On Wednesday, Primary 1 visited the Museum on the Mound, AKA the money museum for an end of topic trip. We must say a huge thank you to the staff there who led such engaging activities. Primary 1 learnt about the different security details in bank notes and created their own with holographic stickers, embossing, UV writing, date stamps and their own bank name. They were able to strike their own coin using a template and hammer, and see lots of interesting artefacts such as safe keys, the watchman’s chair and tried to crack a safe. Well done to Primary 1 who walked up and down the Royal Mile very sensibly, despite how busy it was with tourists!
This Wednesday afternoon, Primary 1 will be walking to the Museum on the Mound for some hands on money activities.
Timeline:
11:30-12:30 Lunch, play, toilet 12:35 leave school to walk to museum 1:00 Arrival and introduction 1:10 Activity 1 – Unusual money from around the world 1:35 Activity 2 – Design Your Own Banknote 1:55 Activity 3 – Museum highlights 2:20 Pack up and depart 2:50 Arrive back to school 3:00 Normal home time
If pupils do wish to practise using their money knowledge to purchase a souvenir at the gift shop, the museum advises £2 to be a suitable amount.
The trip will be supervised by Miss Copeland, Mr Madine and Mrs McGlashan.
Primary 1 have been reading all types of words this week. Reading alien words is a great way to check phonic skills. Could you read quap, shoj or pluv?
Play the game below by reading the word and deciding if it is a real word (Astronaut) or fake word (alien word)
We have been exploring dances from around the world. We have noticed different beats, instruments in the music and actions for each.
From voting we found out that Bollywood was the most popular dance with our class with comments such as “I like the Bollywood music”, “I like the beat” and “I like the actions”.
Electricity and energy
Primary 1 investigated what makes toys ‘go’ and created their own wind up spinners while learning about energy. We had so much fun we forgot to take photos!
Explore the website below to find out about different types of energy and electrical safety.
This week you will receive your child’s school report. Below are some explanations of words and phrases which may helpful.
Pure sounds – Saying the letter sound without an ‘uh’ sound at the end e.g. M is ‘mmm’ not ‘muh’. To see a video explaining pure letter sounds click here.
Red words – Also known as tricky words, sight words or common words. Read, Write, Inc, the new literacy programme we are following, call words which cannot be sounded out red words. I, the, was and want, are all examples. To see more examples, click here. To watch Miss Copeland’s flash card video, click here.
CVC words – 3 letter words that follow a consonant, vowel, consonant sequence such as cat, dog, pig.
Consonant digraphs – When two consonants together make a new sound e.g. ch, th, sh.
Vowel digraphs – When two vowels together make a new sound e.g. oo, ee, ai.
Letter formation – How to write letters. Learning to write these in a particular way now will support pupils when learning to join letters together in future years. Differing letter size is important too. video for tall, video for small, video for fall letters.
Combining and partitioning – Numbers can be partitioned or separated e.g. 321 is made up of 300 and 20 and 1. Combining is when you add these together e.g. 400 and 20 and 3 is 423. Click here for more information
Queen’s Jubilee Party
Thank you to everyone who attended our class party. It was lovely to finally be able to invite you into our learning space. We hope you had fun!
Butterflies
We have now released our butterflies. The pupils have enjoyed watching them grow and developing their curiosity in the natural world.
Youth Music Initiative
This week we welcomed Vikki Fairgrieve, our YMI tutor to our class. We had lots of fun learning new songs and actions. She will visit every Monday afternoon.
Maths – Direction
This week we will be introducing Bee-Bots to the class to support coding/programming language and direction learning. Have a go at home using this interactive website.
You can download a FREE Bee-Bot app on both android and apple
During Health Week, Primary 1 were kindly given a shinty taster session from a coach from the Camanachd Dhùn-Èideann youth shinty club. Staff were amazed at how well Primary 1 took to the sport. Please see the flier below – try out for FREE for one month!
Wow! This week we have done so many exciting things from learning new dances like Bollywood, Hula and Ukrainian Hopak, to trying out new sports like yoga and shinty, while also practising those skills needed for sports day! We have also been learning how to keep our bodies and minds healthy too.
Sports Day
We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Mr Madine for running sports day this year. We hope all the pupils and parents enjoyed it. Not all pupils in our school have permission to be photographed and due to the team nature of sports day, this became a challenge (!), so below is just a tiny snippet of all of the fun that happened today!
Caterpillars
For a more interactive approach to life cycles, we ordered caterpillars for our classroom from Insect Lore. We have been observing our caterpillars closely, watching them eating their food and getting bigger. A few of the caterpillars have now started their transformation into a chrysalis. