Primary 3 – Page 17 – Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

March 1, 2018

Snow Days Primary 3

Good Morning Primary 3!

I hope everyone is enjoying their snow days! Below is a list of ideas/activities that you can do to help continue your learning while we are not in class.

Build a snowman/igloo. Please feel free to send any pictures of your snow creations through class dojo. We can then share and discuss them in class when we get back.
Search for different animal footprints in the snow and try and guess which animal they belong to.
Happy World Book Day!! We were going to discuss our favourite books in class today. Why don’t you write your own book review or design a new front cover for your book.
We have been learning how to divide by 2, 3, 4 and 5 this week so ask someone to write you some division sums and have a go at answering them.
Access Sumdog and play a few games.
Next week we will be researching and developing our understanding of Fairtrade so if you have access to the internet you could do your own research to help us with our learning in class.

Any learning/activities you do at home please send through class dojo. I would love to see any pictures!

Have a fun day in the snow and remember to wrap up warm!! Hopefully see you all tomorrow.

Mrs McVay

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018

P3/4 Snow Day

Hope you’re having a lovely snow day and the school closure hasn’t been too difficult for your work arrangements.

The trip to the Peel has been cancelled for tomorrow by Historic Scotland and I have requested a new date of Thursday 22nd March. I will let you know when this has been confirmed.

Suggestions for activities your child can do if the weather continues:

Read group novel or personal choice.
Look at format of books, paragraph structure etc, finding punctuation, practice expression.
The next assessment will be on imagining you are a Viking, try to get ideas formed of what a day in their life would be like.
Work on tasks from Viking Grid
Research what Vikings ate, where they lived, gods, countries they invaded, any reason why they were not as bad as they seemed?
Practice times tables, money, (measuring and estimating, time – next maths focus)
Practice handwriting
Practice saying name, age, where they live in French

Please check blog regularly for more updates and document attachments.

Kind Regards

Louise

February 25, 2018February 25, 2018

Another Super Week at SPS and Bonnytoun

We have been continuing to think about anti-bullying and all parents should now have seen our new anti-bullying policy which is open for consultation.

In assembly we learned about the GIRFEC Wellbeing Indicator of being ‘responsible’ and we tied this into our anti-bullying message. We want to educate all children and adults in the importance of reporting bullying both as a victim and bystander. Bullying can happen to anyone in any school or workplace and we will continue to actively work to prevent it at Springfield.

We had a visit from a lady called Nancy and also Dr MacKenzie, Grandad of Alyth in the nursery and Nairn in P3. These individuals are members of Linlithgow Grange Rotary Club. We are excited to announce our new partnership with Rotary which will take the form of a Roto Kids club. We will give more information on this as we have it. We are really delighted with this new opportunity for our children to engage in global citizenship as well as making a difference to their local community.

Here are some certificate winners from this week:

And some birthday children from our nursery and infant department:

Here are two pupil achievements from this week: Firstly to the lovely H in P2 for her Enjoy-a-Ball success and also to brilliant E in P3 for her swimming certificate. Well done girls!

The nursery are now the proud owners of pet fish and as part of our developments in child-led learning, have set up pet, health and wellbeing and snack committees. Who said that children can’t be leaders at aged three!

We have a busy week of events coming up this week-week beginning 26th February. Please note the following information:

– Monday 26th- Big Bedtime Story in the hall from 5-6pm for nursery to P3 children and adults. Wear pyjamas!

-Wednesday 28th- STEM Curriculum evening and whole-school challenge from 6-7pm in the hall for P1-P7 children and adults.

-Friday 2nd March-World Book Day. Dress down as a character from a favourite book. No money needed.

-Friday 2nd March- P4 assembly at 10am.

Have a lovely Sunday evening!

Love Miss Baillie xx💖

February 23, 2018

P2/3 doubling and halving champions

In Writing this week we started a Big Writing adventure, helping Alan to pack for his expedition to Antarctica. We used an atlas to research the conditions in Antarctica. We drew the items, labelled them and then we wrote captions in full sentences.

We all knew how to find the page about Antarctica using the contents page.

In Maths this week we have been focusing on multiplication and division. Using numicon, counters and cubes helped us to visualise grouping. We also worked on doubling and halving numbers to 20. We are beginning to develop strategies to halve bigger numbers. Miss Prince is very impressed by how focused and confident we have been in Maths this week.

In Art this week we had a great time making robot inventions out of recycled materials, here at some photos of the process:

A photo of the boys enjoying golden time:

Have a lovely weekend,

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x

February 23, 2018

Primary 3/4 Blog Week Beginning 18.2.18

Dear All

This week in literacy we filled in a comprehension sheet about Snoutlout from How to Train your Dragon. We read another chapter of how to train your dragon. We learned about tenses and ‘ue’ words.

