Seafield Primary School

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

• We very much enjoyed continuing with our Art activity this week where we were designing and creating posters to enter the creative competition that is being run by Show Racism the Red Card. We have been including some excellent anti-racist messages in our posters and drawing some wonderful illustrations to bring the messages to life.
• We have all enjoyed continuing our work on our personal choice projects this week. There has been great excitement in the class as we have been learning a wide variety of skills from woodworking to clay modelling and from music making to various art projects.
• We are still very much enjoying our class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. Last week there was a very exciting moment as the main character was stung by a jellyfish and then we started to learn a lot more about Kensuke and his life on the island.
• We really enjoyed our learning about adding and subtracting decimals in Maths this week.
• We enjoyed our Writing lesson where we were building on the imaginative story that we wrote last week by planning and writing our own fairy tale
• We have also really enjoyed continuing to develop our skills with throwing and catching during our handball focus in PE.

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
• Some of us found the addition and subtraction of decimal numbers in Maths to be tricky but we made good progress with this as the week went on
• A few of us found writing our own fairy tale of a bit tricky, but we got lots of help in class including ideas for altering fairy tales from the hilarious Roald Dahl fairy tales in “Revolting Rhymes”
• Some of us found our choice projects to be tricky as we worked out how to work with clay or make electrical circuits, etc. However, these challenges were a great way of developing our learning and skills.

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

• Be kind to the teacher, other adults and each other in every lesson
• Be respectful to everyone in our class and everyone in school
• Try not to argue at our tables and be kind to each other

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. The lead learners particularly spotted a lot of pupils being successful with our second target. Well done!

Well done Primary 5/6 on an excellent week and working hard on all of your learning.

Learning Highlights

• We learned how to draw by watching illustrator Catherin Rayner.
• We enjoyed learning about the Scottish legend of Selkie’s for our writing.
• We read The Zoo by Anothony Browne and enjoyed ordering all the animals from the book.

Tricky Tasks

• We found telling the time tricky this week.
• We found making Fairtrade posters difficult as we included a lot of information!

Lead Learners

Our lead learners were Isla and Jake this week and they were looking for people who were reading for enjoyment, not interrupting and keeping our environment safe. We spotted lots of people doing these things!

What a great week of learning! Our Lead learners Fatoumata and Kellan were kept busy looking for children showing our school values .

Things that went well this week.

• The children have been learning more about castles and knights this week.
• They have been looking at different clan shield designs and some children really enjoyed searching for their own family shield.
• They designed their own shield .
• We worked with tally marks this week and have voted on different things over the course of the week, this has helped us practice counting in 5’s.
• We voted on our favourite traditional tale and wrote about it.
• The children have set up a vets area and using food colouring and water have made different samples in test tubes  to add to our play.
• Our daffodil bulbs and apple seeds have started to grow in class and we are beginning to plan our outdoor plants.
• We are much more confident using different coins and counting collections and beginning to give change.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We were learning about Viking longships where we decorated our own longship magnets and explored what in our classroom was magnetic
• We were also revising telling the time in Maths
• In PE we were working on our strength during scorpoions and spiders tig

Tricky tasks:

• We continued our Viking sagas and worked hard to develop our ideas through drama and writing
• In Maths we have been working on 5 minute intervals and will continue this next week
• We have also started designing Viking shields using Viking designs and colours

Lead learner update:

This week our lead learners were Amelia and Abbie. The spotted pupils showing good listening and being kind in the playground. They also noticed their classmates following instructions and being respectful of others.

