August 15, 2025
by Mrs Webber
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Year Plan 25-26

Please click the link below to see the 2025 -2026 year plan for Newton Farm PS.

NFPS Year Plan 2526

November 7, 2025
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 7.11.25

This week in Room 1 we:

– have been learning to add numbers together and write out addition calculations ➕

– wrote about watching the fireworks using our senses to help us describe the fireworks

– continued working on our big question “What Makes the World Wonderful?”. The children wanted to know: “What makes a rainbow?” and “Why are flowers colourful?” We carried out experiments to learn about the colours in the rainbow and investigate flowers 🔬

We are continuing to rehearse for our Nativity. We will be sending home lines in homework packs on Wednesday.

Have a lovely long weekend, see you all on Tuesday ☺️

November 7, 2025
by Mr Mackay
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Room 13

Hi everyone,

This week we:

Investigated forces and magnetism, and idenitfied magnetic and non magnetic materials, and how magnetic poles work
Completed reading the first chapter of our new skinny novel and created questions for partners
Learned how to apply partitioning skills when adding 2 digit and 2 digit numbers, and explained how to count up in chunks
Showed Miss Muir how to play Quidditch in P.E! (too bad Mr Mackay forgot the rules!)
Worked well together in child led play, where we focussed on team work skills and being respectful to each other

November 7, 2025
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 2

Hello,

Here is a little update from Room 2:

SC – We have been making chalk pictures doing fireworks because it was firework night.

MM – We have been learning about the letters ‘r’ and ‘m’.

IC – We have been counting in 2s and also doing our maths jotters.

LM – We have been doing our Number Talks.

KH – Our common words are – as, am.

IJ – We went to assembly, we were singing songs, showing our trophies.

LA – We went to the library and were reading books.

NN – We are getting new songs at assembly and we are liking them. Some books in the library have our common words.

MM – We were making firework pictures with Miss Macfarlane. We used cups and we painted fireworks.

Reminders

Please return homework folders every Tuesday so that the new sheet and common words can be sent home.
We will be celebrating Book Week Scotland 2025, week beginning, 17th November.
Monday 10th November – In-service day, we will see the pupils on Tuesday 11th.

Have a super weekend everyone! 🙂

November 7, 2025
by Mr Allen
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Room 6 – Firework Pictures

Another super week in Room 6. This week we were learning a lot about firework safety. For our writing we wrote a list of instructions that will help people to use sparklers correctly. This really helped us for Bonfire Night.

Our class love doing art so we managed to make Firework pictures this week as well. First we had to draw buildings with white chalk and then we used yellow chalk to show the lights through the windows. Finally we used different colours to make the fireworks. As we had black paper, we had to make sure we used bright colours with the chalk.

November 7, 2025
by Mrs Stewart
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Room 20 Artists

This week, in room 20 we have been learning about a famous artist called Piet Mondrian. We have made some art work using primary colours red,yellow and blue in his style.

We made some stunning sculptures out of clay and Mrs Stewart took some pictures of us and we posed for the camera. We also learned our new spelling words which are homophones and confusions.

In maths, we were learning about decimal points and doing a text book page about them!

Our new books are called The Eleventh Orphans, The Pugs of the Frozen North and The Invisible Dog which are all very interesting.

All of the Vice Captains and House Captains went to a very important meeting to do with school lunches and our house point system. On Wednesday we had a special lunch because of bonfire night.

by Archie, Lola and Jaxson

November 7, 2025
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

Good afternoon everyone,

The children have been working hard and having lots of fun across all areas of their learning. Here are some of their favourite moments from the week:

CS – I liked playing with the wooden blocks. I made a bedroom.
KO – I liked writing the common words in sand.
EJ – I liked adding 1 and 2 in maths.
ZA – I liked working with Miss Laird to do my work in my jotter.
KH – I liked making poppies with Mrs Robinson and the boys and girls from Room 11.
MS – I liked playing at the numeracy table.
AR – I liked writing number sentences in my jotter.
HM – I liked playing with the dolls’ house.
CH – I liked playing tunnel tig outside at PE.
AB – I enjoyed doing the letter formation task in my jotter.
SM – I liked playing with the cars and adding in maths.
FM – I liked making poppies.
AM – I liked playing with the Lego. I made a haunted van.
DM – I liked playing with the cars.
ED – I liked making poppies with Mrs Robinson.
KJO – I liked using tissue paper to make poppies.
AN – I liked learning the ‘r’ and ‘m’ sounds and blending letters to read words.
MH – I liked learning nativity songs.
BR – I liked playing Red Light, Green Light in the gym hall.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Laird and Room 4 🌟

November 7, 2025
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

What a wonderful week we’ve had in Primary 1! The children have been busy learning, exploring and celebrating through lots of fun and creative activities.

This week in literacy , we learned two new sounds — ‘m’ and ‘r’. The children have enjoyed practising how to say, read and write these sounds in different ways. We used active stations to make our learning even more exciting! From matching the picture to the correct sounds, rainbow writing and using magnetic letters, everyone worked so hard to listen carefully and use their new sounds in words.

In maths, we have been learning to write addition number sentences. The children are growing in confidence using the “+” and “=” symbols to show their thinking. We explored what happens when we add zero, one and two to a number using cubes and number lines to help us find the answers. It’s been lovely to see everyone beginning to understand how numbers grow.

On Wednesday, we got creative with some firework art to celebrate Bonfire Night. The children loved experimenting with bright colours to make their fireworks stand out.

Just a note to say if your child has expressed an interest in having a speaking part in our Nativity, their lines have now been sent home. Please take some time to practise these together to help your child learn their words confidently. We’re so excited to start rehearsing and can’t wait to share our performance with you soon!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend 😀

Miss McBride and Room 3

November 7, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon,

Room 14 have had a very productive week and have enjoyed lots of fun learning experiences. Please see below some of what the boys and girls have enjoyed about their learning:

“Learning different skills in volleyball” GO

“learning about Greek Gods and Goddesses” VA

“Learning how to pass a football” AS

“Creating bonfire art” HR

“Playing maths champion” JMcG

“Learning French with Miss O’Brien” PP

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Ventre and Room 14

November 7, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Room 5

Good Afternoon,

What an exciting week we have had in room 5 this week. We learned a new sound ‘oi’, and new common words ‘their, some, them, last’. We have continued to look at addition and subtraction to 20, some of us even challenged ourselves to go to 40 with our sums and that is amazing! We spoke a lot about trying things that are tricky, but really giving it a go and even if we get them wrong as long as we are using our strategies to help us get there then it something to be proud of.

We spent some time creating Firework Art and these have now been added to our Proud Wall. We learned about why we celebrate Guy Fawkes night and how to stay safe around fireworks, we even wrote instructions on staying safe with Sparklers. We worked with Room 4 and Room 11 to create a poppy display and we learned about why we wear them and what the different colours of poppies mean- Blue for the French Symbol of Remembrance, Red for the Soldiers who died in the war, Purple for the animals who died in the War and White for Peace.

Today we sorted ourselves out into our Houses for our school points system, Fire Earth Water Air and we will now be trying really hard to win house points for our groups.

Please Note:

- Monday 10th November is an Inservice Day.

Homework has been given out today, the boys and girls wrote their own spelling words in their jotter this week. Please do not feel the need to start this before Monday, but just as we are off on Monday I wanted them to get the same amount of time. Next week we are consolidating our sounds ‘oi,aw, and ue’. Tasks have been allocated on Mathletics and Bug Club to begin Monday.

Thanks so much, and have a lovely weekend.

Miss Livingstone and Room 5