October 27, 2021
by Mrs Meechan
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Parent / Teacher Video Meetings

Parents’ Night

As we are still unable to have parents in the building due to current restrictions, we have arranged to have video calls with class teachers as our Parents’ Night this term.

Parents / carers will be able to book an appointment online using a system provided by SLC. To try and ensure we have as strong a signal as possible and avoid technical glitches as best we can, we have split the sessions over 4 days and the dates are listed below. Appointments will be available in the afternoon and in the evening on each day.

On Friday, Mrs Cowie will post information here on the blog and on the school App to explain how parents and carers can book a video call with their child’s teacher and the booking system will open on Monday.

Dates :

Mon 8th November – Rms 7, 9, 15 & 18

Wed 10^th November – Rms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6

Wed 17^th November – Rms 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 19

Thurs 18^th November – Rms 16, 17, 20, 21, 22 & 23

October 27, 2021
by Mrs Cowie
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Primary 4/5 Community Club- Active Schools

Dear parents/carers,

Please find attached a letter from Active School for all P4s and P5s for a Multi Sports Community Club. This is going to be led by Sports Coach Academy senior pupils from all 6 Hamilton High Schools and will take place at Holy Cross High School from Wednesday 10^th November for 4 weeks until Wednesday 1^st December from 4.30-5.30pm.

Community Club Letter 2021-22

If you are interested please phone the number on the letter to get your child booked on. There are only 60 places so be quick.

Mrs Cowie (DHT)

October 27, 2021
by D Gray
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P6 R21 Titanic Dress Up Day

October 25, 2021
by Ms McIver
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WW1 Museum in Room 23

No school trips means we have to bring the museum to us!

Room 23 had a fantastic afternoon today looking at artefacts linked to WW1.

We had a Scottish Soldier’s uniform, German helmets, medals and even a Princess Mary Christmas Box. Please ask your children to share with you what they learnt at the museum.

You can find a video of the museum on your Google Classroom.

🪖🎖📔

October 25, 2021
by Mrs Meechan
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Consultation Proposal Document

Please find below the consultation proposal document containing all information on the suggested catchment area realignment for Newton Farm Primary School and Hallside Primary School. On the 1^st November, invitations to the virtual meetings will be issued by SLC to all who have registered with them. Information on how to register for the meetings is contained in the letter from SLC posted here on the blog and on the school App on Wednesday 20th October.

Consultation proposal document Newton Farm PS Hallside PS

October 24, 2021
by Miss Reid
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Room 16

This week in Room 16 we have been working hard during numeracy and literacy all week.

During Topic this week we were researching to see if there were any similar inventions out there to what we had invented to solve a certain problem. We found out that some of our ideas already exist, or are similar to what we had come up with. This was interesting to see that people can think of similar/the exact same ideas to solve certain problems.

During RME we were learning all about Saints and we had the opportunity to research one of these and write a mini Biography on their life using our ICT skills.

Room 16 would like to give a big congratulations to Harley Davis this week as he won five golds and two silver medals for his amazing gymnastics skills during the British Gymnastics Disability Championships, including the under 12 British Champion. We are so proud of you Harley! we enjoyed hearing all about this, watching the videos of your routines in class and also getting to see the pictures from the Newspaper and ask lots of questions. Keep up the amazing work!

Hope you have had a lovely weekend

Miss Reid/Mrs Reilly

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October 22, 2021
by Miss Mulreany
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Knights and Sukkah’s ✏️😁

Halloween excitement is building in Room 5 and we have already started putting up some fun decorations! 🎃 We can’t wait to celebrate in class next Friday.

This week we took advantage of the lovely sunshine (although cold!) and ventured outside, to work in teams, to build Sukkah huts. These huts are created during the Jewish festival of Sukkot. We think they look pretty good!

We also made fantastic Knights for our class topic. Firstly, we coloured in the body parts, then cut them out and finally put them together again with little pins. The special pins help the arms and legs move which makes them look real.

This week, we also announced our Star Writer. She wrote a fantastic narrative piece in which she described a forest setting. Her handwriting was beautiful and she remembered to put in the appropriate punctuation. Well done superstar! 🌟

October 22, 2021
by L Henderson
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Room 13

Well, yet again, another busy week has come to an end in room 13.

We started with a new block of learning in P.E. and have been developing our hockey skills. We have been practising the safe and correct ways to hold a hockey stick and are getting used to manoeuvring the ball about the pitch.

In literacy, we have been getting stuck in to our new reading books and consolidating our learning of the different reading strategies. We are still reading ‘The Creakers’ for enjoyment!

In Numeracy, we have continued to become masters of addition. We have been working on column addition with carrying and have realised that once we know how to use the skill, we can apply it to even bigger numbers! We also revised how to round a number to the nearest 10 and 100.

We’ve done lots of fantastic work this week and I am very proud of all the children in room 13 ☺️

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Henderson

October 22, 2021
by Miss Duke
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Feeling Good in Room 3

This week in Room 3, we have been super busy! We hope you enjoy reading about and looking at our learning in this week’s blog post.

We learned three new common words; I, it and in. We have been practising spelling these words using our 5 finger rule.

For Mathematics, we have enjoyed creating models using 2D shapes. Did you know shapes are in the world all around us?

For P.E., we have begun to to explore dancing. What do you think of our ‘Dance Off ‘ video? We had so much fun moving our bodies. Watch this space for more super moves.

As part of our ‘All About Me’ topic, we have been discussing our feelings and sharing stories of when we are happy, sad, scared or angry. Some of our learners even volunteered to share this on our blog.