Seafield Primary School

It has been a fun week in Primary 1. We have been talking about our classroom and thinking about the opportunities we have for play, what areas we like best and those we would like to change.

Tickled Pink

• We have been learning about numbers and how to make them by adding on from 10, for example 10 + 6 = 16
• We have been learning to identify coins and add them to make a total
• We have been making words with letters
• We have been learning about the parts of the plants – roots, stem, leaves and flower and what each part does.

Green for Growth

• We are working on our school value, be responsible, we are trying hard to keep our classroom tidy after we play, making sure everything returns to where it belongs.
• We will be continuing to work on our reading next week and new books will be issued.

Have a lovely weekend

Primary 6/7 have had a brilliant week in school with lots of fantastic learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our week in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• Lots of us enjoyed Writing this week as we started our focus on the “Explanation” text type by writing about wind turbines. Most of us managed to complete the writing task and enjoyed learning about this genre of writing
• We enjoyed creating our Seafield Gala Day competition entries for designing the front cover of the Gala Day programme because many people included excellent drawings and designs

• We all really enjoyed getting some Article 31 free time and fresh air with our time outdoors this week with the lovely weather

• Our Primary 7s enjoyed making decisions about the songs that they are choosing to sing at their leaver’s assembly
• Our Primary 6s enjoyed working on their projects because they are making good progress and adding good detail

• Lots of the Primary 7s enjoyed their second English transition lesson about the excellent novel, “Ghost Boys”
• Most of us enjoyed our Maths lessons about Distance, Speed and Time this week, as we learned about how to do the calculations using different formulae
• We felt that we did very well as we started our WWII topic presentations which will continue next week
• Many of us enjoyed working on control and passing in our focus on football in PE

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

• Some people found creating our Gala Day competition entries a little stressful due to the deadline for them being submitted
• Some of us were a little disappointed that we weren’t able to leave the school this week for Outdoor Learning as we didn’t have another adult to come out with us

Our school value award winners for this week are Emma-Jo and Henry. Massive congratulations to them!

Well done P6/7 for a wonderful week in school. Have a lovely long weekend and see you all on Tuesday.

We have had a super week in P2/3 and have enjoyed the fact that the weather has been lovely and we have been able to go outdoors more for our learning.

Tickled Pink –

• We worked really hard on our maths volume activities this week and enjoyed using the water tray to investigate millilitres and litres.
• We using rulers to measure accurately in cm.
• We made different food chains in different habitats
• We started learning about farming.
• We talked about the London Marathon and the difference between marathon running and sprinting – we took part in some running challenges in PE.
• We were delighted to find out in assembly that we were getting new resources for the playground.
• We enjoyed meeting Eden as we learned about what babies need to grow.
• We made our own wee Superworms!

Green For Growth –

• Using time connectives in our writing.
• We found some of the real life problem solving relating to volume quite tricky.
• Putting some of our tricky word cards in alphabetical order.
• To get better at our times tables.
• Make sure we are always kind to each other and use kind words.
• To be responsible when we have NYCOS music sessions.
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• For outdoor learning we used the stimulus of ‘James and the Giant Peach’ to create minibeast hotels. We designed them with a partner before we left school and thought about which creatures to attract and how. We then went to Deanburn Gardens and created the hotels with the same partner. The results were fantastic, we are very proud of our hard work.
• In writing we have started learning how to write an explanation report. We learned how a wind turbine creates electricity from wind power and wrote about it in our jotters.
• Mrs Flynn started teaching us Spanish and we learned how to say the colours. We used this to complete some work which will continue next week.

Green for Growth

• We are continuing to learn about time, we have looked at the months, weeks and days of the year. This can be tricky because there are different numbers of days in each month and the problems we are solving mean we have to know them off by heart.

Lead learners this week are Frankie and Ellie.

