Meldrum Primary School Blog

It’s been a mixed up week, I’m fairly sure that we are at the end of it!  The children seemed to enjoy their Thursday day off yesterday and I can confirm that the staff had plenty to keep them occupied yesterday at our training day!  We celebrated the end of the week by coming together at a whole school assembly this morning where we shared some of our learning and heard about lead learners in each class for the coming week.  We also gathered together on Wednesday afternoon to wish our lovely Miss McFarlane well as she is getting married at the weekend.  I’m sure that you will join me in wishing her and her husband-to-be a lovely day and a happy future together.  We look forward to welcoming her back as Mrs Robertson when she returns on Wednesday 20th May.  Mrs Brown will be the main cover in the P6 class while Mrs Robertson is off, although there are some changes to this due to other commitments that Mrs Brown already has in her diary.

Next week sees the start of our P1 transition programme where we welcome the children who will be joining us in August to the school.  For the first session, the children will have the chance to visit the P1 classroom and become familiar with the environment while parents/carers are asked to stay in the hall where I will share information about starting school.  We are really looking forward to meeting our new P1 pupils and their families!

Next week

Monday – Mrs Brown in P6; Mrs Stephenson out of school

Tuesday – Mrs Brown in P6 AM, Miss Ross in P6 PM; P7 group to DCHS

Wednesday – Mrs Brown in P6; New P1 visit 11.00 -12.00

Thursday – Mrs Brown in P6 AM; P6 pupils working across other classes in the afternoon; DCHS science department to visit P7 class

Friday – Mrs Brown in P6; P7 group to cluster football event

What a quick week!

Great Green

We have a fabulous new numeracy display about fractions!

A lot of us have improved our writing by writing more, adding loads more adjectives, adding more interesting punctuation and using -ly and -ing words at the beginning of sentences.

We had Art with Mrs Stewart and made stick men with pipe cleaners and used them to make pictures in the style of Keith Harring.

Think Pink

New seats for better focus.

We talked about the line between have fun and being silly.

We are growing seedlings and we need to be responsible and look after them more and add fertilisers to some to see if they grow better.

Lead Learner Update.

Lucy and Jonah have made very good progress in extending their writing. They will help the class to write longer paragraphs. They will also help with adding punctuation and checking Success Criteria!

As lead learners this week they have chosen two people who they think will be able to help us with our plant science next week. Are you up for the challenge, Maya and Max?  Our new Lead Learners.

Plant update – Our garden peas are thriving, our sunflowers are popping their heads through the soil, and our nasturtiums are getting very tall. This week we thinned out some Livingston Daisies so hopefully they will be more comfortable with more space to grow. Our beans are a bit slow to germinate but fingers crossed this week we will see them popping up.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We have been revising our skills, knowledge and understanding of fractions this week, with lots of success. Fractions are fabulous in Primary 5.
• The class were very committed to writing the recipe for ‘How to make an ice-cream sundae’ I wonder why!!

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We are going to try to stay hydrated throughout the day by regularly drinking water in the class.
 We apply our knowledge of food hygiene when making our fruit kebabs next week. (we wash our hands throughout the day!!)

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners last week did a great job. Thank you – Joe and Adam
This week our Lead Learners are Lily and Aarjav
They have shown commitment to their tasks, helping support others and doing so with kindness and patience.

Primary Seven have been learning about healthy eating. We have been exploring nutrients and why they are important in our diet. We have used this information to created menus for people who have dietary restrictions.

In Numeracy we have been investigating number patterns (Fibonacci) and looking at probability and chance.

In P.E. with Mrs Harris, we have started athletics. This week we were practising long jump and running.

We have started to investigate shadow and light in Science and Art.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Shading different shapes in Art.

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Writing detailed explanations.

This week our Lead Learners are Gokul and Lola for demonstrating Kindness. Well done!

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

Great Green (things that are going well)

We shared what we already know about Deans and Livingston.

We did fabulous art with Mrs Stewart on Tuesday.

Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We are working on subtraction and need to continue to practise.

This week’s Lead Learners are Rocco and Clark who have persevered in their work and always try their best. Well done!

An amazing week here at Meldrum PS this week.  P7 had a fabulous time at PGL Dalguise and came back full of enthusiasm and chat about their time away!  Instructors at the camp were impressed with the attitude and determination of our young people who rose to the challenges of the activities.  Well done P7!

This morning, we had our P2 assembly for parents and carers.  The children showcased some of their learning about nocturnal animals and loved taking part in some singing and dancing for the audience.  Great job P2!

We have moved our plants out of the classroom ‘Nursery’ and they are now on their own in the Greenhouse in the playground. We are still checking on them several times a day!!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

 We have been using our skills in explanation and procedural writing to write explanations for ‘How plants grow’ and ‘How to plant a seed’.
 Using our fantastic knowledge of food groups, we completed a menu by filling in the missing food item in order to make it a balanced meal.
Again, the class were brilliant at this.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We use our knowledge of fractions when working with percentages %
 We apply our writing skills to create a set of rules for a game or a recipe for our fruit kebabs.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners in the last week of term did a great job. Thank you – Darcey and Stirling
This week our Lead Learners are Joe and Adam
Their tasks will be to
• look after class equipment e.g. the shoe trolley and the laptop recharging station

This week primary 3 have been learning about volume and capacity and we were able to use the water trays outside in the sunshine. We have also learned new vocabulary for containers, such as, beakers, syringes, measuring jugs and funnels.

Great Green

The pupils are beginning to show understanding of procedure writing using sub-headings and bullets points.

Think Pink

To always check the scale during measuring as they do not always go up in 1s!

This weeks Lead Learners are Hiteesha and Aila!