Meldrum Primary School Blog

It has been nice to have had a full week in school and a normal pattern of days after last week!  We’ve had a lot going on this week too!  As you know, each class shares a weekly post about their learning so be sure to have a read about what your child/children have been up to!

We were delighted to welcome our upcoming P1 pupils to the school on Wednesday for their first transition visit.  The children spent time in the P1 class and heard the story of “The Gruffalo” which everyone enjoyed.  We are looking forward to having the children back in next Thursday afternoon.

Our current P7 had a visit from one of the Science teachers at DCHS on Thursday morning where they took part in some practical science activities as part of their transition.  Everyone was really enthusiastic and enjoyed the tasks.  This morning, a team of 9 P7 pupils went to a football festival event held at Inveralmond High School.  The team took part in 5 games, securing a couple of wins which was fantastic.  The festival was non-competitive and everyone who took part was awarded a medal.  The team tried their best, worked well as a team and enjoyed the experience.  Well done everyone!

Date for your diary:  Sports Day is planned for the morning of Thursday 4th June. The event will take the form of potted sports, with children competing in their houses.  As this is an outdoor event, it will be weather dependent. It may not be possible to provide advance notice of cancellation. On the morning of the event, a risk assessment of the pitch will be carried out to ensure it is safe to proceed.  If the event needs to be cancelled, a new date will be shared as soon as possible.   Further information, including specific timings, will be communicated closer to the day.

Next week

Monday – Victoria Day holiday – school closed

Tuesday – P7 group to DCHS transition activity; Donations for Spring Fayre can be sent in from today

Wednesday – P6 trip to The Kelpies

Thursday – New P1 visit to class at 2pm

Yesterday P7 had another visit from DCHS Science department. We were applying the skills we were asked to practise: measuring time, volume, mass and temperature. We had to use these skills when undertaking two experiments.

We were practising explanation writing again this week to write about the water cycle. Half of us used word processing on the laptops to do this. The other half will do this next week.

Developing our work on light and shadow we made articulated shadow puppets in Art.

In Maths we have been experimenting with symmetry. We were looking at and creating shapes with more than one line of symmetry.

This week in outdoor learning we began creating a sensory trail for our P1 Buddies. This was based on an activity we did at Dalguise. Hopefully we can take the P1s out soon to try it out.

We continued to develop our Athletic skills in P.E. and some of us have been selected to take part in a competition in a couple of weeks.

As part of Mental Health Week we watched a couple of videos which gave us some strategies to use when we feel unhappy, stressed or lonely.

Well done to the P7 boys who took part in the inter school football tournament today.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Applying our science skills

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Developing our word processing skills.

This week our Lead Learners are Charlie and Ameera for demonstrating responsibility.  Well done!

They have decided that next week they will be looking for Honesty.

Great Green

Our week has been different. Miss McFarlane went away and next week Mrs Robertson will come back!

We have become far more responsible with looking after the laptops and making sure they are plugged in to charge.

We all wrote excellent sentences about chance and probability in sport as part of our Sport and Exercise topic and as part of our Maths Learning.

Think Pink

We have been doing challenges to build 3D shapes, and it has been quite difficult.

We were organising the Fiction library by alphabetical order of the author’s surname. We still need to tell the other classes about our returns shelf and we need to make more signs so it is kept tidy.

This week’s Lead Learners had some very responsible tasks. Maya had to catch worms in the playground. Max had to plan and lead the PE lesson.

For next week, after showing huge enthusiasm and responsibility this week, are

Sara and Kanishka!

Great Green

Think Pink

Remember carrying ten is important in column (chimney) sums because it helps us keep the place values correct.

This weeks Lead Learners are Hazel and Harris!

Primary 5 are busy practising their skills as they get ready for Primary 6.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

* Our focus this week has been symmetry in Maths. We looked at symmetry in nature and created a display of symmetrical flower petals and added symmetrical butterflies.
* It has been ‘Mental health week’ this week and we took time to explore our happy place – how it makes us feel and how it helps us.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

* We expressed length using decimal notation.
* We added our knowledge of time connectives to our writing.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners in the last week of term did a great job. Thank you – Aarjav and Lily
The class voted for who they felt was the most responsible and the pupils who got the most votes are…… Lucy and Neve. They are our Lead Learners.
Their tasks will be to support learners in making sensible, responsible choices.

Great Green (things that are going well)

For Mental Health Week we discussed the importance of talking to others about our feelings and emotions, then we chose an activity sheet to complete from ‘My Happy Place’ or ‘My Positive Mental Health Jar’. Primary 4 had very good ideas about ways to support people who were feeling sad.

For Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We are continuing to practise our subtraction with exchange sums.

This week’s Lead Learners are Slater for making excellent progress in his Fry’s words and Jackson for following the School Values. Well done!

It’s been a mixed up week, I’m fairly sure that we are at the end of it!  The children seemed to enjoy their Thursday day off yesterday and I can confirm that the staff had plenty to keep them occupied yesterday at our training day!  We celebrated the end of the week by coming together at a whole school assembly this morning where we shared some of our learning and heard about lead learners in each class for the coming week.  We also gathered together on Wednesday afternoon to wish our lovely Miss McFarlane well as she is getting married at the weekend.  I’m sure that you will join me in wishing her and her husband-to-be a lovely day and a happy future together.  We look forward to welcoming her back as Mrs Robertson when she returns on Wednesday 20th May.  Mrs Brown will be the main cover in the P6 class while Mrs Robertson is off, although there are some changes to this due to other commitments that Mrs Brown already has in her diary.

Next week sees the start of our P1 transition programme where we welcome the children who will be joining us in August to the school.  For the first session, the children will have the chance to visit the P1 classroom and become familiar with the environment while parents/carers are asked to stay in the hall where I will share information about starting school.  We are really looking forward to meeting our new P1 pupils and their families!

Next week

Monday – Mrs Brown in P6; Mrs Stephenson out of school

Tuesday – Mrs Brown in P6 AM, Miss Ross in P6 PM; P7 group to DCHS

Wednesday – Mrs Brown in P6; New P1 visit 11.00 -12.00

Thursday – Mrs Brown in P6 AM; P6 pupils working across other classes in the afternoon; DCHS science department to visit P7 class

Friday – Mrs Brown in P6; P7 group to cluster football event

What a quick week!

Great Green

We have a fabulous new numeracy display about fractions!

A lot of us have improved our writing by writing more, adding loads more adjectives, adding more interesting punctuation and using -ly and -ing words at the beginning of sentences.

We had Art with Mrs Stewart and made stick men with pipe cleaners and used them to make pictures in the style of Keith Harring.

Think Pink

New seats for better focus.

We talked about the line between have fun and being silly.

We are growing seedlings and we need to be responsible and look after them more and add fertilisers to some to see if they grow better.

Lead Learner Update.

Lucy and Jonah have made very good progress in extending their writing. They will help the class to write longer paragraphs. They will also help with adding punctuation and checking Success Criteria!

As lead learners this week they have chosen two people who they think will be able to help us with our plant science next week. Are you up for the challenge, Maya and Max?  Our new Lead Learners.