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• STEM Nation Award Open Days 2026

  Building on last year’s successful STEM Nation Award Open Days, our team at Education Scotland is delighted to announce that we are working with a group of inspirational educators to host a series of STEM Nation Open Days across Scotland. … <a href="https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/stemnation/2025/11/17/stem-nation-award-open-days-2026/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

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• Using Images from Elsewhere

  

  The Image block has a nice feature that lets you use and import images from other sites. Of course you should always make sure you are legally allowed to use the image concerned. This may involve crediting the image in the case of Creative Commons images. The image block has an Insert form URL button, and will let you import that image to your Media Library. In this example we will use a Public Domain image (which we do not need to credit) from Wikimedia Commons. I’ve searched the Commons for Glow and found an image I like. On the

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• Room 1 – 14.11.25

  This week in Room 1 we have: Used the INDIs to help us blend our sounds to make words (check the videos below) Answered some of our ‘big questions’ about what makes the world wonderful. We have explored rainbows, flowers and now we are learning about animals. Look at the way we sorted the animals Used number lines in numeracy to help with addition Identified sentences ✅ and fragments ❌. We worked together to fix the fragments. Today we enjoyed celebrating Children in Need. A reminder that we are inviting parents/families in next week for Book Week to spend time …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 4

  Good afternoon, This week in Room 4 the children have enjoyed: ZA – I liked writing e and d.AB – I liked fixing the fragments into complete sentences.ED – I liked guessing how many sweets were in the jar.LF – I liked learning the story of 1, 2, and 3.MH – I liked practising for the nativity on the stage.CH – I liked sorting out fragments and sentences.KH – I liked working with Miss McFarlane and practising numbers.EJ – I liked drawing at the creative table.EM – I liked learning the ea sound.HM – I liked going to the gym …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 3

  We’ve had another exciting and busy week in Primary 1! In Literacy, our focus has been learning two new sounds: e and d. The children have been working very hard and we have used a range of active learning strategies to help us explore, practise and remember these sounds. We have used a range of visuals, eye spy games and magnetic letters. In Maths, we have been continuing our work on addition. The class has been practising writing number sentences, using concrete materials and visual supports to help them understand each step. The children have enjoyed using cubes and number …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 20

  Hello and welcome to the outstanding blog of room 20. On Tuesday we had a minute of silence for Remembrance Day and we did research on the EU. We also made a quiz for our Europe topic & we made true or false quizzes  for our showcase. Wednesday We did research on Francois Auguste-Rene Rodin and a summary about him and we finished our true or false posters. Thursday We wrote our own music with crochets and quavers with Mrs Webber. We also finished our information reports on Rodin. Since we finished them, we typed them up and we completed …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class