Meldrum Primary School Blog

Primary 5 enjoyed a great week in the sunshine. We played table tennis in the sun and made the most of our daily walks without jackets!!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We have been making predictions using the vocabulary of probability. We think it is certain Scotland will win the World Cup!!! (not sure we fully understand this 😊)
• We transplanted our sunflowers into bigger individual pots as they were very overcrowded in the tray together.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We remember and apply our spelling rules in all our writing tasks.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners in the last week of term did a great job. Thank you – Eilish and Stirling.
Our lead learners this week are Eilish and Lily. They have shown perseverance in their learning, being determined to improve their skills.

This years Common Wealth involves each country creating and passing their own baton to the next country and so on until every country has another countries baton. We combined art and technology in a problem solving challenge and created our own batons. We then had a Common Wealth rely race to reenact the ceremony.

Great Green

Learning the life cycles of frogs and butterflies and using this to write an explanation piece with topic specific vocabulary, paragraphs and labelled diagrams.

Think Pink

Remember sun safety by bringing hats and shades!

Great Green (things that are going well)

15-minute writing is an activity we all enjoy. It is interesting listening to the pupils as they read their stories to the rest of the class.

Newsround is a firm favourite in Primary 4. There are many subjects for us to discuss while we watch it each day.

Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We are making good progress with our subtraction but will continue to practise.

This week’s Lead Learners are Alaya and Tilly who have shown kindness towards others and been very helpful in class this week. Well done!

We’ve had another busy week at Meldrum PS! Our P6 pupils enjoyed their trip to the Kelpies with Mrs Robertson and Mrs Brown.  Our new P1 pupils came for their 2nd visit and spent time in the classroom.  They heard the story “A Squash and a squeeze” and enjoyed some animal themed activities, sharing some of their learning in their P1 floorbook which they will have in their classroom when they start with us in August.  We finished the week with an assembly where we talked about the planting and growing that our classes have been involved in recently.

Preparations for our Spring Fayre are well underway.  The fayre is on Saturday 30th May and our parent council are looking for donations for stalls (see poster sent out to you earlier this week)  They are also looking for helpers on the day, please get in touch with the school office if you are able to help and we can pass your name on to the members of the parent council.

Reminder:  Sports day is planned for the morning of Thursday 4th June (weather permitting.) Timings will be shared with you next week. 

)Next week

Tuesday – P7 group to DCHS

Wednesday – P7 group to West Lothian Track and Field event; new P1 visit @11am; PM – P5 working with ranger service

Thursday – P7 group to DCHS cluster maths competition

Saturday – Spring Fayre at Meldrum PS

Primary 5 are looking forward to the sunshine and have been thinking about how to stay safe in the sun.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We have been continuing to build up our garden dioramas this week using our plans to work out what we need to do. We have all been very creative.
• We made delicious fruit kebabs (following very high standards of hygiene!!) Then wrote the recipe for this.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 Use our clarifying skills when reading unfamiliar words.

Lead Learners.

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