Meldrum Primary School Blog

Hello this is James and Darcey, we are the lead learners from this week. This week has been very busy as we have been practising for our class assembly.

What went well this week

• We created our script for the assembly.
• We performed our assembly well.
• We built a shape city with Mrs Robertson.

Even better if 

• We want to complete our debates from our Newsround Family Cafe.

Lead Learners next week are Sofia and Jack for showing responsibility in the classroom and during the assembly.

A wee note from Miss Jones. 

I am very proud of the whole class this week for creating their assembly script and recordings. They demonstrated their digital skills by creating a range of Adobe presentations for the assembly. They then invited the parents and carers in to the classroom to discuss some real life debate topics from Newsround. We had lots of interesting discussions about whether zoos should exist or whether professional footballs should have a lower salary.

Great Green

Think Pink

Some pupils are still working on the size of their writing and the spaces in-between words.

This weeks Lead Learner’s are Annie and Harrison! Well done!!

Primary 5 continue to apply their learning across the curriculum: using joining writing in all of their written work, using knowledge of shapes for work in area, identifying adjectives and nouns in their reading and using these in their writing.
Another great week!!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We wrote a diary entry for Willow the kitten. P5 used interesting adjectives and punctuation to describe all her adventures in the day. We will continue to do this as part of our 15-minute writing.
• We have been using 2D shapes to create interesting tessellations to cover an area. We have been calculating areas using cm² as well as drawing a shape with a given area.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

• We use the punctuation in our reading books to enhance our understanding of the text.

Lead Learners.
This week our Lead Learners are Dheerav and Charlie
Primary 5 decided to award our lead learner certificates this week to pupils who show good listening skills. Well Done Dheerav and Charlie

Primary 4/3 have had a had another busy week and have enjoyed spending some time in the playground using the outdoors to continue our learning.

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We have enjoyed making our games in Science with Mrs Brown – using electrical circuits.

We have successfully used IT to research spider facts as part of our Charlotte’s Web activities.

Think Pink

We are continuing to work on Daily Mental Agilities in Numeracy.

This week our Lead Learners are Callum and Eilidh for taking responsibility in their learning and always trying their best. Well done!

It’s been a positive week at Meldrum.  Our netball after school club has now started and a good number of senior pupils are signed up to take part.  They are being coached by sports leaders from DCHS alongside a member of the Active Schools West Lothian team, Zara.  Zara has been assigned to Meldrum PS until December as part of her trainee programme and will be working with some small groups to develop a range of skills through physical activity.  These include some activities to support development of gross motor skills in our infant department as well as working with P6 pupils on the Playground Leaders programme.  We look forward to having her with us on a Wednesday in the coming weeks.

We are also going to be hosting some college students who are undertaking various courses on their route to working in schools.  They will be based across the school supporting learning.  Some classes may also be welcoming teaching students over the year, parents of children in these classes will be kept up to date about this.

Thank you to those parents/carers who attended our P1 Seesaw session this week.  We hope that you found it useful.

As you may know, we are currently within “Fairtrade Fortnight”  This is an annual event designed to increase the profile of the importance of fair trade which aims to ensure that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a fair deal for their produce.  The theme this year is ” Do it Fair” which celebrates the difference that can be made when people choose Fairtrade and campaign as part of a UK-wide movement calling for a fairer system behind the things consumed every day.  The children will be talking about Fairtrade in classrooms throughout the fortnight and you may find them looking out for fairtrade products when you visit the supermarket with them.  

Next Week

All week:  Fairtrade Fortnight continues; European Languages Day activities in school

Monday:  P5 and P6 Tag Rugby after school club begins

Tuesday – P7 forest visit PM (outdoor kit required)

Wednesday – P6 and P7 Netball after school club; P2 and P3 Literacy family learning session @2.30pm

Thursday – Fire service to visit P6 and P7 to deliver safety talk

Friday – P7 Class Assembly 9.15am; P1 and P7 whole class photographs taken today

‘Great Green’ in P6/5:

We have had a short yet busy week enjoying participating in activities based on Maths Week Scotland and Fairtrade Fortnight! We have taken on the role of being events managers and planning a party on a budget, taken our learning outdoors to expand our positional and directional language, and explored the Fairtrade logo and specific foods.

We are continuing to expand our descriptive writing skills and have been focusing on identifying and creating similes this week to describe an Autumn tree and an alien pet. P6/5 have created some very descriptive similes – keep it up everyone!

A small ‘Think Pink’ for next week: Continue to do our classroom jobs without being reminded.

Lead Learners:

Thank you to Alaya and Arlo for being our lead learners this week.

I’m pleased to say that our lead learners for next week are Lucy and Eilish. They were awarded this for showing overall kindness, respect and responsibility in the classroom this week. Well done!

P1/2 have started to learn about Harvest and are enjoying learning about scarecrows through stories and songs.

In P.E. this week we were practising ball skills with different sized balls and bats.

We are continuing to learn new sounds and then blend them to make words. We have also started to read some Tricky Words.

In numeracy we have been using the counting stick to work out missing numbers and to order numbers 0-10 (P1) and jumps of 5 to 100(P2).

With Mrs Stewart we created our own shape robots and then neatly coloured them.

From next Wednesday P1/2 will have activities on SeeSaw and will begin to upload pieces of work of which they are proud.

Great Green – (things that went well) … P1/2 have been showing lots of kindness this week.

Think Pink – (we need to practise) … better listening when we are getting to and sitting on the carpet.

Our lead learners for next week are Azaleea and Irha.

Hello this is Violet and Elle and we were the lead learners this week. This week we have been busy rehearsing our assembly and we can’t wait to share our hard work and perform it next week.

What went well this week

-We used our knowledge of 3D shapes to make a shape city.

-We completed our first 15 minute writing on the laptops which we enjoyed.

Even better if 

-Next week we will practise our assembly and complete our adobe presentations.

Next weeks lead learners are Darcey for showing perseverance in Numeracy and James for showing responsibility across the school when helping ALL staff with the technology.

A wee note from Miss Jones. 

This has been a short but busy week, the children have demonstrated the school values by taking responsibility for their learning and making their own assembly script. They have worked hard on their presentations and can’t wait to share it with you! We have been completed lots of Numeracy and money problems in class.

This week we have practising the reciprocal reading skill of prediction. Making predictions before and during reading. We used the character ‘Tommy Foghorn’ to write a description using our core writing targets.

Great Green

In Science with Mrs Brown the pupils have been learning about sound and vibrations and are the planning stages of making their own musical instrument!

Think Pink

Remember to keep the size of your letters small.

This weeks lead learners are Alice B and Theo! Well done!!!!!!

P4/3 have had a busy week with lots of research skills being practised using the laptops and ipads. We have been finding out facts about spiders and have learned some very interesting information!

Great Green

We have been working on descriptive writing using the characters in our class novel ‘Charlotte’s Web’ as our focus. We are using capital letters and full stops, joining words and checking over our completed work. This has been working well and we are describing the characters using interesting vocabulary.

In PE we are enjoying the team work involved  in Benchball.

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We are going to continue to work on developing our skills in handwriting.

This week our Lead Learners are Dhanya and Emily who have shown responsibility, respect and kindness. Well done!