Meldrum Primary School Blog

We’ve had a really busy week in school with lots of things happening.  Our classes are now familiar with routines and expectations and are getting back into the swing of learning activities and tasks.  It was lovely to welcome families from P1/2; P3/2 and P4/3 to school this week for our first 3 “Big Breakfast” events.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the visit and it was amazing to see and hear our children leading learning as they confidently showed their grown ups around their learning space.  Thank you to everyone who attended.  We look forward to the 2nd round of breakfasts next week!  Our Parent Council met for the first time on Wednesday evening, copies of the minutes will be uploaded to the school website when they have been approved so look out for these being shared.

Next Week

Monday – Destination Judo taster sessions – children can come to school in PE kit today; National Youth Choir of Scotland to work with P4/3; NHS Triage team in school to review flu vaccination consent forms

Tuesday – Mrs Egan out of school at meeting AM

Wednesday – P6/5 Big Breakfast 9.15am

Thursday – P7 Big Breakfast 9.15am

Friday – P5 Big Breakfast 9.15am

Great Green:

• We have began personalising our classroom environment by sketching self-portraits, remembering to add key features.
• We had our first French lesson on this school year in which we recapped popular greetings and listened to the French alphabet.
• We have been extending our rounding skills by rounding up to the nearest 1,000 and 10,000.

Think Pink:

• Working through our spelling tasks and completing them fully.

Lead Leaders:

Thank you to Joe and Isaac for being our lead learners this week. Our lead learners next week will be Zuzanna and Callie. They have shown great responsibility this week and respect for our classroom by tidying up and sorting areas to a high standard, without being asked. Well done!

We look forward to our P6/5 Big Breakfast on Wednesday.

P1/2 have had another busy week learning new sounds, blending letters to read words, exploring dot patterns and P2 have been looking at place value within 20. We have also enjoyed making shapes on the peg boards.

We learned new games in P.E. but our favourite was Tigers and Elephants.

This week we were learning another school value, Respect. We have been showing respect by listening to each other, by looking after our toys and remembering to use please and thank you.

With Mrs Brown we were practising saying hello and goodbye in French.

This week in Art, with Mrs Stewart, we made sunflowers. Some were put in a vase and some were hung on the wall with our elephants.

We enjoyed our Big Breakfast with our parents and carers this morning. It was fun sharing our learning and showing them around our classroom.

Great Green – (things that went well) … sharing our toys and taking turns.

Think Pink – (we need to practise) … writing numbers 0-10.

Our lead learners for next week are Islay and Oliver.

This has been another busy week in P4/3. We enjoyed sharing some of our learning activities with our visitors during our Big Breakfast on Thursday and the food was delicious.

Great Green

• Everyone has been helping to keep our classroom tidy, safe and a great place to learn.
• P4/3 are writing in sentences and using good words to describe the characters from our class novel.

Think Pink

• Remember to show respect and listen when others are talking.
• Continue to practise our spelling and use our vocabulary books.

This week’s Lead Learners are Hazel and Archie for showing respect, using good manners and listening to others.

We’ve had a brilliant first full week here at Meldrum.  Our classes have all settled really well and are getting to know their new teachers and classmates.  Staff are seeing lots of children showing our school values in classes and in the playground.  We had our weekly assembly today where we talked about ways that we can show respect.  We heard about this week’s Lead Learners who were chosen for showing school values across the week and who will be looking out for other children showing values and trying hard in learning next week.  We talked about some leadership opportunities which are coming up. P7 will have the chance to put themselves forward for a role as House Captain; P6 will be offered the chance to chosen as Mini Champs in our key areas of Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing.  The pupil leadership group will have children from each class represented and will meet regularly with one of the school leadership team to look at ways of making our school even better.  Exciting things ahead!

Next week sees the start of our Big Breakfasts.  We are very much looking forward to welcoming up to 2 family members per pupil to these events where you will hear about our priorities for this year, and get the chance to visit your child’s class and meet the staff who will work in partnership with you over the coming year.  We hope to see you there!

Have a lovely weekend, Lynne Egan.

Next Week

Wednesday – P3/2 Big Breakfast @9.15am; Parent Council members meeting 6.30pm in the school

Thursday – P4/3 Big Breakfast @9.15am

Friday – P1/2 Big Breakfast @9.15am

P1/2 have had a busy week learning new sounds, numbers and shapes as well as showing more confidence with the daily routines.

We have also been to the hall twice for P.E. where we had to listen carefully for instructions when we were playing games. We enjoyed the Jellybean game and splashing (jumping) and splatting beanbags into the hoops.

We have started learning about the school values and this week we have been looking out for kindness. Primary 2 have been very good at demonstrating kindness with the P1s.

Yesterday we went into the playground with our buddies to do “the daily mile”. We had lots of fun walking and chatting with them.

Great Green – (things that went well) … finding words that rhyme.

Think Pink – (we need to practise) … tidying the home corner.

Our lead learners for next week are Cody and Thomas.

Great Green:
We have been writing sentences using adjectives to describe ourselves.
We had 2 PE slots this week and the P6’s practised getting changed in the changing rooms.
We started a mini research project about a country of our choice.

Think Pink:
We will all continue to work on respecting each other and our teachers by listening, following instructions and not talking over other people.

Leader Learners:

Our lead learners for the week are Isaac and Joe. They have continually shown responsibility by being proactive in class, offering to do jobs and always contributing to class discussions. A huge well done to them both!

Hi we are the lead learners for next week, Jonah and Max.

It’s been a busy week at school! We have been doing writing and maths, also art making sunflowers and shapes.

Great Green

• We have been practising to add more adjectives in our writing!
• We’ve been predicting and clarifying about short novels.

Think Pink

• Focus more when the teacher has been talking.
• Improve our connectives to demonstrate second level targets.

We are the P7 Lead Learners for next week for showing respect and responsibility! We have been reminding Miss Jones about tasks and jobs.

A wee note from Miss Jones

We have had an exciting first full week in Primary 7 learning about our new responsibilities. I am very proud of how well they have settled into their new roles.  They have kept me young by adding new music to our Primary 7 Spotify playlist!! I look forward to next week as we move onto Similes and Metaphors in Writing and continue with our place value of 4, 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers!

It’s been a very busy 1st full week back, with lots of fabulous learning both in the classroom and using the outdoors.

Great Green

• We wrote a description of Wilbur from our class novel. We all remembered to write in sentences.
• In PE we worked hard to complete different circuits. It was exhausting!

Think Pink

• Lots of people have been working hard at tidy up time to keep our classroom tidy and safe. We hope everyone is going to help us with this.

Our Lead Learners this week are Ellie and Harris for being helpful and keeping our classroom tidy.