Meldrum Primary School Blog

We’ve had a jam packed last week of term!  Our P3 pupils started to practise for their class assembly and are enjoying songs linked to their Egyptians topic.  P1 took part in some egg hunts and had to sound out the words that they found inside the egg.  P2 were super excited during outdoor learning on Thursday as they thought that they had discovered the Easter bunny had been in the playground!

We held a meeting for parents of P7 pupils going on the residential to Dalguise in April and shared key and important safety messages.  Anyone who couldn’t attend is welcome to contact me individually to discuss any information in the packs sent home.

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Parent Council Easter bingo in the school last night.  It was a lovely, fun event which everyone enjoyed.  Thanks to the Parent Council for putting this event on and their continued efforts in fundraising for the school.

We had our Easter assembly today which was led by Nelu, our school chaplain.  We then heard about some of our wider achievements outside of school at the end of term Achievement Assembly.  At the end of the assembly, we celebrated our lovely Miss Burke who is going to be married during the Easter break.  We wish her and her husband to be lots of love, happiness and good wishes for a lovely wedding day and their future together.  We know that we are going to forget to call her by her married name for the first few weeks but look forward to welcoming her back as Mrs Nagle.

A reminder that we resume after the break on Tuesday 14th April.  I hope that everyone has a lovely time at Easter and that we are lucky to see some sunny spring weather over the holiday.  The staff team and I would like to thank parents/carers for your continued support and look forward to welcoming the children back after the break.

Week beginning 13th April

Monday – school closed – Easter break

Thursday – P1 and P2 trip to Mill Farm; Meeting for P7 parents for pupils going to Deans Community High School – Meldrum PS @4pm

Friday – P3 class assembly

This week Primary 7 had their final numeracy transition with Mr McConville. In this session we were learning about proportions.

On Monday, Miss Thompson from DCHS came to our class to answer all our questions about high school.

In Art, we had to do a painting that represented calm. For this we used light pastel colours.

The big excitement this week was finally getting all the information about Dalguise. We are really looking forward to going for two nights at the end of April.

For outdoor learning we had lots of fun creating an Easter egg hunt for our Buddies in P1. We hid easter eggs all around the playground with questions in them.  We then helped the buddies to find them and answer the questions but they did really well by themselves.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Creating Easter animations with sound on adobe express

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Using ink pens when writing best copies of our writing

This week our Lead Learners are Charlie and Alfie for always demonstrating Honesty.  Well done!

They have decided that next week they will be looking for Responsibility across learning.

(Thank you, Daisy and Sierra, for writing this Blog)

We made delicious chocolate nests this week as a treat for Miss Boyd. Ask P5 for the recipe!!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– We extended our I.T. skills when we had a visitor showing us Adobe Express. We made posters while practising these skills.
-In writing, P5 came up with excellent reasons for having an extra P.E. slot using powerful persuasive vocabulary.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– continue to practise our algorithms in Numeracy.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Amelia-Rose and Lily.

This week our Lead Learners are Finlay and Aarjav

Their tasks will be to
– continue to record the number of circuits round the playground each pupil walks during our daily mile. We can then use this data for Information Handling.

What a lovely week we have had in school.  The children have enjoyed their time outdoors in the spring weather that we’ve had this week and the chance to get their coats and jackets off during playtimes!  Long may it continue!!  It was lovely to welcome so many parents and carers into the school for parent consultations this week.  Thank you to those who took the time to complete the school ethos survey.  The link for the survey will be shared again in an email for anyone who didn’t get the chance to complete it on Wednesday or Thursday.  Today we had our P1 assembly which was fantastic.  The boys and girls of P1 did so well in performing their assembly for their family guests and the other children in the school.  They were confident, knew their lines and spoke loudly so that everyone could hear them.  Well done P1!

We are looking forward to the last week of term and I know that class teachers have some fun activities planned as well as some core learning across the week.  As a reward for hard work throughout the term, the children can have a non -uniform day on Friday 27th March.  Please note that they are not permitted to wear club sports tops or pyjamas/onesies.  The link for the next Achievement Assembly was shared with you earlier today and the deadline for responses is Wednesday 25th at 5pm.

Next Week

Monday – Miss Thomson, Head of S1 at DCHS in P7 this morning

Tuesday – Meldrum Safer Internet Day – a day of activities linked to being a responsible digital citizen; P7 residential meeting for parents/carers in the school at 6pm

Wednesday –  Soup kitchen volunteers to attend for final session

Thursday – P3 to DCHS for multisports festival; football after school club is on today; Parent Council Easter Bingo evening in the school at 6pm

Friday – Non uniform day; Easter service in school with school chaplain; Achievement assembly (for pupils only)

This week we have been looking at the ancient Egyptian number system and solving ancient Egyptian calculations. We also enjoyed drawing our sun-shadows a gesture to the Sun God – Ra.

Great Green 

We have enjoyed our introduction to persuasive writing, using tone and vocabulary to convince the reader. Primary 3 would like to do more baking, especially as it is coming up to Easter.

Think Pink

Try to remember to stay off the grass as the spring flowers are blooming and we don’t want to damage them.

This weeks Lead Learners are Addison and Emily. Well done girls!!