We have had a really good week in school. Our P2/3 and P3/4 classes attended West Lothian College for a STEM Big Build event, where pupils had an amazing time working together and developing their problem-solving skills. This continues to be a wonderful partnership link for our school and a fantastic opportunity for our learners.

Primary 6/7 have had a great week in school with lots of wonderful learning activities in class. On Friday morning, we discussed our week in school and decided that we would like to share these thoughts about our learning this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• The Primary 7 pupils who took part in the Rotary Quiz this week really enjoyed the event and taking part in the quiz, even though it was a bit tricky. They did a great job and represented the school wonderfully well and came fifth in the quiz, which was brilliant
• We enjoyed our Writing lesson based on our debating arguments this week as nearly everyone in class managed to complete the task and most people wrote some strong arguments based on one of our class debates; social media use for young people, a four day week or the use of video technology in sport

• We all really enjoyed getting some time outdoors this week with the lovely weather

• Our Primary 7s enjoyed starting to plan for their leavers assembly as we discussed and decided on the songs that we will sing for the event

• Lots of us enjoyed our new topic of Distance, Speed and Time in Maths and learning how to do those calculations
• Lots of our Primary 7s enjoyed the High School meeting with Miss Thomson from Deans Community High School this week because they found out lots of details about timetables and subjects and got to hear some experiences from some of last year’s P7s from Seafield about how they have been getting on at Deans

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

• Some of us felt that there was a bit of silliness during our debating lessons this week as prepared for our third class debate because some people were deleting paragraphs from speeches that were being written
• Some were a little frustrated that we weren’t able to leave the school this week for Outdoor Learning as we didn’t have another adult to come out with us

Our school value award winners for this week are Harris and Archie. Massive congratulations to them both!

Well done P6/7 for an excellent week in school. Have a lovely weekend.

What a fantastic week we have had in P2/3 with the highlight being our trip to West Lothian College for the ‘Big Build’ event.

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We loved using the real saws, hammers and nails during the Big Build and we were very good at staying safe and assessing risks.
• We learned about Earth Day and created folding globes to display our thoughts on how we can care for the world.
• We enjoyed working in random groups to complete a Rich Task in Maths which involved thinking  about how to display football cards. We used what we had learned recently about arrays to help us with this.
• We had our first NYCOS music session and we really enjoyed the singing and clapping games.
• We continued our class talks and it was interesting to find out about everybody’s favourite things.

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

• We would like more opportunities to work with real tools in the future so we can get better at using them.
• We have been trying hard to ‘Beat the Teacher’ so we need to get better at stopping chatting quickly.

Our school value award winners for this week are Olivia N and Iver for being ambitious and responsible. Well done!

Tickled Pink (What went well this week):

• We have enjoyed starting our new topic on minibeasts. We have learned lots of facts about insects and are excited to learn more.
• We used tissue paper in lots of different colours to make colourful patchwork Elmer artwork in art this week.
• We had lots of fun in music this week learning about pitch and rythm. We played a fun pitch game with a xylophone and learned the song ‘Do, Re, Mi’.

Green for Growth (What we could do better):

• We are still working on our listening skills when we are on the carpet. We are practising good sitting and taking turns when we are speaking.

• We are continuing to work on our kindness in the class and making sure we are all sharing.

This week has been a great one in P3/4.  Here’s what we would like to share about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We have all LOVED having a PJ day today. We were allowed to watch a movie and relax thanks to all of our hard work.
• Some of us liked Writing this week. We were writing an Information Report all about our School!
• We all really enjoyed doing the Big Build this week at West Lothian College! We got to make and build dens using real saws, hammers and nails! We all worked so hard and collaborated really well with each other.
• We also think that we worked really hard in Numeracy this week. We did a paired rich task on Thursday and it was really fun competing against our peers.

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

• We have agreed that we need to continue to check over our work more independently. We tried really hard to do this last week but want to keep it up going forward.

Our school value award winners for this week are Sofia and Eadie . Well done!

Have a lovely weekend everyone, see you on Monday!