Seafield Primary School

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.

Tickled Pink

• This week we performed our class assembly to the school and our parents. We felt nervous, but it was the best assembly ever!
• We celebrated World Book Day  this week, and some of us dressed up in some amazing costumes inspired by our favourite books.
• We were lucky enough to be invited to West Lothian College, where we were able to work with real fire fighters, and got to cook spring rolls and katsu curry sauce from scratch!

Green for Growth:

• Continue to learn about time, learning about o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.

Our Lead Learners this week are Chloe and Finn!

Tickled Pink:

• We loved decorating our door for the school World Book Day competition… We read Elmer and then made our very own patchwork elephants using rulers to draw our own lines! They look amazing!

• We have been learning about the Life Cycle of a Frog as part of our Living Things topic. The children were really good at remembering the stages from frogspawn to adult frog.
• We have been looking at addition and subtraction in maths and had to read the questions really carefully!

Green for Growth:

• We have started looking at ordinal numbers in maths and some of the children were finding it quite tricky to identify what was in 2nd or 3rd position because they don’t sound like two and three. We will keep practising this!

Our Lead Learners next week are Olivia N and Charley.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink:

• We finished off our narrative writing on fairytales this week. This is just the start of us building up our knowledge of how to write a narrative story.
• We worked on time this week, working out the time in five minute intervals and to the minute. Some of us enjoyed challenging each other to write down different times in our game.

Green for growth:

• We are continuing to work on badminton in P.E., a lot of us thought we needed to make sure we were listening to the instructions more so that we could improve our skills.

Our lead learners this week are Connor and Kellan.

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed developing our badminton skills during PE.
• The P6 pupils also had the opportunity to have a badminton coaching session with the DCHS Sports Leaders.
• In Maths we learned to convert imperial and metric measurements and the P7 pupils were measuring volumes as part of their high school science transition activities.
• During the Maths transition session, with Mr McConville from DCHS, we were learning algebra and used what we’d learned to create mobiles making sure that they balanced.
• We all enjoyed preparing for our forthcoming debate on animal testing.

Green for Growth

• We found our mental maths calculations tricky because of the restricted time we had to complete them.
• We are looking forward to visiting areas around the village for our outdoor learning.

Our Lead Learners this week were Alfie and Abbie and they chose to focus on:-

• Listen to teachers respectfully
• Be responsible on laptops
• Be sensible when sitting on a chair

A huge well done to everyone in P6/7 who managed to achieve these targets. Have a great weekend!

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed playing some whole class games during Outdoor Learning – like Red, Red River and Duck, Duck Goose.
• We started our new topic, Living Things, and are looking forward to learning lots over the next few weeks.
• We are doing really well with the Days of the Week in French – we practise each morning.

Green for Growth

• We started learning how to talk about the weather in French and will continue to practise.

Our Lead Learners next week are Ollie and Zaynab.

Have a good weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a great first week back after the February 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 continuing to work on Distance, Speed and Time in class as we felt it wasn’t too difficult once we understood how to use the formulae
• We also enjoyed starting our work on debating this week because we are happy to develop our argumentative skills!
• We continued to enjoy our badminton focus in PE as we changed our focus to backhand shots this week
• In Art, we enjoyed choosing and creating our illustrations from the “Kidnappit” book which was part of our Scottish Literature focus during our mini-focus on Scotland and Burns
• We enjoyed starting our persuasive writing about animal testing in our Writing lesson and this will also be the focus for our first class debate this term
• We all enjoyed our teacher led reading sessions this week and the rich (and sometimes fun!) discussions during our non-fiction focus

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

• Some of us found learning about Volume a bit tricky in Maths with Mrs Baird and we will continue to focus on this next week
• Some of us also felt that our Reading task on Fact vs Opinion with Mrs Baird was a bit difficult
• Some of us also found the “Kidnappit” art a bit tricky because of the level of detail required to recreate the pictures

Our school value award winners for this week are Abbie and Alfie.

Our lead learners this week were Shiva, Brodie, Niamh, Che, Darcey and Faith. The set these three targets for the class this week:

• be respectful to teachers
• use resources responsibly
• don’t swing on chairs

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

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