February 23, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Our Weekly Reflection

AW – Today we learned about what times there are – o’clock and half past.

HH – We learned about analogue clocks.

JMcM – We learned new common words – Mr., fly, two and bring.

CD – We learned about this clock called digital. When it is o’clock it has 00 at the end and when it is half past it has 30 at the end.

GO – We learned a new sound – y as in fly, cry, sky, try.

AD – We learned about vegetables in Makaton at assembly. My favourite was peas and Mrs Robinson liked that one too.

ES – In the school next week, we are doing ‘Eat Them To Defeat Them’ and we will get a sticker if we try some vegetables.

RC – I enjoyed when we learned how to send emails to the teacher.

HS – We learned a new song, ‘Wiggle Dance’. It is a brain break.

February 23, 2024
by Mrs Norton
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This week in Room 4

We have had another busy week in room 4.

AR – We were playing bingo. We were learning numbers.

LH – We were learning about under the sea.

BS – We were learning about missing numbers.

YS – We were learning about under the sea.

HM – We were learning about sea turtles.

JC – We were learning about octopuses and turtles.

AM – Octopuses

HL – Un, deux, trois

Thank you for reading our blog. Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Room 4 and Mrs Norton

February 23, 2024
by Miss Campbell
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Mapping

Hello Everyone,

In Room 11 we have been working hard to develop our mapping skills. We worked in pairs using an Atlas to locate some key cities and rivers on a map of Scotland.

Next week we are looking forward to our school trip, as well as our showcase on Thursday.

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you next week, to share some of our learning!

February 22, 2024
by Miss Lockhart
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Room 2 Learn About Data!

We have been learning about data.

“Data is information that we gather for a specific reason.” M ( Miss Lockhart is jumping for joy that I remember this!)

Today I asked the learners in Room 2 about their pets at home.

“Miss Lockhart asked a question and we gathered the data.” A

We can now analyse our data, here are some of our findings.

“The most popular pets were dogs.” M

“The least popular pets were hamsters and rabbits because nobody had them.”

“6 people have no pets.” E

We can record our answers using tally marks too, have a look below at some of our examples.

: “We made 9 tally marks.” E

: “I have 6 tally marks.” S

: “I can write tally marks, 9 people have dogs.” I

: “I drew 2 tally marks.” A

: Our completed chart.

February 20, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Busy bees 🐝

Over the past week, Room 6 have been very busy with their learning and wanted to share their favourite parts, this being our topic lesson, French and Health and Wellbeing.

In French, we have been recapping all that has been learned this year so far, such as greetings, feelings, numbers to 10, days of the week and months of the year. We have been getting better and better at remembering this vocabulary and have enjoyed having our class puppet, Franc, giving us new words to learn. On Friday, the focus was on French colours. First of all, we were exposed to crayon colours which helped us to match the word to the colour. Next, we had a whole class game of splat on the board to test our memory. We really enjoyed this! After we had practised the colours, we completed an animal colouring sheet and wordsearch on ‘Les Coleurs’. Room 6 love wordsearches! We look forward to using these new French words in our daily routines.

As part of our ‘Chocolate’ topic, we have been learning about the Tunnock’s factory which we were pleased to know isn’t far from the school at all. We had a discussion about Tunnock’s products and researched the website to see what other information we could find. We were most interested in a Tunnock’s Tea Cake and a Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer as most of us have tried at least one of these before. Thank you to everyone who has brought in Tunnock’s wrappers for our display board, our collection really does look amazing! We are looking forward to continuing our topic by looking at Fairtrade next.

We have been learning about how to have a healthy lifestyle in Health and Wellbeing this term. So far we have broken down ways to stay healthy and have looked at areas such as exercise and a balanced diet. Yesterday, the focus was on the importance of sleep and we definitely learned a lot. We found out that sleep can really affect our mood, growth and concentration. We also learned that children need on average about 11 hours of sleep a night while adults need less. We then discussed the best way to prepare yourself for bed by doing things such as dimming the lights, listening to calming music and reading a book. The most interesting part was the facts about some animals and their sleeping habits, we were shocked! Did you know that bats are nocturnal and sleep for 20 hours a day? Also, dolphins sleep for 10 hours a day but only rest half their brain at a time so that one side is always awake. They can even sleep with one eye open!

