Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

Room 24

November 6, 2025 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

Our weekly catch up

We’ve had a very Halloween-y time last week!

On Tuesday we had our Halloween disco at night which was fun! We listened to music and had a boys vs girls dance off, then we did a massive conga line!

On Wednesday we learned mo

re about the human body. This time it was about the digestive system. A funny part was when some of us had to try and eat 3 crackers in 1 minute without any water. It was so difficult because our mouths were so dry! We learned that the digestive system starts with our mouths and that we need the enzymes in saliva to help break down our food as we chew it.

On Thursday we created some Halloween gramographs with Mrs Lafferty. They were pretty cool.

On Friday morning we started learning more about fractions and completed a simplifying/equivalent fractions puzzle. When we managed to put the pieces together, we realised it was the shape of a ghost!

On Friday afternoon we had our Halloween class party. We played musical statues, musical chairs and a mummy game where we got into groups of three and had to cover one of our team members in toilet paper. The best mummy at the end won but Miss Napier didn’t make it easy… Each mummy had to take 10 steps around the class and so much of the toilet paper started falling off!

By Amelia M, Ollie and Miss Napier

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November 5, 2025
by Mrs Norton
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Gardening and Compost

This week room 7 have been helping create a new garden in the school grounds. We helped add soil to some new planters which are now behind the pitches. A massive thank you to Cambuslang Bowling Club for donating cores from their bowling green to fill our planters.

We are still in the process of moving all the soil from the bowling club and would love anyone who can help us bag and move more soil to the school.

Room 18 came to join room 7 on Tuesday and we learned all about how we can make compost from waste fruit, vegetables and plants. We now have a composter in our new school garden – and Mrs Norton brought some worms from her compost at home to give it a little head start.

We can’t wait to start seeing all our food waste create compost to grow some brilliant plants.

L – I liked collecting the sticks and leaves.

M – I like doing it with room 18 and picking up all of the grass and leaves.

R – I liked putting the dirt in the big tubs.

S – I liked spreading it out on the big planters.

C – I like room 18 coming down to help us to pick up the sticks and leaves.

C – I liked hiding the leaves in the planters.

C – I liked putting the worms in their new home.

C – I liked collecting leaves.

M – I liked picking up the sticks and leaves and grass.

K – I liked picking leaves and sticks.

B – I liked collecting sticks and leaves.

November 3, 2025
by Miss Love
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Room 27’s Blog

Our Weekly Blog

This past month we have finished the Middler and made a review on a book or film we liked. We were making lots of art like, Tim Burton inspired self-portraits and Halloween art of X-ray hand. For our writing, we were writing a piece of persuasive writing on “Why Gymnastics Should Be A Paralympics Sport,” for maths we are adding, subtracting, rounding and multiplying decimals by 10s, 100s and 1000s.On Tuesdays and RME we are learning about Freedom and Justice with Mrs Cowie and Mrs Webber. Last but not least, on Friday we had a really fun day. We did our monthly challenge, the girls won but that doesn’t mean that the boys won’t catch up. We made some Halloween art of an X-ray hand and we were doing a Halloween-themed quiz with Room 26. In the afternoon, we had a Halloween party playing games like Musical Chairs, Musical Statues and Musical Bumps.

Mia and Calum, Room 27

October 31, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Halloween in Room 5

We have had a fantastic week in room 5.

 

This week we have been learning our addition to 20, and different ways to do these sums in our heads. We learned that you can reverse the sum to make it easier to do, (4+11 can be changed to 11+4) and we learned how to use a 100 square to help us. We also learned a new sound ‘aw’ and have been enjoying coming up with silly sentences to help us remember our words. We have picked a big question for our science topic and are looking at ‘What is Space’ and we are learning about ‘Sustainability’ for our social studies topic.

 

Today we had a party for Halloween and enjoyed showing our costumes off to the rest of the P2’s.

I hope you all have a lovely Halloween, and I can’t wait to hear all about it on Monday!

Miss Livingstone

October 31, 2025
by Mr Allen
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Room 6 – Halloween

We had a fantastic day in Room 6. It was great learning about some traditions in Scotland that have been lost or forgotten about. Room 6 have now decided to say “Guising” instead of Trick or Treat. We all did well making our Halloween puppets and Mr Allen said we are all getting better at using scissors to cut things out. In the afternoon we we had a Halloween Party in the class and we also did a costume parade with Room 5. Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

 

October 31, 2025
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 31.10.25

This week in Room 1 we have been:

– revising all the sounds we have learnt so far. There are: a, t, s, i, p and n

– writing about our fabulous Halloween costumes

– learning how to perform a bounce pass in P.E.

