Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

February 26, 2024
by L Kerr
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Recently in room 8…

As always the boys and girls in room 8 have been working super hard and should be extremely proud of themselves.  In Literacy we are learning new sounds and words every week.  Please continue to support your child with reading and spelling these words as and when you can.  We have made amazing progression with our writing and can independently write in sentences using the correct punctuation.  We also have an understanding of how and when to use commas, speech marks, question and exclamation marks.

This term we have focused on vocabulary and can explain what nouns, verbs and adjectives are.-  For instruction writing this was very useful and the children were able to use ‘bossy verbs and time connectives’.

We are currently focusing on multiplication and linking it to repeated addition.  We know that 3 x 2 is the same as 2+2+2.  We are also learning about ‘time’, focusing on o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to.

Room 8 are thoroughly enjoying our new topic, ‘Chocolate’.  We have learned how chocolate is made, looked at different brands of chocolate, designed our very own chocolate bar and wrapper and are super excited to make our own chocolate later this week.  We also had fun melting chocolate and making delicious chocolate covered fruit skewers. We followed up this activity by writing our own set of instructions explaining what to do step by step.

In P.E we are working on our fitness and improving our stamina.  It is fun but very tiring.  The children are enjoying the challenge and like to try and find their pulse every week.

February 26, 2024
by Mr Allen
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Room 9 Waverley Topic

Room 9 have really enjoyed our topic this term. At the end of January the class decided to learn about the Waverley after learning about Robert Burns and the Scots Language.

Last week we started making our Waverley models so hopefully they will be finished by the P3 Showcase on Thursday. We painted the base of the ship on Thursday and will finish them off over the next couple of days and then add the funnels.

Mr Allen put us into groups of 4 so that we can research more information about the Waverley and also find out about all the different ports that the boat will stop at. Each group will make a poster about each port and we will do a presentation about them on Thursday.

February 26, 2024
by Mr McCourt
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Our last week in Room 16

Happy Monday!

We are looking forward to another week of amazing learning in Room 16 this week.

A recap of our last week:

We have reflected on our time topic and have identified all the different ways we have been learning about time during the past few weeks and can confidently show the skills we wanted to learn at the beginning of the topic.

In literacy, we have put our writing skills to the test in combination with our health and wellbeing skills by writing scripts that focus on behaviour and communication. We have acted these out in class and received feedback from our friends, I think we have some future movie stars!

We have extended our Japan topic for a couple final lessons as we enjoyed it so much by using clay to design, model, paint, and create ‘Kintsugi’ plates as well as building earthquake proof spaghetti pagodas!

We cant wait to see what is in store this week for our school trip to Kelvingrove and we are all excited to use our knowledge about Glasgow art to explore the exhibits.

February 25, 2024
by Miss Kennedy
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Learning Showcase

Learning Showcase

Room 14 welcomed around 50 adults to our classroom for our Learning Showcase about Scotland and Japan. We began the showcase by welcoming our families and decided to share some of the things we performed at our Scottish Assembly. We volunteered to lead the assembly for Primary 3s and 4s. We began by singing The Jeely Piece Song and then recited the poem, ‘The Ballad of Janitor Mackay’. It was great having some of our parent/carers join in with the song and comment positively about the memories it brought back for them. The poem got a few laughs from all and the pupils did a wonderful job reciting it in sync.

We then had time to split into our 6 topic groups and show all of the learning we recorded in our Floor Books about Japan. We had a checklist to work through which included looking at class and corridor displays and a few special challenges. Miss Gray kindly provided us with an experiment involving spaghetti and marshmallows and we also created posters. This was a great afternoon and we’d like to thank everyone for coming along. We especially enjoyed building volcanoes and carrying out science experiments inside them. We are already looking forward to inviting you into our classroom again.

February 25, 2024
by Mr Dalling
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Room 13 Week Ending 25.02.24

Hello,

For Numeracy last week, we have moved onto telling the time on an analogue clock. We have been reading o’clock, half and quarter to/past times and then we had a go at making given times on mini clocks or by drawing the clock hands on our smart pals.

