Termly Plans

Newmore Primary

The ‘Termly Plan‘ Page has been updated with this terms plans so that you are aware of the teaching and learning experiences for the children in the coming term. It will also link to what you see on Seesaw.

 

STEM Challenge

Newmore Primary
The whole school got together to carry out a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) challenge activity. They had to create a ‘Skeleton Bridge’ that followed specific criteria;
*to be strong enough to hold a dancing zombie figure
*to be far enough of the ground for a toy skull to pass under
* longer than any other groups
The pupils had such a fun time in their groups building their bridges that there was no time at the end to assess! But we were super impressed at the level of design, fabulous teamwork and great communication that we saw from the pupils.

Whole School Citizenship

Newmore Primary

On Thursday, the whole school carried out 2 activities:

  1. Baking in preparation for our coffee afternoon this afternoon, learning practical life skills. The smells from the middle classroom were mouthwatering.
  2. School Values and planning what Newmore School Values will be. The children were then put into pairs looking at examples of local schools’ values. They had discussions about what they liked and then created their own list for Newmore;

 

Friendly/Friendship Be kind and respectful
Team Work Respect
Confidence Honest 
Fun Be creative
Responsibility  Improve and learn 
Caring Be happy and never give up
Work Hard Resilience 
To encourage others to be the best that they can be /best self Pride
Trust (yourself and others) Helpful
Rational Encourage
Sharing  Motivated
Never give up Stay positive
It’s ok to be different  Support people who struggle
Include  Be ready to learn 
Challenge yourself Keep yourself and others safe
Grateful Be ambitious 

Once both groups has created their lists. We met back as a whole school and came up with a plan.

There were 3 suggestions:

  • Pick 8 or 10 and vote for the best via google 
  • Condense some as a few are similar 
  • Make an acronym so we can remember the values as this helps us with the well-being indicators. 

The whole school voted and agreed the best thing would be to have an acronym.

Next steps: 

  • As a whole school in mixed pairs, come up with words that could be used as an acronym and then use the values we have listed about to make our acronym. 
  • We will then vote on the best which will then become our schools values.

Under the Mask

Newmore Primary

During Assembly today we were recognising and learning about Mental Health – tomorrow is World Mental Health Day.

To learn about how the children could deal with thier emotions – sadnes, anger and worry we read the book ‘Under the Mask.’ This is a special book as it was written by a previous teacher of Newmore Primary, Emma Cahill. Emma is currently teaching in Brazil.

Miss Cahill sent us our own video of her reading the book to us – the children LOVED it!

Ask your child who the characters are and how they help them to recognise how to ‘unlock my ability for ME to control me.’

It is a super book which helps the children to understand and relate to how they might feel at times – ’emotions are vistiors, they come and go!’

 

 

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Art

Newmore Primary

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Today, P1-4 were doing Art with Mrs Blake.

They were using watercolours and crayons to paint and add patterns to an oak leaf template. 

This block of work will expose the children to “the elements of art” which include form, tone, pattern and texture with an autumn focus.

 

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Safe Highlanders

Newmore Primary

safe highlandersOur P7 children attended the Safe Highlanders event which was run by Highlife Highland in Dingwall. The children were taken around various stations to learn about keeping themselves safe in a range of situations. Some of the participants were SSE, Police, Fire Service, Internet Safety, British Rail and various others.

Fire Brigade

Newmore Primary

Dean, Stuart, Liam and Rowan from Invergordon Retained Fire Brigade came to visit P1-4 today to inform them what they do to help people and explain what they do in their job. The children had not seen some of the equipment or protective clothing they use before so they were very interested in learning and hearing about it!

The children thoroughly enjoyed this visit and asked some super questions.

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