Seafield Primary School

Primary 6/7 have had a great short week 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):

• We loved our volleyball sessions in PE as we developed our skills in game playing situations
• We enjoyed debating as we started researching and preparing speeches for our second class debate
• We really enjoyed learning about fake news and trying to figure out what we can trust online
• We enjoyed learning some Spanish and our fun Maths activity with Mrs Baty

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

• Some of us felt that our it was a little difficult to find arguments for our new debating topic
• A few of us found it tricky to get the ball over the net during our volleyball games in PE
• Some of us found it a bit tricky to think of memories for our leavers assembly

Our lead learners were Alieu, Chloe, Brodie and Shiva.  They decided on the following three targets for the class; to be resilient in PE, to not throw things in the classroom and to be responsible in the playground. They witnessed lots of learners in the class meeting those targets which is great news. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

We have had a great few days in Primary 1/2

Tickled Pink

• We have been focusing on rhyming words this week. The children have done really well identifying the rhyming sound and coming up with words that sound the same. We enjoyed Outdoor Learning, where we had to find a card with two pictures on it and then try and match the rhyming words to create a loop.

• For buddying this week we went outside to learn more playground games. We had so much fun making our own hopscotch, playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and different parachute games.
• We enjoyed being creative by doing a ‘Finish the Drawing’ task, the children were all given an arch and had to turn it into whatever they wanted (but not a rainbow!). The children created great pictures including handbags, flowers, cars and a pug!

Green for Growth

• We have been counting in 5s this week and some children are finding it a bit tricky to get started but once we get to 20 they follow the pattern (25, 30, 35, 40, 45 etc).
• We have been learning about different punctuation marks (question marks and exclamation marks). Some children found it a bit tricky to work out what kind of punctuation would be needed at the end of various sentences.

Have a fabulous weekend (hopefully sunny!)

Mrs Wallace

Ticked Pink:

• We’ve been enjoying watching our potatoes grow. We keep adding soil and water and it grew loads over the long weekend. We look forward to harvesting them and cooking something tasty with our potatoes.
• We made portraits of ourselves during outdoor learning this week. We enjoyed finding lots of sticks, leaves, rocks and flowers that were on the ground to help us. We created beautiful self portraits.

Green for growth:

• We’ve been continuing with our 5, 8 and 10 times tables this week. It’s been a little tricky but we have been using our strategies to help us succeed!
• We’ve been continuing to practice our football skills this week in P.E. by concentrating on passing the ball to others and learning how to do keepy uppies. We need to remember to be safe in P.E. and watch out for others around us.

No lead leaders this week as it was a short week.

We had an excellent time at Dynamic Earth on Thursday! We started off with a workshop about the rainforest where we got to see some real life spiders, grasshoppers, butterflies and beetles (they were dead and in a glass box but still very cook to see!).  We then moved onto to going around the museum ourselves. It was so interesting seeing volcanoes, icebergs and pretending to fly around the globe! It was brilliant fun wearing 3D glasses in our own little cinema.

We decided to have lunch outside since the weather was nice. Afterwards, we went to the Planetarium and watched show called ‘Don’t Panic!’, all about natural disasters and climate change.

Overall, we really did have a great time and learned a lot about the Earth!

It was a short week this week but we have been busy.

Things that went well:

• We were writing an explanation about how to make vegetable soup, it helped some of that we had made soup in class.
• Cluster League Football was super for the members of the school football team who attended. First Place!
• Shut  the Box Uno game.
• PE – running
• Sinclair Smile Time
• Fruity Friday
• Our Paddleboard designs

Things that were tricky;

• Multiples and Factors

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 1/2.

Tickled Pink

• Exploring the musical instruments was great fun – the children enjoyed playing their instrument on the beat.
• The children were really excited to do money again in maths – we were singing ‘Money, money, money’ and then collecting coins and identifying them before ordering the coins from smallest value to biggest.
• In PE we were practising different skills including balancing, catching, throwing and dribbling. The children done really well with this.

