Seafield Primary School

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

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.