Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

November 8, 2023
by Miss Lockhart
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Gymnastics in Room 2

We have lots of aspiring gymnasts in Room 2. In our P.E. lessons we have been developing different aspects of our gymnastics like travelling and balancing.

“We had to balance walking across the bench, I put my arms out to help me.” E

“We stopped at the end of the bench before we jumped. We need to bend our knees.” M

“We practised a tuck jump, a star jump and a straight jump.” S

“We need to bend our knees when we land.” A

“We had to do a big finish when we jumped.” A

Have a look at some action shots below.

November 7, 2023
by L Robinson
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Busy bees!

Over the past week, Room 6 have been so busy, even with the excitement of Halloween and Fireworks night. 
 
We have been continuing to develop our knowledge of different phonemes and the sounds they make in spelling, having moved on to the ‘aw’ phoneme this week. We have also been working hard to recognise both common and tricky words in a text as well as building fluency using our weekly reading book. This week we have really enjoyed concentrating on our allocated Bug Club book and have been working in groups to develop our understanding of this. 
 
In Numeracy, we have now completed our ‘Numbers to 100’ topic but will continue to revisit these processes to support overall understanding. We were keen to move on to ‘Addition’ and have started consolidating addition to 10. We have been making use of different strategies to help us, such as counting using our fingers, cubes and number lines. 
 
We are reaching the end of our Katie Morag topic and last week’s lesson concentrated on comparing a busy city with the quiet countryside. We had a super discussion about what can be found in a city and what can be found in the countryside. We then had a chat about how a busy city on the mainland could relate to our lives while a quiet life in the countryside may be similar to Katie Morag’s environment. To support our learning, we completed a sorting activity, where we identified what facilities, transport and natural features might be found in an urban or more rural area. We are looking forward to comparing our school with a school on the Isle of Coll tomorrow. 
 
Here are some comments below made about our learning over the past week:
 
QO – I have enjoyed starting to learn about addition because it is fun.
 
ND – I enjoyed doing Katie Morag when we did a cut and stick about what you can find in a city and what you can find in the countryside. 
 
HG – I liked learning our new common words and dong speed writing and desk writing. 
 
OM – I liked learning to count to 10 in French. 
 
AS – I liked working on my reading book this week.
 
SJ – I liked learning about 3D shapes.
 
HH – I liked learning about positive and negative risks and how we can stay safe.
 
Have a lovely week!
 
Mrs Rae and Room 6 🙂

November 7, 2023
by Mrs Meechan
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Parent Council Update

A message from our Parent Council…

Our Parent Council now have an online tool which will let parents see what Parent Council events are happening, allow you to purchase tickets for discos etc and of course raffle tickets.  You will also be able to read all the meeting minutes and of course volunteer.

To access this information please use the link below to register your details.

https://www.pta-events.co.uk/newtonfarm

If you have any questions about this new tool please contact the Parent Council who will be glad to help.

Thank you

November 6, 2023
by Mrs Cowie
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Makaton Signs of the Week 6.11.23

Makaton Signs of the Week 4

November 6, 2023
by Mrs Calder
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The 2 H’s – Hieroglyphics & Harvest!

This week Room 13 have been finishing off their Egyptian Cartouches.
A cartouche is a fancy Egyptian frame in which people would draw or carve their names in hieroglyphics.
Have a look at some of our designs – can you guess who they belong to?
HINT – Egyptians did not believe in double letters and they also would spell names phonetically. For example:
Finn – Fin
Sophie – Sofe
Kaylah – Kala
   
Also, to round off the season of Harvest, Room 13 have been reflecting on their lives and sharing what they are truly thankful for. Here are some of the answers:
LH – I am thankful for my family and my bunny.
TW – I am thankful for my dog Bruno.
CB – I am thankful for my Grampa and my Mummy.
EG – I am thankful for Raf – my comfort toy.
AW – I am thankful for my little sister and gymnastics.
AA – I am thankful for all the flowers.
SMc – I am thankful for my special love heart pillow.
HC – I am thankful for my cat Ginny.
Mrs Forster

November 6, 2023
by L Henderson
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Room 26

We have had a very busy time in room 26 recently.

 

In Numeracy, we have been working on our written addition. Assuring we have the correct layout to help us what carrying over.

In reading, we have been continuing to develop our fluency when reading aloud and using the different reading strategies to improve our understanding of the text being read.

We have been working hard on our 500 word story competition entries in writing, trying very hard to engage our audience.

We created sugar skulls using oil pastels after learning about dia de los muertos. These turned out amazing 🙂

Finally, we have started our Natural Disasters topic and have been enjoying learning about how tornadoes are formed and the impact these can have to peoples lives and the environment!

November 4, 2023
by Ms McIver
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Reading Ambassadors 📚

Well done to our fantastic Reading Ambassadors who made their way round all 27 classes this week to introduce themselves and share a story. The teachers and pupils were full of praise! Reading Ambassadors, you were confident, patient and worked so hard preparing for your visits, well done!

Now time to get planning Book Week which begins week commencing 27th November! 📚

November 3, 2023
by Ms McIver
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WW2 Museum

Room 23 and 24 had an exciting day on Monday as our WW2 topic was brought to life with our own private museum!

We explored artefacts from both the Allies and Axis Powers and read from a variety of sources. Thanks to Boo and Maya for your contributions!

🪖🇬🇧

November 3, 2023
by Miss Stark
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Our Showcase

The pupils enjoyed taking part in our World War II Museum this week. Miss McIver kindly organised for a range of artefacts to be brought in and displayed for the pupils to see and peruse. They were able to see in real life some items and artefacts that were used during WWII. While each class was visiting the museum, the other pupils took part in a collaborative task, drawing and labelling the uniform of a typical WWII soldier. After learning about the kit used and comparing it to that of a WWI soldier the pupils worked in pairs to draw a diagram of a soldier. See some examples below.

 

Thank you so much to all of the friends and family of the pupils in Room 24 who came along to our Showcase this week.

The pupils absolutely loved sharing their learning with you all and showing you around our class room 🙂  

Autumn Activities

November 3, 2023 by Miss Kennedy | 0 comments

 

We have had another busy week in Room 14. We started this week by celebrating Halloween. We had some snacks and a drink in class and had fun during the Primary 4 parade before dancing to a few spooky songs in the gym hall. Your costumes were great.

We used our Halloween emotion pumpkins and the orange cog to think about the different feelings characters had in my favourite book, The Lorax. We were also inspired to write our own stories after a visit from our reading ambassadors, Jackson and Poppy.

In Maths, the Cylinders group enjoyed lessons with Miss Anderson about Shape. The Cubes have been working on their ability to add in columns.

Today we went around the school grounds collecting leaves, stones and twigs. We looked at some pieces of Art by Andy Goldsworthy, a British artist, and then had a go at creating our own Land Art. The finished pieces were excellent.

We finished today by having a PE session outside on the pitches.  We are working on our racquet skills during badminton and tennis sessions.

I hope you all have a great weekend. See you on Monday.

Miss Kennedy

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