Here are some comments on our learning over the last week (Room 6 have really been enjoying using percentages to show how much they liked each task!) :

NG – I liked the song in music.

AbS, RF – I 100% loved when we were practising In the Groove.

OM, RF, CM, IW – I 100% loved doing the French colours.

IR – I 88% liked doing the French colours as well.

QO – I 100% loved learning about sleep.

EL – I loved learning about sleep.

BrM – I 200% loved learning about sleep.

BlM – I liked doing the new version of In the Groove.

ND – I loved learning about the animals when they sleep.

FD – I 2000% loved the new version of In the Groove.

MM – I 1290% liked learning the French colours.

MMu – I 1 billion % loved doing the French colours.

HG – I really really really loved doing the fitness exercises for PE.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Room 6 and Mrs Rae 😊

February 20, 2024
by Mrs Meechan
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Parent Workshops

Please find details of upcoming free Let’s Connect online workshops below. These mental health workshops provided by SAMH are exclusively for parents and carers in the South Lanarkshire area. Please book your space on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/samh-lets-connect-hamilton-69443081513

Date	Course	Time
20/2/24	Listening to and Supporting My Child	6.30pm – 8pm
21/2/24	Managing My Wellbeing	10am – 11.30am
26/2/24	Managing My Wellbeing	1pm – 2.30pm
26/2/24	Understanding and Managing Stress and Anxiety	6.30pm – 8pm
28/2/24	Listening to and Supporting My Child	10am – 11.30am
29/2/24	Mental Health Awareness	1pm – 2.30pm

February 19, 2024
by Mrs Webber
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Learning Festival – 24th April 3.30-5pm

Following the results of the survey completed by many at parents’ evening last November, we have planned a Learning Festival for 24th April. We would encourage you to come along anytime between 3.30pm – 5pm to find out more about how we teach and learn at Newton Farm Primary. We will have a focus on Numeracy, Literacy and STEM as these were the areas of the curriculum which were most requested by parents/carers. We hope you’re able to join us.

Learning Festival

February 19, 2024
by Mrs Cowie
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Eat Them to Defeat Them

Eat them to defeat them parent carer info

Dear parents/carers,

This month we are taking part in eat them to defeat them. This is a campaign to support children to try new vegetables. You may have seen adverts on TV about this recently.

Every child will be sent home with a pack which contains information and a reward chart.

There will also be stickers available in the lunch hall for anyone who tries the vegetable of choice for that day.

Mrs Cowie (DHT, ASN)

February 16, 2024
by Miss O'Brien
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Learning in Room 7

I hope you all had a lovely long weekend!

Although a short school week, Room 7 have been very busy. We began learning how to tell the time using o’clock and half past.

I have been learning to tell the time using the clock and half past. -AH

I enjoyed playing the time game on the CTouch. -ED

I enjoyed learning to tell the time using clocks. – LM

We used adverts about chocolate to write descriptive sentences.

I was happy with my sentences. – PP

We searched our environment for objects made from different materials and talked about their properties.

We looked for different materials. I found water bottles made of plastic and metal. -JB

During play, we created a fast food restaurant and made some orders. We also enjoyed building with Lego and drawing.

Well done to this week’s mystery reader. We enjoyed listening to you read a story.

Take a look at some pictures of our learning, below.

February 16, 2024
by Mr Dalling
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Room 13 16.02.24

Hello all.

We’ve been busy over the last few weeks. In Numeracy, we have been multiplying 2 digit numbers by 2 and 5. We moved on to multiplying by 10 and 100 and that is what is in some of the pictures. We have just started recapping telling the time and will do more of this going forward.

In Literacy, we have been doing opinion writing. We gave our opinion on a given statement and included a reason for our opinion.

For Topic, we have started learning some facts about the Waverley. We have also started mapping places in Scotland and will map the Waverley’s west coast route next week. We are going to make a drama which we hope to perform at the P3 showcase a week on Thursday.

Have a great weekend,.

Mr Dalling.