Author: Miss Baillie

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💖💫

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💖

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💖💫