Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

January 23, 2026
by Miss Finch
0 comments

A belated Happy New Year from Room 11

The past 3 weeks have flown past, as we have really got stuck into lots of new great learning.  We have started a mini topic on healthy living, discussing all the ways and things we can do to keep ourselves fit and healthy.  We looked at the healthy living plate and learnt about the different food groups: what they are, how they help our bodies and how much of them we should be eating daily.  We have also looked at the importance of keeping ourselves clean, washing our hands regularly and keeping germs at bay.

In Maths we are working on multiplication and our times tables.  We are also looking at data handling, interpreting information and creating different types of graphs to show information that we have collected from the class.  So far we have done pictographs and bar graphs.

Star Writer this month went to Louie who has completed some amazing work in our new Writing scheme and today, Ari received a ‘United’ certificate for taking care of our classroom so well.  Well done, boys!

Not long now until we go on our trip to Hampden so we have started learning about Scottish football and some players that might be considered good role models.

January 23, 2026
by Miss Napier
0 comments

Room 24

Hello everyone, we hope you’ve all had a great week! This week in room 24, we have had a very busy and exciting week!

Here is a run down of what we’ve gotten up to:

High School Visit: On Tuesday, we went up to Uddingston Grammar for the first time! We got little taster sessions of classes we might have there like Math, Computing, Science, Home Economics, Art and Social Subjects. Aitkenhead Primary were there at the same time too, so we got to meet some of the people we might be in classes with. We all feel more confident and prepared.

IDL: We completed our last day of the Digi Inventors Challenge and put the finishing touches to our presentations. Our teachers will submit these to the challenge judges once they have all video/audio permissions in from parents and guardians. We hope to hear before the spring break if we have any winners from the school!

Maths: We’ve been using the INDIs in groups this week and writing down the directions of the courses we made for them. We had to use the angles and directions we’ve been learning about to describe the directions. Then we peer assessed the directions from another group, by following their instructions and checking if they made sense and were accurate.

PE: We got into groups of four and each group got given a tennis ball, a hula hoop, a cone and a blindfold. We had to make a mini obstacle course using the equipment, and then guide a blindfolded person in our group through it. We had to give them directions using the angles we’d been working in maths. For example we might have said “take 5 steps forward, then turn 90° left.”

Spelling: We changed up our spelling task this week and did graffiti spelling! The pictures speak for themselves…

By Carrie and Ella

January 20, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
0 comments

Learning to Draw a Barchart in Room 5

In room 5 for the last few weeks we have been learning about data collection.

First we learned about Tally Marks, and then we learned about Bar Graphs. We learned that Bar Charts need labels and a Title. We also learned that they need an appropriate scale of numbers, and we need to label the bars.

We created a whole class ‘favourite colour’ bar chart using bean bags outside the class, it was massive! After that we have spent time really focusing on our skills using the rulers, and making sure our graph reads the same as the tally table.

Pupil Voice:

Beth: I enjoyed seeing what other people ordered for their lunch.

Xayah: I enjoyed learning about the bar graphs and creating them.

Calvin: I enjoyed collecting the data.

Isla: I enjoyed showing my finished bar chart to P1.

Alice: I enjoyed learning to draw a bar chart from a tally table

.

January 20, 2026
by Mrs Calder
0 comments

Room 7 Hockey

Primary 3 started their sessions with Uddingston Hockey Club today which they all enjoyed.  Each week a Star Player will be selected. Well done to this weeks P3 Superstar!

BS: “I was so happy when I won, I enjoyed hockey today”

January 19, 2026
by Mrs Cowie
0 comments

Manchester City Football Trip, Sunday 4th January

On Sunday 4th January some of our Primary 6 and Primary 7 children from the boys and girls football teams had the opportunity to travel to Manchester to watch Manchester City play Chelsea.

The children also visited the Trafford Centre for lunch.

It was a great day and the children were all very well behaved, we were very proud of them all.

Mrs Cowie (DHT)

January 16, 2026
by Miss Laird
0 comments

Primary 1/2 Room 4

We have had a busy and fun week in Room 4, with lots of great learning taking place!

In Numeracy this week, we have been continuing with subtraction. The children used lots of concrete materials to help them understand their learning and began using a new strategy called crossing out. Everyone worked very hard and showed great focus.

In Literacy, we have been learning how to write sentences using capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. The children are becoming more confident and are very proud of their writing.

We have also started our new Inquiry topic, What Makes Scotland Wonderful. The class has loved beginning to explore this topic and we can’t wait to share more of our learning with you all.

Please remember our PE days will be changing to Wednesday and Thursday this term. Children should come to school dressed appropriately for PE on these days.

This week the pupils have enjoyed:

HM – I liked using the Indi’s, it was funny when Indi went the wrong way.

TC – I liked using the Indi’s.

EJ – I liked the Indi’s and setting up the mats.

KH – I liked playing tig at PE.

MH – I liked learning the ‘b’ and ‘u’ sounds.

SM – I liked drawing Scotland flags.

AB – I liked going to my pupil voice group.

KJO – I liked making bird feeders at the Eco Pupil Voice group.