In numeracy we did money and change.

In health and wellbeing we played Gaelic Football in PE and did walk a mile.

In learning across the curriculum we learned about Vikings and did music and NYCOS.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Typed by Robbie and Sarah

February 22, 2018

P3/4 Home Learning WB 26.2.18

Hi All

Next Week’s home learning is:

Reading

Pages covered in class from reading books

Spelling

Learn words written out from sheet:

Choose a task from spelling grid to practice five of the words (at least one from each sound)

ee	oo	oo	a-e
sheep	too	good	made
sleep	food	stood	cage
sweep	mood	wood	page
sleet	roof	book	cake
sheet	cool	brook	lake
sweet	fool	cook	make
	pool	hook	take
	room	look	came
	broom	shook	game
	spoon	took	name
	moon	wool	same
	soon	foot	date
	boot	soot	gate

In addition to the spelling words I will be giving out the 100 most used words for children to practise regularly.

Link below:

Fry’s 100 first words

Numeracy

Practice paying for goods and giving change with coins

Practice on the following website link:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Optional

Choose a task from Viking home learning grid (but not literacy or numeracy).

(I am not expecting you have time to do the optional task, especially as I have added in the spelling task and you may have already completed.)

Home learning should be submitted on a Thursday. Where possible I will give out before the weekend if you prefer to do at the weekend. As always do what you can. If your child is enjoying their learning encourage their enthusiasm. If it is becoming a chore, try to just do enough to cover the basic learning or find a way to make it creative. Thank you to everyone who has sent in photos of their children doing their spelling home learning. I’m going to make a gallery in the classroom to encourage them to try new ways of learning!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Kind Regards

Louise

Louise McAlpine

February 20, 2018

Fizzy Fingers and Jumping Jims

Here are some photos of our Fizzy Fingers group taking part in lots of activities to support their fine motor skills.

We also have a Junping Jims club for children who continue to be supported as they further develop their gross motor skills. Our kids love this club and always have lots of fun!

Thank you so much to Mrs Scott and Mrs Doran who continue to help our children in this way. Thank you also to Mrs Manlove for her contribution to Fizzy Fingers in terms 1 and 2. We continue to offer a wide variety of groups and clubs to support all learners in different ways.

Miss Baillie x

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018

This Week’s News…

We have had a short week at Springfield and Bonnytoun after the holiday weekend.

Children in P6-7 are working hard on their Lion King performance and costumes and scenery are beginning to take shape. Thanks to all parents who are helping us by making costumes. We couldn’t do it without your support and we are very grateful!

In response to the interests of a pupil, the nursery have just taken delivery of a beautiful, new fish tank and the fish will come to their new home next week. The children enjoyed setting up the tank and can’t wait for their fishy friends to arrive! We are hoping that the fish tank provides a visual stimulus in the nursery and supports our calming environment.

Across school and nursery children have been undertaking further learning on the Chinese New Year. We are going to make a wall display of our efforts. Keep an eye out for it in school.

Two of our little, P3 girls came to my room this week to show me their Dragon Dance. Thank you to A for bringing in her mask to help the class with their learning.

Here are some achievements from this week…

Here are two of our lovely P3 boys with their football souvenirs from attending a mini-camp last week. One of these pupils plays for Hearts boys and we are very proud of him and keen to track his progress in football.

Here is gorgeous B from P2A who popped along to show me his writing the other day. B is coming along an absolute treat in all areas and we are extremely delighted with his efforts! Good work B!

We honestly have the loveliest children in the world , who are a credit to their families. They are a pleasure to work with. Every day at Springfield and Bonnytoun is an absolute joy.

Have a super Sunday!

Love Miss Baillie xxx💖💓💖💫

February 16, 2018

P3/4

Primary 3/4

Dear All

This week in literacy we did a book review. The p3’s met an author and illustrator.

In numeracy we did money and what we had to do was give money and change.

In health and wellbeing we did walk a mile. We went to NYCOS and music. In NYCOS we did beats and rhythm. In music we made a Viking song.

In learning across the curriculum we finished our Viking boats and did more of How to train a Dragon.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Typed by Charley Eilidh Sarah and Sofia

February 16, 2018

Oodles of noodles in P2/3

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We listened to a story about a girl celebrating Chinese New Year with her family, we made dragon fortune tellers and today we learned how to use chopsticks. We LOVE noodles!

Love P2/3 and Miss Prince x