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

• We have enjoyed continuing to learn about decimals in Maths this week. In particular we were learning about how to round to the nearest whole number and to one decimal place.
• We enjoyed writing our imaginative story during our Writing lesson this week. We used the character and setting descriptions that we had written over the previous two weeks to help us get started with our stories.
• We have really enjoyed starting our new focus on Handball in PE this week. We have very much enjoyed developing our throwing and catching skills this week.
• A lot of us have enjoyed getting started on our personal choice projects this week. There has been great excitement in the class as we have started to make plans for what we are hoping to achieve through working on our chosen projects.
• Lots of the children enjoyed working on posters for the Show Racism the Red Card creative competition this week.
• We continuing to enjoy our new class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. There has been a lot of excitement in the story this week as Michael’s voyage around the world with his mum and dad came to a very sudden end.
• We were also very excited to take part in our World Book Day activities yesterday. A massive well done to all of the children for their fabulous wooden spoon book characters and for the amazing pictures that were taken of them reading in unusual places.

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

• Some of us felt that it was quite tricky to write our creative story in our Writing focus this week as it can be difficult to come up with ideas for a detailed story
• Some of us found the focus on rounding decimal numbers in Maths to be tricky
• A few of us found planning and getting started on our personal choice projects to be tricky, especially planning goals and tasks that we hope to achieve.
• Some of us found it tricky to come up with ideas for pour anti-racism poster for the competition run by Show Racism the Red Card.

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

• Work hard in every lesson
• Try to be kind to others who are different from you
• Be respectful to adults and children in class when speaking together

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. The lead learners particularly spotted a lot of pupils being successful with the first target. Well done!

Well done Primary 5/6 on a fantastic week and all of your brilliant efforts with the book character and reading photo activities for World Book Day. Massive congratulations to Jessica for winning the P5/6 wooden spoon competition for your incredible design of the character from the book “There’s a Yeti in the Playground!”

Learning Highlights

• We learned more about Fairtrade and the journey of chocolate from cocoa bean to shop. We also worked really hard to create Fairtrade posters.
• We had lots of fun doing paired reading on World Book Day and we are delighted we can now resume our weekly buddying sessions.
• Smarties helped us understand division and this was something we particularly enjoyed doing this week.

Tricky Tasks

• We found it difficult to find Scottish wildlife on our walk around Seafield Law, perhaps we were too noisy  having so much fun!
• One group found learning about adverbs tricky so we’ll need to revisit this.
• We really enjoyed our outdoor time durations hunt but some of the problems were tricky and we needed number lines and cardboard clocks to help us solve them.

Lead Learner Update

Our lead learners Jodie and Noel did a great job of finding classmates who were being helpful to others, showing good listening skills and tidying up/tucking chairs in.

Things that went well.

This week we have continued to learn about Fairtrade  and different products. We have looked at maps and learned about bananas, chocolate and coffee beans. These items and more have been added to our Tappietourie Gift shop and we have used our learning about money to help us purchase items in the shop. We have linked our learning about books this week – Jack and the Beanstalk and have had a sign on a mystery jar saying do not open. We have been very curious about what is inside the jar and we didn’t find out until Friday! Some people thought it might be potions – Alice in Wonderland? or a genie? – Aladdin ? But it was in-fact coffee beans! These have been investigated today and we are looking to add coffee to our gift shop and have been making a menu.  Our chocolate playdough has been used to create birthday cakes this week and we added candles and decorations.

As part of World Book day we did a Stop, Drop, Read challenge and also decorated a wooden spoon as one of our favourite book characters. These were wonderful and we enjoyed getting the opportunity to see what other classes had created as all were displayed in the hall for a while.

For the second half of the week we had another favourite book in our tuff tray, Six Dinner Sid and the children really enjoyed creating crates for animals at the vets, using their knowledge of time to book appointments and to use test tubes and syringes in their play!

We wrote persuasive texts to Mrs Egan to ask if we could have a Fabulous Fairtrade Friday Feast on the 4th to celebrate the end of Fairtrade Fortnight. Some children created tickets for the event and planned what we would do.

The Lead Learner, Rosa and Adam had a busy week looking for examples of kindness, good listening and taking care of our resources – lids on pens and glue! The boys and girls are becoming much better at this,

We had another great  week of learning!