Meldrum Primary School Blog

We are getting a bit of World Cup fever in Primary 5. Great opportunity for Numeracy and Maths!! e.g. flags have lots of lines, shapes and angles, populations are very large numbers, and time differences are really challenging the class.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• Our dioramas are really taking shape. We have shed, benches, greenhouse, paths and ponds. Lots of fabulous ideas being realised through technology skills.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We are continuing to fill our ‘filing cabinets’ in our brains with key knowledge and understanding, ready for Primary 6!

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners this week are Darcey and Joe. They have stepped up in all aspects of learning and taking responsibility for classroom organisation and tasks.

We have made the most of the lovely weather this week here at Meldrum with lots of learning activities taking place outside!  I think everyone felt happy to see the sunshine, we’ll keep our fingers crossed that it returns again soon!

A huge congratulations to the P7 pupils who proudly represented our school this week at the West Lothian schools Track and Field event on Wednesday and at the Deans Community High School P7 mathematics contest on Thursday.  Staff who accompanied pupils to these activities reported that our pupils showed our school values and were a credit to their families.  Well done everyone! Our P5 pupils enjoyed a session with the West Lothian Council Ranger service on Wednesday afternoon which linked with their current class work and again, were excellent ambassadors for our school.  Good job P5!

Our Parent Council Spring Fayre takes place tomorrow (Saturday 30th May) from 12pm – 3pm.  We hope to see many of you there.

Sports Day is planned for Thursday 4th June at 9.30am.  The forecast currently doesn’t look great but a decision will be made nearer the time on whether the field is safe for us to use and we will communicate this with families via our groupcall system.  Keep everything crossed that the forecast changes and we can go ahead with sports as planned!

Next Week

Saturday – Spring Fayre 12pm – 3pm (volunteers welcome!)

Monday – No brass lessons today.

Tuesday – Rescheduled brass lessons – instruments required.

Wednesday – P4 trip to 5 Sisters Zoo. P1 and P7 NHS dental checks taking place in school.  Parent Council meeting online at 6.30pm.

Thursday – Sports Day 9.30am.  Visit for new P1 pupils 2pm – 3pm.  Border Embroideries (company who manufacture school uniform) pop up in school hall 2.30pm.  P7 parent meeting at Deans Community High School 5.30pm

We have had lots of achievements in P7 this week.

On Wednesday ten pupils attended the West Lothian Track Field Event at Craigswood Sports Centre. All pupils competed with great perseverance and sportsmanship. Meldrum came 3^rd in both the girls and boys relay races and Jason came third in the 80m sprint. Well done everyone who took part.

On Thursday 2 teams of four attended the DCHS P7 Maths competition. The children had to complete three events applying their numeracy, maths and problem solving skills. One group came joint second and the other came joint third. Well done to both groups.

On Monday we took our P1 buddies out in the sunshine to complete our sensory trails. We really enjoyed this especially when the buddies wanted us to wear the eye masks and lead us around the playground.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Being excellent ambassadors for Meldrum at the different events this week.

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Learning our songs for the Leaver’s Assembly.

This week our Lead Learners are Gokul and Lavanya for consistently demonstrating good manners and respect.  Well done!

They have decided that next week Respect should still be the value that we are focussing on.

What a sunny week we’ve had in Primary 2! We have enjoyed planting outside with Ms Stewart and taking part in our Daily Mile. We enjoyed a lovely whole school assembly celebrating many important sports events that have taken place over week.

Great Green: Recently we have enjoyed…

-We have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. We can explain how a butterfly lays an egg, becomes a caterpillar and he has to eat lots and lots before turning into a chrysalis. After 10-15 days, a butterfly will emerge!

-We have been continuing to investigate symmetry in our outdoor learning. We have been drawing half shapes using chalk and our partner then has to draw the other half. We also made symmetrical stick bugs, snakes, spiders, butterflies and grasshoppers using stick and other natural materials.

Think Pink: We are working on…

-We will be continuing to look at place value and adding and subtracting 10 using number squares to help us.

-We have had warm and sunny weather this week. We must remember to take care of ourselves and stay safe in the sunshine. Try to wear suncream, a sunhat and sunglasses.

Lead Learners:

Well done to Willow and Alaya for being our lead learners this week. They have done a wonderful job helping around the school and classroom.

Our lead learners next week are Matthew and Rosie. They have had a fantastic week, persevering in writing and numeracy.

Primary 5 enjoyed a great week in the sunshine. We played table tennis in the sun and made the most of our daily walks without jackets!!

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We have been making predictions using the vocabulary of probability. We think it is certain Scotland will win the World Cup!!! (not sure we fully understand this 😊)
• We transplanted our sunflowers into bigger individual pots as they were very overcrowded in the tray together.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 We remember and apply our spelling rules in all our writing tasks.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners in the last week of term did a great job. Thank you – Eilish and Stirling.
Our lead learners this week are Eilish and Lily. They have shown perseverance in their learning, being determined to improve their skills.

This years Common Wealth involves each country creating and passing their own baton to the next country and so on until every country has another countries baton. We combined art and technology in a problem solving challenge and created our own batons. We then had a Common Wealth rely race to reenact the ceremony.

Great Green

Learning the life cycles of frogs and butterflies and using this to write an explanation piece with topic specific vocabulary, paragraphs and labelled diagrams.

Think Pink

Remember sun safety by bringing hats and shades!

Great Green (things that are going well)

15-minute writing is an activity we all enjoy. It is interesting listening to the pupils as they read their stories to the rest of the class.

Newsround is a firm favourite in Primary 4. There are many subjects for us to discuss while we watch it each day.

Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We are making good progress with our subtraction but will continue to practise.

This week’s Lead Learners are Alaya and Tilly who have shown kindness towards others and been very helpful in class this week. Well done!

We’ve had another busy week at Meldrum PS! Our P6 pupils enjoyed their trip to the Kelpies with Mrs Robertson and Mrs Brown.  Our new P1 pupils came for their 2nd visit and spent time in the classroom.  They heard the story “A Squash and a squeeze” and enjoyed some animal themed activities, sharing some of their learning in their P1 floorbook which they will have in their classroom when they start with us in August.  We finished the week with an assembly where we talked about the planting and growing that our classes have been involved in recently.

Preparations for our Spring Fayre are well underway.  The fayre is on Saturday 30th May and our parent council are looking for donations for stalls (see poster sent out to you earlier this week)  They are also looking for helpers on the day, please get in touch with the school office if you are able to help and we can pass your name on to the members of the parent council.

Reminder:  Sports day is planned for the morning of Thursday 4th June (weather permitting.) Timings will be shared with you next week. 

)Next week

Tuesday – P7 group to DCHS

Wednesday – P7 group to West Lothian Track and Field event; new P1 visit @11am; PM – P5 working with ranger service

Thursday – P7 group to DCHS cluster maths competition

Saturday – Spring Fayre at Meldrum PS