Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

August 28, 2026
by Ms McIver
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Room 1 – 28.8.26

Hi everyone!

Room 1 have had a busy week! They are all settling so well into class and are absolutely smashing their new routines!

This week:

– we started our rainbow tasks that the pupil work through independently at their pace

– we learnt how to use a little robot named INDI!

– we have continued to practise writing our name

– we learnt about the numbers 0-3 and how to form them

– we did a lot of rhyming and syllable work

– we made our own Spinderella spiders from clay 🕷️

– we loved playing the bean bag game in P.E. and some mini football games just like in the story Spinderella.

Finally, check out some of our own amazing creations during play!

Have a wonderful weekend 😊

August 28, 2026
by Miss Beatts
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Room 18

Thank you for reading!

by Georgia and Anayah

In Room 18 this week we have been looking at Bar charts using skittles and Line graphs using our class data. We started our class novel “The House with chicken legs” which looks at a house that always moves around! During our Chromebook time, we researched characters in our book such as Baba yaga. We looked at what she does and who she is. In Science with Mrs Campbell, we looked at labelling classroom objects in French and started our learning on the water cycle. In writing, we looked at our 5 senses and how they can help us to describe a scene in a story. After this, we wrote all the adjectives we heard while listening to a description. We have also visited our school library.

 

Our Week in Room 8

August 28, 2026 by Miss Napier | 0 comments

We’ve had a super busy and fun week in Room 8. Here’s a snapshot of what the pupils remember doing most:

  • Starting a block of badminton during PE
  • Using playdough, scrabble tiles, sand trays and playing Hedbanz for spelling
  • Reading more of our wordless book ‘Tuesday’ – the frogs in the book are getting up to so much mischief!
  • Helping to build our ‘Reading Garden’ arch for the classroom. We’re hoping it will be finished by the end of next week and we can post a photo of it!
  • Creating our Class Charter by studying each Right we’re going to include. We should hopefully have it completed by next week too.
  • We also had our first assembly and managed to earn 4 PROUD clouds for our singing, dancing and listening!

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August 28, 2026
by Miss Laird
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Room 4

The children are continuing to settle well into Room 4 and are becoming more confident with our new classroom routines.

In Literacy, P2 have been consolidating the ‘th’ and ‘ng’ phonemes. They enjoyed working with partners to sound out and create words containing these sounds. P1 have been exploring rhyming words and syllables, enjoying fun activities to develop their listening and sound awareness.

In Numeracy, P1 have been learning about Greedy Zero and Penguin One through stories and active number formation activities, as well as practising in their jotters. P2 have been working with numbers to 50, focusing on ordering numbers, finding the number before and after, and completing missing number sequences.

Thank you for reading our blog. Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Bryden

August 28, 2026
by L Henderson
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Room 23

Room 23 have hit the ground running with our novel study “Rooftoppers” since we have returned. As part of our modelling block, we have been looking at all of the different reading strategies.

In numeracy we have been revising data handling, reading and completing bar charts, pie charts and line graphs!

August 28, 2026
by Miss McBride
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Room 3

We have had an exciting week in P1! The children have been working hard, learning new skills and having lots of fun along the way. Here’s a little look at what we have been getting up to in class. 

In Literacy, we have continued exploring rhyming words. The children have been listening carefully to words and identifying which ones rhyme. We have enjoyed coming up with our own rhyming pairs and developing our listening skills through lots of fun activities. We have also been learning about syllables. The children have been practising clapping out the syllables in different words, helping them to hear the individual parts within a word. 

In Maths, we have been focusing on the numbers 0 and 1. We have been learning about what these numbers mean, recognising their values and practising how to form them correctly.

Our topic this week has been all about minibeasts! 

We have been learning about different types of minibeasts, where they live and some fascinating facts about them. The children have been discovering that minibeasts can be found in lots of different habitats and have enjoyed talking about what they look like, where they might find them and how they live.

I have a lovely weekend!

Miss McBride and Room 3

August 28, 2026
by Mr Mackay
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Room 24 Blog

  Room 24 blog

 

On Monday we did PE and symmetry, we were doing shapes and spelling. We also read the class novel dragon fire.

 

On Tuesday we finished off tasks like NFMA, dragon art  and  more. We also did spelling.

 

On Wednesday we did bar charts and pie charts health and wellbeing and read dragon fire, and we finished our

 class charter and some French.

 

On Thursday we did ICT, in  ICT we created our own sites. we went to the library and we also did a textbook page.  We did a story where we had 2 options for writing a story: we had dragons fire or the hobbit.

 

On Friday we had an assembly then we did spelling and we did PE. We finished off creating our Top Trump Data Cards and put the information into Pie Charts and Line Graphs.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Room 24

August 28, 2026
by Mrs Ventre
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Room 14

Good afternoon everyone,

The boys and girls have been enjoying learning lots of new things.

“I enjoyed Dictation” AMcI

“I enjoyed partitioning numbers” CMcC

“I liked doing the road safety poster” LW

“I liked learning to pass the ball in basketball” LJ

“I enjoyed building a tower as part of our child led play” FH

“I liked writing a poem about my favourite day” MMcG

 

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Thank you

Room 14 and Mrs Ventre

 

August 28, 2026
by Mr Allen
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Big Milestone: Room 6’s First Adventures with Chromebooks!

There was a real buzz of excitement in the classroom this week as we got our hands on the school Chromebooks for the very first time. We were stepping away from touchscreens (like iPads and tablets) to use a physical keyboard and trackpad which was a brand-new challenge.

Getting logged onto a laptop requires a lot of patience, a bit of teamwork, and discovering just how tricky it is to find the spacebar.

Over the next few weeks

  • The Great Login Challenge: We will be learning that passwords are secret, understanding how to type them carefully, and celebrate the magic moment the home screen finally loads.

  • Taming the Trackpad: We will be shifting from tapping a screen to dragging a cursor with one finger while clicking with another will be a massive leap for our fine motor skills.

  • Finding the Keys: We will practise hunting down the letters in our names, learning that the keyboard isn’t in alphabetical order (a very confusing discovery for a P2!).

  • Digital Teamwork: We will also be leaning over to help our “learning partners” to find the enter key and logging off.

Why Start Now?

By introducing Chromebooks now, we are learning how to use technology; we are building our independence and problem-solving skills. These early sessions will lay the groundwork so that by the time we reach the upper primary years, we can confidently use these tools for research, writing, and creative projects.

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