BR – I liked looking at the Scotland Flag.

AN – I liked writing sentences by myself.

KO – I liked finding out what the different mats did to the Indi.

FM – I liked tennis in the gym hall.

KA – I liked using the cubes to help me to taking away.

LF – I liked taking away and crossing out in my jotter.

DM – I liked tig in PE.

Thank you for reading our blog, have a lovely weekend!

Miss Laird and Room 4 😊

January 16, 2026
by Miss Napier
0 comments

Room 24

MATHS: For Maths this week we have been drawing angles and writing the names for them. We have also been working on reflex angles using circular protractors. Then we were giving each other directions around our class by using compass points and angles. We had to try to get our partner from one point in the class to another.

RME: For our RME we were learning about Humanism – a non-religious group that does not believe in a god. ‘Humanists believe that people have one life to live, and that there is no afterlife. They focus on being happy and living a good life, by making the most of their lives and helping others. In class we write down on post-its what it means to us to have a good life. Then Miss Napier shared them with the class. Lots of ideas were similar like having friends and family, a good job, food/water, hobbies etc. After discussing the post-its, we all drew these things on individual posters and these will be added to our RME display.

LITERACY/DRAMA: We were reading our class novel called Tribes, which is about 12 year olds being part of ‘gangs,’ and doing different tasks on it. We were making predictions about an initiation test that a character might have to complete, and then acting them out in groups for others to guess. We’ve been finding evidence and quotes to answer questions, and also discussing the advantages and disadvantages of joining a gang. We definitely all had more disadvantages written down!

By Marni and Olivia

January 16, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
0 comments

Room 5

A fun filled learning week in Room 5. The children couldn’t wait to share all their favourite parts about the week:

Pupil Voice:

Calvin- I enjoyed drawing bar charts.

Heidi- I liked learning about Tally Marks.

Xayah- I liked going to our pupil voice groups.

Eilidh- I enjoyed learning about Scottish Island Life and learning about our new topic. 4

Blake- I liked learning new sums in maths.

Hollie- I enjoyed learning how to draw a Bar Charts.

Kai- I liked playing with the marble run.

Austin- I liked playing with the Den Building.

Fraser- I loved to write about the imaginary door.

Beth- I enjoyed den building.

Alice- I enjoyed doing the whole class eye colour tally mark table.

Reminder that homework goes out on Monday to be returned on Friday. Reading is on bug club, numeracy will be back on Mathletics when we get the technical glitches ironed out, until then i will pop some questions in the folder.

Outdoor P.E is on a Monday, please ensure they have a warm jacket on.

Indoor P.E is on a Friday.

 

Thanks, Miss Livingstone

 

January 16, 2026
by Mrs Norton
0 comments

Room 7’s Blog

Welcome to room 7’s blog. We have had a great couple of weeks back after Christmas, and it has been lovely having all the class back together again.

This week we have been starting to look at our new Inquiry Topic – What Makes Scotland Wonderful. We can’t wait to share all our learning with your all.

Our PE days will be changing to Monday and Tuesday from next week as P3 will start coaching from Cambuslang Hockey Club (P2s will do PE with Mrs Calder at this time).

Here are some of the things we have enjoyed doing this week:

HT – I liked doing the time. I liked making our friendship chain.

KM – I liked doing the friendship chain. I liked doing the Katie Bairdie task.

CW – I liked playing with Katie and Holly.

TT – I liked learning about time. I liked playing in the home corner.

EC – I liked doing Katie Bairdie. I liked playing in the home corner.

CS – I liked doing half past and quarter past. I liked playing with the lego.

MG – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie poems. I liked building big buildings.

MM – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie poems.

CG – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie poems. I liked playing in the home corner.

KM – I liked making our own Katie Bairdies. I liked playing outside.

IS – I liked doing the Katie Bairdie.

SF – I liked playing making a Baby Cafe in the home corner with Caleb and Reese.

EB – I liked doing the friendship chains.

HB – I liked signing Katie Bairdie.

CM – I liked building.

CM – I liked making soup in the the home corner with Sam and Reese.

BE – I liked making friendship chain with Holly, Jessica, Katie and Casey.

BS – I liked playing with the lego.

CH – I liked making the friendship chain.

Have a lovely weekend everyone, and I’ll see you on Monday.

Mrs Norton

January 16, 2026
by Miss Lockhart
0 comments

This Week in Room 15

Hello everyone,

This week in Room 15 we …

“Learned about the artist Keith Haring – his art has bright colours, cartoon style and has thick outlines.” OK

“We are practising our times tables.” IS

“We did fitness stations at P.E. my favourite were the wall balls.” OW

“We started a new topic and are going to design new products.” EP

“We are enjoying our new book Spud Murphy.” CD

“We are developing our hockey skills at P.E. and coaches are coming next week.” LD

“We reviewed our Myths and Legends topic. I will miss learning about this.” LB

“We are learning about forces with Mrs Kerr.”

Thank you for reading our first blog of 2026. Have a lovely weekend.

Room 15

Report a Glow concern
Cookie policy  Privacy policy