Category: Whole School

We hope that you all had a fantastic long weekend. Well, this has been a short but action packed week!

On Wednesday we shared our bridge building challenge with P2/3. They were very impressed with our bridges
and we had fantastic ‘learning conversations’ with them. We shared how we made our bridge, what we found tricky and how we overcame any problems that we had. We discussed how we would improve our bridges next time. Mrs McCartney was very impressed with them all!

We would like to thanks everyone that helped with this project.

As part of our Health and Well Being, we get active with GoNoodle in class. GoNoodle is a fun, way to get active dancing to songs.

On Thursday we were learning how to use commas. We created a comma poster to demonstrate our understanding. We had to include an example of each comma rule in our poster. We shared these with our peers.

We were researching Mary Queen of Scots and created a timeline of the key events in her life. We chose how to design our timeline and Mrs McCartney thought that we were very creative!

Happy Weekend!

Mrs McCartney and P5A

You may have already heard about the line-up for this year’s Gala Day… We were so proud to hear the news that Ruby Cardie, one of our lovely P7 children, will be Queen! Our congratulations and best wishes go to Ruby and her family!  We are delighted that we also have so many children from Springfield who are in the main retinue. Well done to Emma Preston, Chief Lady in Waiting, Catriona Simpson, First Lady, Fraser Preston, Lord Provost and Esther Begarnie, Second Lady!  We are so excited that Springfield will be so well represented at this year’s Gala and we look forward to working with you all to make this a special day for all of our children.

Thank you to Primary 4B and Mrs McAlpine for their hard work in putting together last Friday’s assembly. Following on from the previous week’s assembly,  the class chose to stick with the Scottish theme and they showcased their many talents as they shared examples of our culture. The children had also made wonderful models of Scottish landmarks which were on display for the audience to look at. Well done to all of those involved!

This week we have been learning our first 2 digraphs – ‘sh’ and ‘ch’.  We already knew lots of words with these sounds in as we are very good at hearing sounds in words.  We are now working on using these digraphs as we write.

Imogen and Lucas made shampoo and shapes for the ‘sh’ sound.

In maths we have been learning odd and even numbers.  We made Even Characters, drawing them using only even numbers – 2 heads, 4 legs, 6 arms, etc.

Next week we will make Odd Houses for them to live in.

On Wednesday we had a visit from Greig of Google Expeditions.  The photographs don’t do it justice but we had a really interesting session, using the handheld devices to have a 3D trip under the sea and then into space.  We really enjoyed it.

In outer maths this week we continued to look at patterns.  We read ‘Aliens Love Underpants’ and then designed our own underpants.  We all made fab designs and we think the aliens would love them!

More pattern through play:

We have been extremely busy turning our home corner into a train station.  We planned together, deciding on the furniture, equipment and signs we would need.  We then set to work to make it and have had a lot of fun playing in it already.     

We have also been thinking about train journeys.  We read the story ‘The Train Ride’ and sequenced it together.  We will be thinking more about train journeys next week – one’s we’ve actually been on and magical ones that we would love to go on.

We have also been trying some yoga at the end of the day for the past couple of weeks.  The children are far more flexible then Mrs Kennedy!  We’re finding it is a nice relaxing end to a busy day.

A few more of my favourite pictures from this week:

   

Have a good weekend, from P1B and Mrs Kennedy