Seafield Primary School

We have had a great week in Primary 1/2!

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• We have been learning about directions in maths and the children have loved exploring the Beebots!
• We had a whole day of play on Thursday and the children had lots of fun and were very creative during the whole school challenge.
• We loved playing ‘Cat and Mice’ in PE and most of the children preferred being the cat and chasing everyone to catch their tail.
• We were toy inventors this week during our topic lesson and made our very own ‘cup and ball’ game. The children designed their cup and then followed the instructions to create the toy.

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• Some children were finding it a bit tricky to use the Beebots – we must always hit clear before we start as it remembers all of the previous directions.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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• In PE we were developing our running skills by timing the laps we were doing.
• In Maths we were learning about different units of measurement and focusing on length.
• We also learned about percentages and were able to convert fractions into percentages.
• In our HWB work we have been undertaking the Leans project and learning about what is fair and unfair.

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• In Writing we were recounting our year in P5/6.  There were so many highlights that it was tricky to do this and we will continue with it next week.
• In spelling we were learning  common tricky words and we still have to work on some of these.

Our Lead Learners this week were Niamh and Archie and they chose to focus on tucking your chair in when you leave you seat, being kind to others and not shouting across the room.

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• We wrote the instructions on how to grow a potato plant in writing this week and were able to use our previous knowledge of growing our own potato plant in school to help us.
• During outdoor learning, we had a walk around the school playground looking for bird nests. We found one right next to the nursery playground. After discussing what you would need to build a nest, we split into groups and tried creating our own. We then did a walking gallery to see everyone’s nests. Everyone did such a great job!

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• We created food chains this week and learnt lots of new terms like producers, consumers, prey and predators. We found it a little hard to remember which way around they all went when creating our own food chains.
• We were practising lots of different strategies when doing our division in numeracy this week. We are still finding dividing a little tricky but are enjoying trying out our different strategies.

Our lead learners this week are Lily and Leon.

We have had a lovely week in Primary 1/2.

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• We have started a new topic, ‘Toys’, and the children enjoyed designing a toy that they would want to purchase at the shop. We compared toys from the past with our current toys and decided that we love the electronic toys we have! We looked at the different materials that toys can be made of and discussed what would be suitable for different toys,
• In maths we have been looking at fractions and the children have enjoyed using the playdough to show halves.
• For Health and Wellbeing we were looking at different tools that we could use to help us get to the green zone – this week we made our own rainbows for rainbow breathing! You use your finger to trace the arcs, breathing in as you go up and out as you go down the other side.

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• We were learning about forces as part of our toys topic and it was a bit tricky to work out what some of them were – push or pull or both!
• In maths, the P2s have been learning about quarters and have found it a bit tricky to find a quarter of a number. We will keep practising this – half it and then half it again!

Lead Learners next week are Eadie and Ernest.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

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• This week we have been working on algebra in numeracy. Miss Halliday thought that this would be tricky for us but actually it is really easy! We even did function machines and reverse function machines!
• Our comprehension work is getting better since we have focused on using joined handwriting and full answers.
• In French we have been learning the names of different items of clothing with Mrs Robertson.

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• We have been looking at 5 minute time intervals for maths, the past times are okay but the to times are really hard to grasp.
• In writing we were using a sentence starter as a stimulus but some of us found it hard to think of our own stories to write.
• Art was tricky as we were looking at 1 point perspective drawings.

Lead learners this week were Ben and Ella.

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots of great active learning activities. We discussed our week in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

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• Our Primary 6 and 7 footballers loved taking part in the third day of the school football league last week, especially because we won the league after a tense play-off final! Well done
• We enjoyed PE with Mrs Robertson because we were playing fun games
• We enjoyed finishing off our response writing task because we were able to choose our topic for this text
• Our Primary 6s have been enjoying working on their choice personal projects
• We all really enjoyed our buddying session and playing games with our buddies
• Some of us enjoyed our Sudoku activity in Maths

Green for Growth (things that we need to do to improve our learning)

• Some of us didn’t enjoy the Sudoku task as much as other did
• Some of us found Debating a little tricky as we tried to complete our speeches
• Some of us found the Bleep Test in PE a bit difficult and tiring

Our lead learners were James, Sophie, Alexis and Preston.  They decided on the following three targets for the class; to be responsible while doing jobs in class, to be kind to our buddies and to finish our work without help. They spotted lots of learners in class meeting those targets which is wonderful news. Well done for a wonderful week, P6/7.

What a fantastic week we have had in Primary 1/2!

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• We had our class assembly for the school yesterday and today for our grown ups and it was absolutely amazing! Everyone spoke clearly and were confident and the singing was wonderful – I am very proud of everyone! Every child practised their lines and all of our practising paid off!
• We have been learning about division in maths this week and the children have enjoyed sharing cubes out and are really confident sharing equally.

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• We have been learning classroom commands in French this week (eg. stand up, sit down, hands up etc), some children are finding it a bit tricky to remember the French words but we will keep practising.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

We have had a good week this week and it has been busy as we creep closer to the summer.

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• We worked hard on our Food web activity- it was interesting researching different habitats and ensuring that the correct species were in the web.
• We enjoyed sharing the food webs with our classmates 
• We looked at different ways of presenting the foodweb – posters with collage, moving parts, word document inserting a photo , a powerpoint with media links or a scratch game.
• Developing scratch skills, creating moving animals with sound and speech bubbles 
• Sharing our work on Teams 
• Uploading work I am proud of onto personal Glow  Blog space 
• Achieving our Silver Rights Respecting Schools Award
• Writing a recount of our class trip last week
• Outdoor learning
• Parents coming in for ‘sharing the learning’
• P1/2 class assembly
• Winning the cluster football trophy ! Well done Seafield!

Green for Growth 

• Further develop ICT skills to be able to upload photos
• Further develop our Scratch skills 
• Converting units of measurement in maths

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• This week, we started on division in Numeracy. We have using our times table knowledge to help us divide into equal groups and did lots of activities to help us work out what we already knew about division.
• In our writing, we started on procedures and we wrote the instructions on how to brush our teeth. We did a great job remembering to include our goal, materials and steps.
• We watched the Primary 1/2 class assembly this week and loved learning more about friendship! Great job P1/2!

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• For outdoor learning, we took out metre sticks and tried to decide where we thought would  be the best place to put planters for a vegetable garden. We found it a little bit tricky to find a suitable place that had enough sunlight, not too much shade and not on a slope for our planters.
• We were learning about speech marks this week and learning where to put them in a sentence. Some groups needed to remember that there could sometimes be two sets of speech marks in a sentence.

Our lead learners this week are Oliver and Harley.

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There is so much to choose from as this was Health & Wellbeing Week but our highlights are:

• Football in the kick pitch
• Dancing with Emma Stuart
• Bowling at the Seafield Bowling Club
• Martial Arts
• Friday Fun day where we took part in 5 different activities from mindfulness to playdough to sensory walks.

Green for Growth

• Writing a procedure for a Scratch game in writing
• Subtraction in maths when you have to borrow
• Spelling tasks using common words