biscuits.

Our Lead Learners this week were Brodie and Alieu and they chose to focus on:-

• Bringing homework in by Friday
• Being kind in the playground and not saying anything mean and
• Not talking during individual tasks.

Tickled Pink

• Planted butter beans in cotton wool and water over the weekend to look for roots and shoots.
• Quiet reading in a comfortable space – some of us took that challenge to mean go under the tables but as long as we are safe, that’s okay.
• Learned low D, E and F sharp on the ocarina.

Green for Growth

• Looking at 5 minute intervals on a clock
• Using Bloom’s questions in reading to bump up our reading skills
• Using adjectives to bump up our sentences to make them more interesting

Lead Learners were Che and Niamh and they were looking for people being kind and following the classroom rules.

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.