Primary 3 – Page 15 – Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Hope you enjoyed the lovely sunny weekend.!

Above is a link to this week’s home learning.

All children will be doing the same spelling sheet. They should also do an activity on five of the sounds.

If I have already contacted you to ask your child to concentrate on certain sounds, then please focus on the ‘ai’ sounds. However as the children are challenging themselves to learn all words, they will be given an assessment on all the words. My focus will be the main sounds they have asked to learn.

Numeracy is setting out division questions leading to the the bracket style of formal division. Please encourage children to set out as though they were using squared paper, although there are no squares in their home learning jotters. In numeracy jotters they should use one box per number and one box for question number with bracket around. There should be a box space all around the questions to make it neat and avoid confusing numbers when they get onto more digit calculations.

Apologies for last week’s home learning not being emailed out. My computer crashed last Monday at a course I was on and I still don’t have the use of it or any of my data so please excuse me if I am taking longer to respond to dojo’s etc.

Have a good week!

Kind Regards

Louise

April 28, 2018

News from this week…

Our week has been taken up showcasing our learning in Expressive Arts. From our Lion King performances to the little P2/3 children who sang and danced their way through a superb assembly, our pupils continue to amaze us with their talents.

Miss Prince and her P2/3 class held their wonderful assembly yesterday which taught us all about how to save our oceans and seas from plastic contamination. We are going to be working with volunteers from the Linlithgow Transition project in the following weeks to try to use less plastic and packaging in our food products in school. Let’s all think about out plastic usage and how this impacts on our environment!

We have now purchased two new teddy bears, Peg and Peggy who will be awarded to classes who collect the most pegs each week. We hand out pegs for walking quietly in the corridors around school. Our nursery children have been busy working hard to keep the nursery floor tidy and have been earning ‘pegs’ as a result. They were delighted to be the first group of children to receive Peggy this week as were P7B who received Peg. This is a great incentive for positive behaviour and is motivating our children to continue to be responsible.

Pictured below are the ‘birthday’ children in our infant department this week, plus Peggy the teddy, who R in P1A is proudly holding. Well done to P1A for winning Peggy this week!

Keep an eye out for our monthly nursery and school newsletters which will be coming out in the next week or so. This is such a busy term for us with lots of exciting things happening. We are now in full swing with our enhanced transition programme as well as our P7-S1 transition and nursery-P1 transition.

Look out for our P6-7 Career’s Fayre which we are holding next week (1st May) for our upper school children. This is a new initiative for us and builds on our skills for learning, life and work programme that we established last session.

As always, we welcome your feedback and you can do this by dropping into school, emailing our mail box or giving Mr Wells and I a call.

Take care everyone and have a lovely weekend!

Miss Baillie x💖

April 27, 2018

P2/3 and The Rubbish Dump Whale Assembly

Miss Prince is so proud of P2/3 for confidently delivering an important message about plastic pollution through their class assembly today.

Every single member of the class sang, danced and acted with a smile on their face 🙂

Here’s a wee synopsis of our story:

Five Sir David Attenboroughs were sailing across the sea when suddenly they spotted the Rubbish Dump Whale!

As you might have guessed, Rubbish Dump Whale lived in a rubbish dump. He was lonely because all the other animals had gone. He wished for the sea to be clean once more and for all the other animals to return.

Then he met Ollie the Octopus and Bird. They worked together to deliver messages in bottles to the humans, asking them to stop putting plastic rubbish in the ocean.

Let’s make the oceans clean again for all the beautiful animals!

You can help by using paper straws and by always bringing a refillable water bottle to school.

Can we all please see the sea is beautiful

Can we all please, keep the oceans clean

Keep it out now guys, keep it out our lives

Can’t we at least try?

Can we all please, see the sea is beautiful tonight

Thank you 🙂

Love P2/3, The Rubbish Dump Whale, Ollie the Octopus and Bird xxx

April 27, 2018

P3/4 Blog WE 27.4.18

Hi All

In literacy this week we learned how to use commas in speech. In our reading lessons we were using thinking reader strategies of main ideas, prior knowledge, visualisation, metalinguistic, inference and summarising. We discussed the settings and characters using picture and reading challenge cards. We wrote a report about whether we should use as much as 75% of land for farming. We also wrote an imaginative story about what it would be like to live on a farm

In numeracy we learned how to divide and practised our times tables using division wheels, snakes and ladders and division bingo games.

In health and wellbeing we played basketball with Mrs Reid. We practised fitness with Mrs McAlpine focusing on stamina and walked and jogged a mile a day.

In learning across the curriculum we learned patterns in our NYCOS last session! We are making a tractor to put on our farming display. We watched Springtime on the farm. We learned about the process of cows, pigs, chickens and fish going from farms to getting to the shops. We learned about how animals were looked after and looked at the differences between chickens that were kept inside and free range chickens that were able to have more room to move about.

Have a good weekend!

April 21, 2018

Hello from Springfield and Bonnytoun…

Another week has flown by in school and nursery. Our P6 and P7 children have been putting the final touches to their Lion King performance which will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week. We are so looking forward to the show!

Yesterday, P3 held a super assembly about Scottish Inventors. We learned lots and enjoyed watching the children perform-what confidence they all showed!

