Meldrum Primary School Blog

Another fun and fabulous week in Primary 2! 

Great Green: “What went well…”

-The class have enjoyed French a lot this week, we have been counting to 20 and practising the days of the week! We also learned how to say “Good Morning!” in Vietnamese from Lam in our class.

-We have been learning short vowels with “ck” this week. Some of the words we could write were black, neck, stick, socks, duck and rocket!

Think Pink: “Even better if…”

-Listen and do activities with 3, 4 and 5 rules to follow. This helps us zone in and focus on our listening skills and being able complete specific instructions. We have been doing some dictation to help with this too, we have to listen and hold information before writing it down.

-We have been learning to measure volume this week. We also spent some time with Mrs Orpin and we looked at the different scales and equipment we might use when measuring volume. We also discussed many jobs which use measuring. We are going to continue working on this using the correct mathematical language (millilitres and litres).

Lead Learners:

Our lead learners are Rosie and Alaya. They are consistently hard working and persevere with any task they find tricky. They will be fantastic helpers next week!

We have had a very secretive week in Primary 1 rehearsing our assembly. We don’t want anyone to know what it is about and we are very excited to perform it next week.

You will be surprised to see how big we are getting …

Also, we changed our classroom and added in a new Library with a seating area. We have special tags and there are 3 children allowed in the new library at a time. We love spending time in there with our friends.

Primary 1 important days

Monday – Outdoor Learning

Wednesday – PE

Thursday – PE

Great Green: “What went well…”

-In Writing, we used our Mighty Writer board to write a story about a Mermaid. We know that a story has a beginning, a middle and an ending. Our middle had a problem. Why not ask us what happened to the Mermaid? You could also ask us how the problem was resolved.

-In circle time, we have been doing good listening so thanks to our Lead Learners for showing us what to do!

Think Pink: “Even better if…”

-In Assembly, we need to look at the audience and speak louder.

Lead Learners:

This weeks lead learners did a great job helping us to learn listening skills, well done Harris and Alice.

Next weeks lead learners are Thomas and Amelie for showing responsibility in Assembly practice. They have shown confidence in their performance and are speaking loudly and clearly.

We are very excited with our new laptop and iPad cabinet, and we are carefully putting the laptops back in the correct spot in the cabinet to guarantee they are charged when we need them next. We have tech experts to support this in the class.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– Primary 5 have been practising the power of persuasion. They have been using strong persuasive vocabulary. So… look out! You may end up being persuaded to do something you were not planning to do!!!!
-We finished our ‘Victorian Inventors’ posters. The class used lots of skills including research, creativity and teamwork. Be sure to look at them when you come to Parent’s Night next week.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– use the handwriting skills we have been practising in all our tasks (joined writing).
– counting coins to find totals and working out change from £5 and £10.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Eilish and Lawclyn
This week our Lead Learners are Neve and Lucy.
Their tasks will be to
– looking after our supply of coloured pencils and other equipment we use daily in the class to support our learning.
– monitoring pupil’s equipment bags and the changing of shoes appropriate for class activities.

What a wonderful and special time celebrating World Book Day today. We had so many fantastic adjectives represented. Thank you so much to all of the parents and children for taking part in this school event.

Great Green: “What went well…”

-We have been using Mighty Writer to support our writing this term, where the children create a class story to retell in their jotters. We have been focusing on using adjectives to describe people, places and things (nouns).

-We enjoyed having Keith from RHET Lothian, showing us how to correctly plant and look after potatoes and other vegetables. We had lots of interesting discussion about what we can grow and eat.

-We have also been revising our number bonds to 10 and 20 during number talks this week, which the children have enjoyed playing games in pairs and with random partners. We are focusing on friendly numbers and making / using 10 to get our answer.

Think Pink: “Even better if…”

-We loved learning some French body parts this week, singing Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in French. Primary 2 would like to learn more songs in French!

-We have been working hard to correctly form all our letters, especially focusing on “b” and “d” / “p” and “q” / “i” and “j”. Our focus in literacy has been short vowels, remembering that there is a vowel in every word. Next week we will be looking at “ck”.

Lead Learners:

Our lead learners this week are Harrison and Ellie. They have been kind by helping and caring for others and shown perseverance by always trying their best and never giving up.