Meldrum Primary School Blog

This week, we have enjoyed having the pitch open over breaks and lunchtimes as the weather has been better and the ground has dried up.  Long may that continue!  A huge congratulations to the pupils who represented us at DCHS netball last night.  We are delighted to share that they emerged as winners of the competition and demonstrated fantastic sporting skills and teamwork.  Well done to everyone who has taken part across the school year in the matches, everyone has contributed to our overall success.  Our P2 pupils have started to practise for their class assembly which takes place on Friday 1st May and rehearsals are progressing well!

Our Parent Council met on Wednesday evening and plans are advancing for the upcoming Spring Fayre on Saturday 30th May (save the date!)  Further details and requests for donations will be shared with you in due course.

P7 enjoyed a trip to the Risk Factory in Edinburgh on Thursday where everyone participated in a range of scenarios designed to develop understanding and awareness of safety.  The children were full of chat about some of the activities they had taken part in and really enjoyed the experience!

A focus group of pupils from across P5, P6 and P7 took part in an online session yesterday to share their views on West Lothian Council’s current consultation around the use of mobile phones in schools.  The children who took part were mature and spoke well about their views on this topic and these were shared with the staff running the session.  You will have been sent a survey to complete via email so please take some time to share your own views on this.

Next week sees our P7 residential to Dalguise.  Mrs Lang, Mrs Brown and Miss Jones are going with the children which means some changes to who is working with P1 – P6 next week.  Details are below.  Please note that due to class cover required, PE days might be different next week but please don’t worry too much as children will be able to participate regardless.

Next Week

Monday – P7 residential to Dalguise.  Mrs Harris in P6 today.  Miss Ross in P1 today.  Mrs Egan in P4 today (Mrs Scobie not in school today)

Tuesday – P7 residential to Dalguise.  Mrs Egan in P6 today.  Miss Ross in P1 today.

Wednesday – P7 residential to Dalguise, returning at approximately 3pm.  Miss Ross in P1 today.

Thursday – Mrs Egan out of school at HT meeting.

Friday – P2 class assembly for parents/carers @9.30am.  Term 3 house winners reward session today.

Our planting in Primary 5 has really taken off AND we have definitely got green fingers!!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

 We planted garden peas, beans and nasturtiums this week. The peas are already popping their little heads out of the soil.
 We have been looking at food groups and food sources. We are a class who like their food and are very knowledgeable :0)

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We are going to plan a menu and a healthy lunchbox using the knowledge we have and are learning in class.
 Look at plants that are not thriving and decide what they need to help them improve.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – William and Arlo

This week our Lead Learners are Darcey and Stirling
Their tasks will be to
 collecting data on the snacks we eat in our class and in other classes around the school.

On Wednesday we started our English Transition. We are studying The Ghost Boys by Jewel Parker Rhodes. We have enjoyed the first chapter and are excited to find out what happens next.

Yesterday P7 went to The Risk Factory where we experienced different scenarios that encouraged us to think about how to react in different emergency situations. Hopefully now we will be able to risk assess our own lives.

Yesterday evening eight of the P7s competed in the final of the Netball League. We are delighted to announce that Meldrum came first overall. Well done to everyone who played a part in this.

We are so excited…On Monday we are heading to Dalguise for two nights and are looking forward to the activities, the food and staying away with our friends.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• English Transition

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• addition and subtraction of fractions

This week our Lead Learners are Hamdan and Lavanya for showing respect during team/group work. Well done!

Next week we will be looking for Perseverance and Resilience.

Primary 4 have had another busy week and are happy to see the sunshine today!

Great Green (things that are going well)

We started our new topic this week by looking at the different features in an atlas.

We are making great use of IT to check in each morning and practise our skills in Literacy and Numeracy.

Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We are continuing to practise recall of times tables.

We introduced speech marks and hope to use them in our writing.

This week’s Lead Learners are Merrin and Daisy who have displayed the school values. Well done!

We have had an exciting week in Primary 1 and we went on a school trip to the farm. We got to see newborn goat kids, they were only one hour old. We also had lots of fun on the trampoline and the playpark. We got to ride the zipwire which was fun even though Miss Jones was very tired for pushing us all back up!

We demonstrated school values at the farm and Miss Jones was a proud teacher.

Great Green: “What went well…”

-On our class trip to the farm we used our listening skills. We followed the school values and listened to instructions from the adults.

-We learned how to add numbers using a number line.

Think Pink: “Even better if…”

-Next week, we are excited to learn new skills in subtraction.

Lead Learners:

Next weeks lead learners are Cody and Tanishq for showing perseverance on our school trip.