Meldrum Primary School Blog

Primary 5 have been practising relaxation in class, using breathing techniques. No-one fell asleep but we were very chilled!! We also discovered that school is maybe not so bad after all when we looked at what school was like for Victoria children!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– We enjoyed a hard-working morning completing tasks around the classroom in a carousel. When we finished one task we moved quickly!! onto the next task. What a lot of learning took place. ‘This was a lot of fun, we worked really hard and sat beside different people in the class.’ William.
– Using alliteration and including adjectives and action verbs, we wrote poems about British birds. We turned our think pink into great green!!
Neve wrote ‘Three confident, croaking crows.’
Finlay wrote ‘Five dangerous, defying doves.’
Aarjav wrote ‘One ominous, observing owl.’

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– Reading each day in class and at home.
– We used our ‘rules for speech marks’ to uplevel our writing.

Lead Learners.
Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Finlay and Aarjav
This week our Lead Learners are William and Darcey.
Their task will be to
– encouraging pupils to read their library book
– support pupils with IT tasks, logging in and out of the computers and using ‘Word’ to create documents.

This week Primary 7 have been exploring positive and negatives: in Numeracy we were comparing temperatures; in HWB we were exploring positive and negative emotions and in Art we were creating images with negative and positive spaces. We have also started our personal project on an aspect of Scottish history that has made Scotland what it is today.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Demonstrating gymnastic skills with improved confidence.
• Including more imagery in our creative writing.

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Finding the speed/distance/time in various calculations

• To improve our speed when completing the daily mile.

This week our Lead Learners are Parker and Lavanya who have demonstrated responsibility in the class and around the school. Well done!

They have decided that next week the value they will be looking for is Perseverance especially when problem solving.

We have had a super week here at Meldrum with lots going on. All of the classes have been very busy preparing their Scots poems and classes have chosen their winners.  I am very much looking forward to hearing all of these poems next week and I think it’s going to be a hard job to choose an overall winner!

P5 enjoyed taking part in a handball festival at DCHS on Thursday and represented our school very well.  P4 performed their assembly for parents/carers this morning and it was a resounding success.  The children and Mrs Scobie worked very hard to pull this together and their hard work paid off today.  Well done P4!

A request that lollipops are not sent into school as snack or part of a lunch.  If a child is bumped while they have a lollipop in their mouth, there could be a choking risk so we would ask that these types of treats are kept for home.  Thank you for your co-operation with this.

Achievement Assembly – we are going to introduce a termly achievement assembly for the children to celebrate wider achievement.  You will be sent a link to a Microsoft form where you can detail any achievements that your child has recently at clubs or activities they take part in.  In line with our Scottish Curriculum for Excellence which aims to develop children to be Responsible Citizens, Effective Contributors, Confident Individuals and Successful Learners, we are also keen to have children who show these traits in their local community recognised too.  As well as submitting information about their achievement, you can also send a photograph to our school email (wlmeldrum-ps@westlothian.org.uk) and we will use these at our achievement assembly (this is for children only and will be held during normal assembly time)  Pictures should be of your child only, any group photographs will not be used.

Next Week

Tuesday – P7 taking part in online lesson with DCHS staff

Wednesday – Mrs Egan to hear Scots poetry finalists

Thursday – Netball after school club

Friday – Scots poetry assembly performances

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?