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Primary 1/ 2 Blog

Welcome to Primary 2

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Hello! We are so pleased you have you with us for this new academic year.

Primary 2 Staff

Miss Copeland

Class Teacher

Colin

Early years Practitioner (EYP)

Snack

Pupils eat snack outside during breaktime. They need a snack every day including Friday.
Snack is ONE easy to eat item that will keep them going until lunch time e.g. 1 banana.

Water Bottle

Pupils should each bring a water bottle filled with water.
If you wish for your child to have milk, please contact the school office – sign up is through Parent Pay.

Waterproof Coat

Pupils should bring a waterproof coat every day. Please put it in their bag if they do not want to wear it to school. We play outside regardless of the rain!

P.E Kit

Primary 2 get changed for Physical Education (P.E).

Kit is any t-shirt and shorts/ jogging bottoms/ leggings.

This will need to be kept in a bag with the pupil’s name clearly written on the outside.

P.E is on Mondays and Wednesdays. You may leave the kit at school or take it home.

Name labels

Please label all of your child’s belongings. Permanent marker/ Biro inside jumpers is fine.

Contacting us

We try to be available at the end of the day to chat to families however this isn’t always possible due to courses or meetings.
You can e-mail the school office and a message will be passed on or staff can call when they are free or alternatively, notes in school bags or reading folders is fine.

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P1 Money Sense

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Do you use cash?

We are moving towards a becoming cashless society. More pupils in Primary 1 have seen their grown ups use a mobile phone to pay compared to using coins!

“I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins. MNU 0-09a”

We will be supporting your child to…

  • Identify all coins to £2.
  • Apply addition and subtraction skills and use 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins to pay the exact value for items to 10p.

Click the link below to see an array of money games

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money

To start our topic, we opened with 3 questions

We have been sorting and matching coins

  • By colour – Gold, Silver, Bronze
  • By shape – Circle, Heptagon, Dodecagon
  • By size – Smallest to biggest
  • By value – lowest value to highest value

To understand that each coin has a different worth, we have been playing with dot cards – combining cards with different dot amounts to pay for an item.


Museum on on the Mound

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Museum on the Mound

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Tuesday 20th June

Primary 1 can arrive as early as 8:45am to school however must not be any later than 8:55.

We will be leaving school promptly. We will be walking to the museum and walking back in time for lunch.

Shop – The museum has a gift shop, all profits from which go to charity.
A maximum amount of £2 will be allowed on this trip per child.
Staff will do their best however we kindly remind you that pupils are ultimately responsible for their money.

  • School uniform, including school jumpers.
  • Waterproof coat
  • Waterbottle
  • Snack
  • Optional – money for gift shop
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P1 – upcoming events

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Thursday 8th June – Sports Day

Please see email from Mrs Henry, sent on Friday 2nd June.

We welcome parents and family members to join our 3-legged race.

Please have a chat with your child about if you can/cannot come. This is really helpful as it supports their emotional regulation on the day.

Pupils have been encouraged to wear a top/ jumper of their team. This is not compulsory however helps add to the team feel. Below are their colours.

YellowRedBlueGreen
Aiden, Clay, LolaJana, Mohamed, AronZoe, Loai, Eddy, SidrahYasmine, Sarah, Mustapha


Friday 16th June – School Fair

Run by the parent council after school, this should be an afternoon of games, stalls and fun! Parents must collect children as normal and accompany them during their time there. Enjoy!


Tuesday 20th June – Class trip to Museum on the Mound

As a conclusion to their money topic, primary 1 will visit the Museum on the Mound. This will be a hands on morning, handling and creating money, learning ways that it has been kept safe in the past and seeing one million pound in real life!

Shop – The museum also has a gift shop, all profits from which go to charity. If you would like your child to use the shop, we have many ‘pocket-money’ items under £2.00; pens, pencils, rulers, key rings, postcards and replica coins.

A maximum amount of £2 will be allowed on this trip per child as not to spend too long in the shop! Staff will do their best however we kindly remind you that pupils are ultimately responsible for their money.

Thursday 22nd June – Class trip to East Links Family Park

On this day, primary 1 will be travelling by coach to East Links FP for their end of year trip. Click the link to see what fun experiences they might have together!

https://www.eastlinks.co.uk

If you are aware for any reason that your child will be absent on these days, please email the school and let us know so that we can adjust staffing accordingly. Many thanks, Miss Copeland

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P1 – Dinosaur Finale

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Palaeontology Practise

We had to be very gentle so we didn’t break the fossils or bones

After learning about fossils, we had a go at making our own! Bones, ammonites (ammonoidea) and dinosaur footprints.

Dinosaur Diets

We dissected dinosaur poo

– if we found only plants, it was from a herbivore

– if we found only bones and feathers, it was a carnivore

– if we found a mixture of both, it was an omnivore!

Trip to the National Museum of Scotland – following the Discovering Dinosaurs! Trail

If you wish to follow it again, click the link here! or choose a new trail to follow.

  • Clay, “Kangaroo, looking for where the baby was meant to be” Mustapha, “The baby sleeps in the pouch”
  • Aiden, This is a triceratops. Fights with it’s horns.”
  • “Skulls!”
  • Clay, “The horn helps make a noise Aiden, “It is a crest”
  • Mustapha, “This is the Ichthyosaurus. They have big eyes.”
  • Sidrah, “This is the alligator eggs. It tells people which is the girls or the boys”
  • Jana, “This is the ammonite – it is a fossil”
  • Aiden, “cavemen drawings”
  • Mohamed “The dinosaur egg is for the baby dinosaur and it was bumpy and stony”
  • Lola, “It’s a stegosaurus – it has spikes on it’s back”. Aiden, “They are called plates”
  • Mustapha, “I was a raptor!”
  • Eddy, “skeleton”
  • Loai , “Playing the dinosaur game” (cleaning the bones like a Palaeontologist)
  • Eddy, “Playing”
  • Mustapha, “A Badger”
  • Clay, “It’s important to put the right ones in the right bins– the black bin is for the x things (non-recyclable things)” Eddy, “The green bin is for recycling”

Treasure Hunt

While on a journey to find things that are living, once lived and never lived, we found some clues that took us on a treasure hunt around our local area that ended with a big pot of gold!