Seafield Primary School

I hope this finds everyone well.  It was fantastic to see so many of our families at our school sports this morning.  We were delighted to be able to go ahead and thankfully the rain didn’t come to much which was a bonus!  The children took part in their sports activities with enthusiasm and showed our school values.  We greatly appreciated the support of the students and staff from Deans Community High School who helped set up and score each station.

We have a very busy week next week as it is our school Health Week.  We need you to continue to keep everything crossed for dry weather as some activities are planned for outside although we do have wet weather contingencies!  Children can come to school dressed for sporting activity every day.  No football clothing including national strips please.  We ask that children do not wear crocs as these are not safe for moving around the school or taking part in physical activity.  If anyone needs help with providing footwear for their child/children, please contact me and we can support you with this.  Children should bring a water bottle to school every day if possible.   On Thursday, our older pupils will be going along to Seafield Bowling Club to try their hand at bowls and they need to be wearing flat soled shoes for this (trainers are fine)  Classes will be out of routine in terms of break times and lunch times but staff will support them to manage these changes and with such a lot of fun activities planned, we hope that everyone has a great time over the week.  Wednesday is our day with Xcite West Lothian, please remember to let us know if you do not wish your child to be included in photographs if you haven’t already done so.

A huge thank you to Mrs Denholm and Mrs Baird for the effort that they have put in to organising the week and also to Mr Mackenzie and Mrs McIntyre who are our parent Health and Wellbeing champs, they will be helping us out across the week!  There is still time to sign up for Mr Mackenzie’s Fun Family Fitness on Tuesday morning!

A reminder to our P7 parents that there is a parent meeting in Deans Community High School next Thursday evening in preparation for the transition days the following week.

P2/3 will be holding their class assembly on Friday morning, we aim for a 9.10am start and look forward to welcoming families along.  Our P1 assembly will take place on Friday 13th June at 9.10am and parents will receive an email about this too.

I hope that everyone has a restful weekend!  Lynne Egan.

I hope that everyone is well and enjoying the last of this good weather, I am really hoping that the weather forecast is wrong and the sun is with us for a bit longer!  Although we were off on Monday, we’ve still been busy this week!  Today we had a “Rights Day” where children worked in mixed groupings and took part in a number of activities to help promote the importance of children’s rights.  The school was buzzing as the children moved around and took part and everyone seemed to enjoy the day.  Thank you to the pupil group and Mr Hamilton for setting this up!  P6/7 enjoyed a visit from the Ranger service this week and were lucky to be able to complete their activity outdoors in the sun. P7 had a visit from staff from the Science department at DCHS and took part in some experiments as part of their transition.  The first P5/6 group took part in their Bikeability session on Thursday and this went well too!

Sports Day and Health Week

The letter below has also been emailed to you with information about our upcoming Sports Day and Health week, please take time to read this as it contains important information.

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Sharing our Learning sessions
Our next “Sharing our Learning” sessions will take place on Wednesday 11th June.  There will be a session at 2.30pm and another session at 6pm.  This is an opportunity for parents/carers to come along and chat to your child about what they have been learning in school.  Please note that due to space, only 1 adult per child can attend.   Our P7 pupils will be attending their secondary school transition on this day but can attend the evening session. I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause but time is getting away from us and this date is the best option in terms of the hall being available.   We hope to see you at the sessions!

Coming up next week

Monday – P7 to take part in Teams call with DCHS about the annual house competition

Thursday – Rights Respecting schools steering group meeting (staff, pupils and partners who sit on this group) 2pm

Friday – Sports Day (timing details contained within the letter)

Have a lovely weekend!

We have had another busy week here at Seafield PS.  Our Parent Council met on Monday night and have some plans for upcoming events which they will share with you in due course.  The next Parent Council meeting will be in the new school year so look out for information about a date for this!  Our P5/6 pupils enjoyed a visit to Kelvingrove on Thursday and enjoyed touring the museum before taking part in an art workshop in the afternoon.  They had a great day out!  Our school football team took part in a festival this morning where they won 2 games, drew 1 game and lost their final game.  Everyone who took part demonstrated super sportsperson like behaviour and represented Seafield very well.

