Meldrum Primary School Blog

What a lovely week we have had in school.  The children have enjoyed their time outdoors in the spring weather that we’ve had this week and the chance to get their coats and jackets off during playtimes!  Long may it continue!!  It was lovely to welcome so many parents and carers into the school for parent consultations this week.  Thank you to those who took the time to complete the school ethos survey.  The link for the survey will be shared again in an email for anyone who didn’t get the chance to complete it on Wednesday or Thursday.  Today we had our P1 assembly which was fantastic.  The boys and girls of P1 did so well in performing their assembly for their family guests and the other children in the school.  They were confident, knew their lines and spoke loudly so that everyone could hear them.  Well done P1!

We are looking forward to the last week of term and I know that class teachers have some fun activities planned as well as some core learning across the week.  As a reward for hard work throughout the term, the children can have a non -uniform day on Friday 27th March.  Please note that they are not permitted to wear club sports tops or pyjamas/onesies.  The link for the next Achievement Assembly was shared with you earlier today and the deadline for responses is Wednesday 25th at 5pm.

Next Week

Monday – Miss Thomson, Head of S1 at DCHS in P7 this morning

Tuesday – Meldrum Safer Internet Day – a day of activities linked to being a responsible digital citizen; P7 residential meeting for parents/carers in the school at 6pm

Wednesday –  Soup kitchen volunteers to attend for final session

Thursday – P3 to DCHS for multisports festival; football after school club is on today; Parent Council Easter Bingo evening in the school at 6pm

Friday – Non uniform day; Easter service in school with school chaplain; Achievement assembly (for pupils only)

This week we have been looking at the ancient Egyptian number system and solving ancient Egyptian calculations. We also enjoyed drawing our sun-shadows a gesture to the Sun God – Ra.

Great Green 

We have enjoyed our introduction to persuasive writing, using tone and vocabulary to convince the reader. Primary 3 would like to do more baking, especially as it is coming up to Easter.

Think Pink

Try to remember to stay off the grass as the spring flowers are blooming and we don’t want to damage them.

This weeks Lead Learners are Addison and Emily. Well done girls!!

This week for Numeracy we have been learning about BODMAS and how to order operations. In our Numeracy Transition we were completing algebraic equations.

On Tuesday we went down to the church to learn more about the Easter story. We had good fun completing the activities.

In P.E we have been learning volleyball skills and hopefully we will be able to use these skills soon to play a game.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Using our persuasive writing skills to write a letter to Mrs Egan about using mobile phones in P7. (Mrs Egan will be receiving these letters next week).

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Primary 7 are working on making the right choices.

This week our Lead Learners are Daisy and Casper for showing perseverance during class work. Well done!

They have decided that next week they will be looking for Honesty.

(Thank you Karah for writing this Blog)

We have a little visitor in our class
and are having fun creating story pages for a class book about ‘Ziggy the Zebra’. You will be amazed at the things he has got up to already this week!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

– We transferred our baby spider plants from their incubator into their nursery pots. They are thriving – enjoying the soft soil on their roots and the sun on their leaves.
-Primary 5 have been practising their times tables in different scenarios. During our daily mile we practised while walking.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

– increase the distance we walk and decrease the time it takes to do this.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Neve and Lucy.

This week our Lead Learners are Amelia-Rose and Lily.
Their tasks will be to
– record the number of circuits round the playground each pupil walks during our daily mile. We can then use this data for Information Handling.

Great Green (things that are going well)

Sophie came in yesterday to introduce us to Adobe Express. We have all made fabulous posters online showing our favourite animals and successfully shared them on our class TEAM.

We are continuing to work on Time related tasks and these are going well.

Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We have enjoyed working on Adobe Express and will continue to explore this programme and make more posters.

We need to remember to check written work for capital letters, full stops, question marks or exclamation marks.

This week’s Lead Learners are Clark and Jay who have displayed all the school values. Well done!

We have had another productive week here at Meldrum with lots going on!  Our P6 pupils were disappointed that the badminton festival had to be postponed due to the severe weather yesterday, we will contact parents/carers when we have a new date.  Today, we had an assembly where values certificates were given out and we heard about the learning that each class had been doing in modern languages.

Staff are looking forward to meeting with parents/carers next week at parent consultations.  The book fayre will be available in the school hall for anyone who wishes to pop in and have a look.  Our P7 helpers will be stationed around the school armed with ipads to ask parents/carers to take some time to complete the annual school ethos survey, we would very much appreciate if everyone could take a few minutes to complete this.  We recognise the importance of working in partnership with our families and your views will help inform our school priorities going forward.

Next Week

Tuesday – P7 to St Andrew’s Church to take part in Easter Code activities

Wednesday – Helpers to St Andrew’s Church soup kitchen; Parent Consultations 5pm onwards

Thursday – NO FOOTBALL AFTER SCHOOL CLUB TODAY; Parent Consultations 4pm onwards

Friday – P1 assembly for parents/carers (maximum of 2 adults per child please)