Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

We have certainly been very active this week!

Rugby

We walked to the Rugby Club this week for the start of a block of 3 sessions of Rugby. We all played Tag Rugby. It is a non- tackle, minimal contact version of rugby. The objective of the game is to be the team that has accumulated the most points at full time by scoring trys. A try is scored by the attacking team when they place the ball on ground on or over the try line. A try is worth one point. Mrs McCartney really enjoyed watching us and was very impressed with our positive attitudes! We are looking forward to the next couple of rugby sessions.

Sweeties in a Jar

Mrs McCartney is so proud of Zara, Joseph Moon and Joanna! They have been raising money for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh. They have gone around the classes for the last 2 weeks and lots of the children have guessed how many sweets are in the jar. We are going to announce the winner at assembly this morning!!!
Thank you everyone who supported this wonderful cause!

Maths

We have been learning how to calculate addition sums using the standard written method (ie. chimney sums) after we have developed some mental strategies.
We found this useful for dealing with larger numbers as mental calculations can be tricky. We have persevered and helped each other if we get stuck. Chimney sums provide an accurate and quick means to the answer.

Literacy

In Grammar this week we were focussing on Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ song. We were exploring the use of figurative language. We had to identify, label, and explain the type of figurative language used in the song lyrics. Example included: imagery devices such as metaphors, similes and personification. We are going to follow up this lesson next week by using similes, metaphors and personification to describe a family member!!

Street Dance

We had a taster Street Dance session on Thursday with Sam! We learned a whole dance routine and Mrs McCartney joined in too! We learned that no beat sounds go beyond 8 and how important it is to listen to the beat of a song-what a lot of fun!!

Things to remember:

*Rugby on Tuesday 24th Jan
*Forth Crossing Education Centre trip on Wednesday 25th January- packed lunch and snack is required please.

Have a fabulous weekend!

P5A and Mrs McCartney x

P7 have been very busy this week with the start of our visits from professionals. Within Curriculum for Excellence it is important that children learn skills for life, learning and work. As part of this we invited our very talented and diverse group of parents to come in and talk to our P7’s about their careers, and how they got there. P7 have been asking some great questions, and have been fully engaged throughout these sessions.

Our guests range from dentists, solicitors, transport planners, investment consultants, Procurator Fiscal’s and many more. Here are some photos of some of this weeks visitors. We look forward to meeting more professionals over the next couple of weeks.

Happy new year everybody!

We have been extremely busy since coming back after our Christmas holiday.

In literacy this week we were looking at the sound ‘ve’. Here are some photographs of us practising spelling words with ‘ve’ in them.

On Wednesday we had a visit from the RSPB which was great fun. We explored our outdoor classroom for trails and other clues to where wildlife might be hiding, and then we actually found some wildlife too! We found so many different insects and creatures that we even made up a song to remind us of what we saw!

On Friday we also had a visit for the National Youth Choir of Scotland and got to practise some of our singing! We had lots of fun exploring different tunes and rhythms and even got to play a few musical games too.

We hope you have a lovely weekend 🙂

P3 x

We began the week with a very active PE lesson, working on spacial awareness and dodging around objects.  We also played a few team games.  It was really good fun and got our hearts pumping!

On Tuesday, Laura and Sarah from RSPB came in to do a Bioblitz session with us.  We were learning about wildlife in our immediate environment and thinking about birds and all the things they need in the environment to survive.  We watched a powerpoint and had a discussion in the classroom at the beginning of the session, then went outside to take a closer look in our school grounds.

We have been learning the sounds y and z this week, making yellow submarines and zebras, we really like the Yellow Submarine song and have had it as our tidy up music all week.  We also tried lots of other activities as we learn the sounds and how they work with other sounds to make words.

In maths, as well as working on numbers to 20, we have also been looking at 3D shapes. We had a shopping bag with lots of things you find around the house and we were looking at their properties – do they roll? how many edges? how many corners?  How many faces? What shapes are are the faces?  We also experimented with 3D shapes to build models, working out how the shapes best fit together.

There was great excitement on Thursday as we waited to see if it would snow – with great hopes of building a snowman!  When it came there wasn’t quite enough for that but we still had a lot of fun playing outside, making mini snowmen and snowballs and making patterns in the snow.

Next week we will be learning the only sounds of the alphabet we haven’t covered so far – qu and x, we will be working on numbers to 20, trying quick recall of numbers before, after and in-between and continuing our work on 3D shapes.  The whole school are beginning a focus on famous Scots, we will be looking at James Watt.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Kennedy and P1B

Happy New Year to you all!

We have been working very hard since coming back to school after the Christmas holidays.

This week, we learned two new sounds, ‘y’ and ‘z’. We were able to make CVC words containing these sounds and we even managed to make  the word ‘zebra’ on our magnetic boards! Miss Harrison was very impressed! We are also getting really good at writing sentences and we can use finger spaces and full stops. When we were reading, we were trying to look for our common words in our books.

In numeracy, we have been learning about numbers to 20 and 3D shapes. We can count from zero to twenty and twenty to zero and can find numbers after. On Thursday, we started to look at 3D shapes. Miss Harrison brought in a big bag of everyday objects and we sorted them into groups. The shapes we were learning about were cylinders, spheres, cones, cuboids and cubes. Here are some photos of us enjoying our 3D shape learning activities:

On Tuesday, we had a visit from the RSPB. Laura and Sarah were very impressed with our general knowledge! We went outside to discover wildlife in our school grounds. In groups, we went into our outdoor classroom and looked for different wildlife or evidence that certain animals or insects had been in our playground.

Continuing our outdoor learning theme, we also looked at signs of winter. Miss Harrison wanted to take down our Fairyland castle and put up a winter display but we came up with the idea of changing our Fairyland castle into a Winter castle (Miss Harrison agreed that this was an excellent idea)! We worked in pairs to make icicles and snowflakes and we are currently working on a snowman. On Friday, we made fantastic snowflake pictures using oil pastels and paint. Our classroom display is looking amazing!

Thank you very much for reading our blog post.

P1A 🙂