On Wednesday, P3 went to the BenchBall Festival with other schools from Linlithgow. We had 5 teams. We won a lot of our games. We had enjoyed playing and it was good fun!
Local study
On Tuesday, we went to the Palace to play games with Gordon, the Historic Scotland Ranger. The game was about Food Chains. In the Food Chain, there was a heron, trout, shrimp and algae. We had to put on a bib. On each bib, there was a part of the food chain.We had to run away from the predators and also, catch the food we needed eat.
We visited St Michael’s Church and loved the stain glass windows. We saw a font, the pulpit with 4 Queens- Mary, Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Margaret and Queen Victoria, the pews ,the Cross, and a Bible,
At lunchtime, it was fantastic to have a picnic!
Later on, we went for a walk and Gordon showed us the trees, where the bats lived. Then we went and fed the Swans, the Geese, the Gulls and the Coots.
Another exciting week in P3
This week has been another busy week for P3. In literacy we have been exploring the use of adjectives and how they can make our writing more interesting through describing animals from Madagascar. In addition we also looked at story writing, and the components which make a good story; the children enjoyed writing their stories about an animal from Madagascar coming to UK and Linlithgow!
P3 and P2/3 also had their first of six football lessons from an SFA coach as part of the Tesco Bank football challenge. On another sporty note, both classes are also looking forward to their benchball festival next Wednesday – wishing them all lots of luck!
On Wednesday our classroom turned into a junk yard when we finally got round to making our islands out of old junk from home; a huge thank you again for all your support in collecting these materials together. The children enjoyed working together to make their islands and are very excited to finish them off next week!
Football skills
P2/3 and P3 working on their football skills with a SFA coach sponsored by TESCO.
Our week in P3 by Mrs Leadbetter
This week we have been doing lots of fun things in class, here are some of the things which we have enjoyed learning about:
Euan and Jessica – I enjoyed counting to 1000 in maths
Ruari and Rebecca – I enjoyed helping others in maths
James – I enjoyed counting one before/after numbers within 1000
Ava, Madeleine, Michael, Scott, Finlay and Hannah – I enjoyed science this week when we were researching about different animals from Scotland and Australia
Emma, Emma, Kristin, Mia, Cormac, Jemima, Scott, Ava, Hannah, Michael, Hollie, Eilidh, FInlay, Alexander, James, Lauren, Sean, Ben and Olivia – I enjoyed designing our islands for our junk modelling
Aston – I enjoyed circle time with Mrs Stewart
P2/3 Our 3D Map
We created a map of the local area from the 3D models of our houses. We made our houses at home out of junk. We thought it was amazing, really good, fun and a little bit hard!
Pokeman Go – A Guide for Parents and Carers
A Parents Guide to Keeping Children Safe – Pokeman Go.
Please click on this link to access advice relating to Pokeman Go.
Keeping our children safe at all times.
Digital Learning Week – May 2016
It’s National Digital Learning Week and Springfield Primary are taking part in this very successfully!
This work has been happening all year and we were really excited to engage with schools in Falkirk to share good practice. Following a visit from children and teachers at St. Bernadette’s and Victoria Primary School, our children also wanted to be digital leaders. After submitting application forms for the post of digital leader, two children from each class were appointed and this news was celebrated in assembly.
This week, our digital leaders (with the help of Mrs McMahon and Mrs McCartney) are delivering a digital leader lesson to their peers. This is really exciting and going very well so far. We look forward to more digital leader work in the future!
Parent Helpers at Springfield/ Bonnytoun Nursery
At Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery we welcome parent helpers at all times and value the contributions you make to our school. As a way of thanks, we would like to invite you to a thank you coffee morning on Friday 10th June at 9.30 am in our school hall.
Thank you to our parent focus group who met last week to look at ‘Family Learning Programmes’. At this meeting, some parents have offered to draw up a useful help sheet for any parents/ carers who are helping in our school. We aim to hold a meeting in school early in the new term to explain the role of a parent helper and procedures etc. We are asking that all parent helpers complete a P.V.G. form (these can be obtained from the school office).
Our school is expanding to 14 classrooms and we are having a little move around. Currently the parent helper room is being used for several purposes and we are looking into this. Please bear with us whilst we are making these changes, moving is always tricky!
We would like to thank all parents, carers, friends and family for your support and help this year in school. We really do value you and very much look forward to welcoming new parent helpers in the new session too.
Curriculum Rationale – Talking Heads
On Monday 21st March, we are hosting a Talking Heads session for parents and carers. We really value parental input and would like help to support the priorities in our School Improvement Plan 2016 – 2017.
We are looking for answers to the following questions:
- What makes Springfield/ Bonnytoun unique?
- What brings the curriculum alive for pupils?
- What is it we want for our children?
- What are we going to do to achieve it?
We are examining our current school vision, values and aims and want this to reflect the school community.
We would like our rationale to ensure the whole school community has a shared understanding of what we are trying to achieve. As our school moves forward, we recognise the importance of taking quality time to evaluate and review curriculum innovation and learn from evolving best practice.
We are really excited to host this session and look forward to lots of parents/ carers sharing their views and supporting us.
