Meldrum Primary School Blog

Primary 7 have had a great week uplevelling their learning especially their imaginative writing.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• we have been increasing the amount of time that we have been using ICT across the different areas of the curriculum especially Numeracy, Reading and Spanish.
• we took part in a live Scots poetry event where we learned some more Scottish words.

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Reading and recording 24 hour times and working out durations.
• Developing character descriptions using figurative language.

This week our Lead Learners are Rosie and James who have demonstrated acts of kindness at various points this week. Well done!

They have decided that next week the value they will be looking for is Responsibility.

This week Primary 3 have been learning how to use an Atlas and how to read from a map. We have been looking at Scotland in more detail and identifying where the main towns and cities are.

Great Green

In literacy we have planned our narrative writing and have created our own animal and event that takes place with a happy ending.

Think Pink

In Numeracy we still need to practise our times tables in particular, the 2, 4, 5, and 10.

Thank you to last weeks lead learners. We are pleased to announce this weeks lead learners are Mia S and Katie. Both these pupils show responsibility for resources and remind others to collect what they need. Well done!

We have had a busy week in Primary 5, preparing for the Scottish Poetry competition, finding out how to say the days of the week and the weather in French and learning how to use speech marks correctly as part of our narrative writing focus.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– We had a fantastic time at the Handball festival in Deans Community High School on Thursday. We showed excellent skills, scoring brilliant goals but more than that we showed how to play as a team, how to support each other and how to play fair.
– To support our learning in both numeracy and in grammar we are applying our I.T. skills through the use of ‘Sumdog’. This allows us to practise our skills while enjoying friendly competitions against each other.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– In our writing we think about using interesting similes and alliteration. So that our rip-roaring writing will rock right round the room.
– Use our knowledge of decimals during money and measurement tasks.

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 task will be to
– support the class in creating entries for our Victorian Timeline again using our I.T. skills!
– Encouraging the class in French by asking – what day it is? and – what the weather is today?

It has been a very exciting week in Primary 4 and today we performed our Scottish Assembly to the pupils in Meldrum and our visitors.

Great Green

We had a fabulous time rehearsing for our assembly and performed with enthusiasm and confidence this morning. Well done to P4.

We sang our Scottish songs and danced the Virginia Reel brilliantly.

Think Pink

We are going to keep practising our addition using 2 or 3 digits.

We will continue to practise gymnastics skills in PE.

This week our Lead Learners have been chosen for their kindness and responsibility. They are

Charlie and Jackson

It has been lovely to be outside at breaks and lunchtimes for most of this week although the icy conditions returned this morning!  This week, our P7 have continued with their online transition lessons with staff from Deans Community High School.  P4 took part in a live French lesson which everyone really enjoyed too.  P5 have a student teacher from Queen Margaret University, Miss Boyd, with them currently.  She will be leading some lessons next week supported by Mrs Orpin.

Outdoor Learning – please note the following changes to our outdoor learning days.   At the moment, we are a bit restricted by the weather but we do aim for outdoor learning to go ahead most of the time,

P1 – Monday

P2 – Thursday

P3 – Thursday

P4 – Wednesday

P5 – Wednesday

P6 – Tuesday

P7 – Monday

Lead Learners – each week, class teachers are choosing 2 pupils from the class who have been consistently showing our Meldrum values.  These children receive a certificate and are the class “lead learners” for the following week.  The lead learners are then tasked with choosing 2 or 3 things that they will be looking for in the classroom the following week.  This will be related to things which teachers are focusing on (e.g. remembering to use punctuation in writing or good recall of times tables)  Over the course of the week, teachers will remind the class of the focus areas that the lead learners have set.  Lead Learners will have a lanyard to wear inside the building to show everyone that they have the role each week and so far, are taking their responsibilities very seriously!

Food in school – we have noticed a large amount of food waste at lunch times.  We would ask that if your child is ordering a school lunch, that you go through the current menu with them and discuss what meal options they are choosing and check that these are items that your child will eat (you will find a copy of the menu by doing a search for West Lothian Council school meals within an internet search engine.)  School meals can look or taste slightly differently to a similar item at home and children can be reluctant to eat this.  It would be appreciated if you could take some time to chat with your child/children about school meals and help them select foods that they will eat and enjoy.  You can pre-order school meals via the Ipayimpact app, please contact Mrs Stephenson at the office if you need any help with your log in for this.

For children choosing a packed lunch, a reminder that schools are nut-free areas and children should not bring products containing nuts in their packed lunch (this includes spreads containing nuts such as peanut butter and chocolate spreads)  We also ask that items such as lollipops are not sent in for snack or lunches due to the choking hazards of these.  Thank you for your cooperation.

Next Week

Monday – new pupil support worker Miss Conway starts with us.

Tuesday – P7 online transition lesson with Modern Languages department

Wednesday – Parent Council meeting online

Thursday – P5 to Handball festival (children should come to school ready to take part in physical activity and should bring a water bottle and a small snack item to take with them – fingers crossed for some dry weather); Netball after school club

Friday – P4 Assembly for parents/carers at 9.30am

Primary 3 have been continuing their learning of Scotland and Robert Burns, and we found out some very exciting news…….It turns out that one of our pupils is his Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Granddaughter! Thank you Mia S for bringing in your family history.

Great Green

During mathematics, we have discovered that we as a class are extremely good at estimating a length in cm before measuring it. We found out that the top of our pinkie is roughly 1cm and when our arms are out-stretched it is 1 meter from arm-to-arm.

Think Pink

Try to remember to always add the units after your measurement so others understand your answers.

A big thank you to last weeks lead learners. This weeks lead learners are Aila and Archie. Well done!