Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
Today was our assembly day. Most of us were excited but nervous at the same time.
We are all sad that Mrs Durano is leaving and we hope that she is successful at her new school. AW
We have been practising the stage directions and what we’re doing for FAME. LD
We all enjoyed skiing on Tuesday. The instructors did a good job at teaching us new skills and I’m excited for next Tuesday. HL
The instructors were nice and I learnt how to walk on skis. PK
In Maths we learnt how to exchange rates.
This week, in Maths we have been learning about how to exchange money if you travel abroad.
In literacy we have been finishing off our Scottish poems inspired by Robbie Burns. N.G got to say her poem in assembly.
On Monday P7 got a visit from the Poppy bus we got to make our own Poppies and listen to the stories of the soldiers and families that Poppy Scotland helped .
Everybody is working very hard for our F1 challenge in schools .
We have finished off our script for assembly. Our last class assembly is on next Friday. If parents and carers could come that would be great.
by GF
Primary 7s have been revising on their multiplication and division strategies.
They been learning about WWII. This involved lots of cooperative work, researching and script writing. In addition to this, the children have analysed the poem ” The Sodger’s Rerurn” by Robert Burns. They then wrote their individual narrative poem which included Scottish words. They have done themselves proud!
They have also created oil pastel portraits which used the subject of children during WWII. This type of art was inspired the work of a Scottish artist named Joan Eardley.
We are so proud of all the P6s and P7s for presenting their Scottish Opera to the whole school. They have worked extremely hard and it paid off! Well done all of you. You have made everyone so very proud!
This week we have;
Next week, we will focus on writing poetry inspired by Robert Burn’s poetry.
Have a lovely week everyone!
This week we have been working on creating winter silhouette painting. We learnt to blend shades of blue. We also learnt to gradate colours in our painting to show light and dark contrast.
We enjoyed a STEM challenge as we created origami Christmas trees. Many of us demonstrated resilience by never giving up. Some us had to make 3 or more attempts to perfect the tree.
We had a great time at our disco. We played party games and Mr Wells showed us a magic trick! What a good way to end the term. There were lots of laughter and fun this week.
Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy new year!!
P7b class and Mrs Durano
Highlights of the week…
Fame Auditions- This week, the fame auditions took place on Monday. We found out who got the main roles on Tuesday afternoon. It was a quite an anxious wait for us all. According to the judges, everyone did very well. The standard of performances were very high.
Well done to the pupils who had the courage to audition.
Also we would like to congratulate those who were successful in securing a role.
In Maths we investigated properties of 3D shapes, 3D nets and we interpreted scale drawings.
In Modern languages, we learnt how to say French words for classroom objects. We also learnt some Spanish words for clothing and accessories.
Expressive Arts- Many of us were very happy and proud that we have learnt to braid wool. We have also been practicing our Opera songs. We are getting better at keeping in tune!
In literacy, we wrote explanations about what makes a fast car.
Next week is our Christmas fair and dinner! We are so excited!
The P7s have been busy with costing and making enterprise products for the upcoming Christmas Fayre. They have taken this responsibility seriously. It’s a joy to watch them negotiate and make decisions as a group.
For the F1 challenge, the children actively research information on t”what makes a fast car”. This will help them create their own F1 version. In addition to this, they have also looked into designing their own team logo and name.
For literacy, we uplevelled our stories that we wrote. Then we wrote a recount on what we have so far done with our F1 project. We had exciting Wednesday afternoon as we met the author of Shadows of Winterspell, Amy Wilson. She gave us tips on how to write magical stories.
For Numeracy, the P7s investigated angles of triangles. They learnt how to find the value of x in equations and some of simplified simple expressions.
Some of children went to the Sportshall Athletics event. They did so well. They showed true sportsmanship and determination. They make the whole school proud!
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
P7b and Mrs Durano
Hello all,
We have had a busy week here in P7B here are some of the things we have done!
On Monday we started our F1 topic. We got into groups by deciding what our strengths and weaknesses are. We then decided on our team name and logo.
After our lunch we went into our leadership groups, we were busy sorting things out with lessons and we have started to type up the school newspaper. We then went into our enterprise groups and did our pricing of what we needed to buy for our the Christmas Fayre stalls.
On Tuesday we had science first thing. We were finishing off our classification keys using sweets. We got to eat the sweets after we finished!!! We planned our creative stories. We could write whatever we wanted to.
On Wednesday the parents came in to see how we do number talks. we stared writing our creative stories it was very fun because our class has a very good imagination.
On Thursday we done Futsal tournament. Then we finished our work on algebra.
We hope you have a good weekend everyone!
Written by NG and MC
P.S.
Next week we will be learning to write an information text.
We’ve had a very productive week in P7b.
For literacy, we wrote various types of creative texts about Halloween. We also learnt to spell words ending in -cial and – tial. Then we reviewed our knowledge of homophones .
Expressive art- we made origami bookmarks and practiced our songs for the Scottish Opera and FAME the musical.
For numeracy, we looked at number patterns, revisited the four operations and we created illusions using our knowledge of symmetry, fractions and decimals. We also worked together to solve Daily Rigour Problems.
This week, we also met with our enterprise groups. We planned our activities and listed the required materials. Next week, we will hopefully find the cost of each item.
On Monday, we will start our imaginative writing exercise.
See you nest week everyone!
