Meldrum Primary School Blog

Primary 5 are busy practising their skills as they get ready for Primary 6.

Great Green – ‘What went well’

* Our focus this week has been symmetry in Maths. We looked at symmetry in nature and created a display of symmetrical flower petals and added symmetrical butterflies.
* It has been ‘Mental health week’ this week and we took time to explore our happy place – how it makes us feel and how it helps us.

Think Pink – ‘Even better if’

* We expressed length using decimal notation.
* We added our knowledge of time connectives to our writing.

Lead Learners.

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

Great Green (things that are going well)

For Mental Health Week we discussed the importance of talking to others about our feelings and emotions, then we chose an activity sheet to complete from ‘My Happy Place’ or ‘My Positive Mental Health Jar’. Primary 4 had very good ideas about ways to support people who were feeling sad.

For Think Pink (things that were a bit tricky)

We are continuing to practise our subtraction with exchange sums.

This week’s Lead Learners are Slater for making excellent progress in his Fry’s words and Jackson for following the School Values. Well done!

We had an excellent time last week ending with our P2 Assembly. We loved sharing our knowledge on different nocturnal animals. As their teacher, I am incredibly proud of them all for their commitment and dedication to the assembly. It was lovely to hear so many of them say “I loved that!” afterwards.

A super fun week in Primary 2. We have been exploring the different food groups this week, learning lots of new vocabulary such as carbohydrates, protein and dairy. We can sort a selection of foods into these different food groups and we also had a little look at the Eatwell Guide, investigating what makes a balanced meal.

Great Green:

-Sorting a variety of foods into different food groups and creating our own healthy McDonalds drive thru!

-Our first look at instructional writing, remembering how to wash our hands properly.

-Creating their own “snazzy snail” in Art with Mrs Stewart.

Think Pink:

-Continue to understand food as fuel for our bodies, and the importance of drinking water.

-Explore some simple symmetry by folding, cutting and printing.

-Remember to complete our daily zones check-in!

Lead Learners:

Well done to Lucy and Harrison for being our lead learners this week.

Our lead learners next week are for taking responsibility when playing and working with Primary 1. They were showing kindness to others and good teamwork. Well done Alice and Nova!

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!