Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

What an amazing time we had skiing on Thursday. Have a look at some photos below. I was very proud of all of the children. We all had a growth mindset and gave it a go (even if we were scared), which Mrs Gordon was!

This week we also wrote a persuasive letter to the Brazilian ambassador about our concerns over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

In maths we continued working with large numbers and place value, and in French we focused on time.

Enterprise skills have been developing as our mini teams prepare their products, and complete marketing for the Christmas fair next week. Everyone is very excited and the class will be full of glitter and loombands next week!

P5B dazzled us today with their acting, dancing and singing as they provided an account of life in WW2. The children acted out the story of an Evacuee and described the feelings of children who would have been in this position. Well done to those involved! Thank you especially to Mrs Matos and all parents and carers who provided costumes and came along to support the children today.  Excellent work everyone!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Kind wishes,

Miss Baillie x

Hola!!

Another busy, busy week!

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We are beginning to identify key information from a short predictable conversation and react with words or gestures in Spanish. We worked with the other Primary 5 on Tuesday morning and created a months of the year calendar in Spanish. We are learning songs and rhymes and are showing understanding and enjoyment by listening, joining in and responding in both French and Spanish.

Health and Wellbeing
We have been doing Gymnastics in P.E. Mrs McCartney was so impressed that she came into the hall to see us with Mrs Reid and took photographs. We are recognising when we experience new challenges for learning, we are encouraged and supported to demonstrate our creative ability. We are going to the P5 Handball Festival on December 14th.We are going to be preparing for this festival over the next couple of week in our P.E slots.

We are beginning to identify key information from a short predictable conversation and react with words or gestures in Spanish. We worked with the other Primary 5 on Tuesday morning and created a months of the year calendar in Spanish. We are learning songs and rhymes and are showing understanding and enjoyment by listening, joining in and responding in both French and Spanish.

Literacy

We are continuing to explore the text, ‘The Amazing Story of Aldolphus Tips’. We are demonstrating our understanding of the text by answering very tricky questions about the text- even coming up with our own!!
We wrote fantastic poems about peace. We were asked to visualise what peace looks like and how we can link peace to our senses. Our poems were very emotional and brought a tear to Mrs McCartney’s eyes!

Maths

We have been looking at mental addition strategies for adding a 2 digit number to the three digit number. We were working with a partner to create a poster demonstrating our chosen strategy. Mrs McCartney told us to make sure that it made sense as we are going to share these with our peers. We are really working on having Growth Mindset in Maths. We are becoming more confident with which calculations are needed and can solve problems involving whole numbers using a range of methods. We are really enjoying sharing my approaches and solutions with others.

Book Fair

The Book Fair was a wonderful success!!! Mrs Manlove worked so, SO hard preparing for all the books for the fair and each class loved going along! Paul Manlove has been a credit to the school and helped his mum out each day! We are so proud of you, Paul! What a responsible citizen!
Christmas Hamper Appeal
Thank you to all who brought in food donations for the Christmas Hamper Appeal! Your support is very much appreciated. Both Primary 5 classes are going to prepare the Christmas bags next week to give to the Day Care Centre.

Christmas Fayre

We are looking forward to our enterprise focus next week and preparing our ‘Snowman Soup’ for the Christmas Fayre. We are very lucky to have parents coming in next week to help us with this and the Christmas Hamper Appeal.
Happy weekend everyone!

Adios!

Primary 5A and McCartney x

Things to remember:
*Growth Mindset Open Afternoon 1.30-2.45pm Wednesday 30th November
*Christmas Fayre next Friday 2nd December

Dear All

This week we had our last time at rugby. Everybody was feeling cold. We played tag in rugby. We played in teams. Thank you to Mrs Mathieson and Kyle from the Rugby Club for helping us to walk there. We did body balance on Monday. We learned more of the Canadian barn dance and we switched partners. We learned Rhythmic gymnastics with Miss Reid.

We finished of recording our mustard plants and we got to take them home. We tested to see how they grew with no sunlight, no soil and with no water or with all conditions. The ones with no water and no soil didn’t grow. They tasted spicy. We also started making our Christmas fair goods.

In maths we added 4 diget numbers with 4 digit numbers. We have been learning different strategies to learn the 4 times table.

In literacy we have been making up a dictionary to help us with our spelling. We also learned how to show expression in our writing using bold, italics, capital letters and big writing.

Have a good weekend!

Typed by Lola, Franz and Una

This week we started to look at money in Maths. We were working with amounts to £5, buying goods and receiving change. We practised these skills during our ICT time.

In French this week we were asking questions about our names and the names of our friends. We also revisited all our previous French skills.

Next week we have chosen to do an activity, on the mindset afternoon, linking our budgeting skills and French together. Please come visit us from 2.00pm until 2.45pm on Wednesday (1.30pm in the hall first for a presentation by Miss Baillie and Mr Logan.)

In literacy we looked at different ways to display texts. We made posters for the school fair and about the Christmas Post Office we will run in P4 this year.

We worked out our potentual profit if we sell all our crafts at the school fair and then started making these for next week- this will take us a long time- but we hope you will like them.

We did football rounders for our PE with Mrs Newton and gymnastics with Mrs Reid.

We are almost finished reading Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone- we have been reading it since August and hope that all the parents will agree we can watch the movie as our Dojo Christmas Treat (Mrs Newton has sent a Dojo message about this.)

We visited the book fair and loved seeing all the different books we could read.

A huge thank you to Abbie’s dad who has donated wood (and is going to arrange to have it cut for us) so we can attempt to make some bird boxes. More news on this will follow after the school fair.

Finally- on the back of winning class of the week last week, this week we won Mrs Malcolm’s peg challenge for the upper school. Pegs are awarded for walking quietly around the school and we managed to win 2 this week. We are hoping our good luck continues next week 🙂

Have a great weekend, stay warm.

P4a

P7b have been continuing to work hard to extend their knowledge of place value using 9-digit numbers, and demonstrated their knowledge on Thursday in a topic assessment. Our scores were excellent and are a reflection of how hard we have been working over the past 3 weeks. In Big Maths we have been adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals and practising both our 11 and 12 times tables. On Friday, we completed Beat That! week 7, with everyone’s scores showing significant improvements since the beginning of term. Next week we will be moving onto addition, using both written methods and calculators to do so.

In writing this week we created first drafts of our curricula vitae (we learnt this is the plural in latin, curriculum vitaes is grammatically incorrect). This formed part of our focus on developing Skills for Learning, Life and Work and is an important step towards gaining employment. We will be self-correcting and redrafting these next week using the Netbooks. After Christmas, we are looking forward to visits from various professionals to give us a taster as to what can be expected in different workplaces.

Another key part of Skills for Learning, Life and Work is the development of enterprising skills. This week we started work on our enterprise which involves us working collaboratively in groups of 5 to come up with a business plan before designing, resourcing, costing, ordering, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and eventually selling our products at this year’s Christmas Fair. We have split into our groups, created team names and logos, decided on a product and compiled a resource list so far. Next week we will be calculating costs and ordering resources.

Finally, we were delighted to find out that Springfield placed first at the cluster Sportshall Athletics Event on Wednesday. All of our practise paid off and we performed brilliantly on the day. We are hoping that our score of 56 points will be enough to progress to the regional final.

Have a fantastic weekend from P7b and Mr. L