Meldrum Primary School Blog

This week for Numeracy we have been learning about BODMAS and how to order operations. In our Numeracy Transition we were completing algebraic equations.

On Tuesday we went down to the church to learn more about the Easter story. We had good fun completing the activities.

In P.E we have been learning volleyball skills and hopefully we will be able to use these skills soon to play a game.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Using our persuasive writing skills to write a letter to Mrs Egan about using mobile phones in P7. (Mrs Egan will be receiving these letters next week).

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Primary 7 are working on making the right choices.

This week our Lead Learners are Daisy and Casper for showing perseverance during class work. Well done!

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

(Thank you Karah for writing this Blog)

We have a little visitor in our class
and are having fun creating story pages for a class book about ‘Ziggy the Zebra’. You will be amazed at the things he has got up to already this week!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– We transferred our baby spider plants from their incubator into their nursery pots. They are thriving – enjoying the soft soil on their roots and the sun on their leaves.
-Primary 5 have been practising their times tables in different scenarios. During our daily mile we practised while walking.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– increase the distance we walk and decrease the time it takes to do this.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Neve and Lucy.

This week our Lead Learners are Amelia-Rose and Lily.
Their tasks will be 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.

Great Green (things that are going well)

Sophie came in yesterday to introduce us to Adobe Express. We have all made fabulous posters online showing our favourite animals and successfully shared them on our class TEAM.

We are continuing to work on Time related tasks and these are going well.

Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We have enjoyed working on Adobe Express and will continue to explore this programme and make more posters.

We need to remember to check written work for capital letters, full stops, question marks or exclamation marks.

This week’s Lead Learners are Clark and Jay who have displayed all the school values. Well done!

We have had another productive week here at Meldrum with lots going on!  Our P6 pupils were disappointed that the badminton festival had to be postponed due to the severe weather yesterday, we will contact parents/carers when we have a new date.  Today, we had an assembly where values certificates were given out and we heard about the learning that each class had been doing in modern languages.

Staff are looking forward to meeting with parents/carers next week at parent consultations.  The book fayre will be available in the school hall for anyone who wishes to pop in and have a look.  Our P7 helpers will be stationed around the school armed with ipads to ask parents/carers to take some time to complete the annual school ethos survey, we would very much appreciate if everyone could take a few minutes to complete this.  We recognise the importance of working in partnership with our families and your views will help inform our school priorities going forward.

Next Week

Tuesday – P7 to St Andrew’s Church to take part in Easter Code activities

Wednesday – Helpers to St Andrew’s Church soup kitchen; Parent Consultations 5pm onwards

Thursday – NO FOOTBALL AFTER SCHOOL CLUB TODAY; Parent Consultations 4pm onwards

Friday – P1 assembly for parents/carers (maximum of 2 adults per child please)

This week we have been continuing our topic of Ancient Egyptians and explored the extraordinary process of mummification. We even had a Kahoot quiz!

Great Green 

We are getting very quick at our 4 times tables and are now practising our 6 times table.

Our French numbers to 31 and our French weather.

Think Pink

Remembering to carry the 10 when revisiting chimney sums and keeping our numbers in the correct columns.

This weeks Lead Learners are Aila and Hazel. Well done!!!

This week we have been learning more about Democracy in the UK and Scotland. Using our IT skills, we created posters on the main political parties. We have also been researching information about The Scottish Parliament to create a fact file.

For Outdoor Learning this week we used chalk to create 2D obstacle courses for our P1 buddies. They had great fun following the circuits.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Using persuasive vocabulary when creating a written argument.
• Numeracy Transition – integers (negative and positive numbers).
• Using Drama to recreate a scene from ‘The Evacuees’ by Carolyn Sloan

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• We still need to practise recall of our timetables to support division, fractions, measure conversions and algebra.

This week our Lead Learners are Connor and Amelia-Leigh for showing respect during team/group work. Well done!

They have decided that next week we will be looking for Perseverance across learning.