May 1, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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P2 Showcase in Room 5

Happy Friday! It was our showcase of learning yesterday, and it was lovely to see you all. Please don’t worry if you didn’t make it along, we had lots of visitors and Mrs Meechan stayed to learn with some of the children too. We also had a play area set up outside and explored the INDI robots.

Pupil Voice:

Calvin- I liked learning literacy with my Mum.

Alice- I liked going outside to the play area with all the games.

Lewis- At the showcase I enjoyed building a car with the lego with my Mum.

Fraser- I enjoyed building with the lego with my Mum.

Alex G- I enjoyed reading with my Mum and Dad in the library.

Austin- I liked playing with my Gran.

Eilidh- I enjoyed showing my mum how to use the magnetic boards.

Xayah- I made a cacao bean with my Mum at the art station.

Heidi- I enjoyed rainbow writing with my Mum and Dad.

Beth- I enjoyed reading in the library with my Mum.

Kai- I enjoyed doing the magnetic boards with my Dad.

Violet- I enjoyed doing the magnetic boards with my Brother, my Dad and my Mum.

Ollie- I liked playing with the Indi with my Mum.

Hollie- I liked doing the multiplication pegs with my Gran.

Emmeline- I enjoyed drawing with my Mum.

Isla- I enjoyed counting to 50 with Mrs Meechan and I really really enjoyed practicing for sports day in May in the morning.

Thank you again from all of us in Room 5, it was lovely.

Miss Livingstone

Reminders:

Indoor P.E- Thursday (Hopefully outside, weather permitting)

Outdoor P.E- Friday

Monday 4th– School is closed for the bank holiday.

Wednesday 6th– Parent Council Virtual Meeting on Teams

Thursday 7th – In Service Day- school is closed to pupils.

Thursday 14th – Parents Evening

Friday 15th– Sponsored Fun Run

Thursday 20th– Sports Day- P1 and P2 is in the afternoon.

Friday 21st and Monday 24th– School Closed for Bank Holiday Weekend

CPR Training

April 29, 2026 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

Recently, the Scottish Ambulance Service delivered CPR training to Rooms 23, 24, 26 & 27. This was such a valuable experience, learning a skill that can help save lives. Here’s what some of the pupils had to say, along with a selection of photos:

“We learned the correct hand position for performing CPR and that you have to push down about 5-6cm deep for it to help keep oxygen flowing around the body. You might even break some of the ribs doing it properly.” – Lily

“You should perform 100 – 120 compressions every minute for the CPR to be effective.” – Eva L

“For every minute a person isn’t getting CPR performed, their chance of survival drops by 10%” – Brody C

“Without CPR, the brain begins to deteriorate after 3 mins.” – Carrie

“It’s called a code purple when you phone 999. Ambulances aim to get to the patient in under 8 minutes.” – Holly G

“We learned that out of 70 people in a week who might have a cardiac arrest, only 4 of them will survive. If we all know how to do CPR, we can help to change that number and give people the best chance of survival.” – Aaron C

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April 26, 2026
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 24.4.26

A busy first week of the final Term in Primary 1!

– We spent time writing outside using our senses to describe the surroundings of the playground. It was amazing to see the independent writing and the excellent attempts at some really tricky words! 📝🐝🌳☀️

– We have begun learning about money and focusing on recognising coins this week. 💷

– We have stated a block of gymnastics in P.E. check out the super balancing 🤸

A reminder that book club is back this week. (Tuesday 28th April) 📖

April 24, 2026
by Miss Nimmo
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Room 8

Hello and welcome to our first blog of term 3! We have had such an exciting week this week and we can’t wait to share with you all. On Monday, we settled back in to our school routine and shared our Easter holiday news with each other. On Wednesday we found out our new science topic which will be living things, we are even going to grow our own beans and record their growth in our plant diaries! On Thursday we enjoyed the nice weather outside and started some sports day practice in PE, we also discussed our new topic ‘What will happen in the future?’
Our most exciting news to share this week has been saved until last…. in relation to our topic we have got new class pets! We are going to be looking after caterpillars and watching them turn into butterflies in our very own classroom. We will record their growth and compare how they are now to how we think that they will look in the future, after they have fully grown we will release them. Our caterpillars names are Flappy, Cutie, Robert, Coco and Cupcake.

April 24, 2026
by Mr Allen
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Room 6 Beautiful Butterflies and Super Symmetry!

Hello everyone!

We’ve had a fantastic week in Primary 2, blending our numeracy skills with some wonderful creativity. We wanted to share a quick update on our latest classroom project with you all.

Exploring Symmetry Through Art

This week, our focus has been on learning all about symmetry. To bring this maths concept to life, we were tasked with creating our very own symmetrical butterfly artwork. We learned that for a butterfly to fly properly, its wings need to be a perfect mirror image of one another!

“Symmetry means it is exactly the same on both sides, just like looking in a mirror!”

How Did We Do It?

Drawing a perfectly symmetrical shape freehand can be quite tricky, so we used a template to help us out:

The Grid Method: We placed a grid of square boxes over the butterfly picture.
Matching the Squares: We used these square boxes as a guide to carefully draw the exact same shapes and patterns on each side.
Counting: By counting how many boxes a pattern took up on one wing, we could make sure we drew it in the exact right spot on the opposite wing.

Brilliant Results!

We worked so hard on this and showed brilliant concentration. Using the square boxes really helped us grasp the concept of spatial awareness.

A quick activity for home: Next time you are out for a walk outside or in the garden, why not ask if we can spot anything else in nature that is symmetrical? Leaves, flowers, and even our own faces are great examples!

Have a lovely weekend.

April 24, 2026
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone, it has been a quick first week back and have been very lucky to have some sunny weather. The boys and girls have been very busy, please see below some of the things they have enjoyed learning about.

“I enjoyed learning about budgeting and looking at the Nandos menu to work out if I had enough money to spend.” MN

“I enjoyed focusing on travelling in different ways during PE.” HM

“I enjoyed our pointillism art” ED

“I enjoyed learning about renewable energy” JS

“I enjoyed answering comprehension questions on our book Voices in the Park” JMc

“I enjoyed using visualisation to compare the Mum and Dad from our reading book” GO

“I enjoyed asking and answering questions in French” FK

“I enjoyed practising our running for sports day” AD

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Thank you

Room 14 and Mrs Ventre

April 24, 2026
by L Henderson
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Welcome Back to Room 23

We have had a jam packed first week back after our Easter Holidays!

In literacy , we have continued with our novel study ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ and have begun a block of discursive writing. We are learning how to have a balanced debate.

In numeracy we have been learning all about calculating speed, distance and time and are absolute pros at this now!

We have been learning how to say the weather in French and were also exceptionally lucky to have a visit from some paramedics, where we learnt how to give life saving CPR. They also showed us how to use a defibrillator!

April 23, 2026
by Miss Livingstone
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Room 5

Wow! We are already in Term 3, I can’t believe it. It has been such a quick year. This week we have learned our new sound ‘ll’ and our new common words ‘well, will, wall, call’. We have been revising addition and subtraction, and really focusing on our times tables. This week we also started our new Chocolate Topic, and the children learned how chocolate is made from start to finish. Homework was sent out on Tuesday, to be returned Monday. Math tasks are on mathletics, and books on bug club. The children have had a really lovely week, and it was really fun to hear all about your holidays.

Pupil voice:

Ollie- I liked learning the ll sound.

Xayah- I liked learning about the chocolate factory and how chocolate is made.

Austin- We are learning about chocolate right now.

Calvin- I liked building with the big blocks.

Isla- I liked learning about our new chocolate topic and i liked doing the colouring.

Lewis- I liked playing Jurassic World with Ethan during child led play.

Alice- I liked learning about cocoa trees and cocoa pods and how chocolate is made.

Eilidh- I enjoyed learning about how many sums we can use to make a number.

Hollie- I enjoyed learning about chocolate.

Isla- I liked learning about diacritical marking when we are doing our spelling to help us sound words out.

Heidi- I liked writing our recount of the Spring Holiday and sharing my skating news.

Calvin- I enjoyed writing my recount of the Easter Holiday.

Alex M- I enjoyed thinking about a new ending to the book we were reading.

All children also wanted to comment that they are enjoying the new class reading book- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Reminder:

Showcase on Thursday 30th April. All parents are welcome!

Parents Evening on Thursday 14th May.

Sports Day on Wednesday 20th May.

Indoor P.E Thursday

Outdoor P.E Friday

I aim to take the class out for both sessions if weather is nice. Please remember they can pack shorts in their bag to change on warmer days.

Thanks so much,

Miss Livingstone and Room 5

April 2, 2026
by Miss Stark
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Recently in Room 13 ☺️

We have been testing out new ways to help us stay focused on tasks that take up a lot of our brain power! We have been making our own little timelines, scheduling in our own breaks throughout tasks. These could be a little movement breaks or a drink of water. We have been finding this so useful and helpful, with lots of us feeling like we are able to do our more tricky tasks with more ease now.

We went to the Uddingston Hockey Club Festival. To help us really get into our team spirit we designed our own T-shirts to wear at the festival. We had a brilliant day where we really got to show off our hockey skills. The pupils all performed brilliantly and showed amazing resilience and respect throughout!

We have been revising our knowledge of division this week and used the loose parts we have in our classroom to help us see clearly what division is. We then linked it to our knowledge of our times tables. This means we will be able to apply our skills in trickier ways!
We have been consolidating our spelling too. What better way to do this than through some games!!
For our last day of term today we had a movie day! We all got comfy and cozy and watched Harry Potter as this was one of the books we read during class time!

I hope you all enjoy your spring holidays! 💛☺️