Seafield Primary School

Learning Highlights

• As part of Mental Health Awareness week we enjoyed a rainbow medication session.
• We loved looking at old Gala Day photos and Disney characters and this inspired us to create some fabulous Gala Day 2022 posters.
• We opened a One Stop Shop in the class to help us learn about money.
• We also enjoyed listening to songs about money on the smartboard

Tricky Tasks

• We were nervous before our interviews for our Enterprise jobs but the P5/6 pupils who interviewed us made us feel calm and relaxed and we were happy we could answer all the questions.
• Some of the P2/3 pupils found it tricky to earn points towards the end of term Fun Day at the start of the week, but as the week went on we got much better at following the school values and now we have 6 points.  We are going to try really hard to get 10 points next week.

Lead Learner Update

We chose Archie and Emma-Jo as our Lead Learners and they decided on the following targets for next week.

• Think before you do things
• Take care of our shop area and keep it tidy
• Use the toilet lanyard properly

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We enjoyed doing athletics in PE taking part in an obstacle course and gymnastics as well.
• We enjoyed starting to learn about right angles in maths.
• As part of our daily maths we have been working on our number strategies with number of the day.

Tricky tasks:

• This week we learned about fighter and modern planes. Pupils in P5/6 came to help us experiment with paper planes and what design flew the best. It took a lot of resilience to make the planes.
• We have been busy designing our entries for the Disney Seafield Gala Day 2022, working on sketching and presenting our work.
• This week we have been continuing to look at the human body and how to keep ourselves healthy.

Lead learner update:

Our lead learners this week were Abbie and Darcey. They spotted classmates being kind and helping others. Some of our pupils were also focusing really hard to produce work to the best of their abilities.

Learning Highlights

• We enjoyed balancing and stretching in gymnastics.
• We learned about sprinting and hurdles in our Athletics lesson.
• We were researching famous flyers and writing information reports about them.
• We started learning about division by sharing out raffle tickets.

Tricky Tasks

• Learning about the Egyptian and Roman number systems was tricky because they used symbols that we didn’t know and letters.
• It was tricky having to label different body parts.
• Drawing around our hands to make Mendi patterns when we were learning about Eid was also tricky.

Lead Learner Update

Our lead learners this week were Brodie and Shiva and they were looking out for

• good listening
• helping others
• neat writing.

Well done to Meg, Oscar and Preston for achieving these targets.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We have been busy finishing our equations topic in maths and enjoyed working out problems with missing numbers and signs
• We enjoyed starting gymnastics in PE focusing on stretching and balancing
• As part of our topic we learned about the Wright brothers and how they made the first aeroplane

Tricky tasks:

• We also were learning about hot air balloons and how they work this week. We investigated how hot air and cold air affected balloons and conducted scientific experiments
• We have enjoyed watching Newsround this week and were challenged by a UK dialect quiz and quiz of the week, where we vote as a class for each answer.
• It was tricky as well to learn about the Wright’s aeroplanes and label the different parts

Lead learners:

This week our lead learners were Alfie and Che. They spotted good listening and pupils working hard. 

P2/3 returned from the Easter break energised and enthusiastic.  They were excited to see how well their potatoes had grown.  Thanks to Jack’s family for taking care of them during the holidays.

Learning Highlights

• We brainstormed ideas for our enterprise topic and wrote letters asking for a loan of money to help us set up.
• In literacy we  learned about fact and opinion.
• We made mobiles with our buddies to celebrate Earth Day.
• We listened to songs about times tables and many of the children are now feeling more confident.

Tricky Tasks

• We learned about the different parts of a letter but the school address was quite tricky to write.
• We were using our boost words to write in sentences and some of the class found this tricky.

Lead Learner Update

Niamh and Zac will be our Lead Learners next week and they have chosen to look out for classmates who are

• being sensible in class
• saying thank you if someone holds the door open for them and
• following the school values.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We have enjoyed our PE this week playing games and thinking about fitness and finding space skills.
• With Mrs Flynn we enjoyed conducting a science experiment to investigate how make the most effective parachute as part of our Flight topic
• In French we practicing our listening, reading and writing skills using digital technology.

Tricky tasks:

• We have started to focus on information writing and some of us found it tricky to research information for our animal reports
• In maths we have been working on equations and finding missing numbers and signs
• For PE this week it was tricky to keep up our stamina while jogging a daily mile.

Learning highlights

• We enjoyed learning about Easter around the world and working on Easter related tasks on Seesaw.
• It was fun painting symmetrical butterflies and colouring symmetrical eggs.
• We looked back on our learning this term and completed our Term 3 Reflections sheet.
• Our knowledge of times tables helped us to complete Spring themed colouring sheets.
• We finished reading The Sleekit Mr Tod and compared it to the film Fantastic Mr Fox.

Tricky Tasks

• We revisited French months of the year as we had difficulty remembering them.
• It was tricky trying to draw the other half of symmetrical shapes.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners Jack and Georgia did a fantastic job of  looking out for people who were achieving the targets they set of:-

• using a loud and clear voice during reading
• showing good sitting during times on the carpet
• showing good manners

Well done to everyone in Primary 2/3 as they managed to fill a whole page in the Lead Learner Log of children who were on target.

It’s been a busy and fun term and we hope you all have a lovely Easter break.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We continued learning about World Water Day and made water droplets about why it is important to save water.
• We have been practising a lot for our assembly and have enjoyed singing our songs.
• For spring we learnt about origami and made some origami flowers.

Tricky tasks:

• We finished up our time topic this week, revising all that we had learnt so far.
• While we enjoyed creating origami flowers, it was tricky to follow the instructions and the folding was a bit fiddly.
• We have been working hard to prepare for our assembly and making sure our voices are loud and clear.

Lead learner update:

Our lead learners were Faith and Meg. They spotted pupils making sure they were saying please and thank you. They saw classmates being kind to one another and working on keeping our kind hands.

Our learning highlights in Primary 5/6 this week were:

• We very much enjoyed finishing off our Art activity this week. We completed our wonderful posters for the creative competition that is being run by Show Racism the Red Card. We included some excellent anti-racist messages in our posters and created some eye-catching illustrations to bring the messages to life.
• We really enjoyed the end of our class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. It was fascinating to find out what happened to Michael and understand Kensuke’s decision.
• We really enjoyed getting started on our new Maths topic this week as we learned about percentages. We have been making lots of links to decimals and fractions as we begin finding out about percentages.
• We enjoyed our learning about World Water Day with Mrs Baird and creating posters showing how important water is to us.
• We also enjoyed our continuing focus on Handball in PE this week and developing our skills in a game situation.

This week some of us thought that these were tricky tasks:

• Some of us felt that our new reading books were a little tricky but we were also really glad that we are making progress and being challenged
• Some of us found the focus on percentages in Maths to be tricky, but we will be doing lots of practice next week to help us improve our understanding
• A few of us found writing our personal choice projects a bit tricky, especially managing some of the more difficult creative aspects of the tasks and deciding on our next steps.

Our Lead Learners in Primary 5/6 this week were Rose and Aaron. They were assisted by last week’s Lead Learners, Harrison and Sophie. The three targets that our Lead Learners set for the class were as follows:

• Be responsible during lunch time
• Be ambitious in Writing
• Be responsible during Topic time

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. Well done!

Well done Primary 5/6 on a fantastic week and lots of great hard work.