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• Light as a Loose Part.

  

  When you think of loose parts, do you ever consider light up resources?  Small, inexpensive, battery operated torches, touch lights, string lights?    The Thrive Outdoors Loose Parts Play Toolkit explains the origin and theory of loose parts, making reference to Simon Nicholson’s research from 1971; The Theory of Loose Parts: How NOT to Cheat Children.  Nicholson believed moveable materials that can be constructed and taken apart, create limitless possibilities for creativity, central to loose parts explorations.  He described loose parts as ‘variables’ and provided examples such as materials and shapes; smells and other physical phenomena, such as electricity, magnetism …

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• Room 1

  Good afternoon, Primary 1 have been learning all about people who help us over the past few weeks. We have talked alot about the emergency services and what you should do in an emergency situation. We have been very lucky to be joined by police officers, paramedics and today the fire service came to visit us. We have been learning all about the job roles these emergency services do, how they help people and the uniforms they wear. As part of the fire services visit today they brought a fire truck with them, which the boys and girls were all …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• People Who Help Us

  Room 2 have been continuing to learn all about the people who help us in our local community as part of our current class topic. Last week, we had a visit from some very helpful paramedics. They came to tell us a little bit about their job roles, the uniform that they have to wear and even brought their ambulance with them. We were all allowed to go in the ambulance for a little look at all the equipment on board. It was so much fun! When we got back to class, we wrote our own Fact File for a …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 6

  Happy Friday! This week in Room 6 we have been consolidating our phonics knowledge, looking at all our sounds since the start of Primary 2, and we realised just how much we have learned. We have also been learning about Money, and how to add coins together to create a total and enjoyed using the real coins to help us with this. During Writing, we re-wrote the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and even changed some of the characters to ones we thought of ourself! We are so lucky to have been buddied up with the P5s from Miss …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 4

  This week Room 4 have been consolidating all previously taught sounds and common words. We worked with our friends to create sentences with the words we find tricky. In our taught writing lesson this week we created a plan to write our own version of the Jack and the Beanstalk story. The children used their imaginations to create new characters, a problem and a solution to their own fairytale story which we will write next week.   In maths we have continued to develop our knowledge of using and calculating different amounts of money. The children enjoyed having a toyshop in …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 2 Update!

  This week in Room 2, NS – I have enjoyed learning new letters – ‘h’ and ‘w’. HN – I have liked learning through my play. IMcL – I have liked doing my jotter tasks. I was learning about the paramedic and the police. AT – I liked when we did our maths. We were doing our tally marks. ER – I liked doing my common words. CD – I liked when we went in the paramedics ambulance. I liked when they put a little finger thing on me and it felt my blood pressure. CMcK – I liked taking …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class