March 28, 2024
by Mrs Meechan
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March Newsletter

End of term news… Your child’s report will come home with them today, please return the paper feedback sheet to your child’s class teacher after the holiday. This year you will also be sent an electronic version of the report through Parent Portal. We hope to send all information through Parent Portal in the new session so we will ask for some feedback after the Easter break on how easy it was to access and read the report on Parent Portal.

We would like to wish everyone a very restful, enjoyable Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 15th April. Please see our latest newsletter for an update on some of our school events this term and some dates for your diary for the term ahead. NFPS Newsletter March 24

I hope you all have a wonderful break!

Mrs Meechan

June 27, 2023
by Mrs Meechan
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Dates for your Diary 2023 – 2024

Parent-year-planner

April 23, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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We all learn differently (Nurture afternoon) 📚✨

As part of our nurture afternoon this week, Room 6 focussed on the principle ‘Children’s learning is understood developmentally’. We discussed the importance of understanding that people learn in different ways, before making a whole class poster about some ways that we like to learn. We came up with some super ideas and these can be seen below.

On Thursday, Room 6 have many exciting things coming up. We are looking forward to going on a trip to Euromix in the morning and welcoming family members in the afternoon for our learning showcase. As part of our planning for the showcase, we all picked a piece of work that we are proud of to put up on our WOW wall. Each piece is something that we enjoyed completing to support our learning and that we like talking about. Have a look at our great display.

We have been using our voices this week to identify what we have liked to learn about and why. We have made a PowerPoint for the showcase which highlights different learning experiences we have loved during P2 and reasons for this. We also had a chance this morning to complete thought bubbles on different curricular areas to show how we have found areas of our learning.

Pupil Voice

Here are some comments on our learning this week:

IR – I enjoyed making the colours with the paint in art.

HW – I really enjoyed having the hot chocolate. It was really good and yummy.

SG – I really loved looking for materials with Miss Henry.

NG – I liked the hot chocolate.

IW – I am really looking forward to the showcase.

EM – I’m excited for our school trip on Thursday and it is so close and I am so happy that we get another school trip.

HG – I’m really excited for the showcase because I think it will be really fun and I liked making the invitation.

ND – I loved having the hot chocolate because it was really nice.

Have an amazing week!

Room 6 and Mrs Rae 😊

April 22, 2024
by Miss Sutherland
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Happy World Earth Day!

As part of our literacy today, we decided to enjoy some outdoor learning to also celebrate World Earth Day! We love our outdoor environment and enjoyed practicing this weeks spelling words in loads of active ways! We worked individually, in pairs and in groups to spell tricky words with lots of different resources!

April 19, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Data Handling in Room 5

Room 5 enjoyed being back at school this week, catching up with all their friends. It was lovely to see everyone again and hear all about their Easter break.

This week in Maths, we have been completing some data handling work. We have been looking at organising data for various graphs and diagrams. We used tally marks to collate information and then compiled it into bar graphs and Carroll diagrams. We were able to answer questions based on the data collected.

On Thursday 25th April we would like to welcome parents/carers to our ‘Learning Showcase’. This is a child-led experience where the children will be showing some of the learning that has taken place in our class and completing some activities with you. This event will be from 1:40-2:40 and we look forward to seeing you then.

April 19, 2024
by Mrs Cowie
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Makaton Signs of the Week 22.4.24

Makaton Signs of the Week

April 19, 2024
by Mrs Norton
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Welcome Back to Room 4

It has been lovely welcoming all the boys and girls back to room 4 after the holidays and hearing all about what they got up to. I swear they have all grown over the holidays, and I enjoyed seeing how far they have come since they started Primary 1 back in August. I can’t wait to see where their learning journey takes them before the summer.

This week for our blog, I wanted to provide a snapshot of the classroom to give you an insight of what happens in the class. The photos below were taken on Thursday morning as I walked around the room.

: Room 4 on Thursday morning..

: We are retelling the story of “The Dinosaur that Pooped the Bed”.

: Solving missing number calculations using numicon.

: Using QR codes to access number and phonics games on the iPad.

: Working together to build a castle in the construction area.

: Working out problems together at our creation station.

As you can see, the boys and girls were so involved in their learning they had no idea I was taking their photo. I couldn’t be prouder of everyone in the class and how they were leading their own learning journey!

I hope this afternoon’s sunshine is a sign of more things to come. As the weather warms up, a wee reminder that even though it might be sunny outside, the P1 playground is pretty shaded so can stay chilly all day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Norton

April 19, 2024
by Ms Tighe
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This week …

** Blog Post by John & Charlie **

In room 18 we were sharing about our news about our holiday by doing literacy,art and drama.

On Tuesday we were learning about physical theatre in drama and we got put into groups of 7,6 and 5 then we tried to act different places like the park,theme park and the circus using our bodies.

In gymnastics we were working on our balance.also we tried doing hard positions and holding them for 10,15 seconds each and it was very challenging .

April 19, 2024
by Miss Higgins
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Room 27

Thank you to Aimee, Hollie and Sophie for writing this week’s post.

On Monday the Butcharts chose a new book called Grimwood.

We finished time in numeracy.

We started a new enterprise topic about putting on our own Music Festival..

In maths we started division.

We also wrote our Easter holiday news.

We wrote a story about the middle of the night.

We learned how to draw a one point perspective road drawing.

We got new spelling words.

John’s dad came to show us an app called Make It Happen with games that people made.

We got to do kahoot with a partner.

We are doing rounders for PE.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Higgins and Room 27.

April 19, 2024
by Mr Allen
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Room 9 Direct Speech

We have all enjoyed being back at school this week. Mr Allen said it was great having everyone back in class.

In literacy this week, we were learning about how to use Direct speech. It was very tricky at first but by the end of the week we all really understood what to do. The first thing that we need to do is separate the talking part and the unspoken part of a sentence, we use a comma to do this. Then we put the inverted commas around the spoken part using marks that we called 66 and 99 because that is what the punctuation marks look like. Instead of writing in our jotters, Mr Allen got us to act out the situation using printed words and punctuation marks. The photographs below shows what we did.

Mr Allen was so impressed with our progress, we got to share our learning with the P3s and P4s during our assembly this week. We also used direct speech in our story writing.

April 19, 2024
by Mrs Ventre
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