Here are some birthday children from this week:

We have also had a number of pupil achievements…

A in P5 came to show me a picture of her as a flower-girl. A duty that she performed recently at a family wedding. How exciting for you A!

Some little P2/3 girls came along to let me listen to a song that they have created and recorded! Who says that we don’t teach music and digital literacy well at Springfield! Thank you to Miss Prince for her amazing talents in this area! How creative of you all too!

The lovely G in P5 shared her Girls Brigade success with me. I am so proud of you G! You always try your very best in all that you do!

U who is also in P5 was very excited about her recent dancing achievement. Congratulations to you U!

Finally, M in P1 came along to my office to show me his Roman ladder that he made during free play. I was most impressed!

We work really hard in school and nursery to allow every child to shine. I’ve been speaking to the children a lot this week about the fact that we all of our own strengths and how it is good to be unique and different. This is something that we should celebrate. We are all one of a kind!

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine today,

Love Miss Baillie xxx💖🌞

April 19, 2018

P2/3 out in the spring sunshine :)

After a sick start to the week (quite literally!) we are getting back to normality in P2/3. I won’t collect homework in tomorrow as lots of children have only just returned to school. Homework next week is to practise words for the assembly and to catch up on this week’s tasks and reading.

Our Big Writing Adventure this week made us miniature and took us to the beach! We wrote postcards about our trip; riding the waves on rulers, crawling inside mussel shells and climbing to the top of sandcastles! What wonderful imaginations we have in P2/3.

In Maths we started learning our 4 times tables, we played games on our fancy new board and sang some times tables songs. We also began our work on fractions of an amount, we can find a half and a quarter of an amount by sharing objects equally into groups.

We’ve been out in the beautiful weather today; litter picking, practising our phonics words and playing a game of man hunt.

We also finished our See the Sea is Beautiful music video today, we can’t wait for you to see it next Friday!

Have a great (healthy) weekend 🙂

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

April 16, 2018

Home Learning 16.4.18

Hope you had a good weekend.

Please see link above for home learning that should be in jotters.

Everyone should be doing the numeracy which is reinforcing that doubles are x 2, unless they are working on second level.

If your child has been given a booklet, they have to do the ‘oa’ sounds. Everyone else has to do all the ‘ck’ and ‘ke’ sounds.

Have a good week!

April 13, 2018

Primary 3/4 Blog Week Beginning 9.4.18

Primary 3/4

Blog Week Beginning 9.4.18

Dear All

This week in literacy we did an imaginative story about farming. We learned that a homophone is a word that has different meanings or spellings, for example, park or sea and see. We learned the ‘ei’ and the ‘eigh’ sounds. We did a joined up handwriting assessment. We choose a new library book.

In French we watched videos about French culture. We found out that Eiffel tower is in Paris. We found out that the French like different foods from us like baguettes, croissants, pain au chocolate, snails and frogs legs! The French weather is warmer than ours but they can have worse bad weather than us. . We learned about the French revolution. The French flag is blue, white and red which represent Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

In numeracy we learned our times tables with fidget spinners, saying our tables until the fidget spinner stopped. We were learning the 2, 4, 10 and 100 times tables. We learned that for the 10 times table we put 1 zero at the end and 2 zeros for multiplying by 100. We learned that the 2 x table is the same as doubling.

In health and wellbeing we were learning about fitness. We ran, hopped and star jumped along the lines and we did, skipping, hula hooping and bouncing ball races. We played dodgeball.

In learning across the curriculum we started learning about farming. We learned how sheep gave birth. We learned about the commonwealth games. We learned that all the continents in the world start and end with the same vowel. We learned the claw action for ‘la’ in NYCOS and we learned about the lines and spaces in the stave. We also did a fun game to match our new song.

What a busy week!

Have a good weekend!

April 12, 2018

Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a lovely break and are ready for the new term.

We have had a very busy first week back to school with planning and organising our assembly for next week. We’ve enjoyed looking back at our learning of Scottish Inventors to help us get ready for next week.

Throughout the week we have also started learning about fractions, in particularly, halves and quarters. Next week we hope to develop our learning further by looking at fifths and tenths.

In literacy we have been working in groups to look in closer detail at similes in text and how they are used. Each group did a great job of finding different similes with the short piece of text they were given. Next week we will be focusing on alliteration and questioning.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs McVay and Primary 3

April 9, 2018

Home Learning WB 9.4.18

Li nk to docs above

Hope you had a lovely holiday.

Home Learning for Week beginning 9.4.18

Reading

Reading from group novel. There is no additional reading task this week so that there is more time to focus on spelling task.

Spelling

Spelling words for this week are attached. Children should have either a level 3 or a level 2 (selection of the words highlighted) in their jotters. Children should try to learn these words and choose a spelling task on 5 of the words using a variety of the sounds.

Numeracy

This week’s focus is times tables. The children will have a choice of 2 x, 4 x or factor activity in their jotters. They can try another one from the scan link in this document if they wish.

We are focusing on 2, 4, 10 and 100 calculations this week. We will also be learning the connection of doubles, e.g. double the 2 times calculations to get 4 times.

Have a good week!

Kind Regards

Louise