Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• We are making Zentangle art on a rabbit. Zentangles are patterns using a black pen and then we are going to colour in bright glasses to stand out.
• In PE we are continuing to learn badminton with Mrs Robertson. P3s are looking forward to their sports festival next week. P2/3 joined in with us this week too.
• We have been learning the story of Easter in RME and made our own story glider to help us remember the story.
• For road safety week, we made our own songs and raps to help teach P1s how to cross the road, we performed it to them and they LOVED it.

Green for growth

• Our rich task was quite tough this week but we showed resilience and didn’t give up.

Lead learners this week are CJ and Olivia.

Tickled Pink

• We had fun doing a signs of Spring scavenger hunt for outdoor learning – we enjoyed working with a partner to search the whole playground.
• We made Spring Flowers paintings using forks and cotton buds – this was really fun!
• We done some science experiments during buddy time – all about colours! We done the ‘Walking Rainbow’ and the ‘Skittles’ experiment.. they were really cool!

• We had a visit from P3/4 who had been working very hard to make their own songs/raps about Road Safety… they were amazing and we learned a lot from them!

Green for Growth

• Some children found it a bit tricky to roll their own sums for maths – they need to remember that when subtracting we need to start with the bigger number – and be careful with the sign!
• We had fun exploring the Boomwhackers in music – some children found it a bit tricky to play on the beat.

Our Lead Learner next week are Alice and Junior!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• Our P6’s took part in a badminton festival this week and had a lot of fun!
• Thank you to everyone who attended our family breakfast this week. We enjoyed showing our families the rich numeracy tasks that we have been working on in class.
• We have been working on narrative writing and finished writing up our Sci-Fi narrative stories this week. We have been enjoying exploring how to write different genres.

Green for growth:

• We were working on finding fractions of a quantity this week. We found it a little difficult so we made sure we took our time looking at lots of examples to help us understand.
• We have been working on debating in literacy and need to keep working on making sure only one person is speaking at a time, that we are listening to each other and ensuring that our disagree responses are respectful.

Our lead learners this week are Jason and Abi.

P2/3 have had a fantastic few weeks together! Last week we had our class trip to the Five Sister’s Zoo where we got to explore the zoo and had some different lessons from the zoo keepers on the animals – We had an amazing time and would love to go again! Our topic for this term is under the sea and we have been enjoying learning all about the different sea creatures.

Tickled Pink:

• We have been working hard in science, focusing on classifying animals. We know that mammals have back bones and are warm-blooded, reptiles have scales and slimy skin, amphibians can live under water and are cold-blooded, invertebrates have no bones and no fur.
•  In topic this week we learned all about a Venn diagram and created one for ourselves. We know that a Venn diagram has 2 circles with an overlapping area. We used this diagram to sort animals into where they lived – land, water or both.
• In numeracy we have been looking at co-ordinates with compasses. We know that there are 8 points on a compass and can name all of them. We used the coordinates during outdoor learning to explore the playground and discover what was in each direction.

Green for growth:

• In pe we are learning how to play badminton and we feel that we could do with more practice on hitting the shuttlecock with the badminton racket.

Our lead learners this week are Ernest and Eadie – Well done!

Have a good weekend, Miss Robb 😊

Tickled Pink:

• We had lots of fun going on a Bug Hunt on Monday for Outdoor Learning. We worked with a partner to search for bugs and capture them in our bug viewers. The magnifying glass let us have a closer look at the bug and then we ticked it off our sheet and released the bug back to its natural habitat.
• We started learning about Time this week in Maths and had lots of fun making our own watches and playing new games. We are focusing on o’clock and have been learning about analogue clocks – identifying the face and hands.

Green for Growth:

• Some children found fact families in maths a bit tricky – we will continue to practise this.
• For topic we were learning about where foods come from – plants or animals… we had lots of discussion about different foods and sometimes it was a bit difficult working out where it came from, some foods come from a mixture of plants and animals.

Our Lead Learners next week are Iver and Lucy!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• We have been creating backgrounds for our fairytale story to present to the nursery. We have had to use our measuring skills to help us. We can’t wait to share the stories we have been creating with the nursery children.
• We worked on a rich task in maths about creating and working out a timetable. We also had to work out how long the journeys took. We found it difficult to start of with but we took our time and were successful with the task.
• We created underwater scopes this week out of plastic bottles, cellotape and cling film. We used these scopes when we went down to the River Almond during outdoor learning to see what we could spot in the river.

Green for Growth:

• We need to keep working on listening and following instructions in P.E.

Well done to Isla, Emma Jo and Mason who took part in the P6 EuroQuiz!

