We created a map of the local area from the 3D models of our houses. We made our houses at home out of junk. We thought it was amazing, really good, fun and a little bit hard!
P5A’s Week of Excitement
Primary 5A have been very busy this week.
We have been designing our very own islands and thinking about what geographical features they have. We worked in pairs to create our own Powerpoints about our islands using persuasive language. We thought we could use persuasive language in real life contexts to help us get ‘what we would like’ at home! 🙂
We used our visualisation skills to draw and label what we thought Kensuke’s island was like in our class novel.
Next week , we are going to deliver our presentations and there is going to be a class vote to see which island we are going to make.
In Maths, we have looking at place value and strategies that can help us. We looked at clips from Khan Academy that were very helpful. When we meet a challenge, we are working together to get the answer and discussing it.
In Literacy, we are exploring the book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and have been thinking about 5 items that we would take with us to a desert island and why. Lots of us came up with very creative ideas for why we were bringing this item.
How lucky were we that Lari Don visited and she read us a small part of her new book! P5-7 made up their own part of their story where the character would nearly get there and then have to try again. She left it on a cliffhanger and it was so exciting that we were inspired to go home and read!! Mrs McCartney was very pleased with us!
Our follow up activity in class was to write a short story about an object, making it as interesting and exciting as possible.
Creating our own National Identity was a lot of fun. We had to design our own flag and decide on what symbol would be on it and why. Listening to other National Anthems helped us to create our own lyrics for our own! We are really looking forward to creating our flags using a variety of materials next week.
Mrs Crocker came to visit us yesterday to tell us all about the South African ‘Pack for a Purpose’ project. Can we please thank you in advance for all your support.
Joseph Moon brought in the most amazing plaque and told us all in great detail all about the war medals that his family member had achieved, thank you!
We really hope that you have enjoyed reading our first class blog, we have certainly enjoyed writing it!
Happy weekend!!
Mrs McCartney and Primary 5A
Nursery Learning
Harvest
We recently collected our potatoes and carrots from our garden. We were delighted with the harvest we had produced. We used our potatoes to make mashed potatoes, soup and potato salad. We have also been using balance scales to help to compare the weights of the potatoes and have been using the mathematical language, heavier than, lighter than and the same as.
Lari Don Visit
P5-7 had a visit from children’s author Lari Don today. The children listened to her read some snippets from her new trilogy of Spellchaser novels and were able to ask lots of questions, gaining some useful hints and tips. The first question I was asked as we were leaving the hall was, “Mr. Logan, are we doing story writing now?”, which was an indication of how much the pupils enjoyed the visit! Lari Don’s website is included below if you would like to find out about some of the other books and stories she has written.
Mr. Logan
Historic Scotland Archaeological Awards
We are very proud to announce that some of our pupils are the youngest EVER children to win a Historic Archaeological Scotland Bronze Award! All of the children in Mrs Murdoch and Mrs Doran’s class from last session received their awards today for their creativity and hard work on their Cairnpapple topic! What an achievement! Well done to everyone involved and a huge thank you to Mrs Murdoch for the contribution she made to Springfield Primary. Thank you also to Kate, from Historic Archaeological Scotland who came into school, with Mrs Murdoch, to present the awards today. What talented youngsters we have!
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
Miss Baillie x
Macbeth Performance
P5-7 were lucky enough to attend a performance of ‘Is this a dagger?’ by Andy Cannon from Red Bridge Arts on Wednesday. This is an adaptation of Macbeth for children, celebrating 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare, and tells a tale full of deceit, witchcraft and murder. The children thoroughly enjoyed the play and some of them even had the chance to demonstrate their skills in drama. I’m sure everyone would agree that Ross was fantastic in his role as Lady Macbeth!
Mr. Logan
Easy As Yummy Cake!
This year both P7a and P7b decided to take on the challenge of… Cake Fest 2016! We all had the opportunity to make the palace out of cake. In the end ‘The Ladies of Loaf’ won and got to make the cake. After 2 days of hard work they were ready to present their cake at Stirling.
There were lots of fantastic cakes at Cake Fest and unfortunately we didn’t win, however, we had great fun and we had learned lots. Altogether, it was a great learning experience!
You can view our BBC film here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00kl3tf
By Kiera and Emma
Autumn Parental Focus Group.
Thanks so much to all of the lovely parents who came along to our Focus Group today. We learned about the new West Lothian Council, Parental Engagement Framework which details the Council’s commitment to including parents in their child’s education.
Please follow this link if you would like to read the Framework:
There are also some paper copies available in our School reception.
We then wrote our thoughts on the following questions:
- What do we want for our children?
- What do we want for our School?
- How do we want our School to communicate with us?
Thank you to everyone for sharing their ideas. Listening to your ‘voices’ is an extremely important priority for us. As part of our on-going commitment to self improvement, we will try very hard to create action-points from your views and show you the impact of our work.
Please come along to our next ‘Family Learning’ event on ‘Growth Mindsets’ which will take place on Wednesday 30th November in our School Hall and will include a chance to learn with our children in their classrooms.
There will also be an opportunity for P1-3 and Nursery parents to come along to some Early Years Curriculum presentations, given by Miss Baillie- more information to follow…
Have a holiday weekend everyone!
Stay safe and be happy!
Miss Baillie x
Springfield Sing Their Hearts Out
We are so proud of all the boys and girls in our school choir who did Springfield proud today as they sang at the WLC Class of 2016 event at Deans Community High School. Thanks also to Mrs. Sharp for her ongoing dedication to our school choir and developing musical talent in our school. We also appreciate the help given by teaching staff and parents to get our pupils to Livingston today. Well done all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoi-RNxArPk
Pokeman Go – A Guide for Parents and Carers
A Parents Guide to Keeping Children Safe – Pokeman Go.
Please click on this link to access advice relating to Pokeman Go.
Keeping our children safe at all times.
