Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

November 14, 2025
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 14.11.25

This week in Room 1 we have:

  • Used the INDIs to help us blend our sounds to make words (check the videos below)
  • Answered some of our ‘big questions’ about what makes the world wonderful. We have explored rainbows, flowers and now we are learning about animals. Look at the way we sorted the animals
  • Used number lines in numeracy to help with addition
  • Identified sentences ✅ and fragments ❌. We worked together to fix the fragments.

Today we enjoyed celebrating Children in Need.

A reminder that we are inviting parents/families in next week for Book Week to spend time reading and exploring our amazing Bookbug bags! 📚📖

November 14, 2025
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

Good afternoon,

This week in Room 4 the children have enjoyed:

ZA – I liked writing e and d.
AB – I liked fixing the fragments into complete sentences.
ED – I liked guessing how many sweets were in the jar.
LF – I liked learning the story of 1, 2, and 3.
MH – I liked practising for the nativity on the stage.
CH – I liked sorting out fragments and sentences.
KH – I liked working with Miss McFarlane and practising numbers.
EJ – I liked drawing at the creative table.
EM – I liked learning the ea sound.
HM – I liked going to the gym hall and practising our lines for the nativity on the stage.
DM – I liked dress-down day.
AM – I liked our writing task when we fixed the fragments into sentences.
FM – I liked writing out all the ways to make 1, 2, and 3.
AN – I liked learning new sounds – e and d.
KO – I liked playing with the snowflakes in the construction area.
KJO – I liked working with Miss O’Brian.
BR – I liked French.
JS – I liked learning about fixing fragments.
MS – I liked playing with the Lego and building a big castle.
CS – I liked being on the stage and practising where to sit and what to say in the nativity.

REMINDERS

Primary 1 Nativity – As we approach the upcoming nativity performances, we kindly request your support in helping your child learn their lines. It is important that each pupil is confident with their lines, as this will help our practice sessions run more smoothly and allow them to fully participate in rehearsals. If you could take some time at home to go over the lines with your child, it would be greatly appreciated.

Room 4 BookBug Session – Monday 17th November, 2:00pm-2:45pm. One family member per child.

Wear It Bright Day – Friday 21st November. Children can come to school wearing the brightest clothes they have, including reflective items.

Thank you for reading our blog. Have a great weekend!

Miss Laird and Room 4

November 14, 2025
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

We’ve had another exciting and busy week in Primary 1! In Literacy, our focus has been learning two new sounds: e and d. The children have been working very hard and we have used a range of active learning strategies to help us explore, practise and remember these sounds. We have used a range of visuals, eye spy games and magnetic letters.

In Maths, we have been continuing our work on addition. The class has been practising writing number sentences, using concrete materials and visual supports to help them understand each step. The children have enjoyed using cubes and number lines to build and solve addition equations. Their enthusiasm has been wonderful to see!

As nativity is fast approaching we have been busy practising for our Nativity performance. The children have been learning their lines, songs and stage directions. We are very proud of the effort they are putting in.

Just a note to say if you could please help your child learn their nativity lines at home.  It makes a big difference to their confidence during rehearsals.

Important date

On Monday 17th of November, you are invited into the classroom from 2pm to read with your child and complete fun book week activities.

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss McBride and Room 3

November 14, 2025
by Mrs Stewart
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Room 20

Hello and welcome to the outstanding blog of room 20.

On Tuesday we had a minute of silence for Remembrance Day and we did research on the EU. We also made a quiz for our Europe topic & we made true or false quizzes  for our showcase.

Wednesday

We did research on Francois Auguste-Rene Rodin and a summary about him and we finished our true or false posters.

Thursday

We wrote our own music with crochets and quavers with Mrs Webber. We also finished our information reports on Rodin. Since we finished them, we typed them up and we completed our fabulous Piet Mondrian art.

Friday

We dressed up for Children in Need and had our Pupil Voice groups.

Hope you liked reading our blog, check in next week for more blog.

 By  Sophie, Emily &Jackson W 

November 14, 2025
by L Henderson
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Room 23 blog!

On Tuesday we did some textbook math and we also did some reading and a literacy task, and started the handwriting work. Then Mrs Kerr came in and we monitored the little one’s lunch. After our lunch we made a quiz in groups.

On wednesday we did some some more fractions, literacy and more of the writing tasks, we researched about poppies and made a leaflet about remembrance day 

On Thursday we found out our groups for digi inventors and we started researching it.

On Friday we did some writing again,and some digi inventors and some of us started making posters for it. We also went to our pupil voice groups.

 

Thank you for reading

 

By Ruby and Sophia

November 14, 2025
by Miss Finch
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Room 11

This week we have been focusing on…..

  1. Making Viking Shields.  We looked at lots of pictures of the shields the Vikings used and tried to copy some of the patterns.  We used silver masking tape to try to create the metal in the middle of them.
  2. Continued learning about directional language, including using a compass to write and follow instructions.

 

3.  Started to learn our songs for the Christmas Concert- it will be here before we know it!!

 

November 14, 2025
by Miss Higgins
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Room 19

Thank you to Elise, Indi and Lucy for this week’s post.

We have been improving our writing by doing IOW. This includes fragments, scrambled sentences, run ons and independent clauses. We  have been loving it.   

We have also been revising about time such as half past, quarter past and o’clock as well as reading time we can also make our own.

We have been debating with each other about the Prodigal Son.  We were talking about if the son should have left his home and went on an adventure or stay at home and work on his father’s farm.

For Monday gym we do badminton and on Fridays we do football.  We have been getting better at passing and dribbling.  Most of the class have been really getting the hang of it.

We have been learning about Peit Mondrian and August Rodin in our European topic.  

 

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to welcoming visitors to our Learning Showcase on Thursday 20th November at 1:40pm.

November 14, 2025
by Miss Mulreany
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Autumn Art

A little while ago, we discussed a very, big question in Room 2 – “What Makes the World Wonderful?”. We had fantastic answers such as fireworks, God, Rainbows, Schools, People and Nice Autumn Leaves.

We have spoken and read books all about the changes that we see in Autumn so we decided to create lovely Autumn art. We used different materials such as our fingers, cotton wool, sponges and cotton buds to create the illusion of Autumn leaves. We can’t wait to display our pictures on our ‘Being Me’ squares in class.

Next week, we will be celebrating Book Week Scotland. We would like to invite our parents/families into our class on Monday 17th November at 2pm to enjoy some reading time with us. We are also being gifted fabulous Bookbug bags filled with lots of great goodies! We can’t wait to see you then.

November 14, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone,

“Playing would you rather with Miss O’Brien” RD

“Learning to complete chimney sums when adding” CT

“Learning how to spike in volleyball” LE

“Beginning to learn our songs for the Christmas concert” GO

“Learning all about balancing with Miss O’Brien” HR

“Drawing Greek Gods” SG

“As part of our play we created a very cool creation of a skate park. We used white boards, rubbers and pens.” (LE)

“I made a scooter using blu tack and connecting sticks for the skatepark” MG

 

Have a lovely weekend

Thank you

Mrs Ventre and Room 14

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 ☺️

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