New Monkland Primary School & Nursery
Growing together through fun, happy and meaningful learning experiences where everyone is NURTURED, MINDFUL, PASSIONATE and SUCCESSFUL (NMPS)—- We are a Gold Right’s Respecting School & Nursery and a Breast Feeding Friendly Establishment!
The class have been learning about 3D objects recently. Today the class were focusing on describing objects. Some children were building objects using Lego, another group were testing their partner and describing objects and the final group were playing “I went shopping today”.
P3/4 are getting much better at describing the properties of shapes and objects. Well done everyone 🙂
P3/4 were set a challenge to create a Scottish Landmark of their choice using materials of their choice. I am sure you will agree the class have did an excellent job!!
Well done everyone 🙂
Today some of the Fairtrade Committee met and got started on planning their assembly.
Did you know Fairtrade Fortnight begins on the 29th of February – 13th March, and this year’s theme is “Breakfast”.
We are planning some fun activities to raise awareness of this great foundation.
Keep your eye out for more photos of the great wok the boys and girls undertake.
Earth hour in school Friday 18th of March at 1pm. Lights out!
The Three Reads
We have been using props imaginatively to re-tell the story about Hungry Hettie ( Hungry Hettie: Jo Allan isbn978-0863157790)
We were developing our fine motor skills as we hung out the washing ” I’m being the granny”.
We have been very lucky this year to offer a variety of Out of Hours Learning activities right across the school. In consultation with the children, some of our more popular clubs have run for two consecutive terms. We will endeavour to continuosly increase the number of opportunities we provide.
In addition, some of our Primary Six children have taken part in a pilot scheme to become Junior Sports Leaders. They have learned how to run a mini- club at lunchtimes and then put this into practise by offering it to the Primary One and Two Children. Currently we have nine children who have successfully participated in the Junior Sports Leaders programme. These children offer activities to children on a Monday and a Friday each week. We plan to roll this initiative out further due to its success.
Some of our Out of Hours Learning clubs include:
Football (junior)
Football (senior)
Netball
Multi Sports
Homework
Eco
FairTrade
International Schools
Rota
Pupil Council
Our focus for science is animals. We have been learning about animals through Glow and using TigTag. Using the smartboard to complete the games and watch the video clips gives us lots of great facts. We have learned about domestic animals, where animals live, how animals move and will be looking at what they eat and the food chain. We even tried to move like some of the animals we were learning about!
