Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
Dear All
We were very busy this week.
This week in literacy we learned to use speech marks, words with ‘tion’ and silent ‘k’ words.
In numeracy we practised telling the time.
In health and wellbeing on Tuesday we went to the sports centre for multi sports festival and got a certificate.
In learning across the curriculum on Thursday we went to the peel to learn about animal tracks and we also went to the church today.
Have a good Holiday!
We have had a week of further pupil successes at Springfield and Bonnytoun. Well done to a host of children from P2 upwards for their recent achievements in gymnastics. Here they all are with their medals.
Here is C in P2 who told me that he was a Sumdog, maths champion for our school last weekend. Well done to you C! Did you know that you can access Sumdog on your laptops at home and that this motivational website can help to expand your child’s skills and confidence in Numeracy and Maths? Contact your child’s class teacher if you need access to our Sumdog login details.
Here is E, who is also in P2 with piece of writing that she did in Russian. I was most impressed at ther efforts! E’s Mum speaks Russian at home and E can say lots of words and phrases. We have lots of children in our school and nursery who speak more than one language fluently and we are extremely proud of them. Celebrating cultural diversity is a major priority for us and part of our ‘included’ value.
Also, here are some P7 Girl Guide entrepreneurs who have been making and selling lip balm across school for a Dragon’s Den themed challenge. Well done girls! I can report that the lip balm is very good!
Finally, I must mention our school chess team who took second place at the inter-schools competition last Friday. What a great effort boys!
Miss Baillie xx 💫
Hi
Hope you are having a great weekend.
Home Learning for Week beginning 19.3.18
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 with i-e, o-e, u-e sounds. Children should try to learn these words and choose a spelling task on 5 of the words using a variety of the sounds.
| i-e | o-e | o-e | u-e |
| tire | coke | rose | cube |
| wire | joke | vote | tube |
| alive | poke | broke | rude |
| drive | woke | broken | duke |
| live | hole | choke | flume |
| prize | dome | smoke | tune |
| home | spoke | cute | |
| cope | stone | chute | |
| hope | throne | use | |
| pope | close | fuse | |
| rope | those | ||
| hose | chose | ||
| nose | froze |
Numeracy
This week’s focus is time. A good website for practising time is http://www.visnos.com/demos/clock which shows analogue and digital time together to make connections. The children do not need to know the exact minutes for analogue time but it is useful to learn 5 past, 10 past etc. not just quarter to and quarter past. Time is learned better with practical situations so can you ask your child examples of how long it will take to get to an event or how long event lasted e.g. if we leave at 5.30 for swimming which starts 6.15, how long do we have. Please emphasise that there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour as they are used to most measurements being 100.
Learning across the Curriculum
Unfortunately, this is the last week of learning about the Vikings. Thank you for all the resources you shared with the class. Please ask your child to collect it back by the end of the week and finish anything they have been working on.
Have a good week!
Kind Regards
Louise
Dear All
This week in literacy we did reading in our reading groups.
We did our spelling test on ‘a-e’ and ‘i-e’ words.
In numeracy we were learning analogue and digital time learning minutes to and past, half past, quarter past, quarter to and o`clock. We also played dominos with cards that had clocks on them. We did times tables with dices.
In health and wellbeing we did PE. We played tennis, football and badminton it was fun.
In learning across the curriculum we displayed what we learned about the Vikings and tidied our class
Hope you have a good weekend!
Typed by Cori and Daniel
This week our Big Writing adventure took us whale watching. We used information books, websites and videos to research killer whales. Did you know that a killer whale is actually the biggest species of dolphin?! We wrote a description of the whales for Alan’s travel journal and self assessed our writing to check we had used wow words and connectives.
In Maths we have been subtracting two digit numbers, breaking down numbers into tens and units and showing our workings. Here’s a good game for practising addition and subtraction using a number square:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
In PE we were working on our dribbling skills, we are getting better at controlling the ball. Our favourite game is crabs and surfers, here are some photos of us in action:
We have also been busy learning our songs for the Easter service next Friday. We love singing in P2/3!
Have a lovely weekend,
Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x
Throughout this week we have been consolidating our learning of division. In particular dividing by 3 and 4. We have also challenged ourselves further by using division to help us solve problems.
