Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

March 28, 2024
by Miss Kennedy
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Class Trip

What a fantastic day trip we had yesterday to Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery. The bus was great fun as we all had a singalong. When we arrived we admired the enormous building and then had a snack underneath the organ in the middle of the building. We then went down to the Education Suite before touring the galleries. We absolutely loved touring the galleries and seeing a mixtures of sculptures and pieces of Art. Sophie particularly like the French Art section. After lunch we enjoyed a workshop led by Anna. We thought we would be in the Education suite but we were taken to work around the gallery. It was the most wonderful experience and memories we will treasure. We got to take our Art work home to show our families everything we learned. Thank you very much to all of the staff at Kelvingrove for welcoming us and helping us evaluate and appreciate art in such a fun and engaging way!

March 28, 2024
by Mr Dalling
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Room 13’s last update of the term.

Hello all,

We’ve had a very hardworking term and are all looking forward to the Easter break.

We’ve had a revision week for Spelling and have been practising our previous phonemes from the last few months. All groups have been working on a new class novel called the Hodgeheg and have been focussing on using the page number in the question to help us find missing words and answer questions. For Writing we went back to improving sentences. We used a riddle from Mrs Calder’s book as inspiration to add adjectives, openers and added an ending to the story. I’ve attached a photo of SM’s letter to Mrs Meechan from last week.

In Numeracy we have been working on adding on hours and half an hour to work out when a film finished from a given start time. We’ve also been trying to make amounts of money using as few coins as possible.

In Science, we created a poster this week that had one of the senses spotting a possible danger and what we could do next. For example, if you hear the fire alarm you’d leave the building and call 999.

For HWB, we made posters with calming strategies that we could use in school or at home. We had a great variety of useful and sensible suggestions. For P.E. we had some children running activities this week to give them a chance to lead an activity.

Finn chose to have a football dribbling section followed by shooting.

Kaylah chose football dribbling and a football reaction time game she has played before with her team.

Haniya chose games with skipping ropes.

Peyton chose games with hula hoops.

All four children enjoyed leading their groups and having extra responsibility. This is something we’ll continue into term 4 so others can have a turn.

Enjoy the holidays,

Mr Dalling.

March 26, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Lots of Socks Day 🧦 / End of Term 🐰🥚

Last week, Room 6 were able to wear fancy or odd socks to school in celebration of ‘Lots of Socks’ day. We learned that this day focused on Down Syndrome awareness. After watching a video and having a discussion on this, we enjoyed designing our own socks to mark the day.
On Friday afternoon, we had a fantastic time completing the Easter assault course. We were so excited to participate and really enjoyed all the different parts to the course. Everyone managed to complete the full course and we hope we can do another challenge like this soon.To finish the week, we had a chat about our upcoming trip to Euromix. As part of our trip, we were asked to design a road safety poster. We came up with so many super ways to stay safe on the streets and showed these visually through our posters. Have a look at some of our competition entries below.

We have also started sharing our solo talks that we did as part of our homework this term. These solo talks were all based around our ‘Chocolate’ topic, where we were asked to design our own chocolate bar. We have really been loving sharing our creations with our peers! Here is some of our work from solo talks so far.
Wider Achievements to Share 🏆
 
Some learners in Room 6 thought it would be nice to share some wider achievements. Here are some of our recent achievements below.
Aubrey – My dog Maxie came 3rd place at Crufts.
Seerthi – I got a medal from gymnastics.
Rehan – I got a trophy at my karate club for great karate and listening.
Eilidh – I have been improving my dancing and swimming.
Dylan – I have been getting better at my football.
Pupil Voice
Here are some comments about this week’s learning:
HW – I really liked doing the obstacle course.
QJO – I 7 billion % loved climbing and doing the obstacle course. 
EL – I loved doing the obstacle course 100%. I was scared about the climbing but I did it!
OM – I loved doing the times tables. 
HG – I absolutely loved 100,000% doing the obstacle course because I loved watching Mrs Rae doing it and just loved doing it.
IW – I 1 billion % loved doing the obstacle course.
LT – I liked doing the 10x table.
HH – I liked the assault course. 
SM – I loved doing the 5x table.

