Meldrum Primary School Blog

We’ve had a very productive week here at Meldrum PS.  Classes have been busy learning across all areas of the curriculum.  P7 have continued to take part in Spanish lessons with one of the staff from the Modern Language department at DCHS.  P4, P5 and P6 have also joined online lessons in the area of modern languages, taking part in either French or Spanish activities.  P6 are researching all about Europe as they prepare to take part in the West Lothian Council Euroquiz which some of the class members will be involved in.  You can read more about class learning by reading each class’ individual blog posts for this week.

Today we had a fantastic assembly where the winners of our Scots Poetry Competition performed for the whole school and their parents/carers or a family member who were invited to join us.  Congratulations to all of our winners, runners up and to everyone who put themselves forward in the competition.  We loved hearing the different poems today and were proud of our classmates who performed so confidently.

A reminder that we will have our first Achievement Assembly next week.  All submissions to be made using the forms link sent out via email by Wednesday 4th Feb at 5pm. 

Next week

Tuesday and Wednesday – Mrs Egan out of school at an event

Thursday – Netball after school club

Friday – Mrs Scobie out of school – Mrs Brown/Mrs Egan in P4; pupil working group morning; Achievement Assembly for pupils

Have a great weekend!  Lynne Egan.

This week has been another busy week in Primary 1. We have continued our learning about Scotland and enjoyed more Scottish songs, dances and poems.

We also went outside for outdoor learning and made an obstacle course. It was very cold but fun!

Great Green: “What went well…”

-In Jolly Phonics, we have been working on the sound ‘sh’. We have been reading new words like shop, ship, brush and wash.

-In Maths, we are continuing to learn how to tell the time and this week we were even looking at digital clocks. We recognise these from alarm clocks.

Think Pink: “Even better if…”

-In Maths, we want to learn new skills in measurement.

-In topic, we would like to learn about Scottish foods and famous Scottish people.

Lead Learners:

This weeks lead learners did a great job, well done Thomas and Alice!

Our lead learners next week are Theo and Amelie for showing responsibility in and around the classroom. Myself and other members of staff have noticed the effort and dedication these children have had to ensuring the classroom and area are tidy at the end of different activities. Well done!

Primary 3 are exploring a range of older traditional fairy tales to increase their knowledge of characters, problems and of course happy endings. We have also had our Scottish assembly and I would like to again congratulate Hazel, Addison and Emily.

Great Green

For outdoor learning on Thursday we learned about orienteering and had to follow the map of the school to find the 15 flags as fast as we could. Being focussed and using communication skills were essential for success.

Think Pink

Remember to try the word in your vocabulary jotter before coming to check. As if you get it correct you earn a House Point.

This weeks lead learners are Harris and Jack. Well done!  They have shown good listening skills during story and they have asked and answered some tricky evaluative questions.

Primary 5 have been practising relaxation in class, using breathing techniques. No-one fell asleep but we were very chilled!! We also discovered that school is maybe not so bad after all when we looked at what school was like for Victoria children!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– We enjoyed a hard-working morning completing tasks around the classroom in a carousel. When we finished one task we moved quickly!! onto the next task. What a lot of learning took place. ‘This was a lot of fun, we worked really hard and sat beside different people in the class.’ William.
– Using alliteration and including adjectives and action verbs, we wrote poems about British birds. We turned our think pink into great green!!
Neve wrote ‘Three confident, croaking crows.’
Finlay wrote ‘Five dangerous, defying doves.’
Aarjav wrote ‘One ominous, observing owl.’

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– Reading each day in class and at home.
– We used our ‘rules for speech marks’ to uplevel our writing.

Lead Learners.
Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Finlay and Aarjav
This week our Lead Learners are William and Darcey.
Their task will be to
– encouraging pupils to read their library book
– support pupils with IT tasks, logging in and out of the computers and using ‘Word’ to create documents.

This week Primary 7 have been exploring positive and negatives: in Numeracy we were comparing temperatures; in HWB we were exploring positive and negative emotions and in Art we were creating images with negative and positive spaces. We have also started our personal project on an aspect of Scottish history that has made Scotland what it is today.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Demonstrating gymnastic skills with improved confidence.
• Including more imagery in our creative writing.

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Finding the speed/distance/time in various calculations

• To improve our speed when completing the daily mile.

This week our Lead Learners are Parker and Lavanya who have demonstrated responsibility in the class and around the school. Well done!

They have decided that next week the value they will be looking for is Perseverance especially when problem solving.

We have had a super week here at Meldrum with lots going on. All of the classes have been very busy preparing their Scots poems and classes have chosen their winners.  I am very much looking forward to hearing all of these poems next week and I think it’s going to be a hard job to choose an overall winner!

P5 enjoyed taking part in a handball festival at DCHS on Thursday and represented our school very well.  P4 performed their assembly for parents/carers this morning and it was a resounding success.  The children and Mrs Scobie worked very hard to pull this together and their hard work paid off today.  Well done P4!

A request that lollipops are not sent into school as snack or part of a lunch.  If a child is bumped while they have a lollipop in their mouth, there could be a choking risk so we would ask that these types of treats are kept for home.  Thank you for your co-operation with this.

Achievement Assembly – we are going to introduce a termly achievement assembly for the children to celebrate wider achievement.  You will be sent a link to a Microsoft form where you can detail any achievements that your child has recently at clubs or activities they take part in.  In line with our Scottish Curriculum for Excellence which aims to develop children to be Responsible Citizens, Effective Contributors, Confident Individuals and Successful Learners, we are also keen to have children who show these traits in their local community recognised too.  As well as submitting information about their achievement, you can also send a photograph to our school email (wlmeldrum-ps@westlothian.org.uk) and we will use these at our achievement assembly (this is for children only and will be held during normal assembly time)  Pictures should be of your child only, any group photographs will not be used.

Next Week

Tuesday – P7 taking part in online lesson with DCHS staff

Wednesday – Mrs Egan to hear Scots poetry finalists

Thursday – Netball after school club

Friday – Scots poetry assembly performances