September 23, 2025
by Miss Kennedy
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P6/7’s First Experiences – Podlife

Intro

I’m Eirini and I’m new to Newton Farm Primary.

I’m Callum. I started in our school Nursery when I was 3.

We’re both going to tell you about our first month in our new class.

We all love the pod and now we call it podlife. We even made groups for maths an literacy (sapphires,emeralds and rubies-literacy. Decimal dragons,shape shifters and math magicians-Maths)

UNCRC

We all made posters for the rights of the child. We all picked an article that we thought was important to a child then all did a poster on what you article you had picked.

Our Class Charter

Our class charter is a roller coaster. We all got into groups and Miss Kennedy took a photo of us in our groups and we had to design a carriage for us to go in then Miss Kennedy built the structure of it. Now all our carriages are on it.

Spelling

In spelling we have been learning about affixes and suffixes. We have also been learning that when an when ‘f ‘ is at the end of a word and you want to put a ‘s’ on the end you put a ‘ves’ on the end like leaf – leaves.

September 19, 2025
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

Good afternoon,

The children have been working incredibly hard and showing enthusiasm in everything they’ve done. One of the highlights of the week was our food tasting session, inspired by The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The children absolutely loved exploring different fruits and foods from the story – there were lots of happy faces (and some funny ones!) as they tried new flavours and shared their thoughts.

Here are some of our favourite parts of the week:

EM – I liked playing red light, green light at PE.

EJ – I liked playing tig at PE.

KH – I liked tasting strawberries.

CH – I liked balancing a bean bag on my head at PE

MH – I liked balancing the bean bags at PE.

LF – I liked tasting salami.

ED – I liked singing songs at assembly.

AB – I liked learning the Boom Boom Cha song at assembly with Mr Allan.

ZA – I liked tasting the pickles.

KA – I liked balancing bean bags on my shoulder and foot at PE.

I am so proud of all their efforts this week – well done, everyone!

REMINDER: Thursday 25th September, 13:40 – 14:40
Rooms 1, 2, 3 & 4 Learning Showcase

Have a great weekend!

Miss Laird and Room 4

September 19, 2025
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – Primary 1 19.9.25

Hello everyone,

This week in Room 1 we have been reading the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We have been learning to order the story, check out our amazing Hungry Caterpillar with all his food that we made using outdoor materials.

During writing we described our favourite and least favourite foods after we tried some of the food from our story. We are working hard to add detail to our drawings such as facial expressions and full bodies.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been looking at counting and making the numbers 8 and 9. How amazing are our responses during Number Talks!

Through play some of us have been making our own books, making masks and opening restaurants.

We love when our P4 INDI leaders visit us on a Friday. This week’s challenge was to create a path for INDI that drove round a member of our group! We made sure we used the correct tile for turning left and right.

A busy week in Room 1! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday at our Learning Showcase 🙂

September 19, 2025
by Mrs Norton
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Room 7’s Blog

We have had another really busy week in room 7. Here is some of the things the children have enjoyed this week:

T – I liked the chrome books.

C – I liked learning rounding

L – I like learning new things

K – I like the class jobs

C – I liked that the class got moved around.

E – I liked learning French with Mrs Calder

M – I liked playing in the kitchen with my friends.

E – I liked playing with the kitchen.

I – I liked learning colours in French with Mrs Calder.

S – I liked learning that playing is actually learning.

L – I liked playing with my friends in the tent.

E – I liked learning about skills.

E – I liked finishing off the frogs.

Have a lovely weekend everyone

Mrs Norton

September 19, 2025
by Mr Mackay
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Room 13’s week

In Room 13 we have been busy this week!

“In maths we have been partitioning 10s and 100s, also adding and subtracting with them” – H.G
“On Wednesday we did drama with Mrs Kerr. We chased after the boys who were pretending to be a Capybara” – I.W
“In assembly we have been learning all about Newton Farm’s values – PROUD. This week it was Persevere and we celebrated someone in our class working hard and not giving up in their maths.” L.T

Well done to everyone on working super hard this week, see you all next week!

Mr Mackay/Miss Higgins

September 19, 2025
by Miss Lockhart
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This Week in Room 15

Hello everyone,

We have had an amazing week and we would like to share it with you.

