Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

August 25, 2017

Welcome to Primary 2/3

Hello and welcome to our first blog post of the term!

We have been very busy settling into our new classroom and getting to know Miss Prince.

We learned about our rights and responsibilities. We made a beautiful display to help us to remember to be kind, be sensible and to listen the first time.

In music we learned how to read music notes called crotchets and quavers. We enjoyed playing the chime bars.

Callum was our Star of the Week for a super first week in Primary 2/3. Well done, Callum!

Have a lovely weekend!

Love from Primary 2/3 and Miss Prince

August 25, 2017

We have had a great start to Primary 3 this week. The pupils have become familiar with our class routines and created their own classroom rules. We also discussed our class charter and created our Minions to use as a display. The pupils created group names for their tables and decided on a sports theme for these this term.

I know that Mr Ritchie is looking forward to starting with us next week and I’m sure the class will help him with learning all our new rules and routines.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs McVay

August 25, 2017

Welcome to P1A

Welcome to our first blog post! We have had a busy first week in P1A and have enjoyed catching up with old friends and making new friends. Miss Harrison has been so impressed at how well we have settled into P1 and how quickly we were able to follow the school routines. Here are some of our photos from our first few days in P1A…

Miss Harrison has also been very impressed with our drawing skills. We drew fantastic pictures of ourselves on our first day of school.

On Wednesday, we learned about children’s rights. We discovered that children have the right to a bed, the right to a home, the right to play, the right to food and the right to go to school. Have a look at our fabulous class charter! We made our own Lego minifigs and displayed them on the wall with rights that we are entitled to at school.

Today our P7 buddies helped us to log on to the school laptops using a username and password. They also helped us to find the Google Chrome icon and together, we used key words to find specific information.

Our P7 buddies have been a huge help this week. They have supported us in the playground at break and lunch, have assisted us in getting our lunch in the dining hall and have helped us to settle into P1. Thank you very much to the P7 buddies for their wonderful support!

Thank you for reading our first blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

August 25, 2017August 25, 2017

P7b Weekly Blog

This Week

This week we welcomed back our newest batch of P7s for session 2017/2018, and what a great first week it has been! All of our pupils have settled quickly into P7 and set a themselves high standards for the coming year. They have been engaged and motivated throughout the week and taken on board what the expectations of our P7s are.

Every pupil has been working closely with their new P1 Buddy this week at both breaks and lunchtimes to help them settle in to school life. Mrs. Gordon and I have been incredibly impressed with the care and kindness demonstrated by both classes, making what is a nerve wracking experience for our younger pupils that bit easier. Thank you to all of you for your dedication to this!

In the classroom, we have been getting things up and running whilst getting to know each other. P7b have been designing a tie in our competition where Mr. Wells will choose one winner to have their tie made for every P7. If we manage to wear our shirt and tie from Monday – Thursday, the reward on a Friday will be to wear their hoodies (more information and order forms to follow). Both classes have also created a Time Capsule which will be opened on the last day of term. We have included a letter to our future selves, a piece of string that represents our current height, a profile page about ourselves and a copy of this week’s Gazette. It will be interesting to see how much P7 have changed by the end of the year.

Finally, P7b have created their Emoji Class Charter listing the articles and rights from the UNCRC that will be respected within class at all times. We have also decided upon our class privileges available to us if we manage to reach a total of 300, 400 or 500 Dojo points each week. If the first week is anything to go by, these privileges will be a regular event.

Coming Up in P7b

Orienteering sessions in P7
P7b Class Assembly on Friday 15th September
Holiday on Monday 18th September
Risk Factory trip on Thursday 21st September, EE2 forms to be sent out and parental help required
Parents’ Evenings on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th October
October holidays from Monday 16th to Monday 23rd October
Poppy Factory trip on Thursday 26th October
Skiing block (4 weeks) begins on Thursday 30th November

Have a restful weekend

P7b and Mr. Logan

August 25, 2017

Welcome to P2A

A big welcome back to all pupils and parents. We have had a wonderful week in P2A getting to know each other and exploring our new classroom.

Here are a few pictures to show you what we have been up to.

We were busy making displays for our classroom. We talked about our rights and responsibilities and created our class charter.

We learnt about the 5 point scale. Miss Mudd uses this as a morning check in tool to see how we are feeling. We can move our names up and down the scale to show our feelings changing throughout the day. We talked about different strategies we can use to keep us calm and happy. If we are feeling a 5 we could take some deep breaths, have a drink, talk to a friend, take a walk, read a book or draw in our doodle books.

Miss Mudd had also set us up a Finger Gym in the classroom to strengthen our fingers and practise our fine motor skills. Our challenge this week was to use the giant tweezers and gems to solve the doubling problems.

We were also practising some of our common words from last year to see what we could remember.

We are all tired out!

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend.

Miss Mudd and P2A

xxx

August 25, 2017

Primary 6 Visit to the Book Festival

Primary 6 had a ‘monstrous’ visit to Edinburgh Book Festival on Thursday.

They met with Dave Rudden (author of Knights of the Borrowed Dark) and Rupert Wallis (author of The Boy with One Name).

Dave and Rupert shared their books with us and then discussed how they created monsters for their stories.

As an audience, we helped to create monsters, which Dave sketched for us.

They also answered questions about their jobs and books.

We will use this as a stimulus for our storywriting next week

June 30, 2017

P7a end of P7

Well that’s it…the end of P7…

I was so sad to say goodbye to P7a today that I couldn’t say much. I will miss each and every one of them, they have all worked so hard, but achieved so much. I know they will do us all proud at the Academy !

We opened our time capsule which we created in August. Look how much we have grown (string was measured in August 2016). We also looked at our goals and how we have changed since August. It was a lovely way to end our year and look forward to new beginnings…

Happy holidays

Mrs Gordon and P7a x

June 30, 2017June 30, 2017

Goodbye and Good Luck!

We said a fond farewell to all of our amazing P7 children today and also to the following ‘Springfield Stars’ who are moving on to new schools after the summer…

Good bye and good luck to Will Cairns in P2/3, Alexander and James Choi in P3 and Amy Finch in P6B. We will miss you all!

Have a wonderful holiday folks. Thank you so much to everyone for the amazing support this year and for all of the lovely cards and gifts that I have received today. It has been a pleasure to work with you all and to take care of your children. Both myself, Mr Wells and our entire staff team will continue to do our very best for all of the fantastic SPS and Bonnytoun pupils as we lead the school into next session and beyond. Thank you everyone! We truly are a wonderful school!

Kind wishes,

Miss Baillie xx

June 30, 2017June 30, 2017

Well Done Sophie!

A massive congratulations to Sophie Hemmings in P6B for winning the West Lothian Young Writer of The Year Award for her brilliant story about Marmalade the cat! We read her story out at a special assembly today and we were delighted that a child from our school could produce such outstanding work.

Keep up the excellence in Literacy Sophie! You are a true star!

Miss Baillie x

June 30, 2017January 27, 2018

The Quickest Year Ever! P1B

They say time flies when you’re having fun, that has certainly been true for the 2016/17 school year. I’m unbelievably proud of every one of the children, they have all worked extremely hard and played hard too! They’ve been kind to each other and have supported each other throughout. They have also made me laugh every day! I’ve had such a fun year. Thank you too to their supportive parents, they are a credit to you.

Here are some photos of what we’ve been up to in the last few days of the year:

‘Springfield’s Got Talent’