Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

Welcome back! This week we have been consolidating all of our sounds and revising all of our common words. We have been reading non-fiction books and trying to find our common words, identifying pictures to match sounds, writing our own sentences on the whiteboards and playing games on the smartboard with our common words. Next week we will be learning some new sounds and words.

This week, we have been revising all of our subtraction facts to 5 and have started to subtract 1 and 2 from numbers to 10. We have been continuing to use subtraction language such as ‘less than’ and ‘take from’ and we are beginning to link addition and subtraction facts. We worked with a partner to give each other subtraction sums to solve.

 

On Wednesday morning, we found a photograph of Mr Fluff in a space shuttle! He thanked us for helping him to learn all about transport and we talked about what we learned and how transport has changed. We then discussed how people might travel in the future and we enjoyed looking at photos of magnetic levitation trains, driverless cars and supersonic cars. It was then our turn to be inventors and we drew pictures of our own transportation vehicles that could be used in the future! We shared our inventions with the rest of the class.

 

This week, we started our Outdoor Learning Focus on Spring. We discussed signs of spring and using clipboards and a Spring Hunt checklist, went outside to our play areas and outdoor classroom. We found daffodils, insects, flower buds, flowers, birds, blossom, seedlings and nests.

Later that afternoon, we used potatoes to print pictures of tulips and used tissue paper to make flowers. Spring has definitely arrived in P1A!

      

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

P1A and Miss Harrison 🙂

 

Hello!!

I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter holiday! We certainly had lovely weather!!

A short but busy week this week!

We are so proud of Lily and Nicci for raising money for Sick Kids, what an achievement! Well done and thank you so much to everyone who supported the cause.

It was great to see the children back and hear all their holiday news! We enjoyed sharing our news with our friends and focussing on what places we went, things we did and people we saw.

We have been focussing on division in Maths, we started with dividing 1 digit by 2 and 3 digit numbers. We are learning the traditional (long method) division.
We will move on to 4 digit numbers as the children become more confident. We have realised how important it is to know our times table. Lots of us were supporting each other if we found it tricky, we realise that this team work is so important.

We had a joint Circuit Training session with the other P5 class, it was exhausting and great fun!

We have been exploring Spring and what are signs of Spring. We had a Spring Scavenger Hunt for outdoor learning. We worked with the other P5 class and searched in the school grounds for signs of Spring. We then brought our materials into the classroom and created Spring information posters that we then presented to both classes. Mrs McCartney thought that our presentations were fantastic!

We created fantastic art pictures, which show an awareness and recognition of detail of Spring. Mrs McCartney was delighted with them!

Things to remember:
*Family Learning Afternoon for Maths at 2pm on Monday 24th April.
*Futsal sessions begin Wednesday 26th April- PE kits in class are fine to wear.

Happy weekend!
Mrs McCartney and P5A x

We all came back to school on Tuesday well rested from our holiday. We had singing with Mrs Gray and managed to do the daily mile.

On Wednesday we began to learn about the different rules that religions have. Some of us started in the Boccia lunch club- this was great fun, but very tiring. In PE we began atheletic circuit training, this was tiring too!

Thursday was an excellent day in P4a, Kieran came to visit AND we went to the Peel. At the Peel we met 2 rangers, Gordon and Will, who taught us all about trees, what they need to grow and how important they are. We studied and drew some of the trees. We also played a number of games which helped us learn about the four things trees need to grow and why they are so important to us.

After that we came back to school and had a picnic outside, this was great as we all got the chance to talk and play in the fresh air 🙂

Next we made Quidditich hoops out of tyres- this was a great piece of combined team work. Kieran had not been able to work out how to get the hoops to school so we solved the problem using a Growth Mindset. We then made broom sticks from fallen twigs and used a football to try the new resources out.

We are super excited to start our Quidditch lessons next Thursday, we think we are the only primary school in Scotland (and possibly the UK) to have these lessons!!

Today we had an assembly on Growth Mindsets, it was very interesting and reminded us that sometimes things are hard, but if we keep trying we will succeed. 🙂

Have a lovely weekend, hopefully there will be lots of sun!

P4a

Welcome back after a lovely Easter break. We are all well rested and ready to go on some new adventures this term.

We didn’t waste anytime  burning off all the lovely Easter Eggs we managed to eat over the Easter weekend.  We joined up with P5A for a joint circuit training during PE. It was great fun joining our friends in P5A, and we are all a little competitive at times. Our circuit training involved, hurdles, hula hoops, balancing, skipping, catching and a bit of tennis. Each activity is helping us to keep fit and build strength in all our major muscles.

We were all excited to get back after our Easter holidays and share with each other all the fun things we managed to do over the two week break. During literacy we planned and wrote about our favourite memories/time over the Easter holiday. When writing we needed to remember all the important grammar rules. Once we were finished we got to read a partners Easter holiday story. We used different colour pencils for editing. We learning that editing is an important skill in writing, as we are learning to identify any error as well as using our editing to work on our next steps.

 

No time was wasted in numeracy. We continued with division this week. We have started to learn the formal written method in division. We started with dividing 2 digit numbers, as we got more confident we started dividing 3 digit numbers. We learnt how to complete division using the formal method with a remainder. We have realised how important it is to know our times tables. Mrs Matos is encouraging us to practise our times tables at home as much as we can, because if we know our times tables, division will be simple. Next week we will be dividing bigger numbers.

As the weather is getting better, we are getting to enjoy some outdoor learning. We worked together with P5A to go on a Spring treasure hunt around the school. We had to look out for the different types of leaves and twigs that we could find around the school, we also had to keep our eyes open  for anything that showed the signs of spring. As we went on our Spring hunt we collected all the things we could identify with Spring. We worked in groups to create an informative Spring poster, which we then presented to the class. Mrs Matos and Mrs McCartney were very impressed with how well we worked together.

We have a lot to look forward to next week. On Monday we have our family learning event, numeracy will be the focus, please come along and see what we have been learning. We also have Mr Woodhouse coming to talk to Primary 5 about his Africa experience, and lastly we will be starting our block of Futsal. Never a dull moment in Primary 5.

P5B and Mrs Matos

 

Dear All

This week is the first week of the new term.

In literacy we did the spring spelling suffix mosaic. We also got a sheet of the 200 most used words.

In numeracy we did two maths assessments. We did a work sheet about hieroglyphics.

In Health and Wellbeing we did an exercise circuit with Mrs Reid. We also did the same with Mrs McAlpine outside.

In Learning across the curriculum we learnt about the private bits of our body.

With Mrs Begarnie, we learned that rules are important. We had to play a game but we didn’t know what the rules were.

Hope you have a good weekend!

Typed by Ewan Sexton