Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

January 16, 2026
by Miss Laird
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Primary 1/2 Room 4

We have had a busy and fun week in Room 4, with lots of great learning taking place!

In Numeracy this week, we have been continuing with subtraction. The children used lots of concrete materials to help them understand their learning and began using a new strategy called crossing out. Everyone worked very hard and showed great focus.

In Literacy, we have been learning how to write sentences using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. The children are becoming more confident and are very proud of their writing.

We have also started our new Inquiry topic, What Makes Scotland Wonderful. The class has loved beginning to explore this topic and we can’t wait to share more of our learning with you all.

Please remember our PE days will be changing to Wednesday and Thursday this term. Children should come to school dressed appropriately for PE on these days.

This week the pupils have enjoyed:

HM – I liked using the Indi’s, it was funny when Indi went the wrong way.

TC – I liked using the Indi’s.

EJ – I liked the Indi’s and setting up the mats.

KH – I liked playing tig at PE.

MH – I liked learning the ‘b’ and ‘u’ sounds.

SM – I liked drawing Scotland flags.

AB – I liked going to my pupil voice group.

KJO – I liked making bird feeders at the Eco Pupil Voice group.

BR – I liked looking at the Scotland Flag.

AN – I liked writing sentences by myself.

KO – I liked finding out what the different mats did to the Indi.

FM – I liked tennis in the gym hall.

KA – I liked using the cubes to help me to taking away.

LF – I liked taking away and crossing out in my jotter.

DM – I liked tig in PE.

Thank you for reading our blog, have a lovely weekend!

Miss Laird and Room 4 😊

January 16, 2026
by Miss Napier
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Room 24

MATHS: For Maths this week we have been drawing angles and writing the names for them. We have also been working on reflex angles using circular protractors. Then we were giving each other directions around our class by using compass points and angles. We had to try to get our partner from one point in the class to another.

RME: For our RME we were learning about Humanism – a non-religious group that does not believe in a god. ‘Humanists believe that people have one life to live, and that there is no afterlife. They focus on being happy and living a good life, by making the most of their lives and helping others. In class we write down on post-its what it means to us to have a good life. Then Miss Napier shared them with the class. Lots of ideas were similar like having friends and family, a good job, food/water, hobbies etc. After discussing the post-its, we all drew these things on individual posters and these will be added to our RME display.

LITERACY/DRAMA: We were reading our class novel called Tribes, which is about 12 year olds being part of ‘gangs,’ and doing different tasks on it. We were making predictions about an initiation test that a character might have to complete, and then acting them out in groups for others to guess. We’ve been finding evidence and quotes to answer questions, and also discussing the advantages and disadvantages of joining a gang. We definitely all had more disadvantages written down!

By Marni and Olivia

January 16, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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Room 5

A fun filled learning week in Room 5. The children couldn’t wait to share all their favourite parts about the week:

Pupil Voice:

Calvin- I enjoyed drawing bar charts.

Heidi- I liked learning about Tally Marks.

Xayah- I liked going to our pupil voice groups.

Eilidh- I enjoyed learning about Scottish Island Life and learning about our new topic. 4

Blake- I liked learning new sums in maths.

Hollie- I enjoyed learning how to draw a Bar Charts.

Kai- I liked playing with the marble run.

Austin- I liked playing with the Den Building.

Fraser- I loved to write about the imaginary door.

Beth- I enjoyed den building.

Alice- I enjoyed doing the whole class eye colour tally mark table.

Reminder that homework goes out on Monday to be returned on Friday. Reading is on bug club, numeracy will be back on Mathletics when we get the technical glitches ironed out, until then i will pop some questions in the folder.

Outdoor P.E is on a Monday, please ensure they have a warm jacket on.

Indoor P.E is on a Friday.

 

Thanks, Miss Livingstone

 

January 16, 2026
by Mrs Norton
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Room 7’s Blog

Welcome to room 7’s blog. We have had a great couple of weeks back after Christmas, and it has been lovely having all the class back together again.

This week we have been starting to look at our new Inquiry Topic – What Makes Scotland Wonderful. We can’t wait to share all our learning with your all.

Our PE days will be changing to Monday and Tuesday from next week as P3 will start coaching from Cambuslang Hockey Club (P2s will do PE with Mrs Calder at this time).

Here are some of the things we have enjoyed doing this week:

HT – I liked doing the time. I liked making our friendship chain.

KM – I liked doing the friendship chain. I liked doing the Katie Bairdie task.

CW – I liked playing with Katie and Holly.

TT – I liked learning about time. I liked playing in the home corner.

