Seafield Primary School

It has been wonderful welcoming the children back after the Easter Break and we have enjoyed listening to their class talks this week. The children had free choice about how to present their talk and had 3 weeks to prepare it and tell us all about their ‘ Favourite Thing.’

Children had specific Talking Targets and Audience Targets and carried out some work on how to give constructive feedback to peers. Children also had the opportunity to ask and answer questions, we all learned a great deal about each other and interesting topics this week.

Tickled Pink –

• Some super practical measuring this week using metre sticks, trundle wheels , measuring tapes and items to weigh and investigate volume.
• Some wonderful class talks which showed creativity, organisation and planning. The children were able to talk about the targets – clear voice, eye contact, loud voice, interesting and containing at least 5 facts and to talk for 3 mins – The children can identify what they might need to work on for improvement.
• Super comprehension tasks this week where texts were discussed, predictions made, questions asked and personal opinions given.
• Took part in Hubs session

Green for Growth –

• We found it a bit tricky identifying units of measurement for length – selecting when you would measure with mm, cm, m or km depending on what you were measuring.
• Some of us found it tricky to Maintain our 5 Audience Targets when we listened to 3 or 4 class talks –
  • Eyes on person who is speaking
  • Ears listening
  • Feet still
  • Hands still
  • Ask a question when person has finished speaking
• Remember to take care with craft resources and not to waste materials, put lids on pens and glue.

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic first week back at 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 this week:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We all really enjoyed our last badminton lesson in PE on Tuesday as we have clearly made great improvements with our badminton skills and we all played great competitive doubles games
• We enjoyed our Writing lesson this week as we were given the opportunity to choose our writing tasks for a “Free Writing” session this week

• We all really enjoyed Outdoor Learning yesterday as our class were generally being more responsible and enjoyed our time outdoors

• Many of us are looking forward to our new PE topic of football and working on different skills and ball control

• We all really enjoyed our second class debate which took place this week because there were very strong detailed arguments in our debating speeches with clear improvements from our first debate last term
• Lots of us felt that our Learning Hub groups made great progress and got lots of work done
• Some of us felt positive about returning to school and getting back into the school routine
• We felt that we did very well with our comprehension work with Mrs Robertson

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 Science experiment this week which resulted in the classroom becoming quite messy and water being spilled on the tables and floor
• Some of us found getting back to the school routine a little difficult as we got back into our daily and weekly timetables

Our school value award winners for this week are Zac, Annie and Harvey. Our school award winners on the last day of term before the holiday were Matilda and Ruaridh. Massive congratulations to all five children!

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

Tickled Pink

• We have been learning 6 different art techniques this week; glitch, drip, glow, pixel, x-ray and blur. We are going to choose 4 of these to create one large image.
• For writing we had to use at least 1 simile, 8 adjectives and 5 different types of punctuation. This was a challenge for some of us but we all created excellent stories.
• We have welcomed a new person to our class and look forward to learning more about them.

Green for Growth

• We need to focus our listening skills when outdoors. Some of us forgot the rules and did not listen properly which is not safe or responsible.

The lead learners this week are Remi and Jason.

This last week has been a busy 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 enjoyed doing drama this week. We have been demonstrating our learning through drama in Topic which meant that a lot of us turned into Pirates!
• Some of us think that we did really well during Numeracy. We created fact family posters for our wall and these are now displayed in our classroom to help us remember!
• We all enjoyed doing free writing this week. Some of us ended up writing pages and pages.
• In Art this week we made origami flowers. We had to fold paper into tulips and all of us did this very well! Miss White has a vase of them on her desk!
• Lastly we think that we all worked well during our Hub groups this morning. We enjoy collaborating with other pupils in the school.

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

• We agreed that we need to work on not talking over others in our class, whether this is our peers or teacher!
• We have also agreed that we need to check over our work more independently.

Our school value award winners for this week are Robyn and Blake. Well done!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

The last week of term has been a busy one in P2/3.  Here’s what we would like to share about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We learned about Fair Trade and we now know what symbol to look for on products we buy.
• For our writing session this week we wrote persuasive texts about why we would like a class pet.  We managed to think of lots of strong arguments and used different sentence starters to make it more interesting.
• We enjoyed working in random groups to complete a Rich Task in Maths which involved thinking of different ways to make 8. We were able to collaborate and share our strategies with each other.
• We were also learning the two times table and were solving multiplication problems relating to this.
• During outdoor learning we went on a Texture Adventure where we used the sense of touch to find lots of  different textures.  We were amazed with all the different textures in our local environment and this earned us another stamp in our Happy By Nature passports.
• We also loved hearing about everyone’s achievements during the Achievement Assembly.

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

• We agreed that after the holidays we would need to work harder on keeping the classroom tidy and making sure we tucked our chairs in when we left them.

Our school value award winners for this week are Zaynab and Olivia C for being ambitious and resilient Well done girls!

Have a lovely Easter break everyone!

We’ve had a busy week in Primary 2/3 preparing for our class assembly next week.  Here’s what we would like to share about our learning:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• During Health and Wellbeing we learned about where food products come from and the journeys food items make to reach us. We were surprised to hear how far away some of our favourite fruits are grown.
• For our writing session this week we wrote persuasive texts about why it is good to have a friend in class.  We worked so hard on these and Mrs Baird had a really difficult job to pick the star writer this week. Well done Evie!
• To celebrate Science Week we made sculptures of Scottish landmarks.  Inspired by Andy Scott and his sculptures, we had to design and create a sculpture that met certain criteria including being at least 25cm, using 4 different materials, being sturdy and attractive.  We also had to make it light up.
• We enjoyed our Science Week Celebration assembly on Friday where we were able to share our STEM learning and find out about what all the other classes had been up to.

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

• In Maths some of us found skip counting backwards quite tricky so this is something we will keep working on.
• We are going to try to work together better and further develop our collaboration skills. We found this tricky when we were making our sculptures.

Our school value award winners for this week are Emily and Junior for being ambitious. Congratulations!

Have a lovely weekend everyone and don’t forget to put our assembly next Friday in your diary.  We’re looking forward to sharing our learning with you.

We have had a very busy week this week preparing for our assembly with lots of prop making and practicing our sketches. We have been continuing to work together in our home groups collaborating with each other. We are very excited about our families coming into our class on Friday morning.

Tickled Pink

• Great work this week during our comprehension tasks answering in sentences. We spoke about this as a target and most children did achieve this.
• We continued to enjoy measure challenges.
• We worked on our listening skills as home groups performed short dramas – learning what it means to be a quality audience.
• Reverent Boyd came to visit and talked to us in class.

Green for Growth

• We were looking at patterns in numbers to 100, ( 9-5 = . 19-5=. 39-5=, 99-5= )  and the relationship between add and subtract during our number talks. We realised that it is important that we keep working on our speedy recall of number bonds as this can help us when working with larger numbers.
• We need to continue to demonstrate our school values being kind and respectful to others.
• To continue to practice and increase confidence when using the microphone and performing in front of an audience.