Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School
Spring Forward in Learning and Life – Becoming. Belonging. Believing.
We had happy tears in our eyes today as Primary 1A and Miss Harrison shared their memories and achievements of the past year. Well done to all children who spoke so confidently and sang songs in front of an audience. Thanks to all family and friends who came along to support the children.
Have a super weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie x
We have been outdoors lots this week and the weather was very kind to us. As part of our outdoor science over the past few weeks we have been looking at habitat and characteristics of a species.
In groups we created a new species, with specific habitat and characteristics. We then made maps of the playground, models of our species and a fact file. We then hid the creatures and had to go on an expedition to find another teams species using only the map and fact file.
It was a very interesting task, as we found that our results were dependent on the quality of the maps and the information provided !
Meet our 5 new species below !
In numeracy our focus has been on data handling. We have investigated mean, median and mode of data sets and have a lovely song about that ! We then moved on to look at all types of chart including pie, bar, line and histogram. We used data to make frequency charts and histograms. We also started to look at the manipulation of data using excel and spreadsheets. using the sort and filter functionality the children learnt how to deal with large amounts of data and find answers to questions. Our next steps will be to create some graphs using that data.
In literacy most of us have finished our creative writing, our goal was to up-level our writing and challenge ourselves with our vocabulary and openers.
French this week was all about pets, “Tu-as un animal a la maison?”. The children learnt how to ask and answer the questions and we also focused on writing these phrases and vocabulary.
Mrs Gordon handed back the WW2 personal projects with feedback (written and verbal), she was blown away by the quality of these projects, and learnt a lot. She cannot wait to hear the class talks about these exciting topics next week…
Bon weekend
P7a and Mrs Gordon
Here are links to our previous newsletters from session 2017/2018:
Kind regards
Mr. Logan
Here are upcoming dates for your diary before the end of our summer term:
19/05/17 – Mrs Malcolm finishes at Springfield PS
22/05/17 – Mr Mark Wells starts as new Head Teacher
24/05/17 – PTA disco for P4 and P5 children
25/05/17 – PTA disco for P6 and P7 children
29/05/17 – P7 school camp June
6/06/17 – P6 school camp
8/06/17 – General Election – school open as normal
13/06/17 – Linlithgow Marches – school & nursery closed
14/06/17 – P1 induction morning for new P1 children and parents
14, 15 & 16/06/17 – P7 transition days
21/06/17 – School sports day
23/06/17 – P7 Leaver’s Assembly
30/06/17 – School finishes at 12.25 for the summer holidays
Kind regards
Mr. Logan
A snapshot of the start of our Bikeability session today.
The children have been developing their balance and coordination and practising their approach to junctions.
Thank you to our friend Russell from St. Michael’s Church who came to assembly yesterday to remind us of the benefits of working as a team. All of us at Springfield, continue to try so hard to make the school a happy and inspriring place to work and learn. Here are some pictures of the children learning how to be part of a successful team:
Miss Baillie x
We are so proud of Freya MacDonald in P4A who decided to sell her doll’s house to raise money for Parkinson’s disease, a condition that affects her Grandfather. Well done Freya! What a lovely thing to do!
Miss Baillie x
Avril and Margaret from Burgh Beautiful joined us for assembly today and gave an informative presentation on the fabulous work that they do to keep the town looking attractive. Children from some classes also shared the work that they have been doing in Outdoor Science to learn about nature and how to take care of it. Thank you to Burgh Beautiful for coming along today and we hope to get involved with some of your campaigns to keep our lovely town in bloom!
Miss Bailliex
Thank you to all parents and carers who attended our Family Learning session on Numeracy and Maths last Monday afternoon. Mrs Matos and Mrs Gordon delivered an excellent presentation on ‘Number Talks’ which is an approach to supporting children’s understanding of number that we are currently using across school. Parents and carers also had a chance to see Numeracy and Maths teaching in classrooms. We hope that you all enjoyed the experience and learned some more about our Curriculum and learning and teaching strategies.
Miss Baillie x
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