We have written more poems but this week our subject was the senses. Again we have done a brilliant job. They didn’t have to rhyme and we got to choose which sense we wrote our poem on. Some of us even chose to copy our poems out and take them home to show our parents – we were so proud of them! Continuing on the poetry theme – some of us read our “To a ……” Poems in our Burns assembly yesterday. Everyone read clearly and confidently.
In Numeracy, we have continued to work on division and in Maths we are beginning to create our own bar charts, using data we have collected ourselves.
We have begun to present our research on Scottish music and dance and so far – lots of fun. Next week we move onto the Vikings!!
We have worked on apostrophes and reflective reading was on the author Roald Dahl. We read a piece of text on his life, which had silly words in it. We found the correct words, amongst laughter! We also looked at a piece of text about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and we had to put it in the right order then write some notes bullet point style about his life.
NYCOS continued on Thursday and our rhythm is getting better each week.
In French, we can give you a weather forecast.
Hope that you are all having a lovely weekend.
Love from P4B and Mrs.Burton
Choppity chopping, Subtraction and Scots in Primary 1
Hi everyone, P1A and P1B here! As we have enjoyed working together lots this week we thought we would do a joint blog.
In Phonics we learned a new digraph – ch. We made choo choo trains, wrote sentences using ch words and we even made a yummy lentil and vegetable soup. We chopped the vegetables ourselves and sang the song:
‘Chop chop choppity chop, chop off the bottom and chop off the top. What we have left we put in the pot, chop, chop, choppity chop!’
We must be excellent chefs because we thought our soup tasted delicious!
In Numeracy we continued to develop our understanding of subtraction. We explored different strategies such as using our fingers, counting backwards in our head and jumping on a number line:
In French we worked on our conversation skills and greetings. We can say: Bonjour!
Je m’appelle…
Au revoir!
We practised this using characters on our fingers, ask us to show you 🙂
Through our Scots topic we learned some Scots words (so did Mrs Bell!). We enjoyed listening to stories in Scots such as The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Bairn and The Teeger that Cam for His Tea:
On Monday we learned how to play the Scottish game ‘peevers’. We worked in teams to draw out the game on the playground with chalk. On Tuesday we demonstrated our co-ordination and rhythm through Scottish country dancing and on Friday we confidently performed the song ‘3 Craws’ in assembly.
A wee snippet of our Scottish country dancing:
We are thoroughly enjoying corridor play with Mrs Stapleton:
Happy weekend!
Love Primary 1, Mrs Gordon and Mrs Bell x
Blurbs, Front Covers and more Time in P3A
We have been working again on telling the time this week. We were revising o’clock, half past and quarter past and started to learn how to read quarter to on an analogue clock. We played lots of games to practise, a time board game, time dominoes, time pairs, using clocks to set times and playing games on the smartboard. We now have two clocks in the classroom, a new one on our maths wall which has the times marked on it to help us, we are looking at this throughout each day to remind us where the hands are at certain times.
In numeracy, we are continuing with subtraction, most completed work on subtraction within 20 and will begin to subtract within 100 next week. Some have been subtracting within 100 and will be begin subtraction of 2-digit numbers with bridging next week.
In literacy, we have been learning about ‘blurbs’ – what they are and why they are important. We pretended to be the author of The Secret of the Kelpie and we had to write an exciting blurb to make people want to read our book. They are very good, many ended with a question that really made the reader want to find out more. We also took on the role of the illustrator and designed new front covers for the book.
In PE we were playing football again in the hall. We’re getting really good at dribbling and played some very competitive team games were we had to dribble as fast and accurately as we could.
We started our new class novel ‘Flash the Sheep Dog’ on Wednesday. The first couple of chapters are about a boy called Tom who has moved from London to a farm in the Scottish Borders. It’s a big change for him and he has a lot to learn about his new way of life. We also began to learn about farming and have been thinking about where our vegetables come from and the work done on farms to provide these for us. We also had a lesson on the importance of eating fruit and vegetables and how ‘eating a rainbow’ is really good to help us to get all the nutrients we need from the different colours.
