Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
Thank you so much to Mrs Matos who delivered an informative presentation to parents last night on our approaches to teaching problem-solving.
Please see the attached presentation for your convenience.
Problem Solving parent presentation (1)
Many thanks,
Miss Baillie
We held an assembly today to celebrate World Book Day. We talked about the pleasure that can be found in reading and how much we can learn from books. Did you know that reading can be thought of as ‘exercise for the brain?’ It helps us to make links with what we know and these links help form neural pathways in our brain.
Children shared their favourite books and authors. What a diverse range of texts we enjoy!
Our nursery children had great fun yesterday, dressing up as characters from their favourite books. All staff were dressed up too!
Achievements for this week:
– Well done to Z in P3 for gaining a trophy for Irish dancing! What a brilliant hobby Z!
Have a lovely weekend everyone! Read lots!
Miss Baillie xx💖💫📚
Well done to D in P6 who recently played very well at the Lothian Junior Congress Chess tournament. His award was given for making the best progress in score among the 50 participants (P6-7) at the tournament.
Brilliant news D! We are proud of you!
Miss Baillie x
Congratulations to J in P7 who recently achieved success in Tae Kwon Do. He won gold and silver medals in a match that proved particularly challenging. J showed real determination and perseverance and we are so proud that his positive attitude and efforts paid off!
Well done J!
Miss Baillie x
Today we held our next ‘Wellbeing Indicator’ assembly focused on ‘we are achieving.’ As you all know, we track each pupil’s health and wellbeing on a daily and termly basis at Springfield and Bonnytoun. We have noticed from the data that we gather, that some children have the false perception that they are not achieving in school or are worried about how well they are doing. This is something that we are seeking to rectify by the messages that we give our learners and we’d ask for your support with this at home. Everyone is doing well and all children in school and nursery are making progress.
We talked today in assembly about ‘achievement’ being about progress. We also learned that achievement can be realised when you believe in yourself, practise a skill until it is mastered and never give up! It was also explained to children that we need to be comfortable with our own strengths and weeknesses and see the beauty in our uniqueness.
We also had a ‘sneaky peek’ at the Glee performance which some of our P6 and P7 pupils will showcase at Howden Park Centre in the next few weeks. The children look and sound amazing and we can’t wait to see them perform on the night. Thank you to Mrs Bell for her support with this.
Pupil achievements for this week:
– Well done to A and K in P1 for their achievements in gymnastics and Enjoy-a-ball.
-A brilliant effort from L in P3 for making progress in swimming.
-Well done to S and O in P4 for gymnastics success.
-Finally to A in P3 and R in P4 also for making progress in swimming.
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Baillie xx💖💫
We are so proud of E in P7 who recently grew and cut her hair for the Little Princess Trust, raising a massive £467 in the process! The Little Princess Trust provide wigs to girls who have lost their hair through illness.
What a kind thing to do E and what a massive achievement!
Miss Baillie x
It has been a short but busy week here in school and nursery.
Today, Mrs Newton and P6A led a very interesting assembly about democracy and The Scottish Parliament. We also found out about some exciting plans for Fairtrade Fortnight which begins next week.
Our nursery children started their work on Fairtrade today by ordering some Fairtrade bananas on the Internet for snack!
There will be lots of Fairtrade activities and competitions in school over the next two weeks and we will be holding a Bake Sale on 7th March.
Last night, many families came along to the Fun Languages Evening at Linlithgow Primary School. This was a hugely successful event which saw French and Spanish languages being promoted through songs, games and other activities. Thank you to Mrs Gordon and the rest of the staff who helped to organise this. We continue to teach French from nursery to P7 and Spanish in upper stages.
Mr Wells and I have been very busy visiting lots of different classes this week to take part in writing lessons and to check that we are delivering high quality writing experiences for our children. We are delighted with the standard of writing produced by our pupils across all stages. Thank you to all staff who continue to work extremely hard and take on board guidance to continually improve.
Pupil Achievements this week:
-Well done to two of our lovely P1 pupils! Firstly to L for her gymnastics award and also to D for going on an adventure down a mine!
Have a super weekend!
Miss Baillie x💖💫
We were looking forward to our holiday weekend today, as P3 led a superb assembly about ‘forces.’ Thank you Mrs Kennedy for putting on such an informative assembly which was a lovely way to end a busy week.
We are very proud of our children’s knowledge and abilities in Science at Springfield, thanks to the expertise of Mrs Tulloch and Mrs Begarnie. Mrs Tulloch is busy working with P7 on their STEM project this term, which is to build a moveable buggy. Our STEM family learning event will take place in Term 4 where you will be able to take part in a STEM challenge with your child.
Achievements this week:
-Well done to D in P3 for his success with Linlithgow Rose Football Team.
-Congratulations to F in P4/5 for his efforts at Cubs and to A in P1 for the same in Beavers! Well done boys!
-Finally, we are extremely proud of a group of our P7 children who came second (by one point!) in the Linlithgow cluster schools, Inter-house Quiz!
Have a lovely long weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie xx💖💫
All children had the chance to visit Dovecot Park this week, with their class, for our House award. Teachers reported how much fun the children had and how nicely they played together. We are going to try to get children out to the Park more often as we further develop Outdoor Learning. Watch this space for further news!
Today in assembly, we looked at the Wellbeing Indicator ‘being nurtured.’ We talked about how we care for pets, plants and babies as we learned about what ‘nuture’ means. Children were reminded who they should approach for support should they have any worries or concerns.
We found out the exciting news last night that again, we have the main retinue in this year’s Gala Day! Well done to A, L and J in P7 who have been chosen to undertake the roles of Queen, Chief Lady and Champion. We can’t wait until the Gala Day and we are so proud of our children.
Pupil achievements:
-A in P1 was delighted to show me her Enjoy-a-Ball trophy today! Well done A!
Today our basketball team are playing in the West Lothian league, Pool A. I am standing watching them now and they have just won their first game, 12 nil! Go Team Springfield! 💚 Thank you to Mrs Kerr and Mr Logan for their hard work with this group of children.
A few parents have spoken recently about our playground and how busy it is/playground supervision. Although we always have the correct staff-child ratio, we will increase staff numbers in future weeks and continue to ensure that all children play happily. Please continue to approach us if you have any concerns at all. If we don’t know then we can’t fix it!
Have a great weekend,
Miss Baillie x💖
Today we held an assembly to mark UNICEF’s ‘Safe Internet Day.’ This term all classes across school undertake a block of work on Internet safety. Today was an introduction to the work that will follow. All children learned about how they should stay safe online and to approach an adult with any worries.
We take our responsibility in the area of Internet Safety extremely seriously as we work to safeguard all children in school. Please ask your children to share some of the information that they learned today.
Thank you to all parents who completed our recent Health and Wellbeing survey. We hope that you have managed to read our responses and how we have put in place actions for any points raised, in the ‘you say, we did’ document, which was emailed out to you all this week.
As always, please get in touch with any concerns or with feedback as to how we can do things better. We are trying very hard and we do want to get things right for each and every child.
There have been numerous achievements this week including the following:
-L in P2 brought along his Victorian coin collection to show me! What an amazing collection he has!
-Our Fizzy Fingers group, led by Mrs Scott have been busy making Scottie dog mobiles!
-A in P6 wrote an amazing letter to Scotrail to say how he thinks the train services could be improved. He got a very lengthy reply! Great writing A!
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Baillie xx💖
