Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

November 8, 2024
by Mrs Rae
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Bonfire Night 🎆

On Tuesday, Room 3 spent the afternoon learning about the importance of Bonfire night, why we celebrate this day annually and how to stay safe around fireworks. We spoke about the need to keep animals indoors, wear gloves when using sparkles, never touch a firework and also stand well back from any fireworks during a display.
After our discussion, we had a look at different firework displays and discussed the different colours and reactions we saw. We spoke about other occasions we may see fireworks and why. Following our learning, we then used our new knowledge to design our own fireworks display using black card and chalk. Have a look at some of our amazing work below!
Have a lovely long weekend!
Room 3 and Mrs Rae 😊

November 8, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 2

It has been another busy week in Room 2. This week we have enjoyed:

TL – Doing a Number Talk. 

CMcC – When we learn songs for our Literacy.

EB – When we learn letters.

AY – When we learn through play.

IMcL – When it is quiet time because I am always quiet.

EMcC – When we learn common words.

PH – Playing outside with my friends.

AT – When we do our Literacy and we write in our jotters.

Newton Farm will celebrate Book Week beginning 18th November. We would like to invite our parents/carers in on this day (18th November) from 1:45pm-2:45pm to read together and celebrate this event. We look forward to welcoming you back to our class.

Just a little reminder that on Monday 11th November, pupils will be off school for an In-Service Day. We will welcome the children back to school on Tuesday 12th November.

November 8, 2024
by Miss Macfarlane
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What a Week in Room 27!

It has been a super busy week again in Room 27!

We have continued to develop our skills in addition with carrying – all the way up to four digit numbers. We have been practising our times tables every day and have been learning how to estimate and check lengths with more accuracy. We can record lengths in millimetres, centimetres and metres.

We used our research about rainforests to help us create information reports. Some of us used the Chromebooks for this piece of writing. We also started Google Slideshows that we will use to collate everything we learn in this topic.

We enjoyed a visit from Iain and Laura from the Chaplaincy Team on Thursday for the ‘Boomerang’ workshop. This taught us all about resilience and encouraged us to keep trying, even when things are tough. We loved creating our own little ‘resilience eggs’ during the workshop.

On Friday we started to learn Scottish dances in PE. We have already mastered The Canadian Barn Dance and started to learn another. It was so much fun!

We ended the week with a very special afternoon where we all took part in our ‘Pupil Voice’ Groups. These included gardening, sports, Fairtrade, Expressive Arts, Modern Languages and many more. Ask us about the group that we took part in.

Here are some of our highlights:

“I enjoyed going to my group and the games we played there.” MN

“I liked coming up with ideas for how to get the whole school reading.” AG

“I enjoyed the measure work we did today.” SM

“I liked the maths games we played to practise times tables,” JD

“I liked doing measure.” BM

“I liked the Scottish dancing in PE. We did it again at lunchtime.” KH

“I enjoyed writing our rainforest reports.” LW

“I really liked Scottish Country Dancing.” AR

Have a lovely long weekend.

Room 27, Miss Higgins and Miss Macfarlane

 

November 8, 2024
by Miss Curley
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Room 8’s Wonderful Week

We have learned lots this week!

In maths we have been learning to add 19 and 21 using friendly numbers.

We have been revising our phonemes this week. We have practiced th, ea, wa, wr, and tch. We practiced these using active strategies! We completed dictated sentences to show how well we know our sounds.

We have been text detectives- skimming and scanning our reading books for 2,3,4 and 5 letter words. We also hunted for our spelling sounds.

On Wednesday, Mrs Calder came to work with us. We learned all about Andy Goldsworthy. He is a famous sculptor and photographer. We collected materials from our playground, like leaves, rocks, grass, twigs and hay, and made our very own sculpted art.

We have been looking at one of the nurture principles- language is a vital means of communication. We have been practicing using our Makaton signs to say how we feel and have been learning the signs to ‘This is Me’.

We joined in with room 7 to do some yoga. Our favourite poses were the tree, warrior, butterfly, mountain, table and child’s pose.

This afternoon we got the chance to work with other children and teachers during our pupil voice group sessions. We had great fun making new friends and learning new things!

(Written by the children in Room 8)

 

Thank you for all of your hard work this week boys and girls! I hope you all have a lovely long weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday!

-Miss Curley 🙂

November 8, 2024
by Miss Riley
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Room 6

This week, Room 6 have been learning all about the history and importance of Remembrance Day.

We created cross curricular links between our history and art learning and created some beautiful poppy paintings!

We shared our current knowledge of why the poppy is significant to Remembrance Day and what we already knew about the world wars that took place.

Take a look at some of the poppy paintings that were created…

November 8, 2024
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 1

Good afternoon,

The boys and girls in Room 1 have enjoyed learning about:

“Learning to write our sounds” FB

“I liked singing our counting in 2s song” EMC

” I enjoyed going to assembly” JB

“Singing our alphabet song” HB

“Singing two thousand years ago”  SH (for our Nativity)

“Doing mindfulness when we come in from lunch” TT

A polite reminder school will be closed on Monday the 11th of November. Have a great long weekend.

Thank you

Mrs Ventre and Room 1

 

November 8, 2024
by Miss Riley
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Room 5

This week, Room 5 created cross-curricular links with art and history, and created some beautiful water colour poppies!

We learnt about the importance of Remembrance Day and the significance of wearing a poppy flower during this time.

Take a look at our wonderful poppy paintings…

 

 

November 7, 2024
by Miss Livingstone
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Primary 2 German Club

Guten Tag!! This week was the first week of the lunch time German Club. We learned how to say Good Morning- Guten Morgen, Good Evening- Guten Abend, My Name Is- Ich heisse, and lots of different colours to say what our favourite colour was! We even created a post card to display! It was so much fun.

See you next week Primary 2

Sehen wir nächste Woche, Primary 2!

Miss Livingstone

November 7, 2024
by D Gray
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R 18 Fun, Frolics and Fascinating Facts

The Halloween party was a great success as you can see from the photos. We had a lot of fun.
We have been learning to code in Technology and I.C.T. using a program called ‘Scratch’. We can make a short cartoon and even games. It is tricky but learning the order for coding the commands is becoming easier.
Our Reading Ambassadors Holly and Ruby are helping Miss Gray prepare for Book Week next week, (Tuesday 12th November until Friday 15th November). A letter has been sent out to parents and carers with a Thursday timeslot of 1.45-2.45pm if any visitors would like to come and read with us.
Thursday is also our learning showcase afternoon, again, the time is the same as the Book Week time, 1.45-2.45pm. If you are free you can pop in and visit our class and see the work that we have been doing in our new I.D.L topic The Victorians as well as the coding work.

Blog approved and co-written by Ruby and Holly

November 4, 2024
by Miss Mulreany
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Primary 1 PE this week! :)

Hello,

Individual, siblings and class photographs will be taken this week. Children should come to school in their school uniforms. You do not need to bring a PE kit this week. Thank you for your cooperation with this.

Miss Mulreany, Mrs Ventre and Mrs Rae

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