Meldrum Primary School Blog

A busy week for Primary 5, working hard with our core skills in literacy and numeracy.
Great Green – ‘What went well’
• We have kicked off our weather topic this week and the rain arrived in our class. We had lots of fun painting clouds on the windows, making raindrops and creating pictures of ourselves with an umbrella in the rain. We are using these pictures to further explore adjectives.
• In our Daily Mental Strategy tasks we revisit our learning and keep our knowledge, skills and understanding at a high level.
Think Pink – ‘Even better if’
• We apply our handwriting skills to all our writing tasks.

Lead Learners.
This week our Lead Learners are Daisy and Merrin.
They have shown respect consistently to other pupils in the school, to adults and to the school environment. Well Done Daisy and Merrin

This week Primary 3/2 have been learning about place value and revising the ten times table. We have also been identifying nouns (people, Place and things). Next week we will be starting the Literacy Carousel, where P2 and P3 will follow a targeted literacy programme aimed at strengthening essential literacy skills, including phonics, blending, reading, comprehension, and the recognition and application of high-frequency words.

Great Green

In writing the pupils used their describing bubbles well and tried to up-level some vocabulary.

Think Pink

Remember that zero is a place holder when working with Hundreds, Tens and Ones and we still need to include it.

Thank you to the previous lead learners: Muhammad-Ali, Imogen, Amelie and Matthew.

This weeks lead learners are Nova and Harris!

P4/3 have had another busy week with lots of fun learning activities and opportunities to be creative.

Great Green (things that are going well)

• We had a design challenge where we had to create a farm or farm building using many of the resources in our classroom. This was fun and the results were fantastic.
• We had our first visit from NYCOS on Monday and we can’t wait to welcome them into our classroom again next week. We learned new songs and actions and even got to play the drum.

Think Pink (things that are a bit tricky)

• We need to keep practising in Science to build a circuit using a motor, a light bulb, a buzzer, wires and a battery.

This week’s lead learners are Katie and Mia S who have been demonstrating all the school values. Well done!

We’ve had a really busy week in school with lots of things happening.  Our classes are now familiar with routines and expectations and are getting back into the swing of learning activities and tasks.  It was lovely to welcome families from P1/2; P3/2 and P4/3 to school this week for our first 3 “Big Breakfast” events.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the visit and it was amazing to see and hear our children leading learning as they confidently showed their grown ups around their learning space.  Thank you to everyone who attended.  We look forward to the 2nd round of breakfasts next week!  Our Parent Council met for the first time on Wednesday evening, copies of the minutes will be uploaded to the school website when they have been approved so look out for these being shared.

Next Week

Monday – Destination Judo taster sessions – children can come to school in PE kit today; National Youth Choir of Scotland to work with P4/3; NHS Triage team in school to review flu vaccination consent forms

Tuesday – Mrs Egan out of school at meeting AM

Wednesday – P6/5 Big Breakfast 9.15am

Thursday – P7 Big Breakfast 9.15am

Friday – P5 Big Breakfast 9.15am

Great Green:

• We have began personalising our classroom environment by sketching self-portraits, remembering to add key features.
• We had our first French lesson on this school year in which we recapped popular greetings and listened to the French alphabet.
• We have been extending our rounding skills by rounding up to the nearest 1,000 and 10,000.

Think Pink:

• Working through our spelling tasks and completing them fully.

Lead Leaders:

Thank you to Joe and Isaac for being our lead learners this week. Our lead learners next week will be Zuzanna and Callie. They have shown great responsibility this week and respect for our classroom by tidying up and sorting areas to a high standard, without being asked. Well done!

We look forward to our P6/5 Big Breakfast on Wednesday.

P1/2 have had another busy week learning new sounds, blending letters to read words, exploring dot patterns and P2 have been looking at place value within 20. We have also enjoyed making shapes on the peg boards.

We learned new games in P.E. but our favourite was Tigers and Elephants.

This week we were learning another school value, Respect. We have been showing respect by listening to each other, by looking after our toys and remembering to use please and thank you.

With Mrs Brown we were practising saying hello and goodbye in French.

This week in Art, with Mrs Stewart, we made sunflowers. Some were put in a vase and some were hung on the wall with our elephants.

We enjoyed our Big Breakfast with our parents and carers this morning. It was fun sharing our learning and showing them around our classroom.

Great Green – (things that went well) … sharing our toys and taking turns.

Think Pink – (we need to practise) … writing numbers 0-10.

Our lead learners for next week are Islay and Oliver.

This has been another busy week in P4/3. We enjoyed sharing some of our learning activities with our visitors during our Big Breakfast on Thursday and the food was delicious.

Great Green

• Everyone has been helping to keep our classroom tidy, safe and a great place to learn.
• P4/3 are writing in sentences and using good words to describe the characters from our class novel.

Think Pink

• Remember to show respect and listen when others are talking.
• Continue to practise our spelling and use our vocabulary books.

This week’s Lead Learners are Hazel and Archie for showing respect, using good manners and listening to others.

We’ve had a brilliant first full week here at Meldrum.  Our classes have all settled really well and are getting to know their new teachers and classmates.  Staff are seeing lots of children showing our school values in classes and in the playground.  We had our weekly assembly today where we talked about ways that we can show respect.  We heard about this week’s Lead Learners who were chosen for showing school values across the week and who will be looking out for other children showing values and trying hard in learning next week.  We talked about some leadership opportunities which are coming up. P7 will have the chance to put themselves forward for a role as House Captain; P6 will be offered the chance to chosen as Mini Champs in our key areas of Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing.  The pupil leadership group will have children from each class represented and will meet regularly with one of the school leadership team to look at ways of making our school even better.  Exciting things ahead!

Next week sees the start of our Big Breakfasts.  We are very much looking forward to welcoming up to 2 family members per pupil to these events where you will hear about our priorities for this year, and get the chance to visit your child’s class and meet the staff who will work in partnership with you over the coming year.  We hope to see you there!

Have a lovely weekend, Lynne Egan.

Next Week

Wednesday – P3/2 Big Breakfast @9.15am; Parent Council members meeting 6.30pm in the school

Thursday – P4/3 Big Breakfast @9.15am

Friday – P1/2 Big Breakfast @9.15am