Seafield Primary School

We had a fantastic last morning at school camp before heading home this afternoon. We started the day by finishing off with packing our bags, tidying our rooms and making sure we were ready for leaving Dalguise after the morning’s activities. The children did a great job with sorting out their rooms and our lovely group leader, David, said that he was very impressed with their great responsibility and organisation this morning. After another lovely breakfast we were ready to start the morning activities. The children thoroughly enjoyed the climbing wall activity and showed brilliant effort and resilience as they developed their climbing skills. Both activity groups were also challenged with some very tricky problem solving activities in a more active and physical way. We then had a lovely lunch and said goodbye to the staff at Dalguise. Well done to the children for enjoying and engaging with a wonderful experience at camp.

Tickled Pink

• We had a fantastic time at the Riverside Transport Museum this week. We had a workshop about ships that were built on the River Clyde. We had to hunt for clues in the exhibits and then had the chance to craft our own ships later on. After lunch we were able to explore the fascinating museum which was brilliant. Huge thank you to Mrs Craig and Miss Love for coming with us.
• In literacy, we have been learning to clarify words and phrases to help us to understand the text better. We played some games and used Giglets to help us.
• We enjoyed doing some drama in class where we pretended to live in a village that was over run by porridge! It was fun pretending to wade through the sticky porridge and trying to persuade others to taste it.

Green for Growth

• We have been practising our subtraction skills this week where we need to keep remembering to use our strategies and concrete materials to help us.

The lead learners this week are Leon and Georgia.

Another great day at school camp for the children today. We had a great, hearty breakfast and then got straight into our activities for the day. We started with orienteering and explored many areas of the large site here at Dalguise using maps and various clues and hints from our lovely instructor. After orienteering we split into our activity groups again and had great fun doing the “Giant Swing” activity. Everyone tried hard to get over any nerves or fear of heights and all of the children thought it was brilliant fun. After lunch we took part in Raft Building and Archery and the children thoroughly enjoyed both sessions demonstrating some excellent skills in Archery and working fantastically well in their groups to build, float and paddle their rafts around on the water area in camp. Some of the children enjoyed getting a bit wet even though the water was rather cold! There may some damp and dirty clothes from this activity but we have tried to use the ‘drying rooms’ to get rid of some of the dampness! We then got our visit to the shop onsite before dinner and the children enjoyed deciding what they should spend their money on. Finally, our evening activity was a PGL team games tournament and we had lots of fun competing in creative and exciting games. A wonderful day at camp and we are really looking forward to our activities tomorrow morning before we get on the bus back to school.

We’ve had a great first day at school camp with lovely weather and great activities. We all took part in abseiling today and also did a ‘survivor’ session where we were den building and learning about fire lighting. This evening we had a “balloon splash” activity where we played various games to try earn point and coins which would allow us to buy resources to protect a water balloon from bursting when it was dropped from a height! We’re all looking forward to another great day of activities tomorrow and lots of sunshine again too. Some photos from todays activities below.

Primary 6/7 have had a great first week back in school after the spring break, 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 learning about percentages in Maths because of the division, decimals and some quite challenging sums
• We enjoyed our last badminton session in PE this week as we played some doubles badminton games and then had fun with our (rather chaotic) last game with teams of around 10 v 10 on either side of the net
• We enjoyed our camp meeting because we found out about our groups and the activities that we are doing
• We enjoyed finishing off the preparation for our last class debate because we made sure that our speeches about the death penalty are finished and ready to go
• Our Primary 7 pupils enjoyed continuing the early stages of preparation for their leavers assembly whilst our Primary 6’s were enjoying their sports leader training

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

• Some of us found our outdoor learning a bit tricky as we thought it was hard to create logos with sticks and other natural resources
• Some of us also felt that our new Writing genre (Explanation) was a bit tricky and confusing as there are definitely some similarities with Information Reports and Instructions/Procedure text types

Our school value award winners for this week are Calla and Brodie and they will set our class targets next week.

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

What a quick week it has been!  It has been great to have everyone back after the Easter break.  The children have all returned in good spirits and have had a successful week of learning.  We had an assembly this morning and we talked about the importance of showing our values in school and in the playground and started off our new “SeaBee’s Playground Challenge.”  A few classes have already earned a honeycomb sticker in the challenge with each class competing against each other to get the most honeycombs and earn a reward.

We have loved having Mrs Mills back with us as she has joined the staff, taking P1 for the remainder of the school year.  As you know, she has worked in Seafield PS on a number of occasions over the years and really enjoys being part of our school community.  She is looking forward to getting the chance to meet P1 parents informally at the end of the day.  We send congratulations to Mrs Baird and her family on the safe arrival of a beautiful granddaughter.

Coming up next week:

Tuesday           P3/4 Class trip to Riverside Museum, Glasgow

Wed – Fri        P6 and P7 residential trip to PGL Dalguise

I hope that everyone has a great weekend!  Lynne Egan.

Quote for the week:  “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

Tickled Pink:

• We started persuasive writing this week. We started with exposition writing where we expanded on reasons on why our sport or hobby was the best. We enjoyed exploring the reasons on what skills people can learn by doing our favourite sports and hobbies.
• We enjoyed playing dodgeball in our P.E. lesson on Tuesday.
• Some of us were working out the distance of journeys when we had the speed and time. We worked really hard.

Green for growth:

• During outdoor learning, we built paper pots out of old newspaper so we could plant basil. We found it really hard to build the pots.

Our lead learners for this week are Jack and Jason.

Tickled Pink

• Today we had the opportunity to do some free writing which we enjoyed because it was fun and let us write about anything you want.
• This week we have been completing a research project about Scottish animals and make a poster. We liked how we had to draw 2 pictures of the animals and write some facts about them.
• In PE on Tuesday, we worked with P2/3 and used the parachute, it was very fun. On Wednesday we played some of our favourite games again which we enjoyed a lot.
• Yesterday we sketched some real life tulips from Amsterdam and used our skills of shading and line drawing.

Green Growth

• We need to continue to work harder on learning the times tables to help us when doing harder multiplication sums.

Lead Learners this week are Sofia and Fatoumata.