Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery School

September 21, 2018

WE 14.9.18 P6A’S FABULOUS WEEK!!!

This week in Maths we were working on rounding to the nearest ten, hundred and thousand. We have started BIG MATHS and we all really enjoy singing the song before the challenge begins.

In literacy this week we did comprehensions on our reading books we answered questions about the characters, settings and phrases. We also did our reading groups and we read with the Teacher and got our reading homework.

In P.E. we played a game called ‘Camouflage’ and we all really enjoyed hiding and trying to make sure the person in the middle doesn’t see us!

On Thursday we went into the Community wing to do some talk about our new feelings chart and how we feel and how to control getting angry and frustrated and we explained that we all get angry some times.

On Monday we went along to the P2 classrooms and spent some time with our P2 pals, we showed them how to log on to a computer and how to write their names in fancy font and styles we all really enjoy helping our P2 pals to learn.

On Friday we went to the assembly hall to listen to the assembly by the P7’s and they talked about resilient and to stay resilient when tough things happen they gave us strategies that would help us when we need it.

Thank you for reading the P6A’S blog J

September 21, 2018

Primary 5, w/e 21/9/18

A short, busy week this week.

Numeracy has seen some of us explore the strategies we can use to double numbers while others looked at formal methods of recording addition sums.

In Science, we recreated the phases of the moon with oreo biscuits! We also joined a GLOW meet, during which astronaut, Sunita Williams, talked about her career and how engineering was the starting point to becoming an astronaut. She answered questions about her job and about what it was like to be in space.

We have looked at different types of maps and then identified the continents on a map of our own.

We have also begun our Committees today. Some of chose to stay in the same committee, others to explore something new.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards

Primary 5 and Mrs Kerr

September 21, 2018

P4/5 Week Beginning 17.09.2018

This week we are joining our Committees and will be finding out what we will be doing to develop our chosen area of responsibility.

We have been working hard to develop our comprehension skills using our reading books.

In ICT we have been using SumDog to help us with our Maths and take part in the symmetry challenge. Everyone who finishes the challenge will receive 100 SumDog points.

In PE we have started to learn how to play the game of Badminton. We have been learning how to serve and the areas of the badminton court.

We have been using our “Incredible 5-Point Scale” to help us feel calm at school. We are continuing to use and try out our strategies that we made to help us.

This morning after our spelling test we took part in the Big Maths challenge to improve our mental maths skills.

In class this week we have been continuing to read our new class novel entitled “School Ship Tobermory” by Alexander McCall Smith.

By Mr Ritchie and all the “Tiggerrific” P4/5s.

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018

SPRINGFIELD AND BONNYTOUN GET THE GOLD!

We are absolutely delighted to inform our pupils, parents, carers and families of the exciting news we received today. Springfield Primary School and Bonnytoun Nursery have been awarded a sportscotland Gold School Sport Award for 2018-2021!

The Gold School Sport Award is recognition of the school and nursery’s achievements in putting sport at the heart of our school’s planning, practice and ethos. It highlights that as a school we have shown excellent practice across the core areas of the Award and demonstrated an ongoing commitment to increase our young people’s opportunities and engagement in physical education, school sport and leadership. We aim to build upon and further improve our existing provision of sport whilst creating clear pathways for lifelong participation.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has played their part in achieving this award, we really couldn’t have done it without you. This includes; our wonderful staff and P.E specialist who ensure that our children participate in 2 hours of high quality P.E per week, those who volunteer to give up their time every week to provide an extra-curricular club, the parents and volunteers who assist with school sport and our committed P7 Sports Leaders. Last but not least, thank you to our Sports Committee for all of their hard work towards achieving this award and to all of our pupils across both the school and nursery for their boundless enthusiasm towards all things sport at Springfield.

“It’s not always the team with the best players that win. It’s the players in the best team that win. Together, everyone, achieves, more.”

#TeamSpringfield

September 14, 2018

P1a Weekly News

Literacy

This week we learnt another 2 new sounds “i” and “s” we had lots of fun making an igloo out of sugar cubes and playing swat the sound where we try to work out which letter a word starts with. We were very excited to get our first ever homework and reading book this week. We met Kipper, Biff, Chip and Floppy and Mrs Gordon could not believe how well we were reading by the end of the week.

Numeracy

This week was maths week and we continued our progress in numbers to 10 by looking at 6,7 and 8. We really enjoyed making the numbers with the number blocks and using cars to form the numbers. Number 7 let us practice our days of the week as we sang “there are 7 days in a week”. Number 8 was very tricky to write, but we realised if we made an S first and joined it together it made a number 8.

IDL/Fairy land

We almost forgot to write back to our dragon after his letter last week. Everyone drew a lovely picture of how they imagined the dragon to look and then did some writing about their dragon. We can’t wait to see if he writes back to us next week…..