EC – I liked doing Katie Bairdie. I liked playing in the home corner.

CS – I liked doing half past and quarter past. I liked playing with the lego.

MG – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie poems. I liked building big buildings.

MM – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie poems.

CG – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie poems. I liked playing in the home corner.

KM – I liked making our own Katie Bairdies. I liked playing outside.

IS – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie.

SF – I liked playing making a Baby Cafe in the home corner with Caleb and Reese.

EB – I liked doing the friendship chains.

HB – I liked signing Katie Bairdie.

CM – I liked building.

CM – I liked making soup in the the home corner with Sam and Reese.

BE – I liked making friendship chain with Holly, Jessica, Katie and Casey.

BS – I liked playing with the lego.

CH – I liked making the friendship chain.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, and I’ll see you on Monday.

Mrs Norton

January 16, 2026
by Miss Lockhart
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This Week in Room 15

Hello everyone,

This week in Room 15 we …

“Learned about the artist Keith Haring – his art has bright colours, cartoon style and has thick outlines.” OK

“We are practising our times tables.” IS

“We did fitness stations at P.E. my favourite were the wall balls.” OW

“We started a new topic and are going to design new products.” EP

“We are enjoying our new book Spud Murphy.” CD

“We are developing our hockey skills at P.E. and coaches are coming next week.” LD

“We reviewed our Myths and Legends topic. I will miss learning about this.” LB

“We are learning about forces with Mrs Kerr.”

Thank you for reading our first blog of 2026. Have a lovely weekend.

Room 15

January 16, 2026
by Miss White
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Room 17 Blog

Welcome to room 17’s weekly blog! We will tell you all about this week!

Dodgeball

This week in dodgeball we learned  to duck and side step. There are four teams at the end, two teams against two teams. 1 and 4 won, lots of people were trying really hard to learn the skills.

Showcase

This week on Thursday in the morning we made math board games! In the afternoon our parents came and we played with our parents. We showed them around our class. We also did literacy, HWB, lCT and Numeracy. It was so much fun! But sadly a few parents couldn’t come so we did partners.

 Thank you for reading our blog. Come back next week!

By Andrew,Anvi and Iman

January 16, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 2

This week in Room 2 we have been very busy.

  • We have enjoyed completing lots of fine motor activities. These help to warm up our little hands and fingers for writing activities.

  • In Numeracy, we have been learning to take away. We used cubes to start with and have now moved on to our new ‘crossing out’ strategy.

  • We are all looking forward to our Pupil Voice Groups this afternoon. We always come back to class sharing stories from our groups.

Have a super weekend everyone! 🙂

January 15, 2026
by Mrs Calder
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Room 13

Room 13 had a fabulous time during child led play designing and creating a scene from the story ‘Moses and the Pharaoh’s Daughter’.

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January 15, 2026
by Miss Higgins
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Room 19

Thank you to Dylan, Evie, Hania and Rebecca for writing this week’s blog post.

 

 Maths

In maths we have been measuring using centimetres. We went around the classroom measuring things with rulers. We made posters about all the different ways to measure. We had different stations set up to learn more about lengths. We also measured string at any length we wanted.

ICT

For ICT we have been working on coding using scratch and python. On scratch we have used coding to make animated actions. On python we made games. 

Art

For art we made 2026 drawings. For the first 2 we had two targets. For the second 2 we had two wishes. For the 6 we did six things we were looking forward to and we left the 0 blank. 

Literacy/Reading

 For literacy we are reading the Abominables. This book is about yetis going from country to country and having problems. We have been answering questions about this book.

Handwriting

For handwriting with Miss O’Brien we did printing writing which is not joining and no flicks on our letters. With Miss Higgins we joined our letters and made sure they’re the right size. 

Spelling

For spelling we have had words to do with affixes and suffixes. 

January 12, 2026
by Miss Napier
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First Week Round-Up in Room 24

Last week we combined our art skills with our maths knowledge as we created geometric trees to increase what we know on angles. We found this funner and more creative than just writing in jotters.

In music we learned how to find the beat in different songs and keep it throughout. We listened very carefully for what the video said and repeated it back in time with the music.

In literacy we started a new book called Tribes.  Everybody is already really enjoying the book and we are eager to read the next part every time. We are excited to tell you all about the tasks we have been doing next week.

Last but not least, some of our pupils went to Manchester on Sunday for a special opportunity. Some individuals went and saw the Manchester City vs Chelsea game. The pupils really enjoyed it as they also did the Etihad Stadium tour. They then had lunch at the Trafford Centre. It was a great trip!

Hope you had a week as good as ours,

Room 24

 

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