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• Room 24

  With our topic being Australia, we created some Aboriginal art. We used stencils to draw round animals like a kangaroo, emu, snake, turtle or platypus. Then we used the end of our paintbrushes to dot around our animal to create bold art. We think they turned out great! Some of our other art this week was creating habitat displays. We used a massive piece of paper and everybody had to draw or make their own animals in their Australian habitat. These habitats were the Great Barrier Reef, the Outback, grasslands and rainforests. We could use anything we liked to create …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Government launches a landmark consultation on UK children’s digital wellbeing

  The UK Government has launched a consultation seeking views on measures to protect children online, including consideration of a ban on social media for under-16s and restrictions on AI chatbot features. Alongside the consultation, the UK Government is set to run real-world pilots with families and teenagers to explore how these restrictions could work in practice. The consultation closes on 26th May.

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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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