Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

January 26, 2024
by Mr McCourt
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Our week in Room 16 22.01.24

Another week of fun in Room 16!

In literacy we have introduced a new way of learning our phonics and tricky spelling words, spelling scrabble! We have loved using this resource to help us work out the letters and sounds in our words, we are still getting the hang of it.

In numeracy we have continued with our focus on time, exploring 10 minute time intervals and working out new times based on ‘quarter past’ and ‘quarter to’ times. We have been doing this through group games which has allowed the children to discuss their thinking with each other and support each other in any challenges they come across.

We have continued with our Japan topic by researching different regions of the country and collecting evidence in our floorbooks. We have also really challenged ourselves to draw 3D Pagoda’s for our art this week! We love how different each version is as it captures all the different Pagoda’s found around Japan. We have also introduced some Japanese into our class as attention grabbers such as “Kon’nichiwa​” and “sensei”.

For PE this week we have continued with our Hockey block through group games focused on passing and receiving.

January 26, 2024
by Mr Allen
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Scots Language & Robert Burns Room 9

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about the Scots Language and we have really enjoyed all the funny sounding words. Here are some of our favourites.

  • Mingin,
  • bowfin,
  • achin wame,
  • lugs,
  • dug,
  • sair

We got to explore different Scottish poems like “The Sair Finger”, A Dug a Dug and Katie Bairdie. For our writing we got to write our own version of Katie Bairdie which helped us to find out lots of new rhyming words. Here is an example of our work.

 

At the assembly this week we got to sing two songs in front of all the Primary 3s and 4s. Our first song was about the history of Robert Burns but we did it to the music for “Gangnam Style”, except our version was called “Dae it Rabbie Style”. The second song was about a “Greasy, Squeezy, Triple Cheesy, Bacon Roll”. Three members of the class also got to read poems on the stage.

The grown ups at home will be disappointed that they didn’t get to see our performance but we will be doing some of the assembly at the P3 Learning Showcase that will be taking place at the end of February.

January 26, 2024
by Ms Tighe
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Room 18 – Post by Ella & Sophie

Blog post 

 

Hi everyone,

 

Just a big thank you to all of the parents who took time to come and see our work. We loved seeing everyone spend time with their parents. We hope you all had fun doing the activities with your child. We all had lots of fun too.

 

Here are some things we got up to this week:

 

 

For numeracy we done: half of room 18  and 27 got put into groups and went to a different class. We done this with miss higgins and miss tighe. We done shape with miss tighe and measure with Miss higgins we really enjoyed this. We will be doing this for the next 4 fridays and then we swap.

 

For H&WB we done: Created  a fact file about who we feel safe around or a safe place.

 

For our topic we done : water colours for a water background and we sketched a water mythical creature the creatures were the kelpies,selkies,loch ness monster and the blue men of minch.

 

Have a great weekend Ella & Sophie room 18.

 

                                                

January 26, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Another Busy Week in Room 5!

This week,

L – We have been learning about Chocolate. It is our new topic.

G – We learned a new song called “Three Craws” and it starts like three craws, sat upon a waw, sat upon a waw. We sang it for the P1/2 assembly.

A – Yesterday was Burns Night and his name was Robert.

C – I got a certificate at assembly for doing good maths. I feel happy.

J – We learned a new sound – ou.

F – We looked at chocolate instructions and we stuck them in our yellow jotters for our new topic. We have chocolate books that I brought into class for the whole term. We read it once a day.

L – We have been making our safe places on paper. We had to create a safe place in our school. Mine was a treehouse with a ladder. It has snacks, a sofa, a TV and juice.

R – For a brain break we did a new thing called the wiggle dance. I like it.

R – We learned a new song called In the Groove during Music and I would like to sing it to you. “I am in the groove, I am in the groove.”

H – We learned new common words – round, found, wish and men.

Thank you for reading! 🙂

January 26, 2024
by Mrs Stewart
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Piet Mondrian Artwork

Here in Room 19 we have been making some artwork inspired by Piet Mondrian, a Dutch minimalist artist

To make a minimalist art piece like Piet Mondrian you could have primary colours and blocks of colour surrounded by thick or thin black lines. You could also use different shapes to make these blocks of colour and lines. Some of these pictures below include different shapes and shades of colours. We hope you enjoy our works of art!

 

January 25, 2024
by Miss Lockhart
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A Bonnie Burns’ Afternoon

As part of our Scotland topic learning, we had a Burns’ supper afternoon in class.

We performed some Scottish songs that we have been busy practising. We sang ‘Heids, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’ with Room 1 and ‘Donald Where’s Your Troosers’ with Room 2.

We enjoyed sharing our ceilidh dances with our friends and finished our celebrations with our favourite, Loch Lomond.

We all had a brilliant day celebrating Robert Burns.

Have a look at some action shots  below.

January 25, 2024
by Miss Lockhart
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Burns’ Celebrations in Room 2

Hello everyone,

We have had a brilliant day celebrating Burns’ night. Have a look at some of our learning and activities below.

 

January 23, 2024
by Miss White
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Super Start For Room 17

Wow what an amazing few weeks back Room 17 have had! Here are a few of our favourite parts told by the kids:

 

First Week Back in Room 17 ( 08.01.24 – 12.01.24)

We had an amazing first week back in room 17.

Maths

In Maths we have been learning about two different strategies to help us with our subtraction sums; taking away the zero and Partitioning. Why not ask us to explain it at home!

Panto 

We were very lucky for the panto to come to our school. The story was Cinderella and it was very funny!

Rocco, Carrie, Cole

 

The 17’s ( 15.01.24 – 19.01.24)

Welcome back to the class of the year Room 17.

Technology

This year we are entering an engineering competition and the winner gets their model made by Glasgow Uni! All the P5 classes are coming up with ideas.

 

A New Friend For Room 17 

We have a new pupil in our class for PE and Fun 31. We absolutely love having them! However, this week we could not go outside for PE and focused on HWB instead. In class we had to act out different emotions and emotional triggers and guess each others.

If you want to hear more come back next week!

Harris, Kansas and Noah

 

 

 

 

 

January 23, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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The Power of Yet ✨

Following the winter break, Room 6 have been having lots of great discussions about things we can already do and things we would like to achieve this year. We read the book ‘Giraffe’s Can’t Dance’ and were able to clearly explain the message of the story; you can do anything if you just believe in yourself!  We then had a chat about growth mindset and how important it is to realise that you can do anything you put your mind to. We spoke about target setting and how you can have both long term and short term targets. Room 6 had a fantastic time using this learning to design their own ‘Can/Can’t Yet’ giraffes. On the body of our giraffe, we each had to write something that we could do and something that we couldn’t do yet but would work towards. We enjoyed sharing our ideas with our peers and building our unique giraffes. Look at our super display, we are very proud of it!

Last week we also had some opportunity for creative time. During this time, we came up with some great builds using our imagination and some Lego or blocks. We enjoyed sharing our builds with the class and are hoping to continue to develop them throughout this week to make them even better!

Here are some comments from last week’s learning:

IW – I really liked when we made the giraffes.
OM, LT, HG – I really liked doing our maths today, it was really fun. 
SJ – I liked doing French with Franc.
RF – I liked doing the walk to school survey.
QJO – I liked making the healthy plates.
HH – I 100% liked doing the healthy plates. 
Have a lovely week everybody and stay safe in this weather! ⛈️
Room 6 and Mrs Rae 😊
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