Seafield Primary School

Learning Highlights

• We had lots of fun playing number games and going on a money hunt to raise money for the NSPCC Number Day.
• We’ve been learning more about digital and analogue clocks and developing our skills at telling the time.
• We learned about similes and created similes about ourselves.
• We celebrated West Lothian Loves Languages week by learning more Scots words.

Tricky Tasks

• Some of the class found multiplication using groups tricky.
• It was also tricky for some of the pupils who were learning to find definitions from dictionaries.
• Our descriptive writing this week was about the kelpies and although everyone was very interested in learning more about the kelpies some children found it tricky to describe in detail.

Lead Learner Update

As our Lead Learner Jason was absent for most of the week, his partner Harvey had to work extra hard to find pupils who were meeting our targets of using kind words, always telling the truth and moving safely around the class.  Well done to all the children in P2/3 who met these targets.

Things that went well ;

• Celebrated Chinese New Year with music, poetry and a Dragon Dance!
• Looked at Chinese writing and wrote our names.
• Great work using the describing bubble to help with our writing.
• Created a very large shape dragon !
• We had a number day game show with number fans and buzzers- it was great fun!

Thinks that were tricky;

• Saying Happy New Year in Chinese – Gung  hay fat choy!
• The names of 3D shapes like sphere, cylinder, square based pyramid.
• Counting in 2’s , 5’s and 10’s

Our Lead Learners this week, Abi and Harris,  were kept busy looking for examples of people trying their best and showing our school values, well done Primary 1/ 2 another great week.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• practising our hockey skills to play a team game of mini hockey.
• learning about the customs of Chinese/Lunar New Year and creating our own dragon puppets to perform a dragon dance!
• reading our class novel, “How to train your dragon,” by Cressida Cowell and creating our LOST dragon descriptive writing posters, using good adjectives.

Tricky tasks:

• estimating perimeter and area of irregular shapes.
• using our knowledge of fractions to design a fraction wall.

Lead learner update:

This week our lead learners were Shiva and Henry. They were pleased to spot people using kind words and being kind to each other by showing good listening skills. We have all been working hard on our handwriting skills too.  

We have had a great week in P3/4!

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

• We have continued to really enjoy learning about fractions and how to find fractions of a quantity when the numerator of the fraction is one and also when this number is greater than one.
• We are still very much enjoying our topic work and researching our chosen famous Scottish person for our projects
• We enjoyed writing our Scots poetry and learning Scots words for weather to include in our own poems
• Many of the boys and girls enjoyed reciting their Scottish poems and using tone and expression to bring the Scots words to life
• We enjoyed the discussions in our Reading groups this week and the new books that we read together with Mr Hamilton
• We are loving our class novel, “Danny, the Champion of the World”, and hearing about the amazing plan that Danny and his Dad came up with this week
• We enjoyed our new PE focus on Gymnastics this week and learning about different ways of balancing, jumping and landing

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

• Our Maths work with fractions continued to be a bit tricky at times but everyone kept trying hard and asking for help when needed
• A few of us found our reading group work a little difficult this week as we worked hard to read new words and phrases and discuss the detail in the books
• Some of us found the focus on gymnastics in PE a little tricky as we get to grips with different ways of balancing and moving
• Some of us thought that writing our own Scots poems was a bit tricky

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

• Trying to be kinder to everyone in class
• Helping classmates at your table when they need it
• Trying hard not to give up in Maths and work hard

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 amazing hard work in Maths with fractions and wonderful poetry recitals for Burns Day.

Learning Highlights

• We’ve been doing some more work on patterns and number sequences, creating our own outdoors with natural materials and we’re more confident about this now.
• We’ve been developing our descriptive writing skills by writing about the Loch Ness monster.
• We learned about onomatopoeia and had fun thinking about words to use for various situations.
• We’ve been learning about the hip hop style of music and comparing different songs.

Tricky Tasks

• Some of the class found IDL tricky this week but we’ll keep working on this in class and perhaps the children can try at home too.  (Passwords are in Homework Diaries).
• We’ve found some of the work we’ve been doing on times tables tricky.
• We’ve been creating menus for different occasions and it was tricky to think of the different items we could include in them.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Archie and Kyle and they did a great job of spotting lots of pupils in the class who were listening to the playground supervisors, using capital letters correctly and keeping our work areas tidy.

Learning Highlights

• We were learning  more about the work of Andy Scott and the materials he used to create his sculptures.
• We created our own sculptures using playdough and spaghetti.
• We have been learning about Robert Burns and have been reciting poems in class.
• We have been celebrating our Scottish culture in many ways  this week and particularly enjoyed listening to favourite stories in Scots.
• We used Scottish vocabulary to express our feelings and emotions.
• We had a Scottish themed obstacle course for PE where we had to run round Loch Ness and try to spot Nessie who was hiding in the deep water, we had to hurl the haggis, loup the burn, jump  on the stepping stones to safely cross the bog and then climb up Ben Nevis!

Tricky Tasks

• We have been working on our  descriptive writing and have been  trying to add more detail.
• We have been learning the names of 3D shapes and found some of these a bit tricky to remember.
• We have been all been developing our addition skills and learning number bonds. P2 children have been working on numbers to 100 and counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.
• We are working on our initial sounds, vowel diagraphs – ee,  oo, ai, oa  and some consonant diagraphs – sh, ch, wh.

We have all been trying to demonstrate good listening, show good teamwork and continue to be be kind, respectful and responsible to others. Lots of children have been spotted demonstrating these skills and qualities this week.

Our learning highlights in P3/4 this week were:

• We started learning about who the Vikings were in our topic this week
• In our maths we enjoyed creating shapes using different lengths, perimeter and area
• We enjoyed working on our dribbling skills in mini hockey and creating obstacle dribbling courses

Tricky tasks:

• We found it tricky to estimate the area of shapes
• We worked hard using our Viking and comprehension skills to complete cryptic wordsearches
• For our Burns celebrations we practiced and performed Scottish songs using body percussion

Lead Learners update:

This week our lead learners were Oscar and Darcey. They found some of us were working hard to write neatly. They also spotted pupils being kind to others and showing good listening.

Learning Highlights

• We learned about alliteration and had fun creating our own phrases.
• We invented our own tartans and learned the Scots names for different animals.
• In numeracy we’ve been working on patterns and sequences and we enjoyed creating our own versions using beads, coins, craft materials and also using the games on our Ipads.
• We started reading a new class novel ‘The Sleekit Mr Tod’ which is the Scots version of Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl.

Tricky Tasks

• The Sleekit Mr Tod book had lots of new words and because it is written in Scots we found it difficult to understand but fun to listen to.
• Some of the boost words for this week were tricky.
• Our spelling words were quite uncommon so we had to work really hard with these.

Lead Learner Update

This weeks lead learners were Zac and Emma-J0 and they worked very hard finding their classmates who were not shouting out, who were playing well together and who were remembering to write the date and title on their work.  Well done to all our pupils who were spotted doing these things.