All classes in school had a Scots Assembly today. Each class was to perform a song or poem. We sang Katie Bairdie and all our practising this week really paid off – we were word perfect, loud and clear. Great singing P3A 🙂
Have a good weekend everyone,
P3A and Mrs Kennedy
P3B Week commencing Monday 20th January
In PE this week we have started to learn some of the skills required to play football. We have been learning how to pass the ball to each other. We have also been learning how to dribble the ball around cones and each other.
In Maths we have been continuing to work on developing our subtraction skills by subtracting numbers from 100 using our number facts to 20. We have also been working on developing our “number talk” skills and using different strategies to work out the correct answers.
This week we also have been looking at Scottish poetry and language. We looked at the story about the Gruffalo which was written in scots and discussed the meaning of the different words. We then used this knowledge to help us learn the Scottish poem about the Crocodile which we performed at the Scottish Assembly today in front of the school.
We also took part in the P5 design competition where we had to design a new T-shirt to help raise funds for the Sick Children’s’ Hospital in Edinburgh.
In writing this week we have been looking at different types of book “blurbs” used by authors to help readers decide if they would like to read their books. Using this information we then wrote a new “blurb” for the Scottish story “The Secret of the Kelpie” which we have been studying in class. In addition to this we also designed a new front cover for the book.
In Health & Wellbeing we finished designing our playground crows based on the story about the “Birds on a Wire”. Each crow contains an individual message from us about how we should play and behave in the playground. All our crows are sporting lovely tartan designs waistcoats!
In our Reflective Reading this week we played “Blankety Blank” where we had to find the missing words from the story “The Secret of the Kelpie”. We found this quite challenging but managed through discussion to find most of the words. We then further challenged ourselves by making a list of alternative words the author could have used in the story.
Mr Ritchie and the tiggerrific P3B’s.
The Reiver Rat and Lady McNessie (P2B)
In our Short Read session this week, we read a story called ‘The Reiver Rat’ (The Highway Rat in Scots). We explored the Scots words in the story and then used clues from the text to work out their meaning.
In writing, we learned to describe a character in Scots. We worked together to list adjectives to describe the reiver rat. To help us to plan our writing, we drew detailed pictures of the reiver rat. Using our pictures and a word bank, we used Scots words to write a character description about the reiver rat. We were very resilient and worked very hard on our reiver rat descriptions in Scots.
This week we have continued to explore the work of Steven Brown. We looked at his ‘McThistle’ painting and discussed our thoughts and feelings about his art work. Afterwards, we looked at his ‘Lady McNessie’ painting and explored his use of vibrant colours. We created our own wax resist ‘McNessie’ paintings. If Steven Brown ever needs any help then we would definitely be up to the job!
On Friday we had a Scottish assembly. We have been learning the song ‘Loch Ness Monster’ with Mrs Bain in music and we performed our song at the assembly. Our singing was fantastic!
This week we revised all of our consonant blends and common words. Some of us also learned the ‘sn’ and ‘sp’ sounds. Next week we will begin to look at the ‘magic e’ patterns.
In Numeracy and Mathematics, we have been continuing to explore subtraction. This week we learned to subtract a single digit from a teen number, bridging 10. We used a number line to subtract to 10 (a friendly number) and then we worked out how many we still had to count back to find our answer. This week we also learned subtraction facts for 11 and 12. Some of us have also been learning to subtract numbers to 50.
Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.
P2B and Miss Harrison xxx
P7b blog
This week, in Maths we have been learning about how to exchange money if you travel abroad.
In literacy we have been finishing off our Scottish poems inspired by Robbie Burns. N.G got to say her poem in assembly.
On Monday P7 got a visit from the Poppy bus we got to make our own Poppies and listen to the stories of the soldiers and families that Poppy Scotland helped .
Everybody is working very hard for our F1 challenge in schools .
We have finished off our script for assembly. Our last class assembly is on next Friday. If parents and carers could come that would be great.
by GF
Fabulous Fame in the making!
