Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
Please see link above for this week’s home learning.
As it’s fitness week, home learning is health related with practical activities.
There’s no numeracy home learning this week, just the usual spelling and reading.
From next week to the holidays it will just be reading home learning.
Have a good week!
Kind Regards
Louise
I started the week off at camp with P7 this week and what fun we had! The weather was just gorgeous and all children were an absolute credit to their parents and school. Thank you so much P7 for being superstars!
Victor and Jack our two little nursery Guineas Pigs got a new home yesterday which Mrs T and I went to buy and is in the proceess of being assembled. It’s an amazing home and will allow the piggies to spend more time in the nursery garden enjoying the sunshine and grass. The piggies also had their first bath with the help of Mrs Brass to ensure that they remain clean, fragrant and healthy!
We held an assembly today on the last of our Wellbeing Indicators to be discussed this year, which is also one of our school values, ‘ I am included.’ We talked about how we always include others at Springfield regardless of their skin colour, religious belief, gender, dress sense etc etc. We learned about the power of being unique and of celebrating our individuality. We continue to promote the message that it is not okay to leave people out of our play nor is it okay to make negative comments about another person.
Here are the achievements for this week:
-Well done to O in our infant department for lots of success in gymnastics! Keep it up!
-Congratulations to all of the children in our embroidery after-school club and thank you to Mrs Tulloch and her helpers for running it. These children took part in a local competition and are featured in the latest edition of The Black Bitch magazine! We are very proud!
-Well done to James Hammond whose STEM design is through to the next stage of the Scottish Young Engineer Awards. We are rooting for you James!
Have a great weekend everyone! Next week is fitness week and we have lots going on so it will be action-packed.
Miss Baillie xx💖🌞
In Literacy this week we wrote letters to Liam, telling him all about what we’ve been up to this term. We had so much to write about! We also included questions in our letters, as we want to know all about Liam’s new life in Spain.
In Grammar, some of us have been learning how to use commas in lists. For example; I went to the shop and I bought apples, bananas, oranges and pears. We know to use a comma after each item and to separate the last two items using the word ‘and’.
Over the next few weeks we will be revising our common words, playing lots of games and fun activities. This week we had fun playing common word twister!
In Maths this week we have been learning about weight. We can use the words ‘lighter’ and ‘heavier’ when comparing objects. We estimated and measured using scales and cubes, with some of us moving on to measuring in grams. We know that heavier items can be measured in kilograms.
P5’s digital leaders came to visit us on Thursday, they presented powerpoint presentations on Sumdog top tips. We are loving using Powerpoint at the moment, nearly as much as Sumdog!
Finally, we’ve had lots of fun in the sun this week; practising for sports day, reading Stig of the Dump and rehearsing our Springfield’s Got Talent acts.
Next week admin:
Have a lovely weekend,
Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x
In literacy this week we learned plurals and words ending in ‘s’ or ‘es’. We played comprehension games after our reading. We learned about contractions which are when two words join together to make one word e.g. ‘he has’ changes to ‘he’s’.
In numeracy we did ‘Big Maths Beat That’ and revised division and times tables with Mrs Doran. We also counted numbers back and forward in French.
In health and wellbeing, in PE with Mrs Reid we did athletics including shotput and running.
In learning across the curriculum we cut and pasted the process of farm to fork of bread and strawberries to show the order starting from the farm to eating them.
Have a good weekend!
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Hi, Hope you had a lovely weekend.
Please see link above for this weeks home learning. Children have been working on fractions and realise that they need to know how to multiply and divide to get quicker. This is a fun activity to help them to practise. They may need to look some of them up or swap the numbers round e.g if the question is 8 x 4, even if they don’t know their 8 times table, they can swap numbers to 4 x 8 which they should know.
Spelling this week is the other 2 columns from last week’s homework labelled P*s. This means plurals. Most words end in s or es when plural.
Thanks for all the creative spelling ideas. It’s great to see and inspires the other children. I m planning to make next week the last week of home learning. The following week is a short week with the Marches and then it’s the last week. What a fast year!
