Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

This week P7a have continued using “The Great Kapok Tree” as our book focus. The children have been researching deforestation and threats in the Amazon Rainforest in pairs, we will be writing a persuasive letter to the Brazilian Government next week to ask them to continue to reduce deforestation.

We wrote very moving recounts of our trip to the Lady Haig Poppy Factory, and had a fabulous discussion about the emotions we felt during the visit.

On Wednesday Springfield P7’s won the cluster Sportshall Athletics competition. We were extremely proud of the children who despite a long warm up walk to get to the leisure centre scored top marks for the event.

Yesterday we started our enterprise focus. We are helping the children gain skills for life, learning and work. The children have split into groups and have been tasked to come up with a business plan for their “product” which will be sold by them at the Christmas Fair. They have to look at planning, design, resources, costing, marketing and sales. Watch this space for more news…

This week in P3 we continued with our book Room on the Broom. We have been looking at question words and question marks and thought of our own questions we would like to ask the witch. A couple of people in the class even turned into witches, wearing a witches hat and answering questions in the role of the character! We also got the opportunity to create our own sequel to the story in our writing this week, involving lots of different adventures along the way.

On Thursday we started to make stick puppets for the characters in the story to help us act out the story to some music and bring the story to life… we are all very excited to practice this next week!!

Have a magical weekend from P3 🙂

Dear All

We have been learning the Canadian barn dance for social dancing in PE. With Mrs Reid we have been doing rhythmic gymnastics. We practised passing games and tag rugby at rugby. Thank you for Mr Crawford and Kyle from the rugby club

Ursula, Niamh, Leah, Gillian, Katie, Sabrina and Piotr have been displaying all our work. Our portraits are now on the wall outside our class. We have moved our BFGs to our literacy wall.

We have made our own paper birds and they are hanging from the ceiling at our outdoor learning display. We Ewan brought in a bird poster and made a bird box Callum took photos of parks and Lola brought in a bird book. Our outdoor display is growing with lots of birds, leaves and conkers.

In literacy we finished our Hamish McHaggis stories and wrote spooky stories as well. We made our own clan characters and used Scottish words. We have read the Hamish McHaggis and the Ghost of Glams and the Clan Gathering.  We learned about verbs in the past tense.

In French we played a game called Mon Monstre. We drew a monster to practise parts of the body, colours and numbers it was fun!

In maths we have been learning the 4x table and using division .We learned to add hundreds with 2didget numbers. We did big maths and everyone improved. We learned the digital time quarter to and quarter past. We learned how to read a train time table and played time games on the computers.

We measured our plants. We have recorded what has happened to our plants.

On Friday we wore lots of spots and dressed down for children in need thank you for your chocolate and money.

Have a good weekend!

Typed by Amelie

This week we have we made table clan banners and worked as teams to give our tables new names. We have also created a class banner and this, as well as the table banners, are now on display in the classroom. We completed our science experiments and recorded the results using scientific language. Some of us took our plants home, some of us didn’t.

In writing we wrote spooky stories which we will read to each other next week. Mrs Newton will make them up into a book for the class library.

We completed a design challenge this week. We had to use our imagination and problem solving strategies to build birdboxes out of card. They had to have sides, a top and bottom and an entrance for birds. There also had to be a mounting part so they could be put on the wall. This was quite tricky, however most of us succeeded and our next step will be to use these new skills to make bird boxes out of wood.

We continued to learn about time and finished this on Thursday with a game of Time Scoot. This was fun and we will be doing more Scoot games in the future. Although we won’t be helping to move the tables (Mrs Newton’s finger is very sore but not broken).

As a class we have had a number of chats about Pokemon cards and how these should be fun. Sometimes we have been a little sad about trading and so talked about perhaps not bringing them into school if we do not want to trade.

We had our individual and family photographs- these are in our bags today.

Finally (drum roll please!) we won the class of the week award for the second time this year- go P4A- we rock 😉

Have a great weekend. Only 4 weeks and 3 days left before we will be half way through P4- where did all the time go?

P4a

Hello all,

Over the remainder of this academic year, both P7 classes will be developing their skills for learning, life and work. The aim being to develop their enterprising, pre-vocational, personal and employability skills in a practical context. An important aspect of this, is to make the link between the classroom and the work place in order for the children to see the value of their learning and how they can contribute to their school, community and wider economy.

We would like to invite any parents or carers who would be willing to deliver a short talk about their occupation or line of work. It would be hugely beneficial for the P7 pupils to learn about a diverse range of careers and roles. We hope to build their knowledge and understanding of the workplace, and give them an insight into what employers may expect of them and what they should expect from employment.

If anyone is willing to give up some of their time to do so, could you please email me (ewan.logan@westlothian.org.uk) stating your interest and line of work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Mr. Logan

P1B have been on the move this week; using our bodies, getting our hearts pumping and brains working as we learn.  In PE on Monday we used our whole bodies to make all the addition sums for 4.

Then we played a running game where there were lots of sums around the hall with no answers, when Mrs Kennedy called out an answer we had to run to one of the sums that adds up to the number she called out.  We’re getting really quick at remembering all the different ways to make 2, 3, 4 and 5 and enjoyed racing our friends to find the right sums.

We have also been doing a lot of word building this week.  We used our bodies again as we put sounds in hoops to make words and said each sound as we jumped in the hoops and read the word at the end.

The whole school has a book focus this week and next and we’ve been looking at the story of Jack and the Flumflum tree by Julia Donaldson.  Firstly we drew pictures of what we think the Isle of Blowyernose looks like and what we might find if we visited there.  The pictures are amazing and Mrs Kennedy wrote down all our ideas too – she had a lot of writing to do as we had lots of thoughts about what it would look like.  We also studied the words in the book to help us to understand the story better.  Our favourite phrases are ‘don’t get your knickers in a twist!’ and ‘I can’t swim for toffee!’  There are also lots of lovely describing words to explore too – heaved and hauled, gobble and guzzle, nip and gnash, as well as the characters – red-cheeked Rose and stubble-cheeked Stew and poor granny with her terrible doze of moozles!

At assembly on Friday we watched as P5A put on a fantastic performance all about Remembrance Day.  They helped us to understand why we wear poppies at this time of year. After the assembly we really wanted to make our own poppies. Mrs Kennedy gave us some resources and in our usual creative way we made lots of different styles of poppies – they were brilliant!

P1B and Mrs Kennedy x