Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

November 24, 2017November 24, 2017

A week in Primary 2B

n Science we had great fun experimenting with sound – very noisy but we learnt a lot.

In P.E we have continued with Gymnastics and Mrs.Reid says we’re doing really well.

We have started adding 3 digits together in Maths and have talked about strategies to use. The children are really good at explaining how they worked out the answer.

In Literacy, we have been learning how to write an informal letter and used the stimulus of our class novel “Christmasaurus” to write a letter to the bully to ask her to stop.

We learnt the colours in French with our P6 pals.

The children have been finishing their Collages of characters from Katie Morag and have made a brilliant job. Very impressive.

November 24, 2017

P5a Blog

We’ve been busy this week in P5a…

Numeracy and Mathematics

Learning about compass points, giving directions and using coordinates
Drawn our own treasure maps using squared paper and will be giving a partner some written instructions next week to attempt to find the hidden treasure
We have extended our knowledge of angles and rotations using degrees, e.g 90 degrees is the same as a quarter turn, 180 degrees is a half turn and 360 degrees is a full rotation
Times table practice using a ‘Multiplication Mash-Up’
On Thursday, Mr. Logan set us a team challenge on Sumdog to consolidate our learning from the week, Team 3 were the winners and Arran was our individual winner

Literacy and English

We’ve continued with our group novel studies and have been using detail to draw Lewis and Gregory from our The Day the World Went Loki book, we then wrote a description of these characters
We have been using alliteration when creating adverts for our bird feeders and also presented our designs to the rest of the class focusing on using appropriate voice, tone, clarity and pace

Learning Across the Curriculum

In science with Mrs. Tulloch we have been learning about friction and the effect this has on aerodynamics and air resistance
We will be making parachutes in the coming weeks to apply this learning
We had some outdoor play with Mr. Logan on Thursday on the trim trail and back playground, it was very cold!
With Mrs. Begarnie we entered discussions and debates, talking about what makes us individual and unique and some questions that didn’t necessarily have a correct answer
In Art and Design we finished making our bird feeders, our designs were brilliant and we presented the different features of these confidently
Have a nice weekend

P5a

November 24, 2017November 24, 2017

Children In Need Spotacular Fundraising Total

Hi all,

Just a quick update to let you know we raised a total of £684.10 for Children in Need with our Spotacular Bake Sale and Dress Down Many thanks to everyone who donated and helped us.

Mrs Gordon and The Pupil Council

November 23, 2017

Home Learning WB 27.11.17

Spellling Home learning 27.11.17

Fruit and veg shop and receipts

Please find attached homework for week beginning 27.11.17.

Reading
Pages in group reading quoted in reading record

Spelling
-ft, -lp, -lt and -amp sounds from attached sheet and a spelling task.

Numeracy
Mr Fryer, a parent who works in a bank came into school last week to talk to the children about budgeting. The class learned about buying things they really needed, saving money and things they just wanted but didn’t need. The home learning is to reinforce what they can afford to spend their money on. The activity is for a fruit and veg shop. They have to decide on a budget first e.g. 50p, £1, £2, £5 then buy goods ensuring they stay within their budget. They only need to add 2 or 3 items. You may need to support them with the pounds and pence signs.

Christmas Fayre
We will be making items for the Christmas Fayre next week. Please let your child know how many crackers you need and if you have a preference for the colour and I will try to accommodate. We will be pricing them with our budgeting lessons but will probably cost between £1 and £2 each. The plan is to try to make enough for a family unit so approximately 3 to 6 crackers per child.

Extra Homework task if you have time

Can all children make a decoration at home to hang on our school Xmas tree? We are also decorating a tree in St Michael’s Church on behalf of Springfield.

Have a lovely weekend!

November 23, 2017

“Dreams is full of mystery and magic . . . . Do not try to understand them.”

Literacy

In phonics we have had a consolidation week. We have been revising all of the digraphs we have learnt and practised using them in our writing. Miss Mudd put up some pictures and we had to write interesting sentences using our sounds.

This week we were talking about different types of dreams. We looked at examples of dreams in our BFG book. Miss Mudd even made her own dream jar and told us all about her dream of being a superhero and saving the world with her sidekick Scrabble. We used our imagination to create our own dreams. We drew detailed pictures and discussed our ideas before we started to write. We worked with a writing partner to check each other’s work. Some of the children then went home and created their own dream jars. We loved looking at them in class. What a talented bunch! We made dream catchers out of paper plates and wool. The threading really helped us develop our fine motor skills.

We also created our own giants! We came up with some wonderful ideas then wrote descriptive sentences about our scary giants. We worked in partners to highlight the adjectives we had used and gave feedback to our partner about their work. We were very supportive and showed respect to each other.

Numeracy

This week we have been looking at the numbers 13, 14 and 15. We created number rainbows to show all of the number facts for that number. We also used our new whiteboards to write fact families for these numbers. We were linking our knowledge of addition and subtraction.

Other

A big well done to Jacob for coming second in his Taekwondo competition. Nico also brought in her swimming certificate to show us. She talked about the skills she had been working on and we are very proud of her for moving to the next level. The JRSO came to visit this week to talk to us about keeping safe when crossing the road. Thank you for looking after us!

