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Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory (P7b)

Today P7b visited Lady Haig’s Poppy Factory in Edinburgh in the lead up to Remembrance Day. We were warmly welcomed along by Stewart and the rest of the veterans and began the visit with a talk from Pete. He told us in great detail about Britain during World War II, showed us many interesting artifacts and even had some of us out to try on the outfits! Thankfully Mr. Logan escaped the spy outfit as a female was required and Mrs. Couper kindly agreed to step in. And, just when we were needing woken up, the gas rattle and air raid sirens were set off. Maybe we need to have one in class?

After Pete had finished, we began our group tours of the factory and got to see some of the many veterans hard at work. All of these men and women have a disability as a result of their service in the armed forces but still manage to manufacture an incredible 5.3 million poppies every year. The money raised from these wreathes and poppies provides much needed support for the many war veterans in Scotland and their families. Once our tours came to and end, we were lucky enough to be able to sit down and make some poppies for ourselves. Mr. Logan was incredibly impressed with the speed at which we were putting these together and it is lovely to think that these will be some of the poppies worn across Scotland this time next year.

What a fantastic visit, with some poignant moments that reminded us of the great sacrifices that men and women have made during times of war to allow us to live in the way we do today. Please have a look at our photos from the day below.

Mr. Logan and P7b

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Skills for Learning, Life and Work

Last session we successfully launched our Skills for Learning, Life and Work Programme in P7 and welcomed over 25 working professionals into class to deliver talks and presentations. Over the remainder of this academic session, both P7 classes will be developing their enterprising, pre-vocational, personal and employability skills in a practical context. An important aspect of this, is to make the link between the classroom and the workplace in order for the children to see the value of their learning and how they can contribute to their school, community and wider economy.

We would like to invite any parents or carers who would be willing to deliver a short talk about their occupation or line of work. It would be hugely beneficial for the P7 pupils to learn about a diverse range of careers and roles. We hope to build their knowledge and understanding of the workplace, and give them an insight into what employers may expect of them and what they should expect from employment. Our work this year will culminate in the organisation of a P7 Careers Fayre and a ‘Take Your Child to Work Day’.

If anyone is willing to give up some of their time, or any of last year’s volunteers would be willing to visit us again, could you please email me (ewan.logan@westlothian.org.uk) with a note of interest and your line of work. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Mr. Logan

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School Football News

There will be no school football training tomorrow (Monday 23rd) due to it being the last day of October break. We will however be recommencing next week (Monday 30th) for both P6 and P7. We will remain outdoors from 3.15 – 4.15pm until the darker nights draw in during which time we will have use of the school hall. At this point P6 and P7 pupils will attend training on separate weeks due to the space available.

I’ve been delighted with the numbers of pupils attending each week (averaging 45 at the moment) and they have all been working hard to develop their football skills, applying these in small-sided game situations. So far we have focused on dribbling, close-control, passing and shooting with our focus between October and December moving to possession, attacking/defending in 1v1, 2v1, 2v2, 3v2 scenarios and shape.

In order to give the children attending something to work towards, I am in the process of trying to arrange some friendly fixtures. Details to follow over the coming weeks. Springfield will have one P6 team entering the Junior Soccer Sevens local qualifiers with one P7 team entering the Soccer Sevens qualifiers. Local qualifying fixtures will be announced in due course before seeing if we can progress to the area and national finals.

We are also pleased to announce that our Linlithgow cluster schools football league will be up and running again after Christmas. This is great news after a long period without any sort of league format. There will be cluster meet ups at Linlithgow Leisure Centre on one Monday afternoon in January, February, March and April. On each afternoon we will play games in a round robin format and all results will be counted towards league standings. The league winner will be announced at the end of April before we head into the annual George Allan and Roundtable tournaments.

If pupils wish to be involved in these events, they must show dedication through their continued attendance at training and demonstrate a positive attitude at all times.

Mr. Logan

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Last week before the October break.

It was the last week before we break for our October break, and we were busy, busy.

We took our PE lesson outdoors this week. We continued to practice some basket ball skills through some dribbling games such as dribble tag and many more. Playing the famous ‘piggy in the middle’, we used this game to help practice our passing, catching and defending skills.

It was all about shapes, and how ‘sweet’ it is to make 2d and 3d shapes. Using spaghetti and marshmallows we worked in pairs to create a variety of 2d and 3d shapes. There  was a lot of problem solving going on as we needed to make sure our 3d shapes did not collapse…oh and the temptation to not eat the marshmallows!! Continuing with shapes, we spent some time in the outdoor classroom gathering some sticks so we can create some more 3d shapes. Although the weather wasn’t playing kind, we needed to bring out shape building indoors. We worked in pairs to create 3d shapes using string and sticks, again a lot of problem solving involved and discussion. When we return after the October break we are going go have a closer look at 2d and 3d shapes and learn how to identify the shapes by their different properties.