I am pleased to let you know that we have been awarded our Digital Schools Award!  This is an amazing achievement which states that it is in recognition of the school’s excellence in integrating digital technology into learning and teaching.  Staff and pupils who took part in the verification day were fantastic and the children spoke very confidently about how they use digital tools across learning.  Our written feedback from the verifier was extremely positive and we have been advised to submit an application for another award around how digital supports wellbeing in our school which we hope to do in the near future.  A huge thank you to all of the children and staff team, and particular thanks to Mrs Wallace who was our school digital lead over the last couple of years.

The other exciting piece of news also concerns Mrs Wallace!  I am delighted to let you know that she gave birth to a healthy baby boy last week and that the Wallace family are doing very well.  Baby Louie is home and is settling in well.  We hope to meet him soon and I’m sure you’ll hear about it if they are able to visit.

Finally, I am pleased to let you know that we have shared news about the winners and runners up of the competition organised by Seafield Gala Day committee to design the front cover of this year’s programme.  The winner was Preston!  Runners up are Jack; Rosa; Robyn and Olivia.  The children were given their prize envelopes today so please check bags if your child was a winner!

We are finalising our activities and plans for our upcoming health week (week beginning 2nd June) and will communicate about this with you in the near future.  Our school sports day is planned for Friday 30th May and usually begins at around 10.30am.  Let’s hope for a continuation of the good weather so that we can go ahead on the first try!  Our ELC have their sports on a different day, look out for dates from Miss Kitchin coming soon!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!  Lynne Egan.

Coming up next week:

Monday 19th May – school closed for Victoria Day holiday; ELC open as normal

Wednesay 21st May – P6/7 outdoor session with ranger service

Thursday 22nd May – P5/6 bikeability session for group 1 (parents have been emailed so should know which children this involves – they need to bring bike and helmet)

Friday 23rd May – whole school Rights Respecting Schools festival – pupils will take part in a full day of RRS events.

I hope that everyone is well and enjoying the sunshine!  We’ve had an unusual week here at Seafield PS as we’ve not been able to use any digital tools in our learning.  Our school community are coping well and learning is continuing.  This week was a short one for the children but they have all enjoyed being able to play in the field and use our playground equipment.  P2/3 and Mrs Jess have been planting some new plants in the planters outside the main entrance and these are now looking great!  Thank you P2/3!  Our P6 and P7 have been getting back into the swing of school after their residential last week, remember there are lots of photographs on the blog for parents/carers to see!

Classes haven’t been able to blog about their learning due to the network issues we are currently having but we hope to be able to resume this soon.  Have a lovely weekend! Lynne Egan.

Next week:

Monday – Parent Council Meeting 6pm

Thursday – P5/6 trip to Kelvinside Art Gallery & Museum

Friday – Group of P6 and P7 to football festival

I hope that everyone has had a good week!  We’ve been really busy here at Seafield PS.  Our P6 and P7 pupils have been off on their residential trip this week, spending time outdoors where they have enjoyed lots of activities and challenges.  P3/4 had a super visit to the Riverside Transport Museum in Glasgow on Tuesday.  We are lucky to have been allocated a block of music through the Youth Music Initiative and this will take place every Tuesday of this term.  We had our first sessions this week and everyone really enjoyed it!

A reminder that school is closed for the May bank holiday on Monday 5th May and that Tuesday 6th May is a staff inset day therefore children resume on Wednesday 7th May.  Hopefully the weather is kind to us over the long weekend and everyone enjoys some family time.  Kind regards, Lynne Egan.

Coming up next week:

Monday 5th May – School and ELC closed

Tuesday 6th May – School pupils off; staff and ELC pupils resume

Thursday 8th May – Bikeability sessions start for P5/6 – parents will be emailed about which pupils are in the first block when we return on Tuesday

Quote for the week:  Teaching children how to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best