Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink:

• Finishing our powerpoints about Scottish Landmarks and presenting them to our own class and then P6/7 to share our learning.
• Sumdog was good fun practising shape questions and playing the different games.
• Outdoor learning was good because we were sketching trees which we will do again in Spring time and compare the differences.

Green for Growth:

• Learning about the Oceans was tricky for some children as we had to listen to a video and take notes about each Ocean. We then labelled the Oceans on a map.
• Some children found the crossword challenging as part of their literacy circuit this week but were excited to give it a go.

Our Lead Learners are Imogen and Ruaridh, who have been very responsible and ambitious with their work. Well done!

Our Lead Learners – Preston and Oscar had a busy week looking at children who demonstrated good listening, good organisation and being kind. Well done to the 4 pupils who managed to do all three of these.

Learning Highlights

• During our Kids Gone Wild outdoor learning session we put up rope swings and were using logs to cross the river.
• Chocolate helped us to learn about different fractions and compare these.
• We created Robert Burns fact files and had the choice of presenting these in written form or using the Publisher App on our devices.

Tricky Tasks

• It was tricky trying to think of equivalent fractions.
• We were learning colours in Spanish and it was quite confusing to learn another language as we were thinking about their names in French.
• We were exploring sound and pitch in Science and we found it difficult trying to create new inventions to make sounds louder and quieter.
• During Number Talks we found lots of different strategies to solve the Would You Rather task but it was very challenging!

We had a braw week in primary 2/3.

Tickled Pink:

-Learning body parts in Scots was fun and then playing ‘Rabbie says…’. We also learned Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes and loved performing this at the school assembly. Here is a video of our practise in the classroom.

-Researching Scottish landmarks on the iPads and learning how to make PowerPoint presentations.

-Reciting Scottish poems to the class – everyone was amazing!!

-Making Bird Feeders for outdoor learning with apples and seeds. We then took part in the annual bird count and spotted a few crows and sparrows.

Green for Growth:

-Logging into Sumdog on the IPads, but with more practise we will get in easily.

-Following the steps to make origami rabbits for Chinese New Year with Mrs Lawrence.

Our lead learners are Charlie and Ben – they are looking out for everyone to be safe, kind and responsible.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Wallace

Things that have gone well this week

• Our Burns Extravaganza for the Senior Citizens in the village. We had a great performance and our guests really enjoyed it.
• Writing our Burns Fact-file
• Kids Gone Wild – we went down Deanburn and jumped in the burn.
• Science – vibrations and sound – we investigated and created some musical instruments, made a speaker, used Recorder Pro to record different sounds and compared wave pattern.
• Country Dancing with Deans Sport Leaders.
• Our School Burns Assembly

Thinks we found a bit tricky

• Multiples and Factors in maths
• Researching  accurate facts
• Using Publisher

We have had a wonderful week this week with Kids Gone Wild, our class trip to Sky and our visit from our Partner Poet. Lead Learners saw lots of examples of great work.

Things that went well.

• Our persuasive letters we sent to Aldi’s last week resulted in a phone-call  this week from the store manager donating items for our Burns Extravaganza!
• Our trip to Sky Academy!
• We created a film about the loss of habitats and we were able to demonstrate our skills working in a team as well as learning about what is involved in the jobs of a  camera operator, director, screen writer and producer. I think we have lots of children interested in a career in film, media or reporting.
• We have enjoyed writing our Toast to the Lassies and Toast to the Laddies. We were lucky enough to have our Partner Poet, Colin Mitchell come in to visit as and give us guidance and tips for our Burns event.
• We have been working on preparing our Scottish Burns Extravaganza for Senior Citizens.
• Kids Gone Wild – we went to the woods, built dens and got to climb trees.
• Learning our Scottish Dances with Sports Captains from Deans.

Things we need to get better.

• Remembering the words of our poems to recite them.
• Reading out some Scottish words and spelling and pronouncing some others.
• Working on more complex pattern and sequences in math’s – it was a bit tricky at times identifying the pattern.

WHAT WE ENJOYED: 

We enjoyed doing the outdoor learning with Rob where we made dens and learned about stabilisation. 

 We also enjoyed learning about debating and arguments and what it would be like if we ever went to court. 

 The last thing we found enjoyable was making invitations for senior citizens telling them about the Burns Supper. 

WHAT WE FOUND TRICKY: 

We found the Ceilidh Dancing quite tricky because there was lots of moves that we had to remember. 

Even though we really enjoyed doing Outdoor Learning, it was a little bit challenging because the wind kept on blowing our dens over. 

The last thing that we found challenging was doing the maths assessment because there was many questions to complete but we got there in the end.  

OUR LEAD LEARNER TARGETS THIS WEEK 

 The lead learners decided that this week’s targets were: 

Responsibility 

Listening Skills 

Ambition. 

We completed most of these targets but the one we have to focus on for next week most was listening skills and not interrupting.

Tickled Pink

• Learning about the ear was interesting because we got to learn the parts of the ear. We got to look at the model of the ear and watched a video about how sounds are made by vibrations and they are waves that travel through the air to our ear. Playing the drums with rice on top was fun to see the rice dance with the vibrations as we were making sounds.
• Learning about the months of the year and singing songs to help us remember the order and how many days each month have. We then started making our own calendars.
• Listening to sounds made with the boomwhackers was fun and we had to listen to see which sound was high pitch and low. It was fun to play ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ using the boomwhackers and then ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ – this was super!

Green for Growth

• Some children found it difficult to work out the correct answers to the addition sums on the maths colour by numbers worksheet. With support they were able to work out the answer and colour in the box.
• Some of the words in our spelling test were tricky but we concentrated and tried our best.

Our Lead Learners this week are Frankie and Harris. We have had a great first week back and the children are enjoying catching up with their friends and settling back into school routines.

Have a fabulous weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• P1/2 had a sound walk to investigate what different sounds they could hear and discussed the difference between sound and pitch
• We had lots of fun using Boomwhackers to play Itsy Bitsy Spider

Green for Growth

• We are beginning to read our reading books and have been practicing sounding out and blending the words.
• Primary 2 found skip counting tricky but persevered and showed great team work.