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.

Room 26’s Class Trip

March 2, 2026 by Miss Kennedy | 0 comments

Room 26 enjoyed a day out of school at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. We worked our way around 6 Active Stations learning about different aspects of World War 2: Winston Churchill, ACE pilot, Home Front, WAAF, Spitfire and the Striped Pyjamas. We used our own map to rotate round the stations on the first floor of the museum. We also used a stopwatch to time 8 minutes for each station. We had a booklet to fill in what we learned at each station too. This was a super experience. At 1pm we listened to the Organ Recital and were very lucky as he played one of Miss Kennedy’s favourite pieces of music called Nimrod by Elgar. Afterwards there was a pop up workshop run by the People’s Palace. We participated in Arts and Crafts and touched some birds and insects. We learned so much and loved being on a day trip out of school. The bus was luxurious! We couldn’t believe how nice it was.

Kelvingrove.

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Room 4 – Trip to the Museum of Rural Life

February 28, 2026 by Miss Laird | 0 comments

What a fantastic day we had on Wednesday for our class trip to the National Museum of Rural Life!

The excitement began before we even arrived. The children absolutely loved the bus journey, chatting happily and spotting both new and familiar places along the way. There were lots of excited voices saying, “I’ve been there!”

Although the rain came along too, it certainly didn’t stop the fun! We put on our jackets and walked along the trail to the farm. The children took part in a scavenger hunt, carefully looking for different items around them. The rain did make our paper a little soggy, but that just added to the adventure!

When we reached the farm, the children were very excited to spot calves, dairy cows, bulls, pigs and piglets, hens and horses. The cows were very smelly – which caused lots of giggles! It was a wonderful opportunity to see real farm animals up close and talk about how they are cared for.

We then headed back to the museum building to warm up during our Farm to Fork workshop. We learned all about where our food comes from and thought carefully about which animals give us different foods. The children explored how milk is turned into butter using a traditional butter churn and even had a turn trying it themselves. We also looked at how wheat is ground into flour using a traditional quern stone and compared it to a modern-day grain mill. It was fascinating to see how methods have changed over time.

In the afternoon, we explored the Garden Detectives area, looking closely at insects and other living things in their habitats. We also visited the Tractor Store, where we saw different tractors and talked about how they have evolved over the years.

We are so proud of how beautifully the children represented our school throughout the trip.

Thank you for your continued support.

Miss Laird and Room 4

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February 27, 2026
by L Henderson
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Room 23

We have had a very busy couple of weeks in room 23!

We have started learning all about WW2 in our new topic! We’ve written fron the perspective of an evacuee and created model Anderson shelters to name a few things.

In maths we have been looking at all things money. We even had a go at converting between different foreign currencies.

We’ve been continuing with our class novel “The Crossover” which is written entirely in verse!

February 27, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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Crazy Hair Day! :-)

We had a very fun day at Newton Farm Primary.

Today was ‘Crazy Hair Day’. All the boys and girls put in so much effort and they all looked amazing! Thank you to our parents/carers for helping the children with their crazy hair creations. We had everything from ice cream cones, to sponges and even pipe cleaners. One lucky winner received a certificate from our house captains – well done!

Just a reminder that next Thursday 5th March is World Book Day. We will have a special book-themed lunch on offer this day and we will complete lots of fun tasks linked to reading and books in class.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 🙂

February 27, 2026
by Mrs Norton
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Room 7

What a great week we have had in room 7. A huge thank you to everyone who was able to come and visit us yesterday. The boys and girls were so excited to share our classroom and learning with you.

Everyone looked brilliant with their crazy hair today. Well done to Sudhiksha who was voted craziest hair today by the class – a deserving winner!

Here are some of the other things we have enjoyed this week:

SF – I liked drawing the castles.

KM – I liked drawing the castles.

HT – I liked doing the writing about our showcase.

JB – I liked doing the castles.

CM – I liked drawing the castles.

CG – I liked doing the kelpies and doing the poems about castles.

RL – I liked doing the castle.

MG – I liked seeing our parents doing our magnet tasks ad mdoing our poems.

CS – I liked drawing the kelpies.

KM – I liked playing with my friends.

IS – I liked doing the kelpies.

LW – I liked painting the castles

CM – I playing in the kitchen with Sam

SS – I liked playing with my friends.

