Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

August 21, 2026
by Mr Mackay
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Room 24

This week we started our first class novel, Dragon Fire, which is about a dragon living in Edinburgh, which steals things, faeries living under Arthur’s Seat, and an evil eagle named Amgarad.

We also decided our class jobs, which we’re guessing you already know Harley, Orlaith, and Lewis’ jobs (bloggers). We did quite a bit of art, drawing islands in the shape of our first initials, drew symmetrical monsters out of our names, and also drew realistic dragon eyes!

We think it’s supposed to be realistic but I’m not sure.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

 

On Monday/ Friday we had P.E. Monday was P.E with Room 20.

We did team building games like when we had to move a tarp across the pitch with all of us standing on it. 

We really had to ‘cloth’ at it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

 

Thanks for reading!

Room 24.

August 21, 2026
by Miss O'Brien
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Primary 5, Room 15

Welcome to Room 15’s blog. We’ve had a great week so let us tell you about some of it.

I’ve enjoyed exploring the new resources in the classroom. My favourite is the Play-Doh.    – Noah

I liked doing some assessments because it shows I remembered things from last year.    – Lily

I love the classroom and the class because it feels like a new journey!    -Abdurrehman

We’re still getting to know one another and trying to agree on how we want our classroom to be. – P5

Stayed tuned to find out more about our upcoming journey!

Team Fifteen, living the dream!  🙂

August 21, 2026
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone,

Room 14 have had a great start to the year please see below all the fun learning we have been doing this week:

“I enjoyed identifying the value of numbers” AR

“I liked designing our initial about ourselves” LW

” I liked learning about 3 and 4 digit numbers” EW

“I liked writing a positive note for our friends” JN

“I enjoyed learning about the different play skills” CO

“I enjoyed writing a letter to our future self” HL

“I learned what inference is” WMcC

We hope you all have a lovely weekend with your famalies.

Thank you

Room 14 and Mrs Ventre

Our week in Room 8

August 21, 2026 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

We’ve had a super first full week in Room 8! Here’s what some of the class had to say:

  • “We have been exploring lots of different tasks this week using our magnet board.” – Beth
  • “We were looking at a new book called ‘Tuesday’ but it doesn’t have any words in it! The pictures are so funny.” – Alice
  • “I’ve liked playing with everything in the dressing up basket.” – Poppy
  • “I liked doing the painting of the book Tuesday.” – Isla
  • “I liked making the big wooden castle with Cody and Alex.” – Lewis
  • “We have been doing trickier sentences.” – Cody
  • “I liked doing the ‘All About You’ pictures.” – Blake
  • “I liked playing ‘duplicate my drawing’ with the class.” – Ollie

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August 21, 2026
by Mr Allen
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Adventures in Room 6: Learning, Building, and Playing Together!

Primary 2 is officially off to a flying start! This week, we had a very exciting milestone in our classroom: we used our class play equipment for the very first time.

Here is a quick look at what we’ve been up to this week and the skills we are developing!

 

Building Social Skills

One of the most important things we learn in P2 is how to be part of a team. Sharing the equipment meant practising patience, taking turns, and negotiating.

August 21, 2026
by Miss Lockhart
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This Week in Room 27

Hello everyone,

We have had a busy first full week in Room 27 and are very much enjoying life in our pod.

“We started playing basketball and practised a chest pass.” CS

“We started reading the Iron Man by Ted Hughes.” LE

“We did a visualisation task about the Iron Man in chapter 1.” JS

“We were learning about how to split up numbers.” KS

“We went to the library on Monday to get new books.” IC

“We had play and talked about communication skills.” EC

“We played sinking ships with spelling .” HM

“We met Miss Tighe and played games in the pitches.” JS

Thank you for reading our blog. We hope you have a good weekend.

Room 27

August 21, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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Our first full week in Primary 2!

We have been so busy this week learning and playing, making new friends, working on our routines and on our rainbow tasks. We are really enjoying being Primary 2!

Pupil Voice:

Harris: I liked doing the rainbow tasks.

Lucia: I enjoyed the number task where we wrote down all the numbers we knew.

Katie: I liked singing the days of the week and the months of the year song.

Emily J: I also enjoyed singing the days of the week and months of the year song.

David: We learned the ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ sound this week.

Peyton: I enjoyed learning about Miss Livingstone and our new class mates.

Callum: We learned about our rights as children and what they mean.

Shreyan: I learned the common words: have, by, your, only.

Harry: I liked playing football with Miss Campbell.

Alice: I enjoyed P.E outside with Miss Campbell.

Ayeesha: I enjoyed learning the months of the year.

Amira: I enjoyed playing games in p.e

Our spelling this week was consolidation of Primary 1 sounds. We learned the ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ sound, some of the words were ‘shop, ship, share, shake, ship, shy, rush’ and ‘chop, chin, chair, cheek, chug’ and the common words for this week and next week are ‘have, your, only, by’. We have focused on numbers to 100 this week, counting forwards and backwards, one more and one less than 20, and identifying numbers on a number line to 20. We had our non number focus today too, this was days of the week and months of the year.

The children have enjoyed learning about their rights as a child, and creating class rules and our class charter together. They chose to focus on the right to learn, the right to play, the right to be heard, and the right to a voice.

Next week we will start our IDL topic on Planets and the Solar System, as the children are very eager to hear all about the Eclipse.

Thank you to all of you that came along last night for Meet The Teacher, it was lovely to see you all, new and familiar!

Miss Livingstone and Room 5

August 17, 2026
by Mrs Meechan
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Meet the Teacher

Our Meet the Teacher sessions take place on Thursday 20th August and you are welcome to come in to school to meet your child’s class teacher and hear about their classroom organisation at one of two sessions.  Session 1 is from 3.20pm – 4.20pm and Session 2 is from 4.20pm – 5.20pm.  If you are not able to come along on that day please don’t worry, just let us know if you have any questions and we will get back to you.

All queries should be sent to the school office email address and will then be passed onto the relevant member of staff.  The email address is;

office@newtonfarm-pri.s-lanark.sch.uk

We have had some technical issues with our messaging service that we hope are now resolved.  Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of letters that have been issued over the last week.

August 14, 2026
by Ms McIver
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Welcome to Room 1!

Hi everyone,

Welcome to Room 1’s blog! Here you will find information on what we have been getting up to in class.

All of the pupils have settled so well into Room 1 and are already beginning to feel confident with the new routines.

P.E. days will be:

Tuesday (indoor)

Friday (outdoor)

Pupils should come to school in their P.E. kits on those days.

Thank you so much for all your support in making the transition smooth for our new Primary 1s.

Have a lovely weekend and I will see you all fresh on Monday! 🥰

August 14, 2026
by Mrs Norton
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Welcome from Room 9

We have had a great couple of days getting to know each other in room 9. It has been wonderful welcoming everyone into P3, getting to know everyone and hearing about what they did over the summer.

I am looking forward to our meet the teacher event on Thursday, but a couple of admin points for next week:

  • Our PE days are Monday (inside) and Tuesday (outside).
  • Please can you check all jumpers and cardigans for names.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. I look forward to seeing you all on Monday.

Mrs Norton

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