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• Equity: Mitigating the impact of poverty on Scotland’s children and young people

  This information session, to be held online on Monday 1st June 2026 at 4.00 to 5.00pm, will provide information to potential facilitators about the new national professional learning programme: ‘Equity: Mitigating the impact of poverty on Scotland’s children and young people’. The programme has been developed by Education Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council, along with a range of other key partners, including four pilot local authorities. Potential facilitators are school leaders, ELC or CLD managers or Local Authority leads. All the resources required to lead the programme will be provided by Education Scotland, including online resources for participants …

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• Symmetrical Tuesday in Room 5

    Today in Room 5, we have been learning about symmetry. Here are our learner statements. Alice: Symmetry is when you half something down the middle and you have two equal parts.  Beth: We were using objects to make symmetrical towers.  Heidi: Sometimes it is hard to make things symmetrical.  Xayah: I liked creating my symmetrical butterfly as my jotter task.  Ollie: We used rulers to measure things to see if they were symmetrical. Eilidh: I liked building a symmetrical tower with the stickle bricks.  Alex M: We were using cardboard boxes to make symmetrical buildings.  Fraser: I was using …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 8

  Good afternoon from room 8! We now have 5 fully grown caterpillars, and we predict that they will all be settled into their cocoons by Monday. We have had so much fun recording their growth each day and we can’t wait to have pet butterflies. We are already thinking about how much we will miss them when they have to go! We have also been working on consolidating our sounds and we are beginning to look at persuasive writing. Currently we are writing to convince Mrs Meechan if we should keep homework or get rid of it. What do you …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Education Scotland Associate – Fiona Robertson – Literature Review Paper

  New Education Scotland Associates (ESAs) in Education Scotland CLD Team – 2025 / end March 2026 During 2025 Education Scotland recruited Education Scotland Associates (ESAs) across the organisation to support and develop key projects. The ESA’s are all CLD practitioners working in the field who joined Education Scotland on a part time basis. We wanted to highlight each of the projects to give further details on what has been developed in each one. The first project we are publishing is Project 4: Project 4 – Research: What does UK and international practice tell us about greater synergy between CLD and Curriculum Improvement Cycle …

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• The World Cup

  In Room 2, our interdisciplinary topic is the ‘World Cup’. We have been getting very excited about countries, flags and Scotland. DP – Some of us were talking about the World Cup and we were singing songs at the assembly in the lunch hall. In class, we looked at the Scotland football strip for the World Cup. We looked at all the countries who were taking part in the World Cup. We put some of the football kits that we made on our IDL wall.  MM – There are 48 countries that are taking part in the World Cup. We went …

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• Room 19

  Hello,   Room 19 have been learning lots the past few weeks. We have:   Learned about electrical currents, how to make them and what is needed to power them Used our multiplication skills for written division Read more than half way of our book Pugs of the Frozen North Utilised our times tables for long multiplication Practised our sports day skills and completed most of our challenges Worked with each other to order and arrange our enterprise items we plan on selling on our day Thanks,   Room 19

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class