On Monday we did our first complete read and sing through of Fame, we are doing really well. On Wednesday Mrs Gordon helped choreograph our first dance and on Thursday Mrs Bell started our singing sessions. Next week some of us will have an after school dance session- details will be dojo’d out to parents. Show dates have been confirmed as March 4th and 5th, tickets will hopefully go on sale at the end of next week or the start of the week after.
The Poppy Bud came to visit on Monday, it was very informative and interesting. We were very suprised at how well it had been put together. We liked hearing the different stories and making a poppy of our own.
We have been working extremely hard on our F1 projects. We will need to finish these next week in order to have time to rehearse the presentations for the 11th February.
In maths we have started working on real life cases that need to be solved using numeracy and maths. This is good fun and we will work on a few different ones in the coming weeks.
Next week we start skiing- please remember that if we are skiing we must be in school on Tuesday for 8.15am.
Have a great weekend.
P7a and Mrs Newton 🙂
P5 Weekly Blog
What a busy week we’ve had in Primary 5, here’s the full run-through…
Numeracy and Mathematics
This week we have been making connections in our learning between fractions, decimal numbers and percentages. We are now more confident in doing so and were able to apply this learning when faced with a series of multi-step word problems.
Following on from this, we began studying weight. Firstly, we consolidated our knowledge of both metric and imperial units of measurement before estimating the weight of various objects and ordering these from lightest to heaviest and vice versa. We have also been converting between grams (g) and kilograms (kg) which involved applying our knowledge of division and place value when shifting our decimal point. Alongside this, we have been relating our learning of weight to our bridge work in Science by discussing the impact that varying loads may have on the design and capabilities of a different bridge types.
We have really enjoyed trying some Solve Me Mobiles in mental maths throughout the last couple of weeks. Please feel free to try some at home – https://solveme.edc.org/Mobiles.html
Literacy and English
We are currently reading Holes by Louis Sachar as our shared text where Stanley Yelnats is sent to a Juvenile Detention Centre called Camp Green Lake. He and the other boys there are tasked with digging holes to “build character” in the sweltering Texan desert. So far we have been predicting the outcome of the text, looking at the features of informal letters and answering a range of questions based on the text. In doing so, we have tackled literal, inferential and evaluative questions. We are becoming increasingly confident in skimming and scanning the text to find required information and also making use of context clues which are available to us. We are continuing to work on the way in which we structure our responses and giving evidence from the text when describing and explaining. For enjoyment, we are reading the World’s Worst Teachers, but thankfully Mr Logan hasn’t been mentioned!
In writing this week, we have used features of an informal letter when sending a reply from Stanley Yelnats’ perspective to his ‘Mom’. We learned that they must include the sender’s address, the date on which the letter was sent, Dear, informal language and a sign-off. Informal language is used when you are communicating with somebody you know or are familiar with, e.g. a family member or friend. We have also been writing reports and reflecting on our learning from our visit to the Forth Bridges. We paid particular attention to the structure and content by including an introduction, main part and conclusion with detailed description of what happened and what we learned.
Learning Across the Curriculum
On Tuesday, we attended the Linlithgow Cluster Schools Handball Festival at Linlithgow Academy. We had the opportunity to demonstrate our handball skills in small-sided games against St Josephs, Low Port, Torphichen and Westfield. Scores were not kept with the focus being placed on passing the ball effectively within our teams and having fun. Mr Logan was delighted to us working so well in teams, communicating effectively, encouraging others and showing a sense of fair play at all times. Next up, we have blocks of fitness and volleyball with Mrs Reid whilst also taking part in futsal sessions delivered by Neil from the West Lothian Youth Football Foundation.
Our outings didn’t stop there, we were off out on Thursday again as we made our visit to the Forth Bridge Education and Contact Centre in South Queensferry. This followed on nicely from an incredibly informative talk delivered by Hector Woodhouse on Wednesday who was involved in the construction of the Forth Road Bridge. Here we were met by Elaine Barrie who spoke to us about engineering and the Forth Bridges before setting us off in groups in a bridge-building workshop. We were asked to construct the highest free-standing towers that could withstand different forces such as wind and the pull of gravity. We each had a different role and had to agree on a final design before constructing our towers. Despite a few failed attempts, we demonstrated resilience and worked hard to get the job done. The winning tower measured almost 1 metre in height! Well done Team Yachi! After lunch, we took a walk over the Forth Road Bridge (suspension) to have a look at both the Rail Bridge (cantilever) and Queensferry Crossing (cable-stayed). It was rather windy and we were slightly unnerved by the gaps between each section which allow for expanding and contracting when temperatures change.
