Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Hello!

We hope that you all had a fantastic time at the Marches on Tuesday! We had a lot of fun watching the procession with the rest of our class on You Tube on Wednesday. It was great that it stayed dry!

We had our final Futsal on Wednesday and it was matches. We were divided into 6 teams and we all had a chance to play each other. The red team won and some of us want to continue to play futsal next session.

We were so lucky to have a Better Movers and Thinkers session on Monday, it was a fantastic session!

We would like to thank Mr Stewart for coming to teach us!

We are looking forward to the Quidditch tournament on Monday! We are playing in our house teams but our house names have been changed to Harry Potter names!

We would like to take the opportunity to thank Kieran, our coach, who has given up his own time to come to Springfield and teach us a new sport, it has been an incredible experience and we are all super excited about Monday!

We were BEYOND excited to meet our P2 PALS this week, it was amazing to be appointed a leadership role for P6!

Mrs Gordon taught us French on Thursday which was a lot of fun. We watched ‘High 5’ and we sang French songs. We also watched Thomas the Tank Engine in French with the other P5 class and we were so amazed at how much we could understand of the storyline!

In Maths we have been looking at time, telling the exact time in minutes and hours. We recognise the importance of learning time and how we can use this life skill in future. We looked at time duration and managed to calculate some really tricky challenge questions.

Many thanks to all who came along last night to meet Mr Wells, he was delighted so many came.

It was very exciting to meet our new teacher, Mrs Matos, this week. We all wrote her a letter introducing ourselves and sharing what makes us unique.

We are all looking forward to the Gala Day tomorrow, we all hope that you all have a wonderful day.

We can’t wait to see the Springfield float, go team Springfield!

We hope that you all have a lovely day on Sunday and that that dads/special person enjoy Father’s Day!

Happy weekend!

Mrs McCartney and P5A x

Things to remember:

• Monday 19^th – Quidditch Tournament
• Wednesday 21^st – Sports Day

Please wear house colour top on Monday and Wednesday for Sports Day.

 

 

 

 

 

On Monday we all went to Edinburgh to visit the National Museum. We took part in a great workshop, we had to identify the artefacts from clues. Then we visited a recreation of an actual tomb! After lunch we had time to visit some of the other galleries and then we got the bus back to school. Luckily we had Tuesday off to recover!

On Wednesday we started to learn how to do Suduko puzzles, these were tricky but fun. Then we had our last quidditch session with Kieran before Monday’s tournament. We are all very excited about the event, hopefully it won’t rain on Monday.

On Thursday we started to debate with each other using the arguments and statements we had written earlier, It was a bit tricky but we enjoyed the experience. Then we got to meet our new teacher, Mrs McCartney, this was really good and we are looking forward to P5a, plus Mrs Newton will be right next door with P5b.

Have a great weekend, enjoy the Gala day, we have plenty of Flower Girls in P4 as well as a few animals, fingers crossed it is a lovely sunny day.

2 weeks to go in P4 🙂

P4a

P.S. We all need to wear our outdoor PE kit on Monday (no school uniform needed) and our T-shirts should, if possible, be in our house colours.

 

 

P4B’s Trip to Ancient Egypt!.

Cheryl from St Michael’s church visited us on Thursday to present the award for the P7 “Good Samaritan” for session 2016/17. It was a very difficult decision to make, as many of the children often go above and beyond in Springfield PS. Neve Leishman from P7b was our very worthy winner, and was commended for her ability to demonstrate acts of kindness within school (a particular focus within P1 and our buddies). Neve also recognises when something needs done and will do it without being asked to do so. Well done Neve, we are very proud of you !

 

 

 

Literacy

This week we were fortunate to visit the Book Fair at the rugby club where author Lari Don spoke to the cluster P7’s about her Spellchaser’s trilogy. There was lots of audience participation as we helped create our own chase within a story.

We also wrote a recount of P7 camp where we had to share what we enjoyed, what we didn’t, our personal challenge and our next steps. It was lovely to talk together before we started writing and share the challenges we had which were all very varied.

We finished creating our wall display in art for “The boy in the striped pyjamas” where our focus was on using different materials and teamwork to create the final version which you can see below. We then started watching the film with an aim of writing a comparison of book and film afterwards.

Health and Wellbeing

Michelle from WLDAS (West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service) visited us again this week to deliver sessions 2 and 3 of the tobacco education programme. The focus was very much on giving the children tools and words to use when faced with a tricky situation. The children were very engaged and participated fully in the session which taught them all strategies which could be used in any risk-taking situation. We also had the dummy demonstrate the damaging effects of smoking just one cigarette.

Numeracy

Our focus this week was on shape. We did a whirlwind tour of properties of 2D and 3D shapes using mathematical language and nets of shapes. We then looked at the different types of triangles and angles using estimation, measurement and problem solving.

P7 Cluster Rugby Tournament

We took part in the P7 cluster rugby tournament on Friday. Luckily the rain stayed away for most of the morning and each team enjoyed 4 or 5 games of tag rugby. Well done to everyone for giving it a go.