Seafield Primary School

Learning Highlights

• A highlight of our week was learning about the different payment methods is maths, such as, debit, credit, cash, cheque and digital wallets.
• In writing we wrote persuasive texts about whether we agreed with homework or not, most of the children disagreed!
• This week was Road Safety Week, we taught the nursery children how to cross the road safely and also about different hazards.
• We have enjoyed our new Kapla resource, where we built the Titanic and wrote our spelling words with them.

Tricky Tasks

• In PE we learnt the pre war dance of the Charleston, we practiced three different steps, the step and tap, the swivel and hand movements. We found the swivel the trickiest due to complex foot movements.
• We role played in maths this week to come up with TV adverts about debit and credit cards, we found it tricky to cut down all of our amazing ideas.

Lead Learner Update

Last week our Lead Learners were Oscar and Caleb, they were looking for showing great listening skills, respect when the teacher is talking and focusing hard to get work finished.

Our new Lead Learners for this week are Olivia and Alieu, and our special person is Calla.

We have had another great week. Our highlights are:

• Learning about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night before making firework paintings. We then had a visit from P6/7 to teach us how to be safe with fireworks and bonfires. The presentation was amazing and they taught us lots. We made posters to show what they taught us and showed them to the P6/7s – they were really impressed with our hard work.
• Climbing trees during Outdoor learning using tree climbing straps to help us get up higher. The children worked together to find a good tree to climb and took turns to go as high as they felt comfortable – getting down was the scarier part but the children supported each other and communicated well throughout to help guide the climber back down.
• Making our own ‘Al the Alligator’ prop for comparing numbers. We used it to help fill in missing signs and say the sentence out loud (eg. 76 is greater than 41). We enjoyed playing games on the laptop to practise too.

A couple of tricky tasks:

• Making weather mobiles because they were fiddly and the strings kept getting in a tangle.
• Some children found their phonics tricky this week – igh and y. They were practising which spelling is usually found in the middle of words and which is at the end.

Our Lead Learners this week were Kellan and Ella, they thought the class have been really kind this week and have worked well together. Well done everyone!

Have a super weekend – look out for the fireworks and stay safe!

Mrs Wallace

Class Blog Post

The lead learners Logan and Lily were looking out for children making good choices in the playground and being resilient when it gets hard.

It was hard to select our new lead learners for this week, but well done to Oscar and Caleb for showing ambition and resilience.

Thing we have enjoyed learning this week:

• Assembly – We had fun doing rehearsals for our assembly and performing this to the school and parents.
• Maths – We worked on word problems in maths and used the RUCSAC method to help us decode them.
• Literacy – In writing we wrote a persuasive piece about world hunger and shared our opinions on this.
• We learned about Remembrance Day with Reverend Boyd and made a wreath for the fallen soldiers.

Thinks we have found tricky this week:

• Learning a new structure for persuasive writing.
• Feeling nervous to perform to our peers around the school.

Learning Highlights:

• We took part in a Giglets Halloween story called ‘A Dark Night’ where schools all around the country listened in. We enjoyed listening to the Giglets team turning the book into a song and doing the actions that went along with it.
• In PE we created an assault course and played the Floor is Lava in teams of 4. It was really hard not to touch the ground but we managed it eventually.
• Mrs de Luen taught us how to draw music notes and the difference between keeping the beat and playing the rhythm.

Tricky Tasks:

• For Kids Gone Wild, Rob challenged us to create a food web using string and pictures of different animals. Some of us originally thought that grass was ‘boring’ but then we realised that it linked almost every single creature to be found in the forest.
• In literacy, we were up-levelling sentences to make them better by adding in adjectives using the description bubble.
• In art we created Zentangles which are black and white patterns drawn in a shape then we coloured in the background using only 2 colours.

We have had a busy week in Primary 2/3. Some highlights have been:

• Starting our space topic – learning about Day and Night and discussing what we want to find out about space this term. We also have a new Space Station in our classroom which we have loved exploring.
• Making owls and learning The Owl song linked to our class novel – The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark.

• Playing Rob the Nest in PE and practising dribbling the ball and working in a team.

A couple of things that were tricky this week were:

• Creating a food web in Outdoor Learning, talking about which animals eat which to keep the chain going.

• Learning about Daylight Saving Time as it was a bit confusing.

Well done to our Lead Learners, Zac and Fatoumata. They set the class the target of being kind to everyone, respectful and to keep the classroom tidy. There were lots of children following these targets.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Learning Highlights

• We learned about Remembrance Day and made our own poppies after we found out about the Earl Haig factory.
• We began our WW2 topic by looking at a timeline of key dates.
• Using techniques inspired by Steven Brown we created corgi art, themed against a royal backdrop, in memory of Queen Elizabeth.
• West Lothian Financial Network Inclusion visited to share information about their Team North Pole shoebox appeal and invited us to design a front cover for their festive leaflet.
• We took part in a Teams Meet with Money Advice Scotland where we learned about budgeting and the cost of living.

Tricky Tasks

• Tag rugby was tricky and we found it difficult to pass backwards.
• During outdoor PE, the wind picked up and we found it tricky to run against the blowing leaves.
• We found it tricky when trying to complete irregular symmetry patterns.

Lead Learner Update

Chelsea and Calla demonstrated good team work as they looked out for evidence of people working hard, ensuring they completed all tasks and they found those who were being respectful to others. Well done girls! Our Lead Learners for next week are Logan and Lily.

Learning Highlights

• We researched and wrote recount texts about The Titanic.
• We used craftivism to create endangered animals posters from newspapers.
• During our Explorers topic we learned that they sometimes used Morse Code and we learned to use this ourselves. This helped to develop our decoding skills.
• We focused on Global Goals 13 and 14 and looked at what we could do to help to take action on these.
• We continued to rehearse our songs and speaking parts were allocated for our upcoming class assembly.

Tricky Tasks

• Working with so many small pieces during our craftivism task was difficult.
• We learned so many facts about the Titanic that it was difficult to put them in chronological order.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Alexis and Abbie. They did a great job of spotting people who were

• Showing a growth mindset
• Making good choices in the classroom
• Being responsible with digital technology

Well done to Chelsea and Calla who after receiving the Values certificates, will be our Lead Learners next week.

Our learning highlights from this week were:

• Maths when we were sorting the numbers from smallest to biggest and writing them in the balloons and playing the egg game on the board against the timer.
• Learning how dinosaur fossils were made and making our own with salt dough. It was really fun to print the dinosaurs onto the dough to make the fossil.
• Exploring the woods and climbing trees and balancing on the slack line. We also found a deer skull and had a discussion about what might have happened to it.

Some thought that the following tasks were a bit tricky:

• Maths when we were doing number patterns and had to work out the rule and it was confusing.
• PE when we were passing the ball to our partner and they were trying to catch it. Sometimes they caught it but sometimes not.
• Number talk because it was the first time we done one and there was lots of thinking and listening to each others answers.

Our Lead Learners in P2/3 this week were Ben and Connor. They set 3 targets for the class:

• Be kind to everyone
• Be sensible
• Make good decisions

They spotted lots of children meeting these targets (Well done everyone!) and we had a lovely week in P2/3.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace