January 25, 2026
by Miss Nimmo
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Room 8’s fun start to the year!

Hello, and a belated Happy New Year from room 8!

Since starting back, we have been super busy learning about lots of new things.

In maths we have been learning about subtraction with borrowing, when we have to ‘borrow’ from the tens column.

We have started our new IDL topic where the children have been deciding what they want to learn about based on our question ‘What makes Scotland wonderful?’. This has tied in nicely to Robert Burns day as we have gotten the chance to explore the history of his life. We also decided that we would like to learn more about Scottish football and so we are super excited for our trip to Hampden!!

In PE we have started hockey with Uddingston Hockey Club and fitness with Miss Nimmo which have both been super fun so far.

January 23, 2026
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 23.1.26

Another busy week in Room 1!

We have been continuing our investigation into cities and have been comparing them to the countryside. How fantastic is the model created completely by the children ❤️🐄🌃

On Wednesday we took part in a Taekwondo taster session. Some fantastic kicks and punches on the pads! 🥋

Have a lovely weekend everyone ☺️

January 23, 2026
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

It’s been another busy and exciting week in Primary 1! The children have been working hard and enjoying lots of new experiences across the curriculum.

In maths, we have started learning about subtraction. The children explored taking away using practical resources, games and active activities. They showed great enthusiasm and confidence when sharing their thoughts.

We also had the opportunity to take part in a Taekwondo lesson this week. The children loved learning different moves and worked together as a class to improve their skills. It was a fantastic opportunity for them to be active and try something new.

In literacy, we started reading a new book together as a class. The children have been very engaged, sounding out the different words and discussing the different characters. We also consolidated the sounds ‘b’ and ‘u’, practising how to recognise them, say them clearly and use them in words through fun activities and games.

Well done to Primary 1 for such a positive week of learning!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend

Miss McBride and Room 3

January 23, 2026
by Mrs Norton
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Room 7’s Blog

Welcome to room 7’s blog. Here are some of the things we’ve enjoyed this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Mrs Norton

M – I liked working on my fact book, and then I’m going to make it into a story.

C – I liked making new paper things.

H – I liked doing colouring with Casey and Jessica.

E – I liked learning about Loch Lomond.

K – I liked doing the sunset

S – I liked doing the conga outside.

K – I liked doing the conga outside.

I – I liked drawing the sunset.

E – I liked doing sunsets with Kiana

C – I liked doing the sunset pictures.

C – I liked learning about Loch Lomond and sunsets, and doing my fact book.

R – I liked doing the conga outside.

January 23, 2026
by Miss Mulreany
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Taekwondo with Room 2

On Tuesday, we were very lucky to take part in a Taekwondo taster session. Some of the children in Room 2 go to Taekwondo lessons and saw their instructor at the session. We did a quick warm up and then completed some fun moves using the pads. We had a super time and even left with a sticker for our efforts! 🙂

January 23, 2026
by Miss Laird
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Primary 1/2 Room 4

We’ve had a busy and fun week of learning in class!

In Literacy, Primary 1 have been learning two new sounds: ‘h’ and ‘w’, and have enjoyed spotting and practising these in words. Primary 2 have been working hard on making words using the ‘ug’ blend. We also started an exciting new writing sprint called “The Describing Bubble.” The children thought of lots of different words to describe objects and used these ideas to build more interesting sentences.

In Numeracy, we continued our work on subtraction. The children used a number line to help them count back confidently. A highlight of the week was playing bingo, which the class absolutely loved!

With Mrs Robinson, the children learned some Scottish songs and got creative by making tartan bunting, linking nicely with our learning about Scotland.

Some of the children’s highlights of the week were:

EM – I liked going to the gym hall.

AM – I liked Tae Kwon Do.

KA – I liked punching the pad at Tae Kwon Do.

AB – I liked running around the track at Tae Kwon Do.

KO – I liked learning new sounds and letters.

HM – I liked the big number song.

BR – I liked number bingo.

KH – I liked making tartan bunting.

KJO – I liked learning Scottish songs.

Well done to everyone for a great week of learning!

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Laird and Room 4

January 23, 2026
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone,

Room 14 have been very busy this week and would like to share what they have enjoyed learning about.

“I enjoyed learning all about Keith Haring” ED

“I enjoyed learning about music” HW

“I enjoyed learning the 6 and 8 times tables” HR

” I enjoyed reading our new book, The Worries” GO

“I enjoyed drawing pictures in Keith Haring style” BMcM

“I enjoyed writing a report on music” AS

“I enjoyed taking part in fitness stations” MN

“I enjoyed having a shot of the musical instruments” VA

We hope you all have a lovely weekend with your families.

Thank you

Mrs Ventre and Room 14

January 23, 2026
by Miss Finch
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A belated Happy New Year from Room 11

The past 3 weeks have flown past, as we have really got stuck into lots of new great learning. We have started a mini topic on healthy living, discussing all the ways and things we can do to keep ourselves fit and healthy. We looked at the healthy living plate and learnt about the different food groups: what they are, how they help our bodies and how much of them we should be eating daily. We have also looked at the importance of keeping ourselves clean, washing our hands regularly and keeping germs at bay.

In Maths we are working on multiplication and our times tables. We are also looking at data handling, interpreting information and creating different types of graphs to show information that we have collected from the class. So far we have done pictographs and bar graphs.

Star Writer this month went to Louie who has completed some amazing work in our new Writing scheme and today, Ari received a ‘United’ certificate for taking care of our classroom so well. Well done, boys!

Not long now until we go on our trip to Hampden so we have started learning about Scottish football and some players that might be considered good role models.

January 23, 2026
by Miss Napier
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Room 24

Hello everyone, we hope you’ve all had a great week! This week in room 24, we have had a very busy and exciting week!

Here is a run down of what we’ve gotten up to:

High School Visit: On Tuesday, we went up to Uddingston Grammar for the first time! We got little taster sessions of classes we might have there like Math, Computing, Science, Home Economics, Art and Social Subjects. Aitkenhead Primary were there at the same time too, so we got to meet some of the people we might be in classes with. We all feel more confident and prepared.

IDL: We completed our last day of the Digi Inventors Challenge and put the finishing touches to our presentations. Our teachers will submit these to the challenge judges once they have all video/audio permissions in from parents and guardians. We hope to hear before the spring break if we have any winners from the school!

Maths: We’ve been using the INDIs in groups this week and writing down the directions of the courses we made for them. We had to use the angles and directions we’ve been learning about to describe the directions. Then we peer assessed the directions from another group, by following their instructions and checking if they made sense and were accurate.

PE: We got into groups of four and each group got given a tennis ball, a hula hoop, a cone and a blindfold. We had to make a mini obstacle course using the equipment, and then guide a blindfolded person in our group through it. We had to give them directions using the angles we’d been working in maths. For example we might have said “take 5 steps forward, then turn 90° left.”

Spelling: We changed up our spelling task this week and did graffiti spelling! The pictures speak for themselves…

By Carrie and Ella

January 20, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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Learning to Draw a Barchart in Room 5

In room 5 for the last few weeks we have been learning about data collection.

First we learned about Tally Marks, and then we learned about Bar Graphs. We learned that Bar Charts need labels and a Title. We also learned that they need an appropriate scale of numbers, and we need to label the bars.

We created a whole class ‘favourite colour’ bar chart using bean bags outside the class, it was massive! After that we have spent time really focusing on our skills using the rulers, and making sure our graph reads the same as the tally table.