Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

September 27, 2018September 27, 2018

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…blast off. P1a can count backwards

Numeracy

We have been very focused on becoming confident with our numbers from 0-10. We have practised forming them, writing them, saying them and counting them in many different ways. This week we also practised counting backwards which we were very good at. We loved singing “Ten in the bed” and pretending to be rockets blasting off into space. Next week we will move on to some bigger numbers.

Literacy

Another fantastic week with our reading books. Everyone is enjoying reading all about the adventures of Kipper and his family and discussing what we see in the books. We have now learnt m, r, e and h and the rhymes to go along with these. This week Mrs Gordon dictated some words like sat, tin and pat and quite a few of us managed to write those words, this is very impressive…

French

Camembear visited us today to teach us “S’il te plait” and “Merci”, we had to say please and thank you when we wanted to share objects like “la balle” or “le nounours”(the teddy). We also have been learning “tete, epaules, genoux, pieds” for our European Day of Languages assembly tomorrow.

HWB

Mrs McAulay was doing some HWB with us this week. We were introduced to Jigsaw Jennie who helps us talk about our feelings We did some circle time activities to share our ideas about what makes us happy and sad, we then drew 3 things that made us happy. Lots of us chose chocolate, which Mrs Gordon agreed with!

IDL/Fairyland

In Fairyland last wee we talked about the features of castles and had a go at building some. This week we talked about the features of a town. To do this we thought about what we needed in Linlithgow. We had lots of ideas like shops, houses, soft play, restaurants and castles. Next week we need to decide what we will need in Fairyland and make a map of it.

Bon weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a.

September 27, 2018

Primary 2B

Primary 2B have been learning about symmetry this week and what shapes are/aren’t symmetrical. We have even made symmetrical shapes with our bodies in P.E. Some brilliant ideas. Very impressive.

We have begun our study of the seashore by naming the key features and identifying them. We have then gone on to sort into 2 groups – Man made and natural. Our writing has been related to this. We have written postcards and also painted pictures for our postcards. The children are very proud of the big seaside scene they have painted with P2A and are looking forward to adding to this next week.

We are continuing to read “James and the Giant Peach” and have painted the characters from the story and done some work on the story so far.

We are beginning to practise our songs for the harvest festival. So another busy week and lots to fit in before half term. Have a good weekend everyone.

Anne Burton

September 27, 2018

Careful Counting in P1B

This week we were learning the ‘e’ and ‘h’ sounds. We also learnt the ‘r’ and ‘m’ sounds last week. Here we are doing some activities related to our sounds. We used the magnetic boards to build and write CVC words. We have been using our phoneme fingers to sound out words and identify all of the sounds. We then blend them together with our rainbow wand. This helps us read and write words. We have been working very hard on our reading at home too. We are enjoying getting to know all of the characters in our Oxford Reading Tree books.

In Numeracy we were practising accurate counting and making sure we were putting our finger on each object as we counted it. We even made up some counting rules to teach other people how to count carefully. We also practised ordering our numbers to 10, starting at different points. On Wednesday we did our Outer Maths lesson on 2D shape. We made pictures out of 2D shapes and completed a colouring challenge.

In IDL we were learning all about our local area. We talked about what a town needs to help the people that live in it. We drew pictures in our Floorbook to evidence our learning. Here are some services we need in a town: shops, houses, doctor surgery, fire station, police station, park, supermarket. We then looked at lots of photos of Linlithgow and talked about our favourite places. Igloo seemed to be a very popular one!

Mrs Gordon was teaching us some French this week and we learning how to say please and thank you. Mrs McAulay was doing some HWB with us. We were introduced to Jigsaw Jennie who helps us talk about our feelings We did some circle time activities to share our ideas about what makes us happy and sad. In PE this week we took a trip to the zoo and had to use our bodies to move like different animals. We were developing our balance and some of the movements were quite tricky! We also played a great beanbag game and we had to try and move in different ways, keeping our beanbag on our heads.

We had a secret task to complete this week too! Our wonderful chef Jessie is retiring on Friday and we wanted to make something special for her. We drew pictures of Jessie and of our favourite school lunches. We are so grateful for all she has done for us. It will all be made into a special book to present to her in our assembly on Friday.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

P1B and Mrs McAulay x

September 27, 2018

Symmetry and the Seaside in P2A

In Maths this week we have been learning about symmetry. On Monday we enjoyed playing symmetry games on the laptops with our P6 pals. On Tuesday we worked with a partner to devise a symmetrical dance to music. Miss Prince was very impressed with our creativity and understanding of how to create a mirror image. We also had a go at completing some symmetrical drawings and making patterns with items from the tinker tray.

Our new topic is the Seaside. We looked at and labelled the different features of the seaside and sorted them into natural and made by humans. We are in the process of painting a seaside scene; we will be adding our artwork to this over the next couple of weeks.

To go with our Seaside theme; we now have a rock pool in our classroom 🙂 the children have loved playing in this. If you have anything at home we could add to the rock pool that would be super.

In reading we are working on reading with fluency, remembering that we don’t need to sound out our sight words as we just know these. Our word of the week was ‘this’. We can all sight read ‘this’ word now 🙂

Miss Prince’s Phonics group have been learning words with the ee/ea sound in. These are trickier than they sound because we have to remember which spelling to use for each word.

