Seafield Primary School

Learning Highlights

1. This week we enjoyed our second week working with Rob from Kids Gone Wild. He took us to Seafield Law and taught us the names of some plants and which ones to avoid.
2. We had a music lesson from Mrs de Luen from NYCoS who taught us a song that includes 5 different languages; English, Spanish, French, Swedish and German.
3. As a class we read a short rhyming book from the Giglets website and discovered that the rhyming words always came at the end of the sentence. We checked several other books in class and they all did the same!

Tricky Tasks

1. We have been practising place value in maths and looking at how important it is to recognise each number’s value depending on where it is.
2. For spelling practice we have been looking at putting words into alphabetical order. It gets quite tricky when some words begin with the same letter and we have to look at the next letter.
3. We have been using reciprocal reading skills in literacy and have made predictions about our class novel, the Wild Robot. We’ve also been clarifying hard words and asking more questions to get a better understanding of the text.

Our lead learners this week were Amelia and Thomas who worked on looking out for kindness and respect.

P2/3

Our learning highlights from this week were:

• Learning about 2D shapes and 3D objects in Maths and discovering which 2D shapes tile and discussing why.
• Listening to the sounds different instruments make in the string family, through an online game where you had to find the pieces of the violin and fit it together and put the strings in order from low to high pitch.
• Learning spelling sounds in our groups because it was quiet so I could focus and the games were fun.
• Reading our class novel ‘The Magic Finger’ and our Word Boost story ‘Who’s at the Door’ because Mrs Wallace does lots of funny voices (especially the baby one).

Some thought that the following tasks were a bit tricky:

• Learning about some of the 3D shapes because we didn’t know their name before.
• Trying to throw the ball into the bucket in PE because it was quite far away. We kept trying – showing resilience.
• Some children found writing a bit challenging but worked hard to complete their recount text about Getting Ready for Bed.

Our Lead Learners in P2/3 this week were Ellie Mae and Harris. They set 3 targets for the class:

• Be kind to everyone
• Work hard and do your best
• Be helpful to your friends and teachers

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

Some of our P6 and P7 pupils went off to school camp at the end of May and had a fantastic time.  The staff who went with them took over 650 photographs so we can’t share them all with you but here are a selection!

As part of our health and wellbeing festival, we took part in a day of outdoor activities and one of our tasks was a whole school challenge.  We used junk materials and natural resources to create either a model of our Sea Bee mascot or to create a new mascot for the Commonwealth games.  We had an absolutely brilliant time taking part and produced some amazing creations!

We had a fantastic school Sports Day on Tuesday 14th June.  We all loved taking part in our teams and had great fun with our friends.  Thank you to those who came to watch and cheer us on!

Learning Highlights

• It was a very successful week for our enterprise business and we sold most of our remaining products to the other classes in the school.
• Then we researched different charities and voted on what we should do with the profit we made.  We decided to give it to The Dog’s Trust.
• It was lots of fun entertaining the other classes with our P2/3 assembly.
• We learned about World Oceans Day and what we could do to protect them,

Tricky Tasks

• We revisited subtraction in numeracy and although we found this challenging to begin with, we persevered and we soon grasped it.
• We’ve been learning ‘ew’ words this week for spelling and we found some of these tricky.
• There are so many worthwhile charities so it was really difficult to decide which one we should donate our enterprise profits to.  We also sold approximately £80 of pet treats so it was really tricky for the Finance Team to count all the money.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Harvey and Ryan but because we have been so busy with our enterprise, assembly and parental engagement session they didn’t have enough time to see classmates following the targets they had set so we decided to give them another week to do their job!

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We enjoyed going outside for our Maths with Miss Herd and learning about giving compass directions to partners.
• We were working hard on our long division skills this week using number lines to help with whole numbers and remainders.
• In science this week we enjoyed creating electrical circuits.

Tricky tasks:

• We have been planning a mission to Mars this week, designing our own flying Mars Rovers and making Mars helicopters.
• While we enjoyed learning about directions it was tricky to guide someone else and remember compass points.
• In PE we challenged ourselves to practice sit ups side by side then link to do a whole class sit up.

Lead learners:

Our lead learners this week were Matthew and Henry. They spotted pupils helping others, working hard and not giving up when they faced challenges. 

Learning Highlights

• We started making our products for our Pet Love business.  We worked hard and had lots of fun doing this!
• We were learning more about money and working out the change we would get if we bought things.
• We’ve started learning songs and actions for our assembly.

Tricky Tasks

• Numeracy was tricky because we had to do calculations with coins.
• We found it tricky to write information reports about our brains.

Lead Learner Update

Our lead learners were Archie and Emma-J0. They found lots of people who were thinking about things before they did them and using the toilet lanyard properly.