Seafield Primary School

Learning highlights:
This week we enjoyed French with Ms Gordon revising how to count up to 20 in and learning about endangered animals in French.
In Maths we were looking at the 3 times table. We learned how to do times table sums and group them to help find the answers. We also worked on adding 3s to help us as well.
In music we enjoyed playing the song games in particular the bing bong tapping song. We were learning to keep the beat.

Tricky Tasks:
In art we were working on drawing kind hands. It was tricky to draw round our hands. We also were continuing to work on our persuasive endangered animal posters making sure that we were including facts and reasons why these animals should be saved. We used technology to help us when drawing the animals to search up pictures.
In Maths when we found our 3 times table tricky we used our patterns of adding 3s on our hundred square to help us. We will keep on practicing our 2 and 3 times table.

Lead Learners:
Our lead learners this week were Brodie and Meg. They decided that they wanted to look out for people who were focusing on their work and helping others do the same as well as remembering to use capital letters and full stops in their writing.

They noticed Amelia focusing well on her work and Abbie helping others by setting a great example of how we listen and keep on task. Many of the pupils were also spotted remembering their full stops and capital letters, especially when reading over their writing practicing for persuasive talks.

Primary 1/2 have had a great week learning together. We have introduced Lead Learners to our class and this week Abi and CJ  were looking to see examples of children being kind, showing good listening and taking care of our classroom resources. We were trying really hard all week to make sure all pens had lids and so did our glue sticks! At the end of each day we recorded examples in our Lead Learner Log.

We have been practising our Nativity songs this week and as part of Bears in Books topic,  Paddington , we have been learning about London Landmarks. We wrote letters from Paddington Bear telling Aunt Lucy about some of the things he saw in London and we made a graph of places we would like to visit. After having the read the book, ‘It’s a No Money Day’, the children decided that it would be kind to decorate a box and collect items for our local food bank, we created short videos to persuade Mrs Egan. We are very excited that Mrs Egan has agreed and next week we will start to decorate a box and collect items.

Our learning highlights in Primary 5/6 this week are:

• Researching renewable energy and fossil fuels because it’s really interesting to learn about and we’re keen to find out more
• We enjoyed learning about measuring weight in Maths because it’s something we could use to help at home for baking or cooking
• We have enjoyed our reading tasks in school and at home and the different books that we get the chance to read as we can find out new things through our reading tasks
• We enjoyed our persuasive writing task on why we should look after our world because we could concentrate completely on a detailed task and get in flow
• We enjoyed our class novel, “Where the World Turns Wild”, this week because the story was really exciting and interesting

This week some of us thought that these were tricky tasks:

• Some of us found Maths a bit tricky where we had to decide whether we were adding, subtracting or dividing the weights in our word problems and also deciding whether to do the calculations mentally or written
• Some us found our spelling a bit tricky this week because the sound that we were working on (“ough”) can be said in many different ways and some of the words were quite long
• Practising the more difficult times table for homework was a bit tricky for some of us

The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows and these are the people that the lead learners saw demonstrating these targets:

• Being focused on our work in class: Harrison, Rose, Harris Caleb, Chelsea, Lexi, Aaron, Olivia, Paige and Logan
• Being kind in the playground: Lily, Chloe, Isabella, Megan, Levi, Rose, Paige, Jessica, Olivia and Lexi
• Being independent: Logan, Sophie S, Aaron, Coby, Alexis, Sophie A, Lexi, Olivia, Rose, Isabella and Harrison

3/12/2021

Learning Highlights

• We learned all about emotion words and found out we know 33 words to describe our emotions!
• We have been learning our nativity songs this week!
• Our spelling rule this week has been words ending in -rt. We have enjoyed rainbow writing and playing hangman!

Tricky Tasks 

• We have been learning to use column sums as a strategy to solve subtraction problems. Exchanging has been tricky!
• We wrote persuasive letters about why we should save the world. This was hard work and we had to use lots of persuasive vocabulary!

Lead Learner Update

Isla and Noel have been our Lead Learners this week! They decided that they wanted to look out for people who were showing kindness, respect and remembering full stops in our writing!

They noticed Archie, Harvey, Ben and Zac showing Kindness. They were playing nicely with others and using kind words! Jodie, Emma-Jo and Georgia were caught showing respect this week! They have been helping to tidy the classroom and have been fantastic listeners!  Ryan, Jake and Niamh were spotted remembering their full stops!