Seafield Primary School

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.

Tickled Pink

• We loved doing an Easter Egg hunt during Outdoor Learning this week… inside the egg was a number and letter and we had to work together to crack the secret message (we also had a yummy chocolate too!).
• We enjoyed working with a partner to make super Road Safety posters, they all have a different message about how to keep safe! They look fantastic and the children are excited to show them off to grown ups during our Park Smart event.
• We went on our class trip to Almond Valley (Mill Farm). The children had such a great day exploring and they enjoyed ‘working on the farm’ with their lanyards to find different animals and learn more about them. The baby goats were so cute (but pretty smelly!).

Green for Growth

• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to remember the order of the days of the week in maths and this is something they will continue to practise.
• We were revising some personal language in French and some children were struggling to remember some of the phrases.

I hope everyone has a super Easter holiday!

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

•  We were den building during outdoor learning and were developing our communication, collaboration, leadership and critical thinking skills.
• During our basketball session with Xcite  we learned how to dribble properly.
• While focusing on symmetry in Maths  we were creating symmetrical pictures with two or more lines of symmetry.
• The HWB Mini Champs were using all the skills we’ve been learning using Adobe Express to create a Park Smart video presentation.  Everyone else was working in small groups to create video presentations about red pandas to enter into a competition being run by the Five Sisters Zoo.
• Our Debating session was fun because the speakers had collected good evidence and gave excellent speeches.

Green For Growth

• While creating the Adobe video presentations working out the timing for the music and creating character animations was tricky.
• In symmetry we found it difficult to complete symmetrical pictures digitally.

Lead Learner Update

Our lead learners last week were Julia and Oscar and they chose to focused on

• being ambitious in your work
• being responsible with school equipment and resources
• being kind to teachers and PSWs

Many of the pupils successfully achieved these targets, well done!

Mr Hamilton and Mrs Baird  are also delighted with the progress everyone has made recently using the Adobe Express resource.  Hopefully the Digital Schools Award staff were suitably impressed too, a big well done to our pupils who were interviewed this week for the award.  Fingers crossed that we’re successful!

Thank you to Preston for writing this week’s blog post. Have a great weekend!   Mrs Baird

Tickled Pink:

• In outdoor learning, we blindfolded our partners and led them around the woods. They had to feel different objects in the woods and identify them based on texture and size.
• We have enjoyed working with the Xcite leaders on Basketball over the last couple of weeks. We have been working on chest and bounce passes.
• We’ve been finishing up our pom-poms that we have been weaving as well as our marble runs and puppet shows this week. We’re excited to show these off to the nursery next week.

Green for growth:

• We need to continue to work on listening in P.E. and watching were we are swinging our rackets and serving the shuttlecocks so we are avoiding hitting others.
• We have been working on adding adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions and fronted adverbials into our writing by uplevelling sentences and identifying these in an orientation. We found it a little tricky to bring these features into our own writing, but we will keep working on this.

Our lead learners this week are Ruaridh and Ben.

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 😊