Have a wonderful spring break!

Room 6 and Mrs Rae 🌻😊

March 26, 2024
by Miss Lockhart
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Learning About Time in Room 2!

This week we have been very busy learning to tell the time.

“We have used mini clocks.” S

“We have looked at analogue and digital clocks.” Z

“The big hand tells us the minutes.” E

“The little hand tells us the hours.” A

“We know it is o’clock because the big hand is pointing to the 12.”

March 22, 2024
by Miss O'Brien
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Room 7

Room 7 have been learning about compound sentences this week. Using the connectives, ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘so’, we connected simple sentences.

We have been interpreting data from different sources including pictograms, tables and bar graphs. We even drew our own bar graphs.

We had great fun at the obstacle course today. Thank you for your donations.

Information

Some families have reported issues with Mathletics. If possible, please try opening this on a different web browser.

Please return all homework folders and reading books, next week.

Next Thursday(last day of term)will be a ‘dress down’ day.

Solo talks will take place next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I’m looking forward to hearing them all!

Have a great weekend!

 

 

March 22, 2024
by L Kerr
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Room 8’s Diary!

Room 8 have had a busy few weeks and would love to tell you all about it…

A few weeks ago we had the best time on our school trip to The Rural Life Museum in East Kilbride.  We travelled there by bus which was fun because the bus driver played songs we could sing along to.  When we arrived we visited the museum and had a look at all the tractors.  Some of them were really old and rusty and some were very modern.  We had lots of fun playing in the park and got photographs on Fergie the Tractor.  Then we visited the farm and got to see piglets; they were very smelly and shy.  We travelled back to the museum on the tractor.  It was super fun but very bumpy.  (boys and girls room 8)

Although it was very cold and wet in the morning the children had the best time at the park, the farm and in the museum. They enjoyed learning about the different tractors and learning that some of the adopted bees had the same name as them.

Our IDL topic, Chocolate has been so much fun.  We have learned the process involved in making chocolate and that cocoa beans are sourced from hot countries.  With our creative minds we have designed and produced our very own chocolate. We designed a wrapper for our chocolate and made up a jingle to advertise it.  We can’t wait for you to hear them at our learning showcase in April.

In maths, we have been learning how organise and read data.  We have learned about Venn and Carroll Diagrams, tally charts, bar graphs and pictograms.

Keep an eye out for our fabulous photographs!

Mrs Kerr will be uploading them very soon

Reminders/Useful Information 

  • If you are having problems with Mathletics at home please try using a different browser.
  • Mathletics activities do NOT have to be completed all at once.  This is for your child to go on at their leisure and revise taught skills.
  • Our learning showcase will be in April and you will be notified of the dates.
  • Please ensure your child brings their reading book to school every day as they need to use it to complete comprehension tasks and read with me.

Thank you. Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Kerr & room 8!

 

March 22, 2024
by Ms Tighe
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This week …

                                     Blog post by Ruby and Holly 

 

Maths

 

In maths we have started looking at fractions. We looked at equivalent fractions; we also looked at halves,quarters, fifths and tenths. 

 

Ramadan

 

We were learning all about Ramadan and the crescent moon.

 

RME

 

In RME this week we drew a crescent moon that we displayed outside on the wall. We also learned that when the sun starts to shine that’s when fasting starts and when the sun goes down that’s when u can stop fasting for the day.

 

topic

 

Miss Gannon did this lesson and we learned about the queen of winter and how she drinks magic water to make her young again. We made post cards and talked about how we just met her.

 

Obstacle course

 

Today we had an obstacle course in the gym hall.The obstacle course had climbing involved,jumping and balancing.

 

Made by Ruby and Holly:)

 

March 22, 2024
by Miss Campbell
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The Waverley ⛴️

Hello Everyone,

This week in Room 11 we have been learning a little bit more about the Waverley.

This year marks its 50th anniversary since being saved for preservation.

We created a timeline to detail the history of the boat, as well as researching the different locations – and things to do at each – from its famous “Doon the Watter” excursion.

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

 

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