CW – I liked painting castles.

EC – I liked playing in the home corner.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone – see you on Monday.

Mrs Norton

February 27, 2026
by Mr Mackay
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Room 27

This week Room 27 have:

Learned about Anne Frank, her life and created a summary based on it
Continued reading High Rise Mystery, almost there! We’ve voted for who we thought the murderer was
Developed our teamwork skills in P.E, every single teammate contributed in our Friday game
Drew a pencil sketch of British soldiers from behind, and shaded it, focussing on light sources
Applied our knowledge of percentages to build a bar model
Compared percentages with their fractional and decimal equivalents
Had a crazy hair day!

February 27, 2026
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

This week in Primary 1 we have been very busy with lots of exciting learning! In Maths, we began learning about o’clock times, focusing on reading times to the hour on analogue clocks and understanding that when the minute hand points to 12, we say “o’clock.” We practised matching times to daily routines and discussing what we might be doing at different o’clock times throughout the day. We also consolidated our knowledge of subtraction within 5, using concrete materials and number lines to help strengthen our understanding. In Literacy, we learned the new sounds y and z, using active learning to enhance our understanding. The children enjoyed identifying words, saying the sounds clearly and spotting the letters in their reading and writing. Today, we had a fantastic Crazy Hair Day! The classroom was full of colour, creativity and lots of excited smiles as everyone proudly showed off their amazing hairstyles!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend

Miss McBride and Room 3

February 27, 2026
by Miss Lockhart
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Room 15’s Blog

In room 15 we have been learning about division in Maths. LM

We had Crazy Hair Day today. FF

We were learning about the magic ‘e’ sound in words like ‘globe’, ‘cube’ and ‘paste’. RF

We did money with Miss McFadyen – totals and change! LB

We have started a new book called the One hundred mile per hour dog. LD (MPH for short CR and AH)

In IDL today we went into our groups and we made Google slide and posters for our topic ‘Disabilities’. KM QJO

We have been learning about disabilities. EA

So on Tuesday, our PE day, we learned our new topic is dance. LM

We used cars and ramps in Science to look at forces. CD

On Wednesday we did clean body for our health posters. EP

We learned about Ramadan EA

Thank you for reading our blog this week.

Latest Update from Room 24

February 27, 2026 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

Writing and IDL – For our topic (IDL), we’re studying World War 2. We learnt about how the war started and then we started thinking about the parts of the war we were most interested in. Individually, we researched facts and put these into information reports during writing. Some of our classmates have been bringing in war memorabilia which has been cool to look at! Charlie brought in medals and photos, Chloe brought in photos and a WW1 ‘death penny’ medal, Amelia brought in a soldier’s helmet and canteen (metal water bottle) and Jude brought in his dad’s army uniform for us to compare against the WW2 uniform he brought in last week. We even got to try on his gas mask! This week we learned about the evacuation at Dunkirk and worked in groups of land, sea and air rescue teams. We had to consider what would be the most important things to consider while trying to rescue the 400,000 soldiers stranded on the beach.

Safer Internet Day – We watched along with the BBC live event about AI chatbots. It talked about what information you shouldn’t give to a chatbot and that sometimes the information it gives isn’t always correct.

Art – A few weeks ago, we were given a homework task to take a photo of some objects that represent us as individual people, we didn’t know what for though! We could arrange the items in any way we wanted and then had to send them to our teacher. We found out this week that it’s for still life drawings in class! Miss Napier printed our photos out over a grid layout and we’re trying to draw the photos square by square to create realistic drawings. Fingers crossed!

Maths – Lately, we’ve been studying angles, perimeter, area and volume. We drew lots of rectangles to create robots and then calculated the area of them, used lots of rectangles and then calculated the area, we made robots by doing this. We have also been doing volume which is the amount of space inside a 3D object. We measured the length, width and height of objects around the class to work out their volume.

Crazy Hair Day – Today we had crazy hair day and everyone came in with crazy hairstyles. We saw that someone had even attached a huge balloon in their head! Well done to Lily in our class for her Easter treat themed hair!

Drama – For drama we wrote diary entries on certain scenarios that would have happened to children during WWII.

Curling – We were inspired by the Winter Olympics and tried a new sport in PE this week… Curling! We changed the rules a bit and did boys v girls teams. The girls won!