Have a lovely weekend

Miss Mudd and P2A x

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November 19, 2017November 19, 2017

Springfield and Bonnytoun News…

We have had another busy week at Springfield and Bonnytoun…

We ended the week with a great assembly to raise awareness about bullying led by P6B. We have a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to bullying in school. We believe that promoting kindness and having a clear understanding of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour helps our children to treat one and other with respect. All children know that if they have a problem then the adults will listen to them and ensure that the situation is sorted. Please always let school know if your child reports any issues with friendships or people being unkind to them. Thank you to Mrs Kerr for her hard work in putting this assembly together-it is much appreciated!

Friday was also our annual ‘Children in Need’ fundraiser. Here is a photo of some of our little ‘Pudsey Bears’ and ‘ spotty’ children in our infants. Thanks so much to the Pupil Council and Mrs Gordon for organising a successful Bake Sale with all profits going to Children in Need.

We have now introduced a ‘birthday slot’ to our infant assembly and here are some of our P1 children who have all turned five years old in the past week! Congratulations to you all!

Here is E in P3 with an achievement for this week. E did a walk for charity and we are very proud of her! Well done E!

Our nursery children have been busy having a special ‘nursery rhymes’ week and have come to nursery dressed up as characters from different nursery rhymes. They have all looked very cute!

I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend!

Love Miss Baillie xx💖

November 18, 2017

P4

On Friday, E stayed silent for half the day to support the children in need cause. Well done E! We are all very proud of you!

This week, we were learning about adverbs, inverse operation as division strategy and we worked in groups to create posters representing the role of a bystander in bullying.

We used our netbook time to create and use specific features of Microsoft word. We learned to change font style, font size, save a document etc..

The bake sale was a success on Friday. Thank you to all the parents who contributed cakes and other baked products. Your support is much appreciated.

November 17, 2017

All different, All equal – P7a’s weekly news

This week we had a big focus on anti-bullying week. The slogan for this year is “All different, All equal”. We worked in groups through several scenarios this week, which really made us think deeply about our actions. In groups we wrote definitions of respect and then voted on the one we liked best to use as a class motto, the one which celebrated being different. We looked at gender differences and stereotyping, and power. The children were very mature with their discussions and were easily able to identify the correct actions to take in different real-life scenarios.

Chloe’s mum has a Brazilian friend who let her borrow some items to show the class. We got to see some Carnival headdresses, a statue of Christ the Redeemer, a traditional doll and carving and a flag. Having a look at these items got us in the mood to finish our rainforest tanka poetry.

In Numeracy we continue our work with fractions, this time making equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions. We also did work with money and budgeting as part of our Christmas Fayre Enterprise project. Mr Fryer came in to talk to us about budgeting and helped us think about the profit each group can expect to make at the Fayre. Lots of very important links to skills for learning, life and work.

In French our focus was on “moi-meme”, myself. We were looking at how to tell people about us and our families. In PE we started our block of basketball by looking at dribbling skills.

In literacy we used the new “Big Writing” resource to start a series of lessons on report writing, the topic is about orangutans in the rainforest.

Next week we have auditions for main parts for the Lion King on Thursday, scripts will be sent home on Monday for the children to practice with. They already have a note of any songs that were required.

Mrs Gordon and P7a

November 17, 2017January 27, 2018

1B Capacity and Cupcakes

We began the week thinking about kindness. We had a lovely assembly from P5 last Friday all about kindness and we have been thinking of ways in which we are kind already and what things we could do to be really kind to each other. We practised our detailed drawing as we drew pictures to show how we can be kind, F did a fantastic drawing of him helping his dad with the washing. It is very clear from his picture what they are doing, they both have very big smiles too 🙂 for this reason, F is our ‘star writer’ this week.

In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘u’ and ‘b’. We came up with lots and lots of ‘b’ words with our chatty partners! Some of us have been writing words, sounding out the letters.

In maths, we have been doing more addition and have begun to learn addition facts so that we can recall answers without having to count objects. We have been learning all the ways of adding to 2 and 3. We will continue this with numbers 4 and 5 next week.

We also began learning about capacity. We investigated with water and different sized containers – how many cups of water will it take to fill it up? We also used cubes to measure capacity too. We looked at measuring jugs and used the numbers on the side to measure amounts. We have been using the words ‘most’, ‘least’, ‘full’, ’empty’ and ‘half full’.

We are continuing our book study of ‘Wee Granny’s Tartan Bag.’ If you haven’t heard about it yet, ask your child to tell you the story. As Wee Granny has a tartan bag and skirt we have been looking closely at tartan patterns and designing our own. They are on display in our home corner and have really brightened it up. In the story Granny, Emily and Harry bake cupcakes for a bake sale. We have been busy making cakes of our own this too, using lots of weird and wonderful ingredients found around the classroom!

It was lovely to see everyone dressed in their spotty clothes on Friday. It was great fun going to the bake sale and spending our own money. Thank you to everyone who baked and handed in donation money – it was a huge success and I’m sure we will find out soon how much we raised for this excellent cause.

Some photographs from this week:

November 17, 2017

Springfield’s Children in Need Spotacular 2017

Well done to everyone who supported the Pupil Council’s first fundraising event, “Children in Need’s Spotacular”. It was lovely to see so many children and teachers dressed in spots.

Our Pupil Council lead by Melissa and Emily did a fantastic job, it really was a team effort.

We still need to finalise the total raised, but it is looking around £670, which is incredible.

Here are a few photos of our Bake Sale.

Mrs Gordon and the Pupil Council.