Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

September 18, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

In Room 2 this week, our phonological awareness learning has been based around the theme of ‘food’.

On Monday, we read the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. At the end, we tried to remember all the foods which appeared in the book. In the afternoon, we decided to make our own caterpillars using clay. The clay was wet and very messy but we had lots of fun in the process. We are going to paint them next week to look exactly like the caterpillar from the book.

We have also been completing lots of fine motor activities to get our fingers, hands and wrists ready for writing. Some of our mark making this week was also based on the caterpillar story.

On Tuesday for our writing we decided to take inspiration from the book and write about our favourite fruit. We drew fantastic line drawings and added colour to make them more realistic. We then spoke about why those were our favourite fruits. It made us very hungry.

On Thursday 24th September we would like to invite you to our ‘Learning Showcase’. This is an opportunity for you to come into our class to see our learning environment and complete some ‘Target Tasks’ with us. This will take place from 13:40-14:40. We look forward to seeing some of you there.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 🙂

September 18, 2026
by Mr Mackay
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Room 24’s week

Hello everyone, 

This is what we have done this week.

Monday 

In PE we started something new called ultimate frisby it was really fun. We also got our new spelling words for the week which were affixes and suffixes we had to add pre to the start of our words and     ance/ence to the end.

 

Tuesday 

We did French and we had to learn how to order a table and our food so we had 5 minutes to practise and if you wanted you and your group could go up in front of everyone and perform your french.

 

Wednesday 

In maths we did place value with high numbers all the way up to millions. 

We also had to round the numbers up to the nearest hundreds,thousands,ten thousand,hundred thousands and a million. 

 

Thursday 

We continued with the rounding up high numbers. We also did ICT. We researched Edinburgh’s population then/now, and major cities in Scotland, also what people thought would happen in Y2k.

 

Friday 

In PE we did rugby but mid way through the warm up the fire bell went. 

In maths, we did place value with prices of houses, during art we did persian carpets as part of our book Dragon Fire.

 

                    By Room 24

September 18, 2026
by Mrs Stewart
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Creative Room 20

This week in Room 20 we were looking at condensation as part of the water cycle. We tried an experiment to create a cloud in a jar – some groups worked better than others. We decided that the water was not hot enough.

We have also made clay medallions. just like Henry the medallion in the novel we are reading.

September 18, 2026
by Miss O'Brien
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Room 15 P5

Hello everyone,

 

This week in Room 15 we have been learning about…

…the water cycle. We tried to make a model of one with a plastic bag and water to see if water evaporated. 

In P.E., we have been doing rounders on Tuesday and today we  started volleyball.

This week in maths we have been estimating 4 digit numbers on a scale and partitioning 5 digit numbers.

On Wednesday we have been learning with Mrs Webber in RME we have learning about religious symbols.

 Bye everyone, we hope you have a lovely weekend!

 

 

Isla and Aubrey

September 18, 2026
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

This week in P1/2, our main focus has been all about food! We loved reading the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar together.

On Tuesday, we had a fantastic food tasting session. The children got to taste some of the foods from the story: apple, pear, plum, strawberry, oranges, a pickle, Swiss cheese, salami, a cupcake and a rocket leaf.

We had a great time using our senses. The children talked about what each food smelled like, what it felt like, and used brilliant words to describe how they tasted.

We are so proud of everyone, especially the children who were very brave and tried some foods they had never eaten before! Well done, P1/2!

Some of the childrens favourite foods:

MW – ‘I liked the strawberry.’

MM – ‘I liked the cupcake,’

EF – ‘I liked the leaf.’

NP – ‘I liked the apple.’

HT – “I liked the salami.”

NN – “I liked the leaf.”

SK – “My favourite food was the strawberry.”

LP – “I liked all of the food!”

HB – “I liked the salami”

CR – “I liked the cupcake.”

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Bryden

September 18, 2026
by L Henderson
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Room 23 Weekly Blog

 

In maths we did BODMAS and rounding decimals.

 

We also got our slot in the library on Thursday. 

 

We did our narrative writing assessment.

 

On national fitness day we had Mrs Sheed for P.E. 

 

We did our spelling and nine times table test.

 

For our topic we chose French and we planned a trip to our desired city. (Not finished yet)

 

Last but not least,we have twenty proud clouds which we made a poster for, which is on the classroom door!

 

The end

 

By Joanna and Eirini

September 18, 2026
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

A very busy week in Room 3!

In Literacy, we have been continuing to practise our rhyming and syllable skills. We have been listening carefully to words, identifying words that rhyme and clapping out the syllables in different words.

We have also begun learning about alliteration. The children have been enjoying listening for words that begin with the same sound. We have had lots of fun playing with sounds and words!

In Maths, we have been consolidating our understanding of numbers to 5. We have been practising counting, recognising numbers and number formation.

We have also been exploring colour patterns, creating and continuing simple repeating patterns. Alongside this, we have started learning about 3D shapes, investigating their names and features and looking at where we can spot them in our everyday environment.

We have also been working together to create our class charter. We have been thinking about how we want our classroom to feel and how we can make sure everyone feels safe and happy.

The children have been sharing their ideas about how we should treat one another. 

I hope you have a lovely weekend

Miss McBride and Room 3

September 18, 2026
by Miss Lockhart
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This Week in Room 27

Welcome to Room 27s blog for this week

This has been a great week and here is what we have done:

“I have enjoyed doing basketball at PE.”  JS

“I have enjoyed doing our blending art with the iron man. ” CM

” We have been making space planets with oil pastels. ” BB

” I liked adding big numbers in numeracy. ” LE

“I liked playing sinking ships for math. ” CS

” I liked dancing and showing me and Kiana’s dances ” EC

” I enjoyed doing art to do with the space bat angel dragon ” HT

 

Thank you for reading our blog! Have a great weekend!

Room 27 written by JS

 

 

September 18, 2026
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon,

Room 14 have been busy working very hard developing lots of different skills. Please see below some of the fun things we have being doing in class:

“Playing basketball games at gym” JC

“I enjoy learning about the EatWell plate” LJ

” I enjoyed learning about all the different play skills that we can develop” MMcG

“I enjoyed learning how to add multiples of 10 and 100” AI

“I enjoyed learning French greetings and singing a French song”JN

“I enjoyed making stuff for Mrs Calder” WMcC

“I enjoyed our Drama lesson with Mrs Calder” CMcC

“I enjoyed learning what a noun is” CG

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Thank you

Room 14 and Mrs Ventre

 

 

September 18, 2026
by Mr Allen
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Bonjour Parents! Look What We Did in Room 6!

This week, we have been super busy learning our colours in French! It was so much fun and we can’t wait to tell you all about it.

🔎 Our Great French Colour Hunt!

Our classroom turned into a big French puzzle! Our teacher put up signs with French colour words written on them all around the room.

We had to become French detectives! We worked in pairs to find objects in our classroom and match them to the correct French sign:

  • We matched a red brick to rouge!

  • We put a blue crayon beside bleu!

  • We found a yellow book for jaune!

  • We matched a green toy to vert!

We also matched things with marron (brown), noir (black), and violet (purple)!

🗣️ What We Liked Best

We loved hunting around the room and trying to say the words in our best French voices. Some of the words sound very fancy!

We were really good at working together, helping our friends if they got stuck, and checking that our objects matched the right signs.

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