Meldrum Primary School Blog

Ziggy the Zebra is starting out on his adventures with his classmates. We have made a calendar for him of the visits he is going to make in the coming weeks. I hope you enjoy Ziggy’s visit.

Great Green – ‘What went well’
• We have been working on our times tables this week. Each day we completed a 15-minute challenge and as the week has gone on the leader board has got closer and closer. We now have lots of pupils with a 100% score.
Primary 5 know that practise makes perfect.
• In our writing we have been trying our best to include as many interesting, exciting adjective as possible. Using them to describe nouns in our writing. We have also been trying to include joined writing.
What a busy, achieving week we have had!!

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’
• Using our knowledge of the properties of 2D shapes when exploring 3D shapes.

Lead Learners.
This week our Lead Learners are Struan and Tilly.
They have shown honesty and integrity in the class this week. Well Done Struan and Tilly.

This has been another busy week in P4/3!

Great Green

• This week in PE we worked on Circuits and Benchball skills. It was very exciting, exhausting and fun!
• We wrote about The Goose from Charlotte’s Web. Mrs Egan read our writing and said it was really good.

Think Pink

• We need to continue to practise listening carefully to others when they are speaking.

Our Lead Learners this week are Callum and Mia C  who have been very helpful in the classroom. Well done!

We’ve had another busy week here at Meldrum!  We had Family Big Breakfasts for P5, P6/5 and P7 and welcomed lots of family members to the school to hear all about school improvement plans for this year as well as meet class teachers, spend time with children in the classroom and not forgetting the chance to have some breakfast and a chat with other families.  Thank you to everyone who came along to support this event! On Monday, classes took part in a Destination Judo taster session and everyone had a great time.  P4/3 started their block of sessions with NYCoS (National Youth Choir of Scotland) and the children really enjoyed the activities that they took part in.  We held our first house gathering of the year this week too.  P7 delivered their speeches in the house captain elections and pupils voted for the person that they wanted to lead their house this year.  Congratulations to Elle and Alegra; Max and Darcey; Emma and Violet and James and Emily who were all successful and will lead our houses this year.  Also in house gatherings, the children looked at a question from the document “How good is OUR school” and thought about how welcoming our school is and what we could do to make it even better.  There were some really good suggestions and the school leadership team will consider how to take some of these forward. We rounded off the week with our assembly where teachers gave out values certificates to the children who will be lead learners in our classes next week.  Well done to everyone who received a certificate today!

Next week

Monday – NYCoS to work with P4/3; P1 session for parents on Literacy 2.30pm (enter via main office)

Thursday – P7 group to Cross Country event; No woodwind lessons today

Friday – NHS staff in school to administer flu vaccinations

Questions to ask kids about their day at school | Parent Club – some ideas of questions to ask your child about their day at school, hopefully you find these helpful!

We have had a lovely week in P6/5, exploring our new topic, experiencing judo and working on our ‘Think Pink’ from last week whilst working on our spelling tasks.

Great Green:

• We have produced great writing this week, remembering to use our core targets and add nouns. We also marked our own work!
• Our listening skills have definitely improved this week which is great as it has allowed us to enjoy some rewards as we are able to get through our lessons without disruption 😊.
• We loved having our families in for our ‘Big Breakfast’, exploring the tasks provided and proudly showing off our classroom.
• We continued exploring greetings and the French alphabet, and all had a go at saying it.

Think Pink:

We will focus on using our initiative to find out information already displayed in the classroom such as the date and the daily timetable.

Lead Learners

Thank you to Zuzanna and Callie for being our lead learners this week.

I’m pleased to say our lead learners for next week are Lawclyn and Lily. They were awarded this for showing great perseverance this week. Well done!

P1/2 have had another busy week learning new skills. In two of our activities this week we had to complete tasks with a partner: in Topic we had to cut and stick words to label the different parts of an elephant and in Numeracy P1 had to order Uno cards 0-9 then build the corresponding number with the matching colour of Number Blocks.

P2 worked together and helped each other to order the ten numbers (10, 20, 30…) then match the correct number of ‘tens’ to each one.

In P.E. this week we were learning to take turns when working in a team.

Our value this week has been Perseverance. We all showed this value during our writing lesson when writing a description of an elephant.

In Maths we have been learning about 2D shapes and in Art, with Mrs Stewart, we had to stick shapes onto a cauldron then print bubbles using different circles.

Great Green – (things that went well) …everyone worked well with a partner to complete their tasks.

Think Pink – (we need to practise) … walking (not running) about the classroom and cloakroom to keep ourselves and others safe.

Our lead learners for next week are Jenson and Leah.

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!