Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

Our Week in Room 21

March 15, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

This week has been the busiest week yet!

We’ve been completing different ‘British Science Week’ activities like studying velocity and taking part in experiments with balloons. Miss Napier also set us the challenges to make the longest length of unbroken paper we could using only a paper plate and a sheet of A3 paper. We had to communicate as teams before cutting the plates and paper, otherwise we’d lose the challenge! The longest piece of paper was 11 metres long!

In PE, we chose to play rounders. P6s vs P7s in the class. The P6s won both games!

We created our own clay sculptures after studying ‘The Thinker’ by Auguste Rodin. We took pictures of some poses, recreated them with the clay and then named them things like ‘The Daydreamer’ and ‘The Haaland.’

On Wednesday, some of the P7s went on an outing to Bothwell to meet Rt Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. There was around 200 other pupils from Lanarkshire schools there who listened to her speak and answer questions about her job.

We’ve been taking a look at discursive writing lately and this week we discussed Banksy and whether or not we think he is an artist or a vandal. As a class, we decided he was a little bit of both!

The P7s also took part in the Easter Code project on Thursday. The chaplaincy team came to take it and it was an interesting afternoon!

By Pippa, Connor and Chloe

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Our Week in Room 21

March 8, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

We’ve had an incredibly busy week in Room 21! Here are just a FEW of the things we’ve been getting up to this week:

Our P6s presented their solo talks on some European capital cities, our P7s began some mini poster projects on topics of their own choosing and also finished up their 13 week block of swimming lessons, we celebrated World Book Day by taking part in a book quiz and buddy reading with room 11 (which we loved!), we shared our topic learning at Friday’s assembly and we were also able to celebrate the success of our classmate as he came 1st place in the P6 boys Cross Country local heats. He’ll be taking part in the South Lanarkshire finals in a couple of weeks. Take a look through some of the photos of our highlights this week:

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Our Week in Room 21

March 1, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

This week in room 21 we’ve been writing persuasive letters to the International Paralympic Committee. Gymnastics isn’t included as an event right now and we hope our letters will support the British Gymnastics campaign to have it included in time for the 2028 Games.

During maths, we’ve been finishing up our data handling learning. We researched the average monthly rainfall in Glasgow (after learning about the water cycle) and compared it with the rainfall in a different European city. Then we created bar charts to show the data using Google Docs. THEN we worked out the range, median, mode and mean for Glasgow’s rainfall.

By Kayla and Brooke

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Our Week in Room 21

February 23, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

For ‘Beyond Number’ maths this week, we were using something called Sphero Indi which is a mini robot car that comes with different coloured mats. Our teacher didn’t tell us what to do with Indi and we had to work together to try and figure out what she could do and how to get her to move.

We figured out that Indi turns in different directions depending on which colour mat she goes over. We created lots of little trails for her and some groups even teamed up to make bigger trails. There was lots of teamwork and problem solving going on.

By Brooke and Kayla.

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Our Week in Room 21

February 9, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

Did you know that 70% of the Earth’s surface is made up of water? We learned this amazing fact this week while learning about the water cycle. We carried out an experiment using sandwich bags and blue-coloured water to see evaporation, condensation and precipitation in action. Take a look at our photos to see them on our class windows.

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February 2, 2024
by Miss Napier
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Our Week in Room 21

For languages week, the P6s looked at Piet Mondrian who was a Dutch artist. This ties in with our topic of Europe too because he is a famous European artist. We researched him and took notes about him then created … Continue reading

Last week in Room 21

January 29, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

At the start of the week, we had a lesson from an Uddingston Grammar PE teacher. He taught us how to play Shinty and will come each Monday over the next 4 weeks  so we can learn more.

We started our new topics this week too. The P6s have been studying Europe and the P7s are working with Rooms 23 and 24 to take part in the Digi-Inventors Challenge, which is a STEM project.

By Connor and Chloe

 

 

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Our Week in Room 21

January 19, 2024 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

We have begun to conclude our WW2 learning this week and had fun using our measuring and baking skills to make fork biscuits (a ration recipe) and develop our sewing skills, whilst learning about the ‘Make Do and Mend’ campaign. The class realised how tricky it can be to thread a needle and knot one end before even getting to the stitching part! We’ll continue our sewing skills next week when we finish sewing on a button and repairing a rip in the pieces of fabric we have. We’ll also take a look at how the war finally ended and study what VE Day is.

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