Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

November 14, 2025
by Miss Mulreany
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Autumn Art

A little while ago, we discussed a very, big question in Room 2 – “What Makes the World Wonderful?”. We had fantastic answers such as fireworks, God, Rainbows, Schools, People and Nice Autumn Leaves.

We have spoken and read books all about the changes that we see in Autumn so we decided to create lovely Autumn art. We used different materials such as our fingers, cotton wool, sponges and cotton buds to create the illusion of Autumn leaves. We can’t wait to display our pictures on our ‘Being Me’ squares in class.

Next week, we will be celebrating Book Week Scotland. We would like to invite our parents/families into our class on Monday 17th November at 2pm to enjoy some reading time with us. We are also being gifted fabulous Bookbug bags filled with lots of great goodies! We can’t wait to see you then.

November 14, 2025
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone,

“Playing would you rather with Miss O’Brien” RD

“Learning to complete chimney sums when adding” CT

“Learning how to spike in volleyball” LE

“Beginning to learn our songs for the Christmas concert” GO

“Learning all about balancing with Miss O’Brien” HR

“Drawing Greek Gods” SG

“As part of our play we created a very cool creation of a skate park. We used white boards, rubbers and pens.” (LE)

“I made a scooter using blu tack and connecting sticks for the skatepark” MG

 

Have a lovely weekend

Thank you

Mrs Ventre and Room 14

November 7, 2025
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 7.11.25

This week in Room 1 we:

– have been learning to add numbers together and write out addition calculations ➕

– wrote about watching the fireworks using our senses to help us describe the fireworks

– continued working on our big question “What Makes the World Wonderful?”. The children wanted to know: “What makes a rainbow?” and “Why are flowers colourful?” We carried out experiments to learn about the colours in the rainbow and investigate flowers 🔬

We are continuing to rehearse for our Nativity. We will be sending home lines in homework packs on Wednesday.

Have a lovely long weekend, see you all on Tuesday ☺️

November 7, 2025
by Mr Mackay
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Room 13

Hi everyone,

 

This week we:

 

  • Investigated forces and magnetism, and idenitfied magnetic and non magnetic materials, and how magnetic poles work
  • Completed reading the first chapter of our new skinny novel and created questions for partners
  • Learned how to apply partitioning skills when adding 2 digit and 2 digit numbers, and explained how to count up in chunks
  • Showed Miss Muir how to play Quidditch in P.E! (too bad Mr Mackay forgot the rules!)
  • Worked well together in child led play, where we focussed on team work skills and being respectful to each other

 

November 7, 2025
by Miss Mulreany
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Room 2

Hello,

Here is a little update from Room 2:

SC – We have been making chalk pictures doing fireworks because it was firework night.

MM – We have been learning about the letters ‘r’ and ‘m’. 

IC – We have been counting in 2s and also doing our maths jotters.

LM – We have been doing our Number Talks.

KH – Our common words are – as, am.

IJ – We went to assembly, we were singing songs, showing our trophies.

LA – We went to the library and were reading books.

NN – We are getting new songs at assembly and we are liking them. Some books in the library have our common words. 

MM – We were making firework pictures with Miss Macfarlane. We used cups and we painted fireworks.

Reminders

  • Please return homework folders every Tuesday so that the new sheet and common words can be sent home.
  • We will be celebrating Book Week Scotland 2025, week beginning, 17th November.
  • Monday 10th November – In-service day, we will see the pupils on Tuesday 11th.

Have a super weekend everyone! 🙂

November 7, 2025
by Mr Allen
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Room 6 – Firework Pictures

Another super week in Room 6. This week we were learning a lot about firework safety. For our writing we wrote a list of instructions that will help people to use sparklers correctly. This really helped us for Bonfire Night.

Our class love doing art so we managed to make Firework pictures this week as well. First we had to draw buildings with white chalk and then we used yellow chalk to show the lights through the windows. Finally we used different colours to make the fireworks. As we had black paper, we had to make sure we used bright colours with the chalk.

 

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

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