Seafield Primary School

What a fantastic week we have had in P1/2!  Our Lead Learners Rosa and Lily have been very busy looking for further acts of kindness in class, for those taking care of resources and the children who consistently show good listening skills. We have had a fantastic response to our Food Bank donations and they will be dropped off next week along with some festive messages from the children. Thank you all for supporting this cause and helping the children  realise that we really can make a difference, hopefully there will be less empty cupboards around West Lothian over the coming weeks. We had a great performance of our Nativity on Thursday and I am sure you will all enjoy the final recording and recognise all of the talent we have in our class. We finished the week with our class party, lots of games, dancing,  fun and a special guest!

Learning Highlights:

This week we enjoyed using different materials and shapes to create Christmas cards. We also designed our own bobble hats and learnt about arctic animals. This week we filmed our Christmas signing songs and made reindeer headbands to look festive.

Tricky Tasks:

This week we have been working on polar habitat models with others. We have had to work on our teamwork skills and will continue to try to help each other. As part of our spelling we are continuing to improve our listening and spelling skills through dictation which is sometimes tricky. Within our maths we have continued to work on our times tables. While we have been getting better at knowing these it is sometimes tricky when the questions using lots of different times tables. 

Lead Learner Updates:

This week our lead learners were Thomas and Calla. They were looking out for pupils to ask for help if they were stuck and never give up. They also spotted their classmates helping each other and showing kindness.

Learning Highlights

•  We enjoyed our nativity this week and are excited to share this with our families!
•  We have enjoyed learning some christmas words in french
• We worked hard to get on our class recognition board and have enjoyed our rewards for this!

Tricky Tasks

•  We found fractions a difficult but we have perservered and are getting the hang of it now!
•  We found some of our spelling words tricky this week.

Lead Learner Update

Georgia and Jake were our lead learners this week and they decided to look out for people who were taking care of school property, writing their name and date on all their work and being ready to learn!

Learning Highlights

• It has been a very positive week in P2/3 and we enjoyed an elf draw along as a reward for everyone in the class getting on our recognition board.
• We have worked hard and enjoyed our nativity rehearsals this week.
• We’ve been thinking about giving to others and have made small Christmas gifts to deliver to some of the NHS staff in St Johns Hospital.
• We worked hard to write persuasive letters to Mrs Egan to convince her to allow us to have an end of term treat.  We’ll let you know in due course if we were successful!

Tricky Tasks

• We found some of our spelling words tricky this week
• The work we did on fractions was difficult at first but we persevered and it got easier.
• We had to follow directions to cut out snowflakes for our wall display and although it was hard to cut out the detail, we were pleased with the finished results.

Lead Learners Update

Our Lead Learners, Ben and Jodie, spotted the following pupils demonstrating the targets we had set for the class

Doing the right thing

Ryan, Frankie

Taking care of others

Emma-Jo, Isla, Georgia

Using word books to help with spelling

Ben, Jack, Niamh, Isla, Fraser, Jake

Primary 5/6

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

• Working with partners in our Maths work on volume and capacity
• We really enjoyed our group reading discussions this week and exploring the different ideas in the texts that we are reading
• We continued to enjoy our Science task this week where we have been working on researching and presenting information on renewable energy resources and fossil fuels
• Our task for Christmas has been a lot of fun and the children are really looking forward to sharing our work with you after we have filmed next week
• The children really enjoyed our Spanish lesson yesterday and learning the numbers from 1-10 in Spanish and the fun activities that we took part in to help learn them
• We are still loving our class novel, “Where the World Turns Wild”, as the story gets near the end
• We also really enjoyed our Christmas lunch yesterday!

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

• Learning about Volume and Capacity was a little tricky at times and we worked hard to learn how to convert between millilitres and litres and how to calculate capacity of solid shapes, in particular cubes and cuboids
• Some us found our spelling a bit tricky this week because it was a review week and therefore a mixture of patterns and some of the trickiest words that we have learned over the last couple of months
• Some of the children know that they still have to keep working hard on completing tasks in the time they have been given by staying focused for longer

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

• Looking out for people that are hurt or needing help
• Taking care of our classroom and school resources
• Completing our learning tasks in full detail

The Lead Learners and their assistants spotted lots of children in the class meeting the targets. Lots of boys and girls were seen taking care of our resources and some of our children also managed to meet the first and third targets but they were a little more difficult to achieve.

Well done Primary 5/6 on another fantastic week.

We have had another great week of learning and our Lead Learners, Savvanah and Harris were kept busy looking for acts of kindness in the class, taking care of our pens and glue sticks by putting lids on and watching out for good listening skills. They spotted lots of children meeting these targets over the course of the week and they were recorded in our class log. Well done!                                              This week we have been creating posters for each class in school telling them about our Food Bank collection, decorating a box and collecting items to donate. We have received a great number of donations already and we Thank you all for your support. We have continued to practice our Nativity and have our costumes allocated. In art we drew some London Landmark’s  and these have been displayed with our Paddington Bear writing tasks. Some festive themed crafts and activities have been taking place this week and maybe some surprises to take home at the end of term!

Learning Highlights
We enjoyed learning about the polar climate. We have started making arctic models that we will continue next week. We also were continuing to work on our times tables and enjoyed practicing the 4 times table. In PE we were learning Scottish Country dancing and the Virginia reel which was fun.

Tricky Tasks
While Scottish Country dancing was fun, it was also tricky to remember the steps and to go the right way. Some of us found the 4 times table tricky but we will keep on practicing. When presenting our endangered animal talks, some of us were nervous but our class showed good listening and were very kind.

Lead Learner Update
This week our lead learners were Abbie and Mason. They found that our class were working on kind words and actions. They also were looking for good listening which they saw evidenced during our class talks.