– adding amounts together

Bonnie won a book from the Book Vending machine as she was Room 1’s October Star Writer.

We had lots of fun celebrating Halloween this week. Enjoy trick or treating! I think there will be lots of tired P1s this weekend 🤣

October 31, 2025
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

Good afternoon,

This week in Room 4, we have enjoyed a busy and fun-filled few days of learning and play! Here’s what some of the children said they liked best:

SM – I liked practising the common words in the sand and learning to add numbers.
AR – I liked building towers with the cubes and adding them together.
ZA – I liked using the Numicon to add numbers together.
CS – I liked the Numicon task at the Tuff Tray.
LF – I liked practising my name.
KH – I liked learning a French Halloween song.
CH – I liked playing games in the gym hall.
KO – I liked playing with the wooden blocks.
DM – I liked playing Duck, Duck, Goose in PE.
HM – I liked drawing a picture of myself at the school disco and writing the common words.
MS – I liked playing at the playdough station.
ED – I liked writing words in my jotter.
AM – I liked putting pins in the pumpkins.
AB – I liked playing tunnel tig on the pitch at PE.
EJ – I liked choosing time.
MH – I liked learning our sounds.
FM – I liked PE.
AN – I liked learning French colours.
BR – I liked our Halloween Party.

Glasgow Times Primary One Photograph

The group photograph of our Primary Ones will feature in the Glasgow Times on Tuesday, 4th November. Information on how to order the group photo has been sent via Parent Portal. Please note that photos will not be available to purchase on the website until Monday, 3rd November.


Have a lovely weekend, everyone. 🎃

Miss Laird and Room 4

October 31, 2025
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

What a wonderful week we’ve had in Room 3!

In maths, we’ve been learning how to write number sentences for addition, using cubes and number lines to help us understand how numbers work together. The children have been doing a fantastic job using these tools to solve problems and explain their thinking.

In literacy, we’ve been revising the six sounds we’ve learned so far in Primary 1. This has helped everyone become more confident in recognising and using these sounds in different words.

To round off the week, we enjoyed lots of Halloween fun! The class loved taking part in Halloween dances, a parade, and a party with the other Primary 1 classes. We also had great fun designing our own pumpkins, using our creativity and imagination!

Just a little reminder — please could all homework jotters and folders be placed in school bags on a Tuesday or Wednesday each week. This allows time for new homework to be glued and put into homework folders. Additionally, the parent council Christmas art must be brought back to school by the 5th of November.

Wishing you all a fantastic time celebrating Halloween and a lovely weekend! 

Miss McBride and Room 3

October 31, 2025
by Miss Finch
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Happy Halloween from Room 11!

This week for Halloween we made some paper mache halloween lanterns.

‘We made faces for the lanterns’ DW

‘We made them out of toilet roll so they would be thin enough to light up!’ RC

‘It was very hard!’ EM

‘The glue was so sticky and it was really annoying because we didn’t want the toilet paper to rip’ OC

‘I thought it was fun’  AT

‘We used a balloon and stuck toilet paper to it’ NM

‘When we popped our balloons today, we hoped that they wouldn’t collapse!’ AW

 

We have also started learning how to play tennis in  PE.  WE have started off just using the tennis balls without the rackets to work on our hand eye coordination.  The children are really enjoying the challenge!

Hope everyone has a great Halloween and don’t eat too many sweeties!

October 31, 2025
by Miss Higgins
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Room 19

Thank you to Aaron, Harrison and Lewis for this week’s post.

 

Hello and welcome to this week’s blog post.

On Thursday p6/7 boys played football friendlies .  Two of the matches were against St Charles and three against other Newton Farm teams.  Some of the games were hard.

For PE on Monday we played badminton. For badminton we learned how to serve. On Friday we play football.

For our European topic, we learned about Piet Mondrian art.  He uses primary colours of red,  yellow and blue.  We created our own art. 

In maths we have been subtracting money up to £100!

Have a lovely weekend!

Room 19.  

  

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