Seafield Primary School

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• We had a fantastic time on our trip to the National Museum of Scotland and learned lots about sea creatures and other animals.
• We have been learning about consent and boundaries and have loved learning a new song to help us!
• We have loved learning about capacity and using different sized containers to investigate with water!

Green for Growth

• We are feeling a bit sad that Mrs Bain will be leaving for her maternity leave and we will miss her!
• We have been practicing taking turns when we are speaking and learning how to be a good listener.

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• We enjoyed learning about the Skeleton. We practised naming some of the bones and then labelling them on our class mates. One of the facts that really surprised us is that babies have 300 bones but adults only have 206 bones. This is because as we grow, some bones join together.

• We were mind blown by chimney sums in maths. We added big numbers together (up to thousands). With some practise of how to lay out the sums correctly we will be even more confident.
• Learning about the seven continents for our next topic was really interesting. We listened to songs about the continents and ordered them in size – did you know that Australia is the smallest one? Following this, we have been researching some countries within Europe on the iPads and started making PowerPoints.
• It was fun to use our imaginations for writing as we created our own Narrative text. We chose an animal for the main character and then they had a complication (which was getting stuck) and then a resolution (someone rescuing them).

Green for Growth

• Fraction loop cards during outdoor learning was a bit tricky as some people forgot to count the total parts and were just focusing on the coloured part and then white parts. We also need to practise saying the fractions correctly.
• Sketching flowers in a vase was a bit tricky for some children as we have not done much sketching. We also went over the different parts of plants and what they are for to help the plant grow.

Our Lead Learners next week are Rosa and Adam – well done!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace!

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• We have worked so hard on our class assembly this week. We performed it to the school on Thursday and to our families this morning. Everyone did incredibly well learning all of their words and songs. Our teacher is the proudest person in all of Seafield.
• Miss Campbell made rice crispy cakes with us as part of our chocolate topic, they were delicious.
• For literacy, we concentrated on using words from the question in our answers, the results were fantastic.

Green for Growth

• We are sad to say goodbye to our student teacher, Miss Campbell today. She has been with us since January and has been teaching us, alongside Miss Halliday. We wish her well with the rest of her studies and placements.
• Using calculators in money maths wasn’t as easy as we thought, we discovered that calculators don’t like using zero to hold the ones place.
• Trying to write acrostic poems about fair-trade.

Our lead learners this week were Isla and Emma-Jo.

Our Tickled Pinks This Week: 

1. We liked doing stem we liked building our own Lego with guidance 
2. P.E we liked playing bowls with a twist we used golf balls instead of bowls as we are doing golf in p.e.
3. We liked writing as we are being creative and using our descriptive skills and writing a narrative. 

Our Green For Growths This Week:

1. We found our maths transition tricky this week as we are doing advanced negative numbers 
2. We found literacy comprehension tricky this week as we were proof reading different texts   
3. We found writing tricky this week as we challenged ourselves

Our lead learners this week were Samantha and Sophie. They were looking out for ambitious learners, responsible role-models and respectful listeners. We did well with these lead learner targets but we are going to continue working on our listening skills.

This week’s blog update was written by Keela and Eleanor.

This week our Lead Learners were Abbie and Darcey

Things that went well:

• We took part in a Handball festival at Deans Community High school with cluster schools. We were Handball  champions!
• Fractions
• PE – Golf and putting  and our last handball practice before the event on Thursday.
• Meg Stenhouse’s visit and she brought her military medals – we were learning about local  people involved in WW1 and WW2.

Things that have been tricky

• Euroquiz – The P6’s took part in this but some questions were tricky.
• Maths fractions
• Comprehension
• Topic – Scottish Parliament

Tickle pinks  

PE : we enjoyed the big piggy in the middle ball game. 

ART : we enjoyed being creative and having a free choice in art. 

Outdoor learning : we loved the hide and seek game up on the hill.  

Green for growth

Maths : converting decimals, percentage fractions as it was tricky. 

Literacy and maths transition: we found maths and literacy transition a bit hard. 

Comprehension: we had to do comprehension independently, it was more challenging. 

 Our lead learner targets 

Ambitious 

Responsible 

Kind 

We are going to do more of being ambitious.

This week’s blog post was written by Mayah and Lily 

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• We were learning Spanish numbers.
• We did outdoor learning with Rob and went down to the burn and we put up a zip line and we found an old ball to play with.
• We did Handball with sport leaders from Deans High school to practice for  a handball festival next week.
• PE this week was good.
• Pupil Voice

Green for growth

• We also found it tricky trying to finish our reading moderation task about some text pages / book page.
• We found some Sumdog challenges tricky this week as there was a competition and an assessment. We did win a certificate for our class.

Lead Learner update our lead learners for this week were Logan and Oscar, next week it will be Darcey and Abbie.

Our top 3 pupils who have been trying really hard with the Lead learner challenges are;

1. Don’t talk when teacher is talking – was Calla, Shiva and Alfie
2. Keeping our class tidy and look after resources – was James ,Coby and Alieu
3. Working hard and try your best was –  Preston, Brodie and Alexis

Written this week by Lead Learners, Oscar and Logan  with Shiva assisting.

We are also talking to our family to see if we have any links to the names on Seafield War Memorial as a homework task as we will have a visitor coming to talk to us about it next week.

Tickled Pink:

• Taking part in the West Lothian Sumdog Contest was lots of fun. The children worked hard to correctly answer as many questions as they could. Well done to Harris, Rosa, Ruaridh and Charlie for being daily winners within the class. As a result of the class’ super work in school (and at home) we managed to come 5^th place out of all of the schools in West Lothian! We scored 523 points. This is an amazing achievement – Well done everyone!

• We enjoyed reading ‘Flora the Frog’ for wordboost this week and then learning about the life cycle of a frog.
• We enjoyed the different literacy tasks this week – some children were stamping their words and others were spinning the wheel and having a race to spell the word correctly.

Green for Growth:

• Writing fractions on a number line was a bit tricky. We are confident with ½ and ¼ but found other fractions a bit trickier. We will continue to practise this and use the fractions wall to help us.

Our Lead Learners next week are Ellie and Kellan!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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We enjoyed getting the chance to share our learning and teach some number talks to the adults that visited our family breakfast.

We enjoyed outdoor learning this week and created some impressive dens.

We all worked very well in a comprehension task this week, independently using our literacy skills to show our understanding.

Green For Growth

We would like to continue to practice our multiplication and division skills because we find this quite tricky when we are working with fractions.

We would like to improve our confidence in dealing with percentages.

We found it quite tricky in writing this week as we were writing about a picture that we had never seen before but we still tried our best to describe what we could see.

It has been a good week in P6/7 and we have all worked super hard!

We would like to say well done to Sophie, who won the World Book Day potato challenge for our class. We would also like to say well done, and thank you, to Mayah and Lily who did a super job in presenting the number talks for us and our adults at the family breakfast!