Have a lovely long weekend, Mrs Gordon and P1a

September 14, 2018September 27, 2018

Look At Our Infant Writing!

I am always delighted by the progress of our P1 pupils in their first term of school and this year’s children are no exception. When we access progress in the the early years, we look at child development markers as well as curriculum benchmarks. Already, our P1 children are developing in all areas through their play experiences and small group teaching. They have learned at least five sounds so far and are beginning to make three letter words. Reading books have been given out and the Oxford Reading Tree stories much enjoyed by all.

Here are two lovely little P2 girls, who came along to show me their amazing writing this week. They had both made and written their own books entitled ‘The Bossy Cat’ and ‘The Lost Fairy’! I was so impressed and delighted to see their progress. Their progress is indicative of the work carried out last year when they were in P1.

Thank you to both of our P1 teachers for their superb efforts last year to get our P2 children to this stage.

Miss Baillie xx💫💖

September 14, 2018

P4

Literacy- I liked learning more about when to use punctuation. LM

I liked proofreading. I liked checking the spelling and the punctuation. AL

I learnt a new word- an “archipelago” and it means a group islands. AL.

Numeracy- Symmetry– I learnt that you have to be very careful when you are drawing (repeating) the patterns. MC

ICT- I was looking for facts about Philippines. I had to make sure that I spelt words right so I could find lots of facts. RP

RME- I learnt that in Judaism, there is candle called Menorah and it’s made out of pure gold! They use it to put in front of the door (ark). SM

IDL- I learnt that Philippines definitely has a different landscape from Scotland. MM

*I found out that Philippines has lots of rain and lots of sun- AS

*I learnt that there are more than 7000 islands in Philippines. EM

September 14, 2018

P7b’s Weekly blog update.

It has been a week of numbers. It has been Scottish Math week this week. During the week we have been practicing our timetables. We have played a range of different games to help us to remember our timetables. We followed instructions to make a timetable ‘fortune teller’, we used our ‘fortune tellers’ to play with a partner and to ‘test’ each other on our timetable recall. We have also been playing timetables dominoes and snap. We all have different mental and written strategies for multiplying multi-digit numbers, but this week, we concentrated and consolidating our use of the formal written method for multiplication. Part of Maths week, we joined with P7a and went on a multiplication word problem hunt, we had to use our timetable memory and formal written method to solve the word problems. We had great fun doing this and learnt the importance of communication and team work.

During Literacy this week, we discussed different ways in which we can uplevel our writing. In particular we discussed the use of interesting vocabulary. We learnt that a synonym are words that are spelt differently but share a similar meaning. After using the thesaurus to help us build a word bank of different synonyms we realised how many different, and in most cases much more interesting words we could use in our writing, to make our readers more engaged.

During Primary 7 we will be taking on different leadership roles. Over the last couple of weeks we have chosen the leadership roles we felt we would best suit our skills and share our knowledge with the school. This week we worked together to create a leadership remit for the different leadership groups/roles.

We have spent sometime this week practising for our class assembly. Please come along to our assembly on Friday, 21st September at 10:00 – it will be a motivational assembly on our value, confidence. We have all been working hard to learn our lines and learn the lyrics to the songs that we will be singing.

French with Mrs. Gordon this week, we were learning about fruit! We learnt the names (French vocabulary) of different fruits and using French vocabulary we were asking each other which fruit we liked. We learnt the phrase, ” Tu aimes les…”, we also learnt the vocabulary to reply which fruits we do like. Thank you to Mrs. Gordon, we are enjoying learning French through the games we play.

This week in Science, with Mrs. Tulloch, we went around the school grounds and identified living things. As part of Maths week and science, we looked at percentages, and how we can use this to identify the majority of living things on our school grounds. Thank you Mrs. Tulloch!

Lastly we would like to say a massive well done to DR-S for passing her grade 1 piano exam with a distinction! What an amazing achievement. As DR-S shared with the class, there was one part of her exam which she wasn’t to confident about, but with resilience she achieved the highest mark for that particular section of the exam. Well done, we are so proud of you!

This week P7b won the peg challenge, we have been working hard this week to set a good example, on how to walk quietly through the school. Mrs. Matos is very proud of everyone in P7b, and she wishes everyone a lovely, fun and relaxing long weekend!

P7b and Mrs. Matos x

September 14, 2018

Afterschool Netball Club!

Our afterschool netball club is in full swing again this session. Our Primary 7 boys and girls have been coming together every Wednesday afternoon to practice their netball skills with Mrs. Matos and Miss Harrison.

We have been so impressed with the enthusiasm from everyone who has been coming along. The boys and girls have demonstrated their netball skills and talents, Mrs.Matos and Miss Harrison have been so impressed.