Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• Learning how to take care of a baby was fun because we got to do some role play with toy babies. It was fun to dress them and give them bottles and read to them.
• Learning about different countries was interesting. We learned lots of facts from each others presentations. We also started practising our assembly lines.
• Planting sunflower seeds and exploring the playground was fun for outdoor learning. We also planted some mystery seeds and can’t wait to find out what they grow into. We recapped what flowers need to grow and will be taking care of them over the upcoming weeks.

Green for Growth

• Chimney sums in maths was a bit tricky when you have to remember to add the ten on.

Our lead learners are Frankie and Abi.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a very busy week this week and have enjoyed being back in class after our holiday.

Things that have gone well.

Times Tables – We have had a big focus on learning our times tables this week and are all feeling more confident, we have made games, had quizzes, challenged each other with whiteboards and number fans often finishing the day with a Blooket.

West Lothian Writers- We had a visit from 4 writers who took part in a shared piece of writing with our class, everyone had to write a descriptive piece from a picture. We shared our writing and gave each other feedback. It was a great experience . We then created a quiz for Mrs Egan and some other teachers to see if they could tell which phrase was written by a member of our class or by a West Lothian Writer.

We have been learning about different types of bridges and the role of an engineer this week as we have investigated the closure of M8 J3 and the work Bear Scotland are currently involved in. We will be taking part in a Stem challenge investigating cantilevers. We began to investigate different designs using the kapla.

We have had items donated for our West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network, collecting new and nearly new items of clothing for charity. Our Health and Wellbeing Champions think we will soon be able to deliver this to the charity.

Kids Gone Wild- We learned to safely dig a fire pit and light a fire, we then had to leave the environment the way we had found it. Our session was completed by roasting marshmallows and eating smores.

Things that were tricky.

Some of us found multiplying  larger numbers a bit tricky and had to really think about how we set it out.

Some of us were using publisher and word found it was tricky inserting some pictures into a document, also saving work and knowing where it has saved too!  We will continue to develop these skills.

We have had a great week in P5/6

It has been a great start to the new term for P6/7, with the P7s beginning their final term at Seafield PS. There has been a lot of excitement this week over our upcoming adventures next week, but we still managed to keep our focus and get some great work done!

Our Tickled Pinks for this week were:

• Exploring the nature in our school playground with our buddies – they could tell us so much about the plants!
• Using our measuring skills to investigate the playground in maths.
• Using our badminton skills in PE, with good teamwork.
• Creating interesting sculptures (a lot of clay burgers!) during art.

Our Green For Growths this week are:

• To continue challenging ourselves with ‘missing length’ perimeter questions in maths.
• To continue trying to ‘bump up’ our narrative writing and add lots of upleveled detail.

Our lead learners for next week are Harris and Kai, who both worked very hard this week to challenge themselves in different subjects – being excellent role-models for the class! Well done!

P1/2 class has had an amazing time exploring the surroundings and learning how to be safe at all times. Check out some photos of them building dens, trail tracking, making yummy s-mores and so much more!

Tickled Pink

• Our class trip to the National Museum of Scotland. We enjoyed exploring the different areas including the animals, space and technology. The reaction button game was good fun and trying to pull ourselves up on the chairs and having a turn in the race car. We also enjoyed our session in the museum classroom where we got to look and touch different bones and parts of various sea creatures and land animals.
• Researching countries and making PowerPoints that we will share with the class after the holidays.
• Bug hunt for outdoor learning was good – we caught lots of different bugs including worms, millipede, spiders and wasps.

Green for Growth

• Learning about the organs in our body was a bit tricky when we had to match the organ with the description.

Have a fabulous Easter Holiday and I look forward to hearing all about your adventures and activities!

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• We had lots of fun on our school trip to the National Museum of Scotland this week and loved learning lots of new facts.
• We got to design an Easter egg and then describe in our writing using the describing bubble. We are getting really good at using descriptive vocabulary!
• We are learning about capacity with Mrs Lawrence and have loved investigating the capacity of different containers using water.

Green for Growth:

• We have been learning all about personal space and consent. We are trying our best to ask permission before we touch or give hugs but sometimes it is hard to remember when we are playing!

Tickled Pink

• 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.

Tickled Pink

• 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!