Coming Up/Reminders
- Next week we will begin our history trail studies of Burke and Hare
- Monday 3rd February – P5 swimming assessments at Xcite Linlithgow
- Friday 14th February to Tuesday 18th February – Holiday
- Homework grids came home this week, due back Friday 27th March
- Sharing the Learning sheets came home this week, have a look at other whole school events coming up
- Remember you can also follow us on Twitter for more regular updates @SpringfieldBonn and @SpringfieldP5
Have a great weekend everyone!
P5 and Mr Logan
Scots and Obstacle Courses in P2A
This week we have been busy learning all things to do with Scotland.
Look below at what we have been doing in our play based learning…
In Literacy we have been revising our consonant blends and some of us have been learning: ‘sn’ and ‘sp’ this week. To revise our blends we looked at pictures with the different blends and had to figure out which blend the picture represented. We enjoyed playing a game on the interactive board to help us revise our blends as well. We read a book called ‘The Reiven Rat’ which was all in Scots. Our task was to describe the rat from the book using Scots words. We discussed what the rat looked like and how he behaved. We learned that words that describe something are called adjectives. We had fun using adjectives to describe what each of us were wearing to help us with this learning. We then included adjectives in our own writing. We were also able to identify Scots words, know what they were in English and able to include them in our writing. We wrote words like lang, purpie and troosers. Please have a look at our rats!
In Numeracy and Mathematics we have been subtracting within 20 and 100 looking at a strategy called bridging. This is where you cross over a 10. We liked moving the frog across the number line on the board to help us with this. We have also been recalling subtraction facts for 11 and 12. Some of us have even been subtracting 2 digits from multiples of 10 and recalling subtraction facts to 50. We have been challenging ourselves lots this week. Some of us are even asking for more challenging questions. We have had fun as a class playing the mental maths train on the board to help us recall these facts.
During story and milk this week we have been listening to stories which are all in Scots or have Scots words in them. We have really enjoyed listening to these and finding out about what different Scots words mean.
In P.E we learned how to balance while moving in different ways. We became Woodland creatures from The Gruffalo’s Child. We balanced on our two feet, arms and some of us on one foot. We even created our own obstacle courses in groups. We had to make sure it would make us balance and move in different ways. We used lots of different equipment to create them which we all used in different ways.
We can’t wait to see what next week brings, see you then!
P2A and Miss Muir 🙂
Primary 5/6 week ending 24th January
We have had a really busy week in Primary 5/6. The Primary 5’s had a great time taking part in the Handball festival at Linlithgow Academy on Tuesday where they were competed against other local schools.
On Wednesday the Primary 5’s listened to a very interesting presentation by Mr Woodhouse about the Forth Bridges. It provided us with lots of information to help us on our trip to the Bridges on Thursday with Mr. Logan and the rest of Primary 5.
In science we planned our spaghetti bridge challenge and next week will be building them.
The Primary 6’s have missed their classmates this week however they have also been very busy with Fame! As the week progressed we had Mrs Bell helping us with some of our songs, Mrs Gordon was teaching us some new dances and we are beginning to look at what is happening on the stage throughout each scene.
We are continuing to look at Decimals and in particular ordering decimals with one and two decimal places. We found this tricky at first but with more practise and exploring different games we are beginning to feel more confident.
In maths we were exploring types of angles and using a protractor to draw angles. We will be reinforcing this next week.
In music we are continuing to learn to play the recorder. We are doing playing and reading from the stave, the notes G,B A high C. We are then using these playing skills to improvise 4 ”beat fills “ in a simple jazz piece.
Learning through play in the upper school 
Have a good weekend from Primary 5/6, Mrs McVay and Mrs Tulloch
