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.

May 22, 2026
by Ms McIver
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We enjoyed a morning of zen on Wednesday before our sports day in the afternoon 🏃‍♀️🏅 Thank you to all the parents and family members who came to support our superstars and an extra well done for participating in the parent race 🤣🏅

Have a lovely long weekend!

Room 24

May 22, 2026 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

It’s been such a fun week!

In morning clubs, we’ve had modelling balloons and lots of us learned how to make balloon dogs and swords with them! We even taught Miss Napier, Miss White and Miss Thom how to make the balloon dogs too.

We did lots of Health and Wellbeing activities this week because it was Health Week. We learned about sun safety and made UV bead keyrings. They were so cool because the beads start off clear and then they change colour when UV rays reach them! The more colourful they are, the stronger the UV rays are. SAMH came in to chat to us about how important our mental health is and that we need to look after ourselves. We had sports day too and it was very competitive. The teachers even had to film everyone crossing the finish line so they could check the ‘VAR’ to see who crossed the line first for some races! There was a lot of great and fun moments. We also had a ‘Smoothie Bar’ in our class on Thursday and got to choose a smoothie to make. They were loads of fun to make and were really tasty.

It was Miss Thom’s last day on Thursday too. She’s been a student in our class since January. We got to watch a David Attenborough documentary about Australian animals while we were making the smoothies, then Miss Thom surprised us with a big cake! It was great day.

We’ve got our two day visit to Uddingston Grammar next Tuesday and Wednesday and we can’t wait! We’re all very excited!

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May 21, 2026
by Miss Lockhart
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A Very Happy Health Week from Room 15!

Hello everyone,

This week we have been celebrating Health Week at Newton Farm.

“We had a taster session of Taekwondo”. I

“A man came to teach us how to play different percussion instruments. It was incredible!” L

“We had our sports day, I really enjoyed it.” O

“Last Friday we had a sponsored fun run and we ran 2k.” C

“Today we are celebrating achieving 20 proud clouds with a special movie afternoon.” L

“We have been learning about coordinates and map reading in our maths lessons. We have loved playing Battleships.” A

“We made our own ‘Top Trumps’ football cards for Scotland’s World Cup team that was announced this week.” I

“We designed our own football strips.” J

“With Mrs Kerr we talked about food and how we eat different foods as we grow older.” C

We hope you have a lovely long weekend with your families and friends.

Thank you for reading our blog.

Room 15.

May 21, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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Sports Day! :-)

Yesterday we marked ‘Health Week’ by taking part in our Sports Day. We were a little concerned about the weather but the rain stayed off for as long as possible. It was amazing to see so many of you there supporting us and cheering us on, thank you!

MM – Our grown ups were in the pitch watching us and they were watching us do the beanbag race, the running race and the potato race.

AN – We were getting stickers for doing the races.

DP – I am proud of myself for getting a 1st place sticker and I was finding the potato and spoon quite tricky.

NN – When we were doing the races, whoever was 1st, 2nd or 3rd the teachers were giving us stickers.

AH – I was cheering on my friends.

IC – All the adults were cheering me on doing the beanbag race and my dad was.

IJ – The adults were racing too.

Today we decided to write about Sports Day for our writing session. Our writing was amazing, I am very proud of Room 2! 🙂

May 18, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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Mondays in Room 5 are not BORING!

Today in Room 5 we have been so busy learning new things. Here are our learning statements:

Sam: We were learning about chocolate.

Fraser: We were learning about 5 a Day and how important it is.

Lewis: We cut up banana and strawberry and dipped it into melted chocolate.

Lewis: If you leave melted chocolate *(liquid) out then it will turn back into solid.

Alex M: We were learning to eat healthy.

Calvin: We learned a new sound, ‘kn’ and we found out that the sound comes at the start of the word and the k is silent.

Hollie: We made some fruit treats, with a melted chocolate drizzle.

Xayah: We were learning about 3D shapes.

Alice: When you draw a 3D shape it looks like it is popping out of the page.

Ollie: We were learning about melted chocolate, we put solid chocolate in the microwave and the heat melted the chocolate.

Beth: We melted chocolate and we used fruit and poured the chocolate on the fruit.

Thanks so much,

Miss Livingstone and Room 5

May 15, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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Fun Run :)

We had an amazing time today at the ‘Fun Run’. We were very happy to see that the sun was shining for us. Before we started our running, we did a little warm up in the class to get our bodies moving.

