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August 15, 2025
by Mrs Webber
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October 10, 2025
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 2
We have been looking back at our first term in Primary 1. It has been filled with lots of lovely memories and we can’t believe we are at the end of this term already! Today we discussed some of our achievements so far and wanted to share some of these with you:
IC – I have got more confident with building stuff because I have been learning it at my house and then doing it in the class.
OMcM – I have got more confident with running because I figured out a trick. My trick is that I move my legs faster.
AH – I am more confident tidying up in the classroom because every time I have people in the creative area helping me.
NN – I am more confident at drawing a person. I like doing maths as well.
IJ – I am more confident at gym.
MK – I am more confident at cutting now.
KH – I am more confident at play because I play and draw.
Thank you to our parents/carers for coming along last night to our first Parents’ Evening. I hope it was an informative meeting and if you require any further support/have any questions, please just get in touch.
We hope everyone has a fantastic October break and we look forward to all the fun and new adventures in Term 2. 🙂
October 10, 2025
by Miss Lockhart
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3D Shapes with Room 15
Hello everyone,
Welcome to Room 15’s blog!
In our Maths lessons we have been learning about shape.
“We went on a shape hunt around the class.” LC
“We are learning about 3D shapes and their properties.” LD
“We learned about tessellation – that’s patterns repeating with no gaps or overlaps.” LM
“We looked at 2D and 3D shapes and can describe how they look.” RF
“We made 3D shapes using spaghetti and playdoh.” RM
Have a look at some of our creations below.
Have a wonderful October holidays everyone!
October 10, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14
Good afternoon,
Please see below some of the activities Room 14 have enjoyed this week:
“Making the light work with the hot wires” – MM
“Practising out rounding skills” HR
“I liked making 3D shapes with straws, magnets and blocks.”RD
“I liked playing sharks and seaweed during PE” – AS
“I liked playing basketball” HM
“I liked playing rugby in PE” JMcG
“Practising our spelling words” -ED
“I liked playing noun stop the bus” – FK
We hope you all have a great October break with you families.
Thank you
Mrs Ventre and Room 14
October 10, 2025
by Miss Finch
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Room 11 indi fun
We have made it to the October holidays and after a lot of hard work, it is time for a well earned rest.
We have been loving our new maths topic- positional language and directions, including grid referencing. As part of this we got out the indi’s and the whole class loved setting up different paths for the cars. They worked in small groups, discussing strategies and sharing ideas. As well as this, the children were tasked with designing their own treasure maps with directions to find the treasure.
In PE this week, we worked a lot on team games and being able to communicate with your peers in order to succeed.
The kids had to work together and make sure they were paying attention at all times!
Thanks to everyone that made it to Parent’s Evening. It was lovely to see/meet you all.
October 6, 2025
by Miss Napier
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Round-Up in Room 24
We’ve been continuing our human body learning and have been studying what’s in our blood. We had to name all of the different things that make up blood: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma. We learned how our blood carries oxygen around our bodies.
Mrs Ryan, an English teacher from Uddingston Grammar, came to the school and did a lesson with us. We created acrostic poems with the letters MOVING ON.
In maths we have been revising decimals and trying to order them, add them, subtract them and even multiply and divide them. It’s been tricky but we’re getting there!
We have been waiting excitedly to hear who the new House Captains will be and on Friday’s assembly we finally found out! Lots of us in the class worked really hard to prepare speeches and FIVE of us got the role! Well done to Evie, Max C, Carrie, Jude and Lily! We know they’ll be great House Captains.
We also got to find out who the Reading Ambassadors will be for the year… Well done to Brody who is a returning reading ambassador and a big well done to Aaron who was picked as a new ambassador!
In writing we’ve started a block on persuasive writing. We had to work on how effective our persuasive techniques could be by trying to convince Miss Napier to give us a ‘sweet.’ Some of us got stickers for succeeding!
By Luke, Millie & Sven
October 3, 2025
by Miss Nimmo
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Room 8
Happy Friday from room 8!
Although it has been a short week this week we have been super busy.
We have started our homework which will be shared every Monday via Google Classroom. The children have all been enjoying using the chromebooks for the first time and learning how to log in.
We also introduced our topic for this term: Vikings – we created a mind map of all the things that we know about vikings so far, you will see from the image below we have lots of fabulous and creative answers. We can’t wait to research some more and find out which of these facts are true!
Enjoy your weekend and stay safe in the storm:)
October 3, 2025
by Ms McIver
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3.10.25 – Room 1 Primary 1
Hello,
In Room 1 this week we have been learning the sounds ‘a’ and ‘t’ along with three new common words: a, at and the.
We applied our new words to our recount writing, describing our September weekend through our pictures.
We have been learning to order and identify numbers to 10.
This afternoon we explored a ‘Discover Dome’ which had interesting materials in it including a globe, compass, wood and gems. Our discovery dome came with a big question: ‘What makes our world wonderful?’ We came up with amazing ideas such as flowers, sun and rain, colours and food. We can’t wait to see where our question takes us.
Room 1 ☺️
October 3, 2025
by Mrs Norton
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Room 7’s blog
Welcome to room 7’s blog. Here are some of the things we enjoyed learning about this week.
C – I enjoyed playing with the marbles
E – I liked doing the stuff with Ian
C – I liked learning about the Big Bang
H – I liked learning about the Big Bang
K – I liked when Mrs Calder came and told us about French colours
S – I liked showing off the Big Bang Theory at Assembly
L – I liked the text books.
Stay safe over the stormy weekend everyone. See you all on Monday.
Mrs Norton
October 3, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Room 5
This week in Room 5 we have been very busy. We learned another new sound ‘ow’ as in snow, bow, throw. We learned about non standard unit of measure and spent a whole morning measuring with cubes and lego. We learned about what food they used to eat when having a banquet in a castle, and also different animal habitats. This week we also had lots of opportunities to learn through play and continued to build our team working skills, problem solving skills and adapting our designs. Next week we will be consolidating the ‘ow’ ‘ea’ and ‘ay’ sound and revisiting all our taught topics so far in numeracy.
Pupil Voice:
AD: CJ and I made a lego robot dog in play and it was really tricky.
BK: I enjoyed learning about Castles and even visited one during September Weekend.
LSS: I liked drawing minecraft characters with LB.
ORM: I liked learning the ‘ow’ sound and writing the words on the windows to practice.
LB: I liked learning about the different animal habitats ‘oceans, arctic, desert, rainforest’
ST: I liked using the chalk to write our spelling words outside.
Reminder:
Homework goes out on a Monday. Please return folders on Friday (even if you haven’t completed) so that new homework can be given out. All bug club passwords have been reset and should now be working, sorry for the technical glitch.
Please ensure you have a jacket as the weather is to continue to rain all week and we would like to take every opportunity we can to learn outdoors.
P.E days are Monday (outdoor) Thursday (indoor)
Parents Evening is Thursday 9th October.
Thanks so much,
Miss Livingstone and Room 5
October 3, 2025
by Mrs Stewart
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Busy Week
In room 20, for literacy, we have been doing comprehension on a piece from the book The Secret Garden.
In art, we have been learning about hot and cold palettes to make colourful autumn leaf art.
In music we have been using instruments to sing and play along to the song Livin on a prayer. This week we did drama and we had to come up with a kindness act about anything.
This week we were looking at homophones and confusions for spelling.
We learned a new mental maths strategy called reordering in our Number Talks.
We used Adobe Express to design posters about yetis and the Himalayas in ICT. Finally, in PE we did football skills and a game of capture the flag with room 19.
Thank You For Reading Room 20 Blog Post.
By Zoe, Jackson D and Kieran