In Literacy we have been looking at our writing in more detail and what we can do to improve it. At the beginning of the week we looked at some simple sentences and explored the different ways we could make them more engaging for the reader by improving the punctuation, including interesting adjectives and using connectives to add more detail.
The class continue to be very enthusiastic about Scottish Inventors and this week we have been learning about James Watt and Sir Alexander Fleming. We have been having great fun learning about microbes and why we should always be washing our hands thoroughly!!
Mrs McVay and Primary 3
We managed to all get back to school safely last Monday after our three ‘snow days.’
Our Lion King production has now been postponed until the end of April when the weather will hopefully be a lot more settled. Children in P6-7 are going to have a short break from rehearsing and focus on other curricular areas for a short period.
We have had two assemblies this week due to missing one last week when we were off. Mrs Matos and I held a Fairtrade assembly last Thursday where we looked at the importance of paying farmer’s in less economically developed countries, a fair price for their produce. On Friday we dressed down in something ‘wacky’ to raise money for the Fairtrade Foundation. Well done to Joseph, Alisa, Ben W and Issac who worked extremely hard to make a Fairtrade board game as part of a challenge that I set them. Morven, Lauren C and Olivia M were the proud winners of our Fairtrade competition which was to design a Fairtrade football. Well done to you all!
P4 and Miss Durano led a professionally delivered assembly last Friday on the Vikings and the day before two ‘real’ Vikings visited Springfield for the day bringing their longboat along with them. This was a great experience for our children.
The nursery have had a particularly exciting week as we have welcomed our new pets to Bonnytoun! Our pet committee are going to be busy looking after two more fish (we have four now!) and Jack and Victor, our new baby Guinea Pigs! Mrs T and I are in love and are going to be very busy over the next few weekends nursing the little piggies at home so that they are calm and ready for the boys and girls to stroke them. They are real cuties so please pop by to have a look if you are passing. We are passionate about animal welfare in the nursery and will ensure that they are extremely well looked after. They are already enjoying a wonderful diet of kale, parsley, broccoli, brussel sprouts and the occasional apple! There are researched benefits to having animals around children and we hope that our pets will enhance your child’s early years experience. Please let me know your thoughts and feedback on this.
Here are some photographs of our certificate winners and ‘birthday’ children from this week:
Well done also to the Demick girls for their dancing achievements and also to M in P1 for his achievement.
Have a very happy Mother’s Day everyone and we will see you all next week for parents’ night.
Kind wishes,
Miss Baillie 💖 🐹 xxx
Welcome back! Great to be back at school this week, the children were full of stories about their adventures in the snow; sledging, snow walks and igloos.
In Maths this week we have been using grid references and coordinates. We learned how to find a position on a grid and enjoyed playing grid reference bingo. We have also been working on subtraction, some of us were taking away 2 digit numbers and sharing our strategies with the class.
Our Big Writing Adventure this week took us back to Antarctica. We had to use sequencing words to tell Alan about the journey he would be taking. We absolutely loved using Google Earth to explore each step of Alan’s journey. Google Earth is a great resource to play on at home too! Here are some photos of our work:
We have been busy artists in class today but we can’t say any more than that…it’s a surprise!
I hope all the children have been completing all their Mother’s Day homework tasks… long may it continue! Have a lovely weekend.
Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x
| a-e | a-e | i-e | i-e |
| late | shape | tide | wise |
| mate | plate | wide | bite |
| gave | grave | bike | kite |
| save | shave | hike | size |
| wave | slave | like | inside |
| shade | time | slide | |
| bake | fine | smile | |
| flake | line | stile | |
| shake | care | mine | while |
| flame | fare | nine | chime |
| shame | share | pine | slim |
| plane | square | wine | shine |
| grape | stare | pipe | spine |
Hi Everyone
Next Week’s spelling words:
Practise selection from Fry’s 100 words sheet
Reading: Pages covered in class from reading books
Numeracy: Practise Times tables
Have a safe weekend.
Kind Regards
Louise
Hi Everyone
School is closed another day. Here’s some resource suggestions for you to download. Your child can choose their own word for their acrostic poem about vikings, e.g. longboat.
Have a good day!
Kind Regards
Louise
cfe2-p-218-values-acrostic-poem-english
cfe2-t-080-vikings-word-search_ver_2
cfe2-t-22048-up-helly-aa-acrostic-poem-_ver_2
cfe2-t-2545610-what-makes-a-happy-classroom-acrostic-poem-pack