 

For Writing, we wrote our invitations for P3’s showcase on Thursday. We wrote why we want our adults to come and gave at least two reasons. We would be delighted to see you if you can make it. I’ve already told the children that my parents are farmers and could never make any school event like this. Any child whose adults can’t make it can partner with up for the below activities.

At the showcase we will perform a short drama about the Waverley which include a couple of songs and some pirate jokes. After that, there will be some optional tasks for children and adults to complete together. These include:

  1. Reading – read the book we’re currently working on and design a new front cover.
  2. STEM – building challenges with LEGO, magnets or art straws.
  3. Maths – make the time on mini clocks partner work.
  4. Art/Writing – look at the picture. Either draw the next scene or write a paragraph about what might happen next. This will probably be Harry Potter based as that is our current Class Novel.
  5. Technology – create an algorithm (set of instructions) for a partner to draw a crazy character.
  6. Jotters – look at any work our class are proud of from our jotters.

 

Our school trip is this Friday to the Glasgow Science Centre with Room 11. It will be a packed lunch on the day and we’ll send out further details later on this week. With any luck we might see the Waverley if it is docked there on the day.

Have a great week. All the best.

Mr Dalling.

February 23, 2024
by Miss O'Brien
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Chocolate Mania in Room 7

Room 7 had a fabulous and chocolatey week. On Monday, we created a shopping list of ingredients to design our own chocolate bar. On Wednesday afternoon, we made our creations using ingredients of our choice then poured our chocolate into silicon moulds until it solidified into new bars.  We also chose a name for our chocolate bar and designed a wrapper for it. Take a look at our photos, below.

I liked designing my wrapper. – HM

I liked colouring my chocolate wrapper. I used red, white and blue because my chocolate bar is called ‘French’ and I wanted to use the French colours.  – CP

I liked making the chocolate. – FF/JMcG

I liked making the chocolate because everyone was very talented. – AH

On Thursday we used adjectives to help describe our chocolate bar. We wrote sentences to help persuade people to choose our design. We also got to take our bars home.

This week we have finished learning about time by changing analogue times to digital. It has been fun working with the clocks, learning to tell the time.

I’ve enjoyed learning to tell the time in analogue and digital.  – AD

I’ve enjoyed learning about o’clock and half past.  – ED

I liked learning about quarter past and quarter to. – CT

Well done to this week’s mystery reader! We loved seeing the book, ‘Sea Creatures’ that you made on your own. 🙂

February 23, 2024
by Mrs Stewart
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Healthy Lifestyles

This week we have started to think about how to keep ourselves healthy, both physically and mentally. We discussed the importance of diet, water, exercise and sleep as part of a healthy lifestyle. Part of the conversion also included screen time on both games consoles and phones and how balancing this with activity was important.

We have also started to look at the water cycle as part of our topic and science. We have stated making a water cycle wheel to help us understand the process.

February 23, 2024
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 1

Good afternoon,

As part of our Under the Sea focus we have been learning about the Blue Whale.

CO- “It is bigger than a plane”.

LW- “Their heart is the size of a car”.

KM – “They have bristles not teeth”.

CS – “Bristles stop the tiny fish coming out of their mouths”.

EL- “Blue Whale is the biggest animal in the world”

Please have a look at our art work.

Have a great weekend!

Thank you

Mrs Ventre

February 23, 2024
by Miss Higgins
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Room 27

Thank you to Aaron, Lucas and Luke for writing our Blog post this week.

 

On Thursday some P7 boys came over and showed us a coding robot called Indi.  

AC

Harley’s mum came in to tell us about her job as an engineer.

She builds warships.

Mrs Logan came in on Tuesday for art and we got to make our own Scotland flags with the saltire. JR

This week we had the pleasure of moving seats. MD

Miss Smith came in to do French and physical education with us. CW

Today we had a sharing assembly. Aaron and Hollie shared presentations and Murray and Inaaya shared stories. LJ

We also had packs home for Eat Them To Defeat Them. It encourages people to eat more vegetables. LF 

 

Have a lovely weekend.

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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