“I guessed Mrs Calder’s riddle correctly.” CR

“We are learning to mix primary colours to create secondary colours.” QJO

“We have been learning how to use a calendar.” IS

“I am now Room 15s WOW ambassador – I was voted in by my friends.” LM

“We had our first certificates of the year – this week it was for perseverance. Well done L!”

“We received a PROUD poster.” LB

“We were learning about our rights, we worked in partners and we drew pictures that matched our rights.” FF

“Our rights pictures are now hanging on our walls.” OM

“We wrote imaginative stories in our jotters.” CR

“We played tag rugby with Room 14.”

“We have enjoyed playing buzz to help us remember our times tables.” QJO

Have a nice weekend everybody.

Thank you for reading our blog.

September 19, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone,

Please see below what the boys and girls have been learning about:

Dictated sentences using the ‘ee’ sound – PP

I enjoyed filling in a calendar when learning about time – JMcG

I enjoyed learning to score a try in rugby – VA

I enjoyed learning new basketball skills during PE – JS

Planning our story during writing – AD

Learning new French greeting – MN

Learning about optical illusions in science – ED

Have a lovely weekend

Thank you

Mrs Ventre and Room 14

September 19, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Another week in room 5

This week in Room 5 we have been learning a new sound, ‘ay’. Some of the words we have been practicing are ‘day, away, always and today’ these are also our common words. In maths we have been learning about 2D shape, the shapes we looked at oval, circle, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon and a pentagon. We learned about their corners and sides. We learned about Shields during our knights and castles topic, and created our own shields with designs about our favourite colour, animals, and our favourite things. We also learned the Military 2 Step during P.E to link into our scottish castles topic as that is one of the dances that they would do. We started our science topic of Plants and Animals, we learned about Biodiversity and went on a Biodiversity Hunt looking for different plants and insects. Miss O’Brien taught us how to say How are you Feeling in French this week too.

Pupil Voice:

AR: I enjoyed building castles during Play.

AT: I enjoyed drawing pictures of castles during Play.

ORM: I enjoyed making the 2D shapes outside with Chalk.

EM: I liked going on the Biodiversity hunt.

LB: I really liked playing.

XM: I enjoyed active spelling with the playdoh making the ay sound.

ST: I liked doing literacy and learning the ay sound.

LS: I enjoyed drawing pictures of the 2D shapes that we learned.

Thanks so much for reading. Well done to our first certificate winners for this school year. The new certificates are based on our school values PROUD. Today it was based on perseverance and those who got a certificate have been outstanding this week. 🙂

Miss Livingstone and Room 5

Our Week in Room 24

September 19, 2025 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

Science – We started learning about the Human Body this week with our new friend ‘Cal’ the skeleton. Cal is short for calcium… Get it?! We labeled all his bones using the correct words like scapula and cranium and we all found out what cartilage is. We’re calling our science topic called Blood, Bones and Bodies and we are very excited to learn more.

RME – We learned about the Golden Rule found in each of the six main world religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism and Hinduism. They all have their own version of the Golden Rule such as Islam’s ‘Wish for others what you would wish for yourself.’ This basically means be kind to each other and treat others how you would wish to be treated.

Math – This week in math, Miss Napier put up the question 4+(12÷3)²x2 on the board and we all thought ‘how on earth do we do that!?’ Then we learned about BODMAS, which is the order of operations rule. BODMAS stands for: Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. Once we knew this, it was much easier to complete the questions we had to do!

These past couple of days we have also been creating our road safety posters for South Lanarkshire’s Road Safety Calendar competition. The theme for P7 this year is safe and active journeys. We’ve come up with some great posters with catchy slogans. Fingers crossed we have a winner!

Many of us in the class prepared House Captain speeches which were filmed by Mrs Webber this week. These videos will be shown in every class and pupils will get the chance to vote for their favourite house captain candidates. We wish everyone good luck!

By Nina and Lily

September 19, 2025
by Miss White
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Welcome to Room 17’s Awesome Blog!

This week in Room 17 we have been learning about:

A drama game called splat for a warm up. After our warm up we were learning about the drama technique of ‘Hot Seating.’

We were learning about staying safe on the road and we created road safety posters, it was so fun!!!

This week in Maths we were learning about sequencing. We can order numbers smallest to largest and largest to smallest.

In Writing we were writing a story about an imaginary monster in a forest.

Thank you for reading, come back for more awesome blogs!

By Freya, Emily and Louie