Meldrum Primary School Blog

We have had another busy week of fun and learning in Primary 2. We have continued to develop our knowledge of the main food groups, learning their proper names and sorting a variety of food items correctly. So far, we have covered fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and protein. We have been focusing of “qu” in our spelling and handwriting as well as magic / silent “e”. Primary 2 are enjoying French and often use different languages when we do our register each morning. We know “bonjour” is French, “zao shàng hao” is Mandarin (Chinese) and “chào buổi sáng” is Vietnamese. We will learn to say “good morning” in Japanese next week!

Great Green: Recently we have enjoyed…

-Creating symmetrical fruity face plates using a variety of different fruits. We tasted the fruits and chose our top 3! Strawberries were our overall favourite with apple and banana following close second. Pomegranate and kiwi were our least favourite.

-Trying different reading strategies in our reading groups; echo reading, choral reading, paired and individual reading. Primary 2 also still very much enjoy being read to, we recently finished a non-fiction book about animals of the night!

Think Pink:

-We are continuing to learn about food in French! The children have focused on drinks and some fruit and vegetables so far! They are learning to notice similarities in French words to English e.g. “une banane” is “a banana” and “une tomate” is “a tomato”. We also love to remember “milk” is “le lait” which sounds like the name “Lily”.

-Taking care in the toilets and open area. Remembering to tidy up our mess and wash our hands.

Lead Learners:

Well done to Muhammad Ali and Lam for being our lead learners this week, and Alice and Nova last week. They do a fantastic job helping around the school and classroom.

Our lead learners next week are Willow and Alaya. They have had a fantastic week, eager and enthusiastic about their learning and kind towards others in the class.

Wee reminder: Show and tell will now take place on a Monday, toys are not allowed in school and children should use Seesaw to share pictures of their show and tell item or activity. We love to see what each other has been up to at home, in the garden or out and about!

Primary 5 are looking forward to the sunshine and have been thinking about how to stay safe in the sun.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

• We have been continuing to build up our garden dioramas this week using our plans to work out what we need to do. We have all been very creative.
• We made delicious fruit kebabs (following very high standards of hygiene!!) Then wrote the recipe for this.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

 Use our clarifying skills when reading unfamiliar words.

Lead Learners.

Our lead learners in the last week of term did a great job. Thank you – Lucy and Neve
The class voted for who they felt was the most responsible and the pupils who got the most votes are……. Eilish and Stirling. They are our Lead Learners.
Their tasks will be to support learners in their reading tasks.

This morning we have been very creative designing and making symmetrical tiles. We have had to problem solve and persevere to ensure accuracy in our work.

For Science this week we continued our work on light and shadow. In groups we had to design an experiment to show if different materials were transparent, translucent or opaque.

In P.E. we were continuing with our athletics. This week we were practising relay races.

As part of our English Transition, we were thinking about morality and had to discuss issues in the novel and think about real life examples. Very interesting!

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Writing an explanation about eating a healthy diet.

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Adding and subtracting mixed fractions.

This week our Lead Learners are Millie and James for demonstrating honesty.  Well done!

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

It has been nice to have had a full week in school and a normal pattern of days after last week!  We’ve had a lot going on this week too!  As you know, each class shares a weekly post about their learning so be sure to have a read about what your child/children have been up to!

We were delighted to welcome our upcoming P1 pupils to the school on Wednesday for their first transition visit.  The children spent time in the P1 class and heard the story of “The Gruffalo” which everyone enjoyed.  We are looking forward to having the children back in next Thursday afternoon.

Our current P7 had a visit from one of the Science teachers at DCHS on Thursday morning where they took part in some practical science activities as part of their transition.  Everyone was really enthusiastic and enjoyed the tasks.  This morning, a team of 9 P7 pupils went to a football festival event held at Inveralmond High School.  The team took part in 5 games, securing a couple of wins which was fantastic.  The festival was non-competitive and everyone who took part was awarded a medal.  The team tried their best, worked well as a team and enjoyed the experience.  Well done everyone!

Date for your diary:  Sports Day is planned for the morning of Thursday 4th June. The event will take the form of potted sports, with children competing in their houses.  As this is an outdoor event, it will be weather dependent. It may not be possible to provide advance notice of cancellation. On the morning of the event, a risk assessment of the pitch will be carried out to ensure it is safe to proceed.  If the event needs to be cancelled, a new date will be shared as soon as possible.   Further information, including specific timings, will be communicated closer to the day.

Next week

Monday – Victoria Day holiday – school closed

Tuesday – P7 group to DCHS transition activity; Donations for Spring Fayre can be sent in from today

Wednesday – P6 trip to The Kelpies

Thursday – New P1 visit to class at 2pm

Yesterday P7 had another visit from DCHS Science department. We were applying the skills we were asked to practise: measuring time, volume, mass and temperature. We had to use these skills when undertaking two experiments.

We were practising explanation writing again this week to write about the water cycle. Half of us used word processing on the laptops to do this. The other half will do this next week.

Developing our work on light and shadow we made articulated shadow puppets in Art.

In Maths we have been experimenting with symmetry. We were looking at and creating shapes with more than one line of symmetry.

This week in outdoor learning we began creating a sensory trail for our P1 Buddies. This was based on an activity we did at Dalguise. Hopefully we can take the P1s out soon to try it out.

We continued to develop our Athletic skills in P.E. and some of us have been selected to take part in a competition in a couple of weeks.

As part of Mental Health Week we watched a couple of videos which gave us some strategies to use when we feel unhappy, stressed or lonely.

Well done to the P7 boys who took part in the inter school football tournament today.

Great Green (Things that went well)

• Applying our science skills

Think Pink (Things we want to get better at)

• Developing our word processing skills.

This week our Lead Learners are Charlie and Ameera for demonstrating responsibility.  Well done!

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

Great Green

Our week has been different. Miss McFarlane went away and next week Mrs Robertson will come back!

We have become far more responsible with looking after the laptops and making sure they are plugged in to charge.

We all wrote excellent sentences about chance and probability in sport as part of our Sport and Exercise topic and as part of our Maths Learning.

Think Pink

We have been doing challenges to build 3D shapes, and it has been quite difficult.

We were organising the Fiction library by alphabetical order of the author’s surname. We still need to tell the other classes about our returns shelf and we need to make more signs so it is kept tidy.

This week’s Lead Learners had some very responsible tasks. Maya had to catch worms in the playground. Max had to plan and lead the PE lesson.

For next week, after showing huge enthusiasm and responsibility this week, are

Sara and Kanishka!

Great Green

Think Pink

Remember carrying ten is important in column (chimney) sums because it helps us keep the place values correct.

This weeks Lead Learners are Hazel and Harris!