Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

What a fantastic end result for the P7 enterprise project this year. Between the 2 classes the children split into groups of 4 or 5 and have spent time during the last 3 weeks on the project. Each team had to design, plan, advertise, manufacture and sell a product(s) or service at the Christmas Fayre. The children worked hard on costings and budgeting, and had to estimate how many of each product they expected to sell.

The Fayre was a great success and overall we made £850.73 net profit (in P7 alone). On Monday each group will calculate their team’s net profit and reflect on what worked well, and what would be done differently next time.

Many thanks to everyone who supported us. Here are a few photos of the teams at the Fayre.

In preparation for the christmas fayre, the P4 class further explored addition and subtraction using money.  The children also learnt about distribution of workload while making their christmas craft.  They were split  into five groups and all had designated jobs to do.  Some worked on  advertising (posters), a few were in charge of pricing.  The rest of the pupils were involved in the creation and quality control of the products.

For numeracy, the children were learning about 4 digit place value.  They used concrete materials to understand the concept even more.

For Literacy, the P4s focused on learning to spell words with ‘ou’ sounds.  They aslo revisited how to change a question into a sentence.

For Comprehension,   they had to look for context clues.

For Grammar, the focus was on writing words in plural form.

Lastly, for Health and Well- being, the focus was on appropriate response to different types of  emotions.

“I am very proud of the P4s for all their hard work .  The reindeers were tricky to make but they  were determined to push thtough the challenge.” – Miss Durano

  Thank you to all who participated in the christmas fayre!

On Monday in Maths we began looking at describing number patterns. By looking closely at the pattern of numbers we learned how to describe the pattern by saying how much the numbers were going up or coming down.  Using this information we were then able to work out the next set of numbers in the pattern.

In the afternoon we were invited to see the P1/2 Nativity dress rehearsal. We all enjoyed listening and singing along to all the fantastic songs.  We also had to say farewell to our student teacher, Miss Stevenson who has finished her placement with us and is returning to Edinburgh University to complete her course. We would like to thank her for all her hard work and assistance and wish her well in her future career in teaching.

On Friday we took part in the Christmas Fayre by selling our fantastic Christmas stars and baubles which we have been busy making as part of our enterprise activity. We then had an opportunity to visit all the other stalls with members of our family and buy some of the amazing products, cakes, sweets, ornaments and raffle tickets on sale.

Dear All

This week in literacy we did the ‘ou’ exception sounds. We talked about our achievements at show and tell. We read in our groups and had personal reading time. Mrs McAlpine read us the ‘Lost Prince’, one of our Hamish McHaggis books. We listened to Mrs McAlpine reading out words and sentences and we tried to write them out with correct spelling and punctuation. We learned plurals and that words ending in ch, sh, x or s need an ‘es’ at the end if there is more than one. We added adjectives to our sentences and underlined them in blue.

In numeracy we were learning about money and how to give change. We went shopping in the classroom and bought your crackers! Don’t worry we used fake money and your crackers are still there! We split into 2 groups and used 2 balls to learn our times tables. We used the netbooks to practise budgeting on Sumdog.

In health and wellbeing we enjoyed Scottish Dancing and danced the ‘Grand Old Duke of York’, the Canadian Barn Dance. We also played bench ball in PE.

In learning across the curriculum we made our crackers for enterprise to sell at the Christmas Fayre. They look gorgeous and they will make a loud bang! We also went to see the Nativity performance, it was amazing!

Hope you have a good weekend!