Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

November 7, 2025
by Mrs Stewart
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Room 20 Artists

This week, in room 20 we have been learning about a famous artist called Piet Mondrian. We have made some art work using primary colours red,yellow and blue in his style.

We made some stunning sculptures out of clay and Mrs Stewart took some pictures of us and we posed for the camera. We also learned our new spelling words which are homophones and confusions. 

In maths, we were learning about decimal points and doing a text book page about them!

Our new books are called The Eleventh Orphans, The Pugs of the Frozen North and The Invisible Dog which are all very interesting. 

All of the Vice Captains and House Captains went to a very important meeting to do with school lunches and our house point system. On Wednesday we had a special  lunch because of bonfire night.

by Archie, Lola and Jaxson

 

November 7, 2025
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

Good afternoon everyone,

The children have been working hard and having lots of fun across all areas of their learning. Here are some of their favourite moments from the week:

  • CS – I liked playing with the wooden blocks. I made a bedroom.

  • KO – I liked writing the common words in sand.

  • EJ – I liked adding 1 and 2 in maths.

  • ZA – I liked working with Miss Laird to do my work in my jotter.

  • KH – I liked making poppies with Mrs Robinson and the boys and girls from Room 11.

  • MS – I liked playing at the numeracy table.

  • AR – I liked writing number sentences in my jotter.

  • HM – I liked playing with the dolls’ house.

  • CH – I liked playing tunnel tig outside at PE.

  • AB – I enjoyed doing the letter formation task in my jotter.

  • SM – I liked playing with the cars and adding in maths.

  • FM – I liked making poppies.

  • AM – I liked playing with the Lego. I made a haunted van.

  • DM – I liked playing with the cars.

  • ED – I liked making poppies with Mrs Robinson.

  • KJO – I liked using tissue paper to make poppies.

  • AN – I liked learning the ‘r’ and ‘m’ sounds and blending letters to read words.

  • MH – I liked learning nativity songs.

  • BR – I liked playing Red Light, Green Light in the gym hall.

Have a wonderful weekend,


Miss Laird and Room 4 🌟

November 7, 2025
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

What a wonderful week we’ve had in Primary 1! The children have been busy learning, exploring and celebrating through lots of fun and creative activities.


This week in literacy , we learned two new sounds — ‘m’ and ‘r’. The children have enjoyed practising how to say, read and write these sounds in different ways. We used active stations to make our learning even more exciting! From matching the picture to the correct sounds, rainbow writing and using magnetic letters, everyone worked so hard to listen carefully and use their new sounds in words.

In maths, we have been learning to write addition number sentences. The children are growing in confidence using the “+” and “=” symbols to show their thinking. We explored what happens when we add zero, one and two to a number using cubes and number lines to help us find the answers. It’s been lovely to see everyone beginning to understand how numbers grow.

On Wednesday, we got creative with some firework art to celebrate Bonfire Night. The children loved experimenting with bright colours to make their fireworks stand out.

Just a note to say if your child has expressed an interest in having a speaking part in our Nativity, their lines have now been sent home. Please take some time to practise these together to help your child learn their words confidently. We’re so excited to start rehearsing and can’t wait to share our performance with you soon!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend 😀

Miss McBride and Room 3

November 7, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon,

Room 14 have had a very productive week and have enjoyed lots of fun learning experiences. Please see below some of what the boys and girls have enjoyed about their learning:

 

“Learning different skills in volleyball” GO

“learning about Greek Gods and Goddesses” VA

“Learning how to pass a football” AS

“Creating bonfire art” HR

“Playing maths champion” JMcG

“Learning French with Miss O’Brien” PP

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Ventre and Room 14

November 7, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Room 5

Good Afternoon,

What an exciting week we have had in room 5 this week. We learned a new sound ‘oi’, and new common words ‘their, some, them, last’. We have continued to look at addition and subtraction to 20, some of us even challenged ourselves to go to 40 with our sums and that is amazing! We spoke a lot about trying things that are tricky, but really giving it a go and even if we get them wrong as long as we are using our strategies to help us get there then it something to be proud of.

We spent some time creating Firework Art and these have now been added to our Proud Wall. We learned about why we celebrate Guy Fawkes night and how to stay safe around fireworks, we even wrote instructions on staying safe with Sparklers. We worked with Room 4 and Room 11 to create a poppy display and we learned about why we wear them and what the different colours of poppies mean- Blue for the French Symbol of Remembrance, Red for the Soldiers who died in the war, Purple for the animals who died in the War and White for Peace.

Today we sorted ourselves out into our Houses for our school points system, Fire Earth Water Air and we will now be trying really hard to win house points for our groups.

Please Note:

    • Monday 10th November is an Inservice Day.