Kind Regards
Louise
What a week we have had here at Springfield and Bonnytoun! Our nursery has recently been visited by the Care Inspectorate and we have had extremely positive feedback. The report and more information will follow shortly but we are delighted with our feedback and really excited to share our news when it comes! In school we have had a quality improvement visit this week from fellow headteachers and our Education Officer and they were delighted with the progress that the school has made in all areas. We are so grateful for the hard work of all staff and the support of all parents, carers and friends who make up the whole Springfield community. We couldn’t have achieved what we have without you all! Thank you!
Mrs Kennedy and P1B held a lovely assembly today about keeping healthy. The children all spoke confidently and looked so sweet as they sang and danced in their sports clothes.
Here are the achievements for this week:
-Well done to Mrs McAlpine and the Junior Road Safety Commitee for helping Springfield to achieve the ‘cycle friendly school’ award. Great news!
– Congratulations to a number of our infants for success in swimming! Here they are below with their certificates…
-Well done to I and A in P1 for continuing to make progress in gymnastics! Great effort girls!
– Finally, congratulations to R in P2 for her work at Girls Brigade! Super news R!
Another great week at Springfield and Bonnytoun!
Enjoy the weekend!
Miss Baillie xx⭐️💖
In literacy this week we did comprehension on our reading books every day. we had to read reading cards. We did show and tell.
In numeracy we learned that equivalent fractions are fractions that have the same value and we can show fractions on a number line. We learned that we would find fractions easier if we knew our times tables well.
In health and wellbeing, in PE we went on the pitch and we played some games and did relay races with batons. We walked a mile every day.
In learning across the curriculum we designed a straw poster to stop people throwing rubbish in the sea which could harm sea life. We watched a play called ‘The Secret Garden’. It was really good and funny. Then one of the pupils read the book to us.
Have a good weekend!
This week has been another busy week in Primary 3! We have just finished learning about different subtraction strategies and finished this topic by using the strategies we have learned to solve different word problems. Throughout the next few weeks we will be focusing on multiplication, revising what we have done so far and learning some more of the times tables. Please keep working on these at home.
Our Literacy this week focussed on writing an imaginative story which had to include a problem for the character and a resolution. The pupils did a great job achieving this while remembering to include capital letters, full stops and joined up writing. When completing comprehension questions this week we worked in small groups and shared answers together. This helped create some great discussion about our story.
We had great fun outside this week creating our own art work using natural materials. The pupils had been learning about the artist Andy Goldsworthy and decided to try and create their own pieces using materials they found outside. Next week we plan to use these pieces of art to create line drawings.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs McVay & Primary 3
Hi
Hope you’re managing to enjoy some sunshine.
Please see link to this weeks home learning above.
Chilling have just to learn the first 2 columns ‘er’ and ‘est’ as they are longer words and an activity.
Some children found fractions tricky so they are practising again this week. Please reinforce that the number at the bottom is the number of people they are sharing with and the number is the number of objects e.g. pizzas.
If they find the one they choose too challenging or too easy they can choose another one.
Kind Regards
Louise
In literacy this week we did a reading comprehension on our story books. We answered questions in sentences in our own words to show that we understood our reading. We also did a farming comprehension. We researched the process of Farm to Fork and went onto the Tesco and Asda websites which had lots of information, videos and games. We played a game to match up the produce with the animal or plant.
In numeracy we learned about the order of fractions and which were the biggest and smallest. We did formal fractions in our numeracy jotters.
In health and wellbeing, in PE we played basketball and walked a mile a day. We also had a race across the pitch and back and did relay races with batons.
In learning across the curriculum we wrote what we want to know and what we have learned so far about farming. With Mrs Lawrie we used crayons to draw a picture of a sunflower in a pot based on a picture by Vincent Van Gogh. The P4’s went to committees and organised improvements and events for the school. The P3’s went to P2/3 and sang songs. One of the events organised was a Disney Dress down and it was fun.
Have a good weekend!