Green for Growth

• In maths we have started learning about skip counting in 2s and the link to the 2 timestable. Some children are finding it a bit tricky but they are all loving our counting by 2s song that we listen to each day.
• We were revising tally marks and bar graphs today and some children found it a bit difficult to take the information and create the bar graph.

Lead Learners are Lucas M and Daisy R, well done!

Have a great long weekend!

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic week with lots of engaging 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 loved our volleyball session in PE as it was fun to start playing games and see how the skills that we’ve been working on translate into game situations
• The Primary 7s enjoyed their literacy transition work on the novel “Holes” this week as they started get a little further into the story
• We really enjoyed continuing with our writing activity where we had to write a response text about the short animation “Coin Operated” as it is an interesting short cartoon
• We enjoyed our art activity with Mrs Denholm to design a paddle board because we could create our own design for this competition
• We enjoyed learning about division again in Maths as it was great to review what we know about division and extend our strategies for doing mental division calculations
• We enjoyed hearing about the artist Keith Haring and had fun trying to create artwork using his unique Pop Art style

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

• Some of us felt that our Writing task was a wee bit tricky as it was a bit difficult to come up with paragraph ideas because it was such a short animation
• A few of the Primary 7s found it difficult to start thinking about our nursery and primary school memories as we start preparing for our leaver’s assembly
• Some of us found Maths a bit difficult as our division calculations needed us to use our times table knowledge quickly and accurately

Our lead learners were Alieu, Chloe, Brodie and Shiva.  They have decided on the following three targets for the class; to be resilient in PE, to not throw things in the classroom and to be responsible in the playground. We are continuing to work on these targets next week so we will report back on our progress with them next Friday. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink

• During outdoor learning, we found a new area which we named Jess’s Jungle.  When we found an abandoned tent we decided to be explorers and created our own dens.
• We wrote explanation texts to explain about Seafield Gala Day and did a fantastic job peer and self assessing these.
• We enjoyed trying hurdles in our PE lesson and found that ‘Jump Master Jake’ excelled with these.
• We loved being an audience for the P2/3 assembly and really enjoyed their French weather song.

Green for Growth

• We found time durations difficult to grasp during our maths lessons.
• Although we understood the importance of scale we found it tricky trying to do our own drawings to scale.
• During a cool down game in PE, chosen by Henry, we found it difficult trying to think of lots of different ways to move.

Lead Learner Update

Our Lead Learners this week were Matthew and Julia and they were please to report that everyone managed to achieve their sitting safely on a chair target.

Tickled Pink:

• We had our class assembly today! Thank you to everyone who came along. We enjoyed sharing our learning with you and loved being able to show our assembly which we worked so hard on.
• We have been working on lots of different times tables this week. Some groups have been working on the 4 and 8 times tables while others have been working on the 2 and 5 times tables. We liked using our iPads on the times tables games and using the multiplication mats.
• For our writing, we wrote about a day at the beach. We thought about all the fun activities that you could do at the beach and then wrote about them in a recount.

Green for growth:

• We looked at different features of a church for our RME lesson this week. After, some of us created a leaflet about everything you could find in a church whereas others labeled the features on a picture. Some of us found it tricky to remember the different features that we had learnt.

Our lead learners for this week are Olivia and Blake.

Tickled Pink

• In PE we did rounders with Mrs Flynn. We went down the field and we enjoyed getting outside and playing a good game. We also enjoyed PE with Mrs Baird where we played lots of games involving throwing and catching.
• For maths we have been learning to read quarter to and quarter past on an analogue and digital  clock with Mrs Egan.
• In writing we wrote about an outdoor learning session we had where we created homes for pet rocks, it was fun.

Green for Growth

• In French we were learning about the seasons because we already knew some of it but we did learn some new things.
• We went to other classes on Monday afternoon to help them out, it was interesting being in another class for a while.

Lead learners this week were Zac and Abi.