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  • Room 1 – 27.3.26

    Last week: – We had paramedics and the police visit us at school. We enjoyed seeing inside an ambulance and asking about their job. One of us even got arrested!! 🤣🚓🚑 – We have moved on to learning new phonemes. We learnt the diagraph ‘sh’ and went on a scavenger hunt in the playground to find ‘sh’ words that we copied and drew a picture of. We did do this on a very windy day so if you find any ‘sh’ words in your garden please let me know 🙈 – We have been learning about tens and ones in …

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  • Room 5 Trip to the Windfarm

    Today we went on our school trip to Whitelee Windfarm. We learned about renewable energy, and wind energy, during our scottish island topic. It was great to see them in real life! Eilidh- We got to stand underneath the wind turbine. Calvin- We completed different experiments testing different energy. Beth- The wind turbines were big and we stood under them. Alice- We learned about hydropower, solar panels and wind energy. Emmeline- Lots of different activities. Eva- We went for a walk to see some of the wind turbines up close. Lewis- It was cold because of the wind. Austin- The …

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  • Room 24

    Last week in science, we tested our knowledge of air resistance and connected it in an interactive way to our World War 2 topic. We were given a toy soldier, some string, a bin bag liner and had to make a paratrooper that would fall gently from the top of the stairwell. We could cut the string and bag to any size or shape we wanted, then test them out. Some of us were more successful than others  as some paratroopers started to spin, break or fell too fast. All in all, we had fun and learnt new skills. We learnt …

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  • Police Visit

    On Wednesday morning, we had another visit from two people who help us in the community. They were police officers. We had the opportunity to meet them and ask them questions about their jobs. They answered our questions with informative answers and we learned some new information about their jobs. We would like to thank them for coming to Newton Farm Primary. We had a great time meeting you. SC – They asked us questions about them. They showed us the handcuffs.  LM – They had keys beside one of their pockets and I saw a hat that they use. …

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  • Room 19

      Room 19’s blog!     Hi everyone this is room 19’s blog! We are going to be talking about all the fun stuff we have gotten up to. On Monday we were learning about new fractions! It was loads of fun. We were also doing P.E in the afternoon. We played prisoner dodgeball and it was amazing!! Then on Tuesday we were practising some of our wonderful spelling words and going into our groups for make £5 grow! It was so fun and we are looking forward to the actual project to come!   On Wednesday we got a …

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