Seafield Primary School

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We enjoyed looking at everyone’s World Book day spoon characters
• We also enjoyed working on our fitness in PE with fitness bingo
• We also designing masks as part of learning about Mardi Gras 

Tricky tasks:

• It was sometimes tricky creating our Viking art like our brooches and Viking world pictures
• Although we enjoyed PE some of the fitness and hockey exercises were tricky
• In maths we were learning the 9 times table

Lead learner update:
This week our lead learners were James and Calla. They spotted pupils showing our school values such as kindness, responsible and ambitious.

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

• We enjoyed the beginning of our new class novel, “Kensuke’s Kingdom” by Michael Morpurgo. It was interesting to learn about the main character and his family and the adventure that they went on.
• We really enjoyed our new Maths topic this week as we learned about decimals. we thought a lot about place value and number lines to help with our understanding.
• We enjoyed our Writing lesson where we were writing a description of a setting which we will use in a creative story next week.
• We have really enjoyed our continuing focus on Gymnastics in PE this week and learning about joining together different ways of jumping, landing and rolling.

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 focus on decimals in Maths to be tricky, especially when we had to decide what the intervals between numbers were worth when using number lines
• A few of us found writing our description of a setting tricky, especially using similes and metaphors.

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

• Be respectful to adults in the classroom when they are talking
• Try to keep the classroom clean and tidy
• Telling the truth makes us more responsible

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 lots of great hard work.

We have had another fantastic week of learning in P1/2.

Thinks that went well this week.

The finale of our Winter Olympics where we reflected and shared  our learning . We had been creating our own ramps for different sports and designed our own equipment. We discovered ways to make our boards or sleds to go faster by adding different materials underneath. We timed how long different journeys took and had to problem solve by adding barriers when some of our lego people went off- piste! We took into account health and safety issues.

Work continues with our Tappietourie Tourist attraction and it now has interior light fittings, signage is now displayed and the gift shop will soon be opening. The children have been busy designing and making items to sell in our gift shop and planning has continued to add food! We are revisiting money in preparation for the shop opening and it has been a little tricky remembering different coins have different values but we will carry on with this next week.

As we have been learning about Fairtrade this week we have added chocolate playdough to our classroom and this smells amazing. The children have been creating cakes and biscuits to sell in our gift shop as well as more bespoke items such as picture frames, sculptures and  models. We have also been designing and wrapping our own Fairtrade  chocolate bars ( wooden blocks)

We have also turned each child into a knight with moving arms and legs and these characters will shortly be on display on our Counting Castle wall but have been used for addition and subtraction table top activities this week.

Learning Highlights

• We enjoyed an Encanto dance as our recognition board reward!
• We enjoyed learning about forces and finding magnetic items in the classroom
• We loved creating our own monsters and using the describing bubble to write a description of it.

Tricky Tasks

• Some of us found it difficult to share items equally in our divison.
• We found learning the months of the year in French quite tricky.

Lead Learner update

This weeks lead learners were Fraser and Frankie They were looking out for people making good choices, being responsible for table resources and looking where they are going in the playground.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We enjoyed using Viking patterns to design and make Viking brooches
• We also enjoyed starting to learn the 9 times table
• As part of our times table work we also enjoyed playing math’s games

Tricky Tasks:

• We found it tricky learning and speaking French vocabulary for birthdays
• While we enjoyed making Viking brooches the string was very fiddly
• We started learning about a story mountain plot for our narrative writing called Animal on a Bike.

Lead Learner update:
This week our lead learners spotted pupils working hard and listening well. 

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We continued our multiplication and enjoyed learning about our 7 times table
• We enjoyed being archaeologists and learning about how Vikings lived such as what clothes they wore
• While learning about the Vikings we also started to design our own Viking jewelry

Tricky tasks:

• We are continuing to work on fractions
• We were also practicing how to say, write and read dates in French
• While we enjoyed learning our 7 times table, it was sometimes tricky to remember them 

Lead learner update:
This week our lead learners were Matthew and Preston. They spotted pupils keeping on task and being responsible. They were also looking for pupils to be respectful to their classmates using kind words.

We have had a very busy week in Primary 5/6 this week as we rehearsed for our class assembly. The boys and girls worked so hard to prepare for the assembly and it all paid off with a wonderful level of performance when we presented to the rest of the school on Friday morning (11^th February).

The children’s singing was amazing and they recited their poetry and shared their artwork with great confidence, clearly demonstrating what successful learners and confident individuals they are.

The classes in the school thoroughly enjoyed our assembly and we are also very excited to share our performances and work with all of the Primary 5/6 families. Please look out for the link to our video recordings being sent out so that you can share in these wonderful performances.

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

• Be respectful when reading groups are reading with an adult
• Be honest and tell the truth
• Try not to skip in the line when we are lining up as a class

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting all three of the targets this week. There was a lot of success across all three targets.

Well done Primary 5/6 on another fantastic week and the incredible hard work on our class assembly. It paid off and you were all amazing.

Things that went well

• We created our Tappitourie Tower this week and we had to find ways of lighting the tower using glow sticks, shiny paper, tissue and battery operated candles.  Lots of great learning.
• We created signs for our Tower and also converted our home corner into Tappitourie Gift Shop. We have been planning how we set these areas up and have been developing our skills so that we can problem solve, communicate with others , share ideas and create our end product.
• We have been learning more about the Winter Olympics and set up our tuff tray with snow and the challenge of creating ski jumps and marble runs. We have been investigating forces and have been adding ramps and different surface materials to our play.
• Great work this week with descriptive writing. The children wrote about Tappietourie Tower and considered what it looked like and where it was located.

Our Lead Learners this week Mustafa and Leon saw lots of evidence this week of people listening to each other, sharing ideas and being kind. They were also looking for children to take care of our classroom resources, especially putting lids on pens!

Well done P1/2 have a lovely holiday weekend.