Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink

• For topic this week we were learning about farming and where different foods come from. The children worked collaboratively to sort foods into the correct group and then enjoyed playing with some farm animals and making their own farms.

• For outdoor learning this week we took part in a bug hunt. The children had a container with a magnifying glass as a lid – this helped them to see the bug up close. We found lots of worms, slugs, woodlouse and one centipede.

• For buddy time this week we enjoyed reading to our buddies! The P1/2s done fantastic with their reading and then the P6/7s challenged them to a tricky word hunt in the book before drawing their favourite part of the story.

Green for Growth

• In maths we have started looking at money, learning all of the different coins. We done a coin rubbing activity and some children found this a bit tricky.
• During our French lesson we were learning about the country France. We found out lots of information and some children found it a bit tricky to remember the key facts.

Our Lead Learners are Miah and Ernest!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We started learning about time in maths. We have recapped o’clock and half past and began looking at quarter to and quarter past.
• For outdoor learning we helped the rights respecting team by posting leaflets through doors in the community.
• As part of pupil voice, we had group descriptive feedback sessions and decided to change the table layout in the classroom to better suit our learning. We think that sitting in twos will help us to concentrate better.

Green for Growth

• Our topic is a project based learning idea based around gaming. We have so many ideas but we have to remember that we need to start at the beginning and not think about cut scenes and xp points just yet.
• In literacy we are continuing learning about speech marks and not forgetting the other punctuation.
• Division with remainders has been tricky for a lot of us in numeracy.

Lead learners next week are Zac and Abi.

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful week with lots of interesting 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 outdoor learning on Monday as it was great fun delivering leaflets to houses in our school community about our work in school on children’s rights
• We enjoyed our PE with Mrs Denholm because of the Olympics theme and the variety of activities
• We enjoyed our writing activity where we had to write a response text about the short animation “Coin Operated” as it was something quite different for a writing task
• We had great fun with our buddies and loved that they were reading to us this week and we enjoyed exploring the books together
• We had lots of fun in with volleyball in PE this week
• Our four Primary 7 pupils who represented the school at the Rotary Club quiz had great fun and represented the school fabulously. They also did a wonderful job managing to achieve fourth place out of fifteen schools

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

• Some of us felt that the “Coin Operated” writing task was a wee bit tricky as it was a bit difficult to think up different themes for each paragraph in this response text
• A few of the Primary 7s found the Literacy transition lesson on “Holes” a bit tricky as the questions from the DCHS English teacher were difficult
• Some of us found the Maths work with time a little tricky, especially the work with time measurements of less than a second

Our lead learners were Megan, Alieu, Logan and Chloe.  They had decided on the following three targets for the class; to show respect to others including teachers, pupils support workers and other children, to focus well in Writing and Debating and to try to wear uniform to school most days. They identified lots of children in class meeting all three of the targets that they set, which is great news. Well done for a brilliant week, P6/7.

We have had a busy week this week.

Things that have gone well.

• Scale in Maths- we were using a key – 1cm is 25km – we then had to calculate distances.
• Bleep Test -PE
• Outdoor learning – Delivering RRSA leaflets around  the village and talking to people about children’s rights..
• Health and Wellbeing – listening to a sentence and doing the drawing – Comparing the drawings. We recognised that everyone thinks differently, even when we all listened to the same instructions.

Things that have been tricky.

• The Bleep Test was fun but very tiring!
• Writing about the water cycle.
• The mental maths challenges

Tickled Pink:

• We enjoyed writing about a recount of a birthday this week. We either wrote about our favourite birthday party or a favourite birthday party that we attended.
• We have planted potatoes this week as part of our farming topic and are excited to watch them grow.
• We have been practicing for our class assembly this week and have been working hard on remembering our lines.

Green for growth:

• We were working on our times tables this week. Some of us are finding the 2, 4 and 5 times tables a bit hard but we are trying our best.
• We did a multiplication treasure hunt during outdoor learning however we found it a little tricky writing the answers to the sums as well as trying to find the letters.

Our lead learners this week are CJ and Chloe.

We have had a great first week back after the Easter holiday!

Tickled Pink

• Everyone done fantastic with their recount writing about what they done during the holidays.
• The children created fantastic Gala Day Posters for the competition, our theme this year is Movies.
• As a class we played boggle, I was so impressed with how many words the children came up with!
• In PE we did an obstacle course which involved using a range of gross motor skills. The children loved the limbo and stepping logs.

Green for Growth

• In Music we were playing the Boomwhackers – some children found it a bit tricky to play on the beat.
• In Maths we were being ‘Sign Detectives’ and had to work out if the sum was addition or subtraction. Some children needed support for this by the adult asking where the largest number was because that will help us work out what sign we need to use.

Our Lead Learners next week are Murren and Leo.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Wallace

Primary 6/7 have had a fantastic first week back 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 enjoyed making our competition entries for the Gala Day programme competition because of the freedom we were given to choose different ideas around the movie theme
• We enjoyed our activity with Mrs Denholm to design our own sustainable school
• We enjoyed continuing to prepare for our first class debate this week as we considered what our arguments are going to be and how to argue back to the other team’s arguments
• We enjoyed our writing activity as we were able to write about our own opinions of the class novel that we read last term
• We had lots of fun in PE this week
• We had great fun in buddying as we played games and got to spend time with our buddies again after the break

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

• Some of us felt that writing was a wee bit tricky as it was tempting to summarise the story from the book when we had to make sure we were including our judgement about the book and how the author had written it
• A few of us found the work with train and flight timetables a little tricky in Maths
• Some of us found the Gala Day poster difficult because it was hard to choose which movie images to use

Our lead learners were Paige, Rose, Lily and Oscar.  The had decided on the following three targets for the class; to be responsible outside in the playground, not to make silly noises in class and to be respectful to all adults in school. They identified lots of children in class meeting the targets that they set, which is great news. Well done for a great week, P6/7.

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed writing a recount about our Easter Holidays and everything we got up to during the time off.
• We spent a long time working on our Gala Day poster competitions for the Gala Day programme this year.
• In maths we have been learning about Carroll diagrams and making up our own set of criteria for it.

Green for Growth

• For literacy we have focused on using speech marks and remembering that they only go around the spoken words.
• In RME, Mrs Flynn was teaching us all about Joseph and his coat of many colours, there are so many to remember.
• We did some drama about the Great Fire of London but it was hard at first to not giggle when others are acting.

Lead Learners this week are Ben and Noel.

Primary 2/3 had a fantastic first week back from their Easter holidays.

Tickled Pink:

• We started our new topic ‘Farming’ and discussed the different types of farms that can be found in Scotland.
• We wrote a recount of an activity we did during the school holidays and were so proud of our writing.
• In outdoor learning, we were putting our time knowledge to the test by becoming human clocks! We had lots of fun creating our clocks and pretending to be the hour and minute hands.

Green Growth:

• We’ve been continuing with multiplication this week. Some of us found counting in 5’s tricky when learning our 5 times table.
• During literacy this week, we had been learning about putting commas in a list. We are trying very hard to remember to use commas instead of ‘and’.

Lead learners this week are Ellie and Cade.