We celebrated International Languages Day by learning to say hello in lots of different languages. We had lots of fun learning the actions with a partner!

On Monday we will be starting to learn about postcards – if you have any at home that we could borrow to look at that would be a great help.

Have a lovely weekend when it gets here!
Love P2A and Miss Prince x

September 26, 2018September 26, 2018

Tracking and Monitoring Health and Wellbeing at Springfield and Bonnytoun

Dear Parents/Carers

Please find attached the Powerpoint presentation from this evening’s family learning event. For anyone who could not make it along, it gives an overview of how we track our children’s health and wellbeing within both the school and nursery.

Kind regards

Mr. Logan

Tracking and Monitoring H&Wb Presentation

September 21, 2018

Pupil Achievements…

Despite it being a short week, our pupils have been busy bringing along their achievements to my office. Here is this week’s selection:

-Well done to A in P1 for his Enjoy-a-Ball trophy! Great football A!

-Congratulations to K in P2 for his efforts in Taekwon-Do!

-A brilliant effort from A in P2 and E in P4 for gaining certificates for activities that they undertook at the weekend and whilst on holiday with their families.

-Lastly, we are so proud of D in P6 for winning a medal for his age group in Kick-boxing. What a superstar D!

Miss Baillie xx

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018

School and Nursery News…

We have had an enjoyable short week ending today with a brilliant assembly from Mrs Matos and P7B about being confident.

I was so impressed by how beautifully the children spoke to the audience about why we should all feel good in our own skin. This assembly continues our recent focus on mental health and wellbeing.

Our staff worked very hard on the INSET day earlier on this week to increase their understanding of how to support children with their emotional development, using a new resource called Emotions Talk. We now have this resource in place across school and it will initially be used to support identified children within classes.

You will notice today that we have sent out our new values, Hall of Fame, information. Children will also come home with this in homework jotters/bags on Monday. We hope that you will support your child as they undertake the list of achievements linked to or school values.

Next Wednesday, 26th September, we will be holding a wellbeing event for parents in school from 6-7pm. Please come along to learn more about how we track wellbeing in school and nursery.

Have a lovely weekend,

Kind wishes,

Miss Baillie xx💖

September 21, 2018

P7b’s short but meaningful week!

It was a rather short week this week, with the children having a good rest over their long weekend break. Although it was short, we still managed to have some meaningful learning.

Literacy: During Literacy this week, we learnt about Tanka poems and the features of writing a Tanka poem. Through our Brazil study, we used some reading material and netbooks, to further our knowledge and understanding of the Amazon Rainforest. To help us to make our Tanka poems create a sense of feeling and emotions, we recapped on some Figurative language that we can use in our poem, we discussed the difference between similes, metaphors and personification. We challenged ourselves to use at least one of these in our poems. Our completed poems will be displayed in our classroom for you to read.

Numeracy: We have been consolidating our understanding of using the formal written method when multiplying a multistep problem. We have been using word problems to help us practice using this method. We have realised the importance of knowing our timetables, and we have been practicing them through various games.

HWB: This term we are focusing on how to keep ourselves safe. We were fortunate to have a visit from a RNLI volunteer, who came along to share with us, how we can keep ourselves safe near open water. We learnt how to identify danger and how to report if we suspect that someone is in danger. Our talk was very informative, and we were complimented on our knowledge and engagement. We took part in a fun role play activity, where some of us were the victims, some of us were the witnesses, we had a coast guard operator, and our life boat rescue team – it was great fun, playing out all that we had just learnt.

To top off our week, P7b put on a fantastic performance for their class assembly on Confidence. The children all delivered their lines with poise and confidence. Mrs. Matos is so proud of everyone, we know that standing in front of a hall full of people saying lines and singing is not for everyone, but each and every P7b learner can be so proud of themselves today. Thank you P7b, you delivered an important message about confidence to all the learners, staff and parents/ carers of Springfield Primary School!

P7b and Mrs. Matos

September 21, 2018

Rights Respecting School Committee.

Today was our first Rights Respecting Schools Committee meeting. It was lovely to see some children returning to the committee, as they were a part of the committee during the last school session. We also welcomed some new boys and girls to our committee group this morning. It was so lovely to see so many enthusiastic children!

This morning we spent some time discussing the purpose and role of RRSC, and we discussed some of our future plans and aims. We spent a little time voting for our Chair and vice – chair pupils and we also voted for two secretaries who will be responsible for the minute and not taking during our meetings.

Mr. Ritchie and Mrs. Matos are looking forward to working with the children, as we continue to build an ethos of Rights Respecting values throughout our school and community.

Mrs. Matos and Mr. Ritchie.

September 21, 2018September 21, 2018

WE 21.9.18 Short week in P6A

Health and Wellbeing

On Wednesday we had a few matches of netball and we all did amazing, we all enjoyed it. On Thursday we did some more work on resilience and we carried on with last week work, however this week we did strategies to help us with difficult situations, we were all very open with our strategies and we helped each other with some things that help us.

Numeracy and Maths

In Maths this week we did adding and subtraction but mainly subtraction with big numbers like 19056. We used blocks to show the different places of the numbers and we made them into the answers that we ended up with. We also showed the different strategies we used.