Seafield Primary School

Things that went well .

• Our science investigations – creating a fair test. Investigating which material is best to build a paper aeroplane  then which design allows it to travel the furthest.
• Identifying own words for spelling.
• Fischy Music visit and assembly.
• World book week activities- designing potatoes and having the opportunity to view other classes, decorating our door Harry Potter style.
• Voting for classroom layout, class novel and gala day themes – discussing voting system and democac
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• We also really enjoyed our swimming assessment at Bubbles and our mini – health champion suggested we do a fundraising event so that the upper classes could all participate in a block of swimming lessons. We will put this forward at our next meeting .

Tickled Pink:

• It was fun exploring forces (push and pull) with all of the different toys and objects in the classroom.
• The friction investigation was fun rolling the car down the ramp with different materials on it.
• We enjoyed learning about fractions by cutting our pancakes into halves and then quarters before spreading delicious toppings on them and eating them.

Green for Growth:

• Making our Sea Creature Fact Files were a bit tricky.
• Some of the balances were hard in PE to try and hold with our partner but it was fun to keep trying.

Lead Learners are Ella and Noel – they will be encouraging the children in the class to line up nicely and continue to be kind and respectful to others.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We started our World Book Day door designs and had fun choosing what to draw.
• During our Kids Gone Wild session we climbed trees, made a rope swing and created an island in a pond.
• We learned Spanish colours and put these into sentences.
• We learned about democracy as part of our Scottish Parliament topic and then used this to vote on how we should re-arrange the tables in our class.

Green for Growth

• We found equivalent fractions quite tricky and had to use the fractions wall to help us.
• We had to check the tree branches carefully to see if they were strong enough to climb.  We need to keep working on our risk assessing skills!
• We had to do lots of research before we could write our Ice Road Truckers descriptions.

Our Lead Learners for next week are Megan and Shiva and they chose to look for people who are

• Respecting our school by taking care of the toilet areas
• Completing the World Book Day challenges.
• Keeping the floor of the class tidy

Tickled Pink:

– researching sea creatures on the iPads to find facts so we can make PowerPoints to share with the class because we loved making them.

– getting to choose an activity for Children’s Mental Health Week and going to other classrooms with children from the other classes.

– learning lots of facts about farming (pigs, cows and sheep) from live calls with real farmers. We watched and listened to what they had to say then got to ask them questions.

– PE was fun because we got to do different balances and make up a routine with our partner and perform it for the class.

– judo session was really fun because we got to play games and wear the judo jacket and learn tbe judo hold.

Green for Growth:

– some children found fact families in maths a bit confusing.

– some of the balances in PE were tricky to hold, especially the one point balances.

Have a lovely holiday,

Mrs Wallace 😊

What we enjoyed about this week:

• Our visit from Destination Judo.
• Our outdoor learning with Kids Gone Wild.
• Buddying.
• PE
• Performing our assembly twice!
• The mental health activities afternoon.
• Our transition activities.

What was tricky this week:

• Remembering our words for assembly.
• The maths transition work.
• Trying to uplevel our adjectives in writing.

We had a very enjoyable week in P6/7 and were very happy to share our learning with some family members at our class assembly – we thought it was a lovely way to end the week before the February break!

Things that went well this week;

• Outdoor Learning was great. Kids Gone Wild
• Compound words in spelling and spelling activities.
• Time activities went well using 24h clock.
• Investigating friction.
• Dress to express day- Express your inner ‘elf’!
• Mindful activities with mixed classes.
• P6/7 assembly
• Everything!!!

It was tricky when;

• Somebody fell going down an embankment!
• Fractions
• Converting 24h time and using am/pm
• Climbing up the big hill at Kids Gone Wild.

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