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• Room 8

  Hello and welcome to our first blog of term 3! We have had such an exciting week this week and we can’t wait to share with you all. On Monday, we settled back in to our school routine and shared our Easter holiday news with each other. On Wednesday we found out our new science topic which will be living things, we are even going to grow our own beans and record their growth in our plant diaries! On Thursday we enjoyed the nice weather outside and started some sports day practice in PE, we also discussed our new topic …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 6 Beautiful Butterflies and Super Symmetry!

  Hello everyone! We’ve had a fantastic week in Primary 2, blending our numeracy skills with some wonderful creativity. We wanted to share a quick update on our latest classroom project with you all. Exploring Symmetry Through Art This week, our focus has been on learning all about symmetry. To bring this maths concept to life, we were tasked with creating our very own symmetrical butterfly artwork. We learned that for a butterfly to fly properly, its wings need to be a perfect mirror image of one another! “Symmetry means it is exactly the same on both sides, just like looking …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Room 14

  Good afternoon everyone, it has been a quick first week back and have been very lucky to have some sunny weather. The boys and girls have been very busy, please see below some of the things they have enjoyed learning about. “I enjoyed learning about budgeting and looking at the Nandos menu to work out if I had enough money to spend.” MN “I enjoyed focusing on travelling in different ways during PE.” HM “I enjoyed our pointillism art” ED “I enjoyed learning about renewable energy” JS “I enjoyed answering comprehension questions on our book Voices in the Park” JMc …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Welcome Back to Room 23

  We have had a jam packed first week back after our Easter Holidays! In literacy , we have continued with our novel study ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ and have begun a block of discursive writing. We are learning how to have a balanced debate. In numeracy we have been learning all about calculating speed, distance and time and are absolute pros at this now! We have been learning how to say the weather in French and were also exceptionally lucky to have a visit from some paramedics, where we learnt how to give life saving CPR. They also showed us how …

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  Newton Farm Primary School and Nursery Class

• Learn North CLD Conference March 2026

  On the 26th of March 2026, Learn North Connect and Reflect Community Learning & Development (CLD) Conference was held in Inverness, for Community Learning and Development (CLD) practitioners delivering learning for community based adult learning, ESOL, adult literacy, youth work, community development and volunteering from strategic managers to practitioners. There was attendance from approximately 70 at the in person event. Learn North is the CLD professional learning alliance that connects over 300 practitioners from eight local authority areas – Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Argyll & Bute, Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles. It is the biggest geographical region in Scotland. …

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  Education Scotland - Community Learning & Development Portal

• Education Scotland Associates for CLD !

  New Education Scotland Associates (ESAs) in Education Scotland CLD Team – 2025 / end March 2026   During 2025 Education Scotland recruited Education Scotland Associates (ESAs) across the organisation to support and develop key projects. The ESA’s are all CLD practitioners working in the field who joined Education Scotland on a part time basis.   The Community Learning and Development team recruited four ESAs who came with a variety of different working knowledge, skills and were located in different locations across Scotland. The experience of the ESAs covered CLD in local authority, College and voluntary sector and included youthwork, community …

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  Education Scotland - Community Learning & Development Portal