Curriculum areas and subjects
In honour of Maths Week, this month we are sharing some photos of the amazing learning P1 have been doing in numeracy, working on identifying, making, writing and naming numbers including dice patterns, counting forwards and backwards. Who knew it could be so fun!
Term 1 whizzes by and now we’re on term 2! Last term in maths, we focussed on learning the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes. We then built upon that learning to develop our pattern knowledge skills. I know everyone has been enjoying Banana, Banana, Meatball, click the link if you want to dance along at home. Shahd’s design for her jumper demonstrated excellent fine motor skills and understanding of patterns.
Shahd’s jumper design that includes line, shape and colour patterns. Well done, Shahd!
Interdisciplinary learning
This year, the focus for Maths Week was Maths Matters! We had great fun looking for maths in our local environment and made a mini movie. We combined our digital skills with our health and wellbeing knowledge of keeping ourself safe while walking down busy roads and pavements.
We had three very brave pupils volunteer to speak in assembly to introducing the video. Well done to Oliver, Campbell and Theo!
Ethos and life of the school
Having an older buddy at school helps develops our communication and social skills, as well as build a strong school community. We invited Primary 6 to our classroom to play with us. Miss Copeland and Ms Brunner observed us playing to find out who shared similar interests, then matched us with a buddy. Our buddies had written us letters to introduce themselves and we loved seeing what we had in common!
We also had a great time together on our Autumn Scavenger Hunt where we furthered our knowledge of living and non-living things and worked on demonstrating respect to ourselves, others and the world.
A big thank you to those who were able to donate to our food bank collection in aid of Community One Stop Shop. Community One Stop Shop is based in the Broomhouse area of South West Edinburgh and runs 14 services, including a Foodbank, Community Pantry, Soup Kitchen, Baby Bank and a Care Van supporting homeless people in the city centre.
Their foodbank is the only non-referral foodbank in Edinburgh and is used by some of the most vulnerable people in the city. As a small charity, they rely entirely on donations to keep these services running.
If you would like to learn more, click this link.
Opportunities for wider achievement
Primary 1 have been earning house points in class for going above and beyond in displaying our school values, to SMILE! We are successful, multicultural, inclusive, loved and impowered.
House points are small red, yellow, green or blue plastic tokens. These are taken to the office where they are sorted into 4 boxes. If a pupil receives the honour of a gold token, this is worth 10 house points!
Every week, our fabulous stars of the week have been having lots of fun taking Rumi, our everywhere bear, home.
Rumi’s name was voted by the class at the beginning of the year. We then took Rumi on a tour of the school to show them around, followed by meeting the adults who help us at school!
You can listen to the story of The Everywhere Bear below.