Our lead learners this week are Jodie and Harris.

Primary 6/7 have had an excellent week in school, with lots of great 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:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We really enjoyed holding our first class debate this week. Our motion for the debate was, “This house believes that animal testing should continue” and there were fantastic speeches from both the for and against teams, demonstrating wonderful persuasive and argumentative skills
• We were pleased to finish our persuasive writing task about whether social media platforms should have an increased age limit and the boys and girls chose whether their piece of writing was for or against increasing age limits for social media use. You might be able to guess which side of the argument most of the children chose!
• We continue to enjoy our badminton sessions in PE as it is fun and we continue to build our skills with using the net and controlling our use of the racket and shuttles
• We enjoyed starting our new debate topic and beginning to research and write our team’s speeches about the fascinating debate topic of Cats vs Dogs
• We enjoyed our Maths lesson this week when we were set a challenge to see how far we could travel from Seafield using bus and train timetables. The theme was that were doing this to apply for a place on the “Race Across the World” television series

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

• Some of us found our Maths with Mrs Baird about symmetry a little tricky but some of us also shared that we found it a little easy in places
• Some of us also felt that we would have liked to have had the chance to go out into the community for our outdoor learning session

Our school value award winners for this week are Archie and Kyle.

Our lead learners this week were James, Amelia, Annie and Matthew. They set these three targets for the class this week:

• try to take part in activities such as hobbies
• don’t talk back to anyone (unless it is part of debating!)
• be nice to the Pupil Support Workers

Our lead learners observed many children across the class meeting these targets all week, which was wonderful.

Well done for a fantastic week, P6/7. Have a lovely weekend.

Tickled Pink

• In science we made the Earth using play dough. We were learning about what is inside the Earth, the layers are called: crust, mantle, outer core and then the inner core.
• For PE, we were learning to hit and catch shuttlecocks in badminton. We played a game called chaos which was very fun.
• Both of our rich tasks were successful. We had visitors watching us do one on Tuesday and even though it was hard, we didn’t give up.

Green For Growth

• We need to make sure that we are always being safe in PE and not arguing with each other and always listening to the teacher.

Lead learners this week are Harley and Rosa.

Happy Birthday to Finn who is 9 years old today, we hope you have a great birthday.

Tickled Pink:

• We had our P1 Family Breakfast this morning and loved having our grown ups in school! We enjoyed exploring different maths games and doing a Rich Task in the classroom. We had to come up with different ways to make numbers by adding two numbers together. We used a variety of resources to help us build and visualise the sums then write them on our whiteboards (Numicon, Double sided counters, loose parts, cubes and ten frames).
• We were learning about the life cycle of a butterfly this week for topic and made our own butterflies. We were focusing on making the butterfly wings symmetrical – which means it is the same on each side. We painted half of the butterfly then folded the paper and it printed onto the other half. They look amazing!
• We were also learning about the life cycle of a plant and what it needs to grow. We planted our own sunflower seeds which we will be responsible for over the next few weeks to help them grow.

Green for Growth:

• Some of the children found the Rich Task a bit tricky – they enjoyed working with a partner to do their work though!
• We have started looking at doubles in maths, doubles up to 5 were easy for us to do because we can use our fingers but we need to practise doubles 6-10 – we can keep singing the doubles rap!

Our Lead Learners next week are Rose and Joey!

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week In school, with lots of great 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:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We enjoyed our outdoor learning session this week as it was the first time for a while that we have been able to head out into the village during our outdoor learning time
• We also our art tasks to create our book cover display for our classroom door to help celebrate World Book Day
• We enjoyed badminton in PE this week as started to use the net and improve our skills with building rallies
• We enjoyed our Health & Well-Being lesson about respect and fairness as we had very deep and meaningful discussions
• The Primary 6 pupils enjoyed their badminton session with the S6 Sports Leaders from Deans Community High School as they continue to prepare for the forthcoming Primary 6 badminton festival
• Our Primary 7 pupils enjoyed their buddying session this week when they helped their buddies with origami skills to make bookmarks
• We enjoyed our author visit from Scott Fleming for World Book Day

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

• Some of us found our Maths work a bit tricky as we worked with interpreting charts displaying bus and train timetables
• Some of us also felt that we would have liked to go a little further for our outdoor learning session

Our school value award winners for this week are Amelia and James.

Our lead learners this week were Alfie, Abbie, Annie and Matthew. They set these three targets for the class this week:

• listen when the teacher is talking
• participate in things that you don’t want to do
• don’t talk when it is an individual task

Our lead learners observed many children across the class meeting these targets all week, which was fantastic.

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