Seafield Primary School

Tickled Pink:

• We have started looking at subtraction in Maths and the children are loving being Subtraction Ninjas… they have enjoyed playing squashy subtraction with the playdough and exploring new games on the iPad.
• We have been learning about Scotland this week – including about famous Scots like Robert Burns and Steven Brown. We loved drawing our own McCoos and having a wee party to celebrate Robert Burns… we tried shortbread and irn bru! Click the link to see our McCoos … P1 McCoos

• We were using the describing bubble to help us write descriptive sentences about a Hen and her Chicks. The children came up with super sentences!

Green for Growth:

• Some children are finding it a bit tricky to count tally marks – we will keep practising.

Lead Learners will be announced next week as we were not in school today… I hope everyone stays safe and has a lovely weekend!

Mrs Wallace

Tickled Pink

• We enjoyed creating our own Scots poem and some of us will be reciting them at our Burns Supper.
• In art we did Scots words pop art and it was fun trying to make the pop art stand out.
• We all enjoyed Miss White’s party because it was her last day with us, we had a lot of fun.
• We finished our fractions topic and we were all happy  we had finished working on such a tricky concept. What an achievement!

Green for Growth

• We were learning coordinates with Mrs Baird,  we understood how to plot co-ordinates on a grid but it was tricky to solve problems about co-ordinates.
• We were trying to learn our Scottish poems off by heart for our whole school Scottish assembly and some of our poems were written by  Robert Burns and so we have found them a bit tricky to learn.

Lead Learner Update

Our lead learners this week were Jake and Oscar they choose to focus on

do your reading homework

be responsible in class

do your work and don’t talk across your table.

Many pupils in the class achieved these targets. Well done!

The blog this week was created by Shiva.

Tickled Pink:

• We really enjoyed exploring Seafield further this week in Outdoor Learning. We went down to the fallen tree and explored climbing trees and crossing the burn over the tree bridge and making our own bridges as well.
• We enjoyed practising our Scottish dancing this week and have been working on the Virginia Reel.
• This week has been all about preparing for the Burns supper that we are hosting for the DISCO group and our class assembly. Not only have we been learning Scottish dances, we have been practising Scottish poems, writing our own Scots poems and singing Scottish songs.

Green for growth:

• We found our fraction maths work this week a little tricky. Some of us are working on equivalent fractions and were struggling of understanding what these were.
• We are working hard creating our Scots poem even if we are finding it a bit difficult to work out how to rhyme some of the words!

Our lead learners this week are Ryan and Noel.

Tickled Pinks

• This week for outdoor learning we went to Deanburn Gardens. We explored the woods and were able to climb trees, dig and splash around in the swampy puddles. We enjoyed this because it was fun and trying something new.
• Miss Love taught us about symmetry in maths. We had 4 tasks: ipads, lego patterns, painting symmetrical pictures and making symmetrical patterns out of marshmallows (which we ate afterwards).
• Today we had our hub group where we all go to different teachers and learn different things. Cade enjoyed the H&W because we learned about exercise and sporty days.

Green for Growth

• In numeracy we have been using play dough to help us learn fractions, some of us need to keep working on splitting the whole in halves, quarters, thirds, fifths, eigths, etc.

Lead learners this week are Fatoumata and Lily.

P2/3 have had a brilliant week this week!

Tickled Pink:

• We have been enjoying learning all about Scottish animals – we have been researching them and have made information posters all about them to display in class.
• In science this week we have been looking at living and non-living things – we worked together to write a sentence about living things and then ‘bumped it up’ to a sentence with detailed information. It was amazing!

Green for growth:

• We have still been working on the 2 times table and feel like we could use some more practice so we are going to continue with this next week.

Our lead learners this week are Ernest for being resilient and Ava for being responsible – Well done!

Tickled Pink:

• We had lots of fun during Outdoor Learning. We went on a Winter Scavenger Hunt and had to look really hard to find the different winter items.
• We have started looking at weather this week and have been completing a weather chart daily to track it.
• We were writing about monsters this week and got to draw our own monster to write descriptive sentences about. The monsters all looked fantastic and the children done really well with their sentences using the describing bubble.

Green for Growth:

• We started looking at tally marks in maths this week and some children were finding it a bit tricky to remember that the 5th one goes across.

Our Lead Learners next week are Iver and Olivia C.

Have a super weekend,

Mrs Wallace!

Primary 6/7 have had a wonderful 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:

Tickled Pink (things that we feel went well):

• We really enjoyed PE this week as it was our last Tag Rugby session and we played a lot of games
• We have enjoyed our learning focus on the Burngrange disaster and the learning that we did in Topic about this event and our newspaper report task in Writing about this tragedy which actually happened 78 years ago today
• Our Primary 6 pupils enjoyed starting their buddying sessions with the Nursery children
• We enjoyed finishing off our work on Fractions in Maths and creating posters to demonstrate our knowledge and learning
• We enjoyed starting our Burns focus again and starting to prepare for our Burns Supper by choosing our poems for recital and singing some of our Scottish songs again

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

• Some of us felt a little disappointed that we are finishing up with Tag Rugby as we have really enjoyed this focus in PE
• Some of us felt that it was a little tricky to research information about the people who died in the Burngrange Disaster
• Some of us feel a little worried about having to learn our Scots poems during our current Scottish focus

Our lead learners for this week were Preston, Harvey, Julia and Meg. They set the following class targets for the week; be sensible using laptops and devices in school, don’t be disrespectful and be kind to our pupil support workers. Our lead learners witnessed lots of our class meeting these targets, which was wonderful to see.

Our school value award winners for this week are Jake and Oscar.

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

Tickled Pink:

• We started Scottish Dancing during P.E. this week in preparation for our Burns Supper. We were a bit apprehensive at first but kept improving throughout the lesson.
• We concentrated on making sure we were hitting our core targets this week in writing and we enjoyed writing about a shipwreck. We will move onto creating our own poetry over the next couple of weeks.

Green for growth:

• We started fractions this week and found it a little tricky when comparing fractions on a number line. We made our own human fraction number line in class to help us and we also compared which fractions were higher or smaller.

Our lead learners are Georgia and Harris.

Tickled Pinks

• In our class we have a new teacher called Miss Love. She is very nice and friendly and we are looking forward to working with her this term.
• In numeracy, we were revising adding and subtracting which some of us actually found fun!
• We have been sent a secret mission from a mysterious source. It is a top secret mission for now, however, it involves an old ship. We will share more later on…

Green for Growth

• In PE, we have been learning Scottish dancing with Mrs Robertson. We focused on the Virginia Reel but we need to practise our left and rights.
• For maths, we have practised learning directions such as north, east, south and west, as well as clockwise and anticlockwise.

Our lead learners this week are Olivia and Grace.

We have had a wonderful first week back to school!

Tickled Pink:

• We have started our Scottish focus for this month and in art we looked at tartan patterns. We learned that tartan is made from vertical and horizontal lines and is a repeated pattern sequence. We tried out our new line techniques and created our own Scottish tartan!
• We have been learning all about Scottish animals and we drew our chosen animal and then stuck it on top of our tartan to create a fantastically Scottish picture. We are so proud of these that we have decided to put them on the wall outside our classroom door for everyone to see.
• In HWB this week we wrote all about our wonderful memories from 2024 and made some new year resolutions that we would like to work on for 2025.

Green for Growth:

• We have started to look at our times-tables in numeracy and are finding it a little tricky but we are excited to work hard next week to get better at them.

The lead learners this week are Murren for being respectful and Harriet for being kind.