It’s been  a busy few weeks, researching and comparing the River Forth to the Amazon River. Working with a partner we researched and created a PowerPoint presentation on the cities/towns that the River Forth runs through, we presented and shared some facts with the class.

Always celebrating wider achievements, we say a massive well done to all the boys and girls who took part in the Linlithgow Run!!

Zak has been sharing his new found interest in children’s theatre. Zak is part of Big Bad Wolf children’s theatre and has been learning some lines for a production.. a star in the making!

Joseph, where you planning to put all these medals, Joseph brought a long ANOTHER medal that he had gotten over the weekend – Well Done!

To top it all off, we were given class of the week AGAIN in Assembly ! Mrs Matos is so proud of all the children in P6A we really are the best!!

 

P6A and Mrs Matos

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Recent Pupil Achievements…

Here are two our our lovely Primary 5 children with their achievements.

You will notice that I use the initial letters of their names only, in order to protect their identifies. This will be the case with all children who have achievements from now on.

ABS went to Harry Potter World and undertook a challenge and FD took part in a golf competition at Linlithgow Golf Club with his team.

PK and MC in P5B have been very busy creating interesting pieces related to Space as part of their home-learning this month. What a tremendous effort boys!

Well done to our amazing  children! We are always very proud! I love your hat F!

Miss Baillie x

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Harvest Assembly 🍂

A heartfelt thanks from all of us here at Springfield and Bonnytoun for the generous food donations that you all provided for our Harvest Assembly. These items have now been handed over to the West Lothian Foodbank and will be distributed within our community. We had a lovely assembly with Stuart, the minister from St Michael’s Church, kindly coming along to join us.

Children were in fine voice as they sang their Harvest songs and we listened to some Autumn poems written by pupils in P4-7.

Have a lovely October break everyone!

Love Miss Baillie xx 🍂

 

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Internet Safety at SPS

Just a little post to tell you all about our commitment to working with West Lothian Council and other agencies to keep your child safe online. As you will be aware , our school blog is our main avenue for sharing your child’s learning with you. We take the safety of our pupils very seriously online and as a result of this we shall try not to post a child’s image with their name beside it. This policy is in line with both West Lothian Council and the NSPCC guidelines. Where we do post a child’s name, there will be no image of the child within the vicinity.

We continue to teach our children about staying safe and being a responsible user online through our on-going classroom work, assemblies and in our Internet Safety week which runs in Term 4. All children signed a ‘Safe User’ policy which was sent home last session to ensure that they understood rules around the use of the Internet.

Digital technologies continue to play a massive part of all of our lives and will be increasingly important in the lives of our children. We will continue to work with you and all of our partners to ensure that our children can make the best use of technologies whilst being protected online.

Please let us know of any queries or concerns around our use of the Internet or ICT.

We do want to get it right for everyone!

Kind wishes,

Miss Baillie x

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We love chocolate in P7a…

As it was national chocolate week this week, and one of Mrs Gordon’s most favourite things in the whole world, we decided to have a chocolate focus this week…

For homework we had chocolate maths questions and during our problem solving numeracy sessions this week we had to solve chocolate mysteries. These involved lost of different mathematical concepts including place value, co-ordinates, fractions, roman numerals etc. One group had to work out the smallest number of breaks for a 100 square bar to be broken into individual squares…

Chocolate production in Brazil was part of our weekly research. We learnt a lot of facts and watched a video which showed us the journey from pod to supermarket shelf. We were all surprised at how long the process took, and how manually labour intensive it was. Here we are with some cocoa pods, and our own chocolate treat that Mrs Gordon gave us today for working so hard this term.

In Portuguese this week we learned about colours, and played matching pairs. Everyone picked them up very quickly and we noticed connections to Spanish with colours like yellow – amarillo in Spanish and amarelo in Portuguese.

We received lots of praise this week for helping the teachers as timekeepers at parents night. We were courteous, accurate and polite; and added these to our growing repertoire of skills for learning, life and work.

Happy holidays!

Mrs Gordon and P7a

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Primary 3/4 Blog Week Ending 13.10.17

 

Dear All

In Literacy we were writing a story about deserts and we did reading.

In French we learned how to spell our names using the French alphabet.

In Numeracy we did maths games. We did Big Maths Beat That and we bet our best scores!

In health and wellbeing we did PE.  We did belly dancing .We went to assembly and it was a harvest festival and we did music.

Hope you have a good weekend!

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