Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

May 17, 2016May 18, 2016

Starting School – Welcome to Our New P1s!

We are very excited to be welcoming 50 new P1 children to Springfield Primary in August. An information session is being held in the school hall on Wednesday 18th May at 6.30 p.m.

This session will be led by the HT (Acting) and parents/ carers will receive an induction booklet, alongside a Powerpoint presentation to get your child off to a flying start from August.

We look forward to welcoming all parents/ carers to our school.

A copy of the presentation can be accessed here for any parents/ carers who were unable to make the meeting.

2016_05_17 P1 induction

All parents/ carers are also invited to our coffee morning on Friday 10th June at 9.30 a.m. alongside our current parent helpers.

We would like to point you in the direction of some useful picture books which will help with the transition to Primary School. These can be found on the Book Trust website by clicking this link.

We hope your child will have a very happy school journey with us and we very much look forward to welcoming them to Springfield. Transition visits have already started and more are planned for the next few weeks. Today we will be visiting Oakwell Nursery with First Adventures visit tomorrow. These visits will be with the child’s new class teacher and/ or the HT/ DHT (Acting) along with their new buddy.

May 11, 2016May 17, 2016

Grandparents’/Special Person Day in Nursery

This week we have been sharing our learning in nursery with some very special people. Our children had the opportunity to invite a grandparent or a special person to nursery and explore the activities available to our children. Everyone was very excited and seemed to enjoy both sessions. Over both days we had over 100 visitors and have been delighted with the very positive feedback received.

Our special visitors have commented that the children have been learning – how to make soup with sticks and mud, how to share, ball skills in the outdoor area, co-operation and how to be creative.

Some of the comments from our visitors has stated – “we loved the songs, the children were all involved”, “what an exciting nursery, I wish I could have stayed longer” and “keep up the great work.”

All the staff and children at Bonnytoun Nursery would like to thank everyone who attended.

May 11, 2016

Smarter Ways to Travel to School

Give Everyone Space!

A new campaign is being launched week commencing 9th May. The campaign is aimed at vehicle drivers, asking them to give everyone cycling space on the road, as much space as you would give a car. Further information can be found here: https://youtu.be/e5sf7QwKBoY

Cycle Friendly

Springfield Primary School are the first cycle friendly school in West Lothian! We are very proud!

Walk to School Week 16th – 20th May

Living Streets run a national Walk to School Week annually, this year on 16th to 20th May. Classroom resources for a structured 5 day challenge are available for both primary and secondary schools. On Tuesday 17th May, Happy Shoesday, schools are invited children, teachers and staff to wear their happiest shoes to school and donate £1 to Living Streets, a registered charity promoting walking and safer pedestrian environments.

May 11, 2016May 11, 2016

Dounans Camp 2016 – Primary 6

SOEC Dounans Centre School Talk 2016

Dear Parents/ Carers,

Camp is approaching. As you all know, there was an information session held in school on 24th February 2016 – as per school newsletter – we are all excited about our trip away.

Jamie from Dounans was kind enough to attend our camp information session where we went over details of the trip. Kit lists have been distributed to all pupils (and a few spares for those who mislaid theirs!).

At Parents’ Evening, Mrs Begarnie completed all paperwork with parents however there are a still a few outstanding medical forms to be returned. We would appreciate your help and support by returning these to school by the end of the week.

A huge thank you to the teachers who are attending camp and supporting this event: Mrs Tulloch, Mr Logan, Miss Mudd and Miss Harrison. We couldn’t do this without you.

Thank you parents for your continued support.

May 10, 2016

Health Week

This week is health week and there are amazing things happening!

We have hired a smoothie bike for the week, here our our P1s having a go!

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016

People who Help Us – P1A

This week Primary 1 looked at how people help us in everyday life, as part of our Linlithgow focus. We started with a speaking and listening activity to get the children to think about all the different people who help us. We looked at all the people that do help us, like the police and fire fighters. We had to think about what the people who help us look like. We worked in pairs to think about how we could help each other. We played a Circle Time activity that got us thinking about what each person does as part of their job, using prompt cards. Primary 1 started to think about they wanted to do when they grew up to help people.They thought about which job they wanted to do and we wrote these ideas and reasons on a writing frame. We set up part of our classroom with role play masks. Role play is a great way to get into character. We were very lucky that we had a visit from a librarian at Linlithgow Library, Harrrison’s daddy, who is a fire fighter and Sienna’s daddy who is a policeman. We thoroughly enjoyed our visitors and Primary 1 showed fantastic manners and respect to our guests! We asked challenging questions and learned lots! Ask your child what they would like to be when they grow up!

March 22, 2016

Lambs visit nursery again!

Our afternoon children and children attending on a Monday also had the opportunity to see some lambs. Well done to Charlie in P6 who came down from school and shared his knowledge about his lambs. Some of our boys and girls even had the opportunity to feed the lambs from a bottle.

March 18, 2016

Curriculum Rationale – Talking Heads

On Monday 21st March, we are hosting a Talking Heads session for parents and carers. We really value parental input and would like help to support the priorities in our School Improvement Plan 2016 – 2017.

We are looking for answers to the following questions:

What makes Springfield/ Bonnytoun unique?
What brings the curriculum alive for pupils?
What is it we want for our children?
What are we going to do to achieve it?

We are examining our current school vision, values and aims and want this to reflect the school community.

We would like our rationale to ensure the whole school community has a shared understanding of what we are trying to achieve. As our school moves forward, we recognise the importance of taking quality time to evaluate and review curriculum innovation and learn from evolving best practice.

We are really excited to host this session and look forward to lots of parents/ carers sharing their views and supporting us.

March 16, 2016

Visitors to nursery

Great excitement this morning at Bonnytoun Nursery. Last week when discussing , what we would like to learn about “Spring”, our children asked if they could see a lamb. Today we were really lucky to have a visit from Deliah and Yogi, two orphan lambs. We found out that they were now pet lambs and drink milk from a bottle 5 times a day. Ruth said she enjoyed stroking them and Caitlin said they liked her scarf. Thank-you to Alasdair and Rhona who brought the lambs and shared lots of information with us. Ruth, Ciara and Euan would now like a pet lamb!! Our afternoon children will have the opportunity to see the lambs next Monday.

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016

P1 and Apple Pie!

P1A

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World

This week we began our journey around the world to make an apple pie! This funny story involves a little girl travelling the world to get the items she needs for her pie because the “market is closed”. To Italy to harvest the wheat, to France to gather the eggs, to Sri Lanka for some cinnamon and so on, until finally picking the apples in a Vermont orchard. We looked at this book as we have been looking at Fairtrade products during Fairtrade Fortnight.

We used higher order questioning to deepen our understanding of the book. We designed a new front cover, looked at the seven continents on a globe and on a map, played a matching game and summarised the story. This book was a wonderful reminder to know and appreciate all the places our food comes from. I hope it makes you want to make an apple pie soon!