Homework has been given out today, the boys and girls wrote their own spelling words in their jotter this week. Please do not feel the need to start this before Monday, but just as we are off on Monday I wanted them to get the same amount of time. Next week we are consolidating our sounds ‘oi,aw, and ue’. Tasks have been allocated on Mathletics and Bug Club to begin Monday.

 

Thanks so much, and have a lovely weekend.

Miss Livingstone and Room 5

 

November 7, 2025
by Miss Higgins
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Room 19

Thank you to Arran, Carlisle, Grayson and Mitchell for this week’s post.

This week we were learning about Auguste Rodin, the famous artist who made sculptures. We made clay sculptures of ourselves.

In maths we have been learning about adding decimals. We also learned about money too.

In literacy we are still reading the book Wonder.

With Miss O’ Brian we were doing music and R.M.E we were learning about the Good Samaritan story.

Have a great weekend!

Room 19.

Room 24

November 6, 2025 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

Our weekly catch up

We’ve had a very Halloween-y time last week!

On Tuesday we had our Halloween disco at night which was fun! We listened to music and had a boys vs girls dance off, then we did a massive conga line!

On Wednesday we learned mo

re about the human body. This time it was about the digestive system. A funny part was when some of us had to try and eat 3 crackers in 1 minute without any water. It was so difficult because our mouths were so dry! We learned that the digestive system starts with our mouths and that we need the enzymes in saliva to help break down our food as we chew it.

On Thursday we created some Halloween gramographs with Mrs Lafferty. They were pretty cool.

On Friday morning we started learning more about fractions and completed a simplifying/equivalent fractions puzzle. When we managed to put the pieces together, we realised it was the shape of a ghost!

On Friday afternoon we had our Halloween class party. We played musical statues, musical chairs and a mummy game where we got into groups of three and had to cover one of our team members in toilet paper. The best mummy at the end won but Miss Napier didn’t make it easy… Each mummy had to take 10 steps around the class and so much of the toilet paper started falling off!

By Amelia M, Ollie and Miss Napier

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November 5, 2025
by Mrs Norton
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Gardening and Compost

This week room 7 have been helping create a new garden in the school grounds. We helped add soil to some new planters which are now behind the pitches. A massive thank you to Cambuslang Bowling Club for donating cores from their bowling green to fill our planters.

We are still in the process of moving all the soil from the bowling club and would love anyone who can help us bag and move more soil to the school.

Room 18 came to join room 7 on Tuesday and we learned all about how we can make compost from waste fruit, vegetables and plants. We now have a composter in our new school garden – and Mrs Norton brought some worms from her compost at home to give it a little head start.

We can’t wait to start seeing all our food waste create compost to grow some brilliant plants.

L – I liked collecting the sticks and leaves.

M – I like doing it with room 18 and picking up all of the grass and leaves.

R – I liked putting the dirt in the big tubs.

S – I liked spreading it out on the big planters.

C – I like room 18 coming down to help us to pick up the sticks and leaves.

C – I liked hiding the leaves in the planters.

C – I liked putting the worms in their new home.

C – I liked collecting leaves.

M – I liked picking up the sticks and leaves and grass.

K – I liked picking leaves and sticks.

B – I liked collecting sticks and leaves.

November 3, 2025
by Miss Love
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Room 27’s Blog

Our Weekly Blog

This past month we have finished the Middler and made a review on a book or film we liked. We were making lots of art like, Tim Burton inspired self-portraits and Halloween art of X-ray hand. For our writing, we were writing a piece of persuasive writing on “Why Gymnastics Should Be A Paralympics Sport,” for maths we are adding, subtracting, rounding and multiplying decimals by 10s, 100s and 1000s.On Tuesdays and RME we are learning about Freedom and Justice with Mrs Cowie and Mrs Webber. Last but not least, on Friday we had a really fun day. We did our monthly challenge, the girls won but that doesn’t mean that the boys won’t catch up. We made some Halloween art of an X-ray hand and we were doing a Halloween-themed quiz with Room 26. In the afternoon, we had a Halloween party playing games like Musical Chairs, Musical Statues and Musical Bumps.

Mia and Calum, Room 27

October 31, 2025
by Miss Livingstone
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Halloween in Room 5

We have had a fantastic week in room 5.

 

This week we have been learning our addition to 20, and different ways to do these sums in our heads. We learned that you can reverse the sum to make it easier to do, (4+11 can be changed to 11+4) and we learned how to use a 100 square to help us. We also learned a new sound ‘aw’ and have been enjoying coming up with silly sentences to help us remember our words. We have picked a big question for our science topic and are looking at ‘What is Space’ and we are learning about ‘Sustainability’ for our social studies topic.

 

Today we had a party for Halloween and enjoyed showing our costumes off to the rest of the P2’s.

I hope you all have a lovely Halloween, and I can’t wait to hear all about it on Monday!

Miss Livingstone

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