AN – We were running because it was the Fun Run.

LM – We all got a drink and a snack because we were all tired.

NN – When we got to the pitches, a man gave us medals.

DP – We were running 500m round the school and not a lot of people were walking. Quite a lot of people were jogging.

AH – When we were waiting for a turn at the Fun Run, we were cheering at some people.

TD – Our families came to watch.

SC – I jogged with my teacher. We got water and popcorn at the finish line.

MM – Our families watched us the whole way round the pitches.

It was such a fun morning and we were delighted with our medals. The children put them in their school bags to keep them safe. Thank you for sponsoring us and coming along today to cheer us on. It really helped push us on to the finish line. We did it! 🙂

On Wednesday 20th May we will be hosting our Sports Day. We look forward to seeing you there. Pupils can come to school in their PE kits. Thank you for your cooperation with this.

May 15, 2026
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

A very busy and exciting week in Room 3!

This week in Maths, we have started an exciting new topic all about money. The children have been learning to identify different coins using size and colour and exploring the different ways we can pay for items, including cash and cards.

In Literacy, we have been consolidating the sounds ‘ch’ and ‘ng’. The children have been practising reading and writing words containing these sounds through games, phonics activities and dictated sentences. It has been wonderful to see their confidence continuing to grow.

We also had our very exciting Fun Run today! The children had lots of fun taking part and showed fantastic enthusiasm and energy throughout the event. It was lovely to see everyone joining in with big smiles on their faces! The pupils were very excited to receive a medal at the end of the race too.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Miss McBride and Room 3

May 15, 2026
by Mrs Norton
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Team Room 7

We have had a brilliant time this week, ending with the brilliant fun run. We spent this morning making motivational posters and loved cheering on other children completing the run. Thank you to everyone who was able to come and support us today.

Our persuasive letters were really successful this week and we managed to persuade all of the leadership team to give us a proud cloud. We are really proud of our powers of persuasion! We also earned another proud cloud for taking part in the run which means we have reached our 20 proud cloud target! What a great way to end the week!

Here are what the boys and girls have enjoyed this week.

CM – I liked making lego buildings with Sam. I liked cheering people on at the fun run.

EC – I liked making the big posters and doing the fun run. I liked playing with room 26.

KM – I liked doing the fun run and playing with the mega blocks.

HT – I liked doing the fun run and I liked drawing pictures during play. I liked cheering people on and I like making posters.

TT – I liked building with Jessica.

MM – I liked doing the fun run and cheering on for other people.

BS – I liked doing the fun run.

CM – I liked getting snacks at the end of the fun run.

KM – I liked doing the fun run and getting snacks at the end.

CW – I liked doing the fun run.

MG – I liked doing the fun run and playing with room 26 and playing with the mega blocks. I liked cheering people on.

CS – I liked doing the fun run with my friends.

SF – I liked cheering on people at the fun run.

Have a lovely weekend everyone. Next week is health week so please come dressed in PE clothes every day.

Mrs Norton

May 15, 2026
by Miss Campbell
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15.5.26

What we have been doing this week:

We have been doing some science about growing plants with Miss ker.
We created class minister posters and coloured them in so it would look better.
This Thursday we had parents night and we all got a good report 🙂
On Friday we did the fun run which was 2k and it was pretty easy.
We just started a task where we buddy up with someone then design it and then write what you like about your partner.

Thank you for reading. Room 16

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May 15, 2026
by Miss Finch
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Room 11 Mega Update

Apologies for missing a couple of weeks on the Blog, we have so busy in Room 11 with lots of new learning.

We were joined a couple of weeks ago by some little caterpillars who we watched grow rapidly and transform into chrysalis. We are now on the watch for them to emerge into butterflies and have left some oranges in their net this weekend just incase! The children have loved checking on their progress every morning.

We are focusing on persuasive writing this term and have decided to focus on different forms of media that we are exposed to all the time. This week we discussed adverts, slogans and even jingles as well as the emotional language that companies use to persuade us. We made posters to advertise our favourite places and next week we are going to start using the chrome books to create some of our own digital media.

Lastly, a big thanks to all the parents who supported our fun run today, through donations and/or spectating.

The kids all had the best morning and we have managed to raise a fantastic amount of money that will go a long way to replenishing our PE cupboard.