Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
P1, P1/2 and P7 were very busy today helping design a new sleigh for Santa. It was lovely to see the children working with their buddies. P7 listening well to their buddies ideas, and P1 and P1/2 had lots of fabulous suggestions for the design as you can see from some examples below.
A great activity for our last day ! Merry Christmas from P7, P1/2 and P1.
P7a took part in the worldwide “Hour of Code” campaign. The aim of this was to show that anyone of any age or ability can learn computer science or coding.
We all had great fun trying out different games, as expected the children could certainly teach Mrs Gordon a thing or two…To try it at home just go to this site : https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
This week we continued to write our French penpal letters learning how to say what our favourite sports were. In numeracy calculator skills were order of the week and the children had fun creating restaurant menus and then ordering lots of food to test those skills !
Skiing week 3 was a huge success with everyone moving further up the hill, even Mrs Gordon !
We started our discussions around democracy and have 4 parties setting up a campaign and creating manifestos, watch this space…
Happy weekend from Mrs Gordon and P7a
This week we have been focused on preparing for the school Christmas Fair. Both P7 classes had to create their own enterprise plan in groups. They had to plan, create, market and sell their team “product”. We had everything from reindeer dust to beautiful tree ornaments. The children had great fun, and we made lots of money for our end of year trip!
Skiing week 2 went very well. We all progressed to the tow and had some tumbles and bumps, but a lot of fun in the process.
In French we got letters from our penpals in Guyancourt. We started to reply back to our penpals and are very excited that they will come and visit us in May or June next year.
P7a and Mrs Gordon
What an amazing time we had skiing on Thursday. Have a look at some photos below. I was very proud of all of the children. We all had a growth mindset and gave it a go (even if we were scared), which Mrs Gordon was!
This week we also wrote a persuasive letter to the Brazilian ambassador about our concerns over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
In maths we continued working with large numbers and place value, and in French we focused on time.
Enterprise skills have been developing as our mini teams prepare their products, and complete marketing for the Christmas fair next week. Everyone is very excited and the class will be full of glitter and loombands next week!
This week P7a have continued using “The Great Kapok Tree” as our book focus. The children have been researching deforestation and threats in the Amazon Rainforest in pairs, we will be writing a persuasive letter to the Brazilian Government next week to ask them to continue to reduce deforestation.
We wrote very moving recounts of our trip to the Lady Haig Poppy Factory, and had a fabulous discussion about the emotions we felt during the visit.
On Wednesday Springfield P7’s won the cluster Sportshall Athletics competition. We were extremely proud of the children who despite a long warm up walk to get to the leisure centre scored top marks for the event.
Yesterday we started our enterprise focus. We are helping the children gain skills for life, learning and work. The children have split into groups and have been tasked to come up with a business plan for their “product” which will be sold by them at the Christmas Fair. They have to look at planning, design, resources, costing, marketing and sales. Watch this space for more news…
What a fabulous visit P7 had to the Lady Haig Poppy Factory in Edinburgh.
We were fortunate to visit on the 11th November and had the honour of taking part in the Armistice Service at 11am.
Sean was confident during his reading and Grace laid the wreath on our behalf. We were all very proud of them. P7 were complimented when leaving for their behaviour and the way in which they conducted themselves today. A credit to their parents and to Springfield Primary School, and a perfect example of the responsible citizens and role models that we strive for in P7.
We learnt lots about World War II and Lily and Calum had an opportunity to dress as they would have at the time. Calum was scaring Mrs Gordon slightly !
After this we went into the factory and after hearing how the 43 individuals that work in the factory handmake all the poppies and wreaths, we had a chance to make our own. The children absolutely loved this and would have kept going all day…
Making these poppies was a fantastic end to a special trip. We made new memories whilst remembering old …
Mrs Gordon, Mr Logan, P7a and P7b.
What a hive of activity in P7a this week as we created Brazilian landmarks out of junk. The children were split into teams of 3 or 4 and had to design and plan their landmark.
The creativity and teamwork was incredible (so was the mess in the classroom !). Have a look at a few of the lovely sights…
Carnival in Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon River and Rainforest.
Copacabana Beach and the Iguazu Falls.
This week we continued our Brazil focus by learning about samba music. We began with basic rhythm and polyrhythm. Next week we will continue our learning by adding instruments to create the typical samba reggae.
On Thursday we were very lucky to have a veteran from the British Legion talk to us about his experience in the Royal Navy. The children from P7 and P5 were captivated whilst he shared his experiences, and asked him lots of interesting questions including the obligatory “did you kill anyone?”, to which the answer was no…
This week we have been very focused on Brazil. We have included it in PE, literacy, music and modern languages.
Both classes learnt some basic Portuguese, it was amazing to see the children make links with other languages they know and guess words when completing their jigsaw puzzles.
In PE we looked at samba dancing and a Rio 2 dance. The children enjoyed taking part and pretending to be Amazon creatures through dance moves.
On Friday we shared our knowledge of French with our P1 buddies by doing some singing and simple role play. It was lovely to see them interact and for our P7’s to show off what they know.
Primary 7A and B
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