Author: Mrs Leslie

Welcome everyone to the Primary 3 Blog for 2023-2024. It has been a hectic start to the school term but we are up and running. We have been out on a walk to Dunbar’s Close and we will be taking lots of opportunities to be out and about in our local community over the coming year. We have opportunities to visit the Museum on the Mound to talk about money in the Math Week, we will be visiting the Poetry Library to share poems and we are hoping to go to the Museum on Scotland to complete our Viking Topic. All of this will be before the end of term.

It was lovely to have so many parents visit the classroom at Meet the Teacher and we loved singing to you and showing how we do our spelling. We hope to share more of our learning over the year and will take every opportunity to show you our learning.

Homework will be issued after the September Holiday and it will be on the blog and issued in the school bags on Monday to be returned on Friday. It will consist of literacy and math that has been covered over the week. I encourage you try the homework and when it is returned on a Friday the children will be responsible for self correction.

I would like to remind you of the following which helps your child in class. As the classroom can be very hot please try and provide a water bottle, (water only) as juice can be very sticky. Please could you send in a PE kit that can stay in school as we have PE three times a week (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) the kit will be sent home to be washed during the holidays. Please could you provide a pair of indoor shoes as we get nearer winter and the rain is quite heavy it is good to have a change of shoes.

I have attached Term 1’s Overview and if you have any questions or concerns please contact me through the office as soon as possible so that I can address any issues or problems. Regards Mrs Leslie

I cannot believe how the year has flown by and what a wonderful year with Primary 5 I have had. We have been to Ancient Egypt, Japan and looked at the Water Cycle. However for me the most impressive outcome for this year has been the leadership of each child in the class for our Social Enterprise project. From creating a business with a logo, The Royal Planters, to winning Dragon’s Den then last week receiving one of the Scottish Start up Awards at the Social Enterprise Academy Awards’ Day at the Assembly Rooms. I know I speak for all the staff in the school to say how proud we are of their achievements this year. It takes a great team effort, lots of communication, compromise and resilience to exceed in running a business as a group and P5 have achieved this.

The project will continue on into next year as our vegetables are still growing and in Primary 6 they will have a chance to develop the business into the wider school once again demonstrating their great leadership skills.

Last Week Primary 5 enjoyed their trip to Leith Links for a picnic and rounders, then on to Wonder World where they had most of the soft play to themselves. At the start of last week they made sushi when Aron’s Dad came to show us how to make it. We had fun rolling the sushi, cutting it and then every one had a taste. We are very grateful to Aron’s dad for taking the time to visit us and bring all the wonderful ingredients to make vegetable sushi. The previous week we had made Carrot soup to launch our enterprise project and P5 invited their parents and P3 and P4 to taste the results at their pop up café and share their enterprise adventure so far.

I always find this time of year hard when change is happening and the class is moving on but I know that this class is a credit to their parents, the school and themselves in the achievements they have made this year. I want to thank the parents for the support and encouragement they have given the class and myself this year. I want to wish all of Primary 5 a wonderful and restful summer and I will be watching them closely from my new class to see them achieve even more wonderful things in Primary 6. Regards Mrs Leslie.

Last week Primary 5 took part in the Nursery PE session and supported them in trying Cosmic Yoga, We are Going on a Bear Hunt. Primary 5 were a great support to their Nursery Buddies and we will be meeting again on Friday to continue with our Yoga session. In Maths we will be continuing with time to build our confidence in recognise increments of 15 minutes, 5minutes and one minute. This week we have Sports Day on Thursday 8th June and we will be taking the sports to Holyrood Park. The classes will be taking part in their houses and if it is possible please wear something that is the colour of your house, however this should only be done if you have something at home to wear. We would also encourage everyone to apply suntan cream before coming to school, try and bring a hat and a water bottle and cross your fingers that it is just the right weather on the day.

Home Learning, this week will be spelling, see below, and math sheet, will be in bag, they will be issued on Monday to be returned on Friday for self correction and discussion. As we get nearer the end of term and with the lovely weather I will only issue maths home learning and spelling so that the class have a chance to get out and about.

Primary 5 had another short week last week but we still managed to get lots of work done. On Tuesday we started planning and making our invitations to our Pop-up Cafe to launch our soup packets for the Social Enterprise project. Copies of The Big Issue arrived in school with our article about the Social Enterprise project and each member of the Royal Mile Planters will be taking a copy home shortly and we hope to sell the rest of our copies to families and friends. We have been playing team games and developing our gymnastic skills in PE. We are hoping that the weather stays dry so that we can be outdoors at the end of the day to maintain the planters and have some well deserved team games.

On Wednesday we, once again, shared our learning time with our Nursery buddies and we acted out Going on a Bear Hunt, helping our Nursery buddies to squelch through mud, swish through the grass and run away from the Bear in the cave.

I have attached the Spelling Homework for this week and the maths and reading comprehension will be sent in the homework bags on Monday. All homework should be sent back on Friday for self correction and discussion. Please can I also remind you to send in a change of clothes for PE and I would be grateful if water bottles could be brought to school with just water as it is now quite warm in the classroom. Thank you fro your support.

Up until the end of term our focus on the Mental Agility Rainbow will be multiplication and division and I will be sending out more information about this in the following weeks. I am hoping to link this to some homework that will involve the children coming up with some activities that can be used in class and suggested to and used in other classes. So P5 will need to get their mental agility thinking heads on an share some ideas for this area of their mental agility.

Please find attached the overview for P5 for the last term of this session. I cannot believe how quickly the year has passed but in P5 we are in for a busy term ahead. I would be grateful if you could please remember to provide a change of clothes for PE even if it is an old t-shirt as it is now getting hot inside and outside. Also I would encourage all of the class to bring a water bottle due to the start of the hot weather and the class being quite warm. I have also attached the Rainbow Mental Maths Challenges sheet for you to try at home. This month’s challenge is Indigo: Addition and Subtraction. Thank you once again for your support and if your have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards Mrs Leslie