Well done to D in P6 who got second place in his category at the Hamilton Junior Chess Congress in Airdrie at the weekend!
We are so proud of you!
Miss Baillie x
A Scottish Week at SPS and Bonnytoun
Our annual Scots focus ended today with children from each class presenting their learning at assembly. We listened to information about lots of famous Scots who have changed life for us today because of their inventions or actions.
Primary 7 helped us to celebrate Burns Night earlier on this week by organising a fantastic Burns Supper for their friends and families. Well done to all children who recited poems, danced or presented information to the audience.
Next week, all classes will be moving on in their learning to investigate an aspect of history that is of interest to them and that meets our curricular objectives.
On a Tuesday and Wednesday each class will get the chance to visit Dovecot Park for a short play session, for reaching the ‘1000 springs’ House target.
In the coming weeks, we are going to be looking at the quality of our children’s writing across school and working as a staff team to ensure that all children are being given the best support to fulfil their potential in this area.
We hope that you have enjoyed reading our school and nursery newsletters which were emailed to you all this week.
As always, if you have any comments, suggestions or feedback on the work that we do then please drop in to see us or send us an email via the school mailbox.
Your support is very much appreciated. We always try to listen to and act on your views to make Springfield and Bonnytoun the very best that they can be for our children and families.
Have a great weekend!
Miss Baillie x💖💫
This Week’s News at SPS and Bonnytoun
We have been busy continuing our Scots focus in school this week. Today, P4/5 held a great assembly about ‘New Year’ which ended with all children singing a Scots song about a centipede. Thank you to Mr Ritchie for his efforts which saw all children speaking out and performing well.
Next week, P7 will be holding a Burns’ Supper on Tuesday afternoon and P2 will also be having an afternoon of Scots poetry and activities.
Our Nursery children have been developing their ‘forest skills’ this week by roasting marshmallows on our brand new fire pit.
Tomorrow, a group of staff and P6 and P7 pupils are off to Newcastle to spend the day undertaking football related activities.
Each of our school Houses; Champleurie, Binns, Hopetoun and Ochiltree have now earned over 1000 ‘springs’ and have chosen to cash these in on a trip to Dovecot Park! This means that each class will be allowed to visit the park for a play session over the next week or so. Keep posted for more news.
Have a super weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie xx💖
Term 3 at SPS and Bonnytoun Begins
Happy New Year to you all!
We have had a lovely, calm and settled start to Term 3 and to the month of January in school and nursery.
This week all classes have been reinforcing our school values and this culminated in a ‘values assembly’ today in school. We talked about the ongoing need to be kind and respectful to each other. Staff are going to be looking out for positive behaviour in our dinner hall this term with the chance for one pupil to be crowned the ‘dinner hall champion’, before Easter, for showcasing good manners and behaviour.
Nursery children are going to be learning about the school value of ‘being included’ as they play games and learn to share and take turns.
Here are the achievements for this week:
-A huge congratulations to Zara in P7 for gaining Grade 1 in piano! What a brilliant achievement!
-Well dons to C in P3 who continues to perform well in Gymnastics.
Next week, our pupils are going on to begin a block of work learning about famous Scottish inventors and the contributions they have made to our lives today. This will form part of our work in Social Studies for this term.
You will receive your child’s home learning grid and Sharing the Learning sheet for the term, when they are sent home in school bags next week. We hope that you enjoy taking part in your child’s learning and helping them to practise skills learned in school.
Have a great weekend,
Miss Baillie xx💖
Pupil Achievements
Congratulations to the following children for their successes this week:
– To C in P2 for raising a huge sum of money for charity. We are so proud of you C!
-To C in P1 for success in Ballet.
– And to E in P4 who has also had a huge achievement in dancing.
Miss Baillie x 💖💫
Festive Fun at SPS and a Special Goodbye
Today we held our last children’s Xmas party and at the end said a heartfelt ‘goodbye’ to a very special little boy. Our lovely F is returning to South Africa after spending several years at Springfield. F and his Mum have both contributed so much to the life of our school and they will be sadly missed. Goodbye and good luck F! We will all miss you!
Thank you to all families who came to our Christmas service at St Michael’s this week. We had a great turn out and it was a pleasure to see you all there.
Tomorrow we end our Christmas celebrations with ‘Carols Around the Tree’ for P3-7 pupils.
Have a wonderful holiday when it comes,
Miss Baillie xxx💖🎄❄️⛸
Mairi’s Cycling Success!
We are delighted to announce that M in P4/5 has recently been awarded the under 8 girls Clarion Cycle club championship trophy for winning the club 5 race series (road, mountain, cycle cross, grass track and hill). Well done M! We are so proud of you!
Miss Baillie x
Christmas Happenings at SPS and Bonnytoun
This week we held three successful performances of the ‘Wriggly Nativity’ led by our P1-2 children.
On Monday our friends from Linlithgow Day Care Centre watched the dress-rehearsal performance and thoroughly enjoyed seeing all of the children perform. We are really proud of the link that we have with the Day Care Centre. There are published studies about the benefits of old and young learning together and this is something that we will continue to take forward in school and nursery.
Thank you to all of our P1-2 pupils and the infant staff for their hard work in making our Nativity performances a huge success.
All children in school went to Howden Park Centre to watch the Jack and the Beanstalk Panto yesterday. They all had a wonderful time!
Next week we will be holding our nursery and P1-7 Xmas parties and our family church service at St Michael’s.
Please also note that our P3-7 children will be singing ‘carols around the tree’ next Friday morning at the following times:
9. 15am-P3-5 with parents invited.
10am-P6-7 with parents invited.
In the last newsletter, we shared our ‘wish list’ of some of the items that we hope to buy with money raised by the PTA. I am absolutely delighted to say that we have now purchased and built a fantastic ‘block play’ resource for our infant corridor. Our P3 ‘play leaders’ will begin to lead other children in block play.
Thank you all for allowing us to buy such a fanstastic resource! Block play is known to enable learning across all curriculum areas as well as promoting creativity and problem-solving skills. I can’t wait to see what the children build!
Our infant department is looking amazing and it provides a smooth transition from nursery , across the early level and into P2 and P3. Many of the learning and teaching approaches that we use in nursery can be seen in our infant department , allowing us to have a shared understanding about what high quality experiences look like in early years. Our children are able to make progress and add depth to their learning as they grow.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie xx 🎄 💖💖
The Start of Christmas at SPS and Bonnytoun
We are feeling the festive spirit at Springfield and Bonnytoun this week with the kick-off of our annual Christmas events.
On Tuesday and Thursday our nursery children performed brilliantly at their Xmas sing-along and enjoyed a special visit from Santa.
Thank you to all children and families who made decorations for our Christmas trees at St Michael’s. The trees have been decorated with the help of two lovely Primary 7 girls and they will appear at the ‘Festival of Christmas trees’ from today until Sunday. Please head along to the church and view our trees if you have time. They look lovely!
We held an extremely successful Christmas Fayre today with the help of the PTA. Thank you to everyone who helped to make this event happen and to all who supported it. We are extremely grateful for your contributions and all money raised will be spend in school and nursery for the benefit of our pupils.
Here is our pupil achievement for this week…
Well done to D for his karate medal!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie xx💖💫
Pupil Achievements
We’ve had a flurry of pupil achievements this week as follows:
-Well done to E and E, the two lovely sisters, who have been doing great things in swimming!
– Congratulations to N in P1 for his Enjoy-a-Ball trophy!
-Well done to a group of P3 children who have been busy sewing and weaving!
-N in P6 got ‘highly commended’ in her recent Highland Dancing exam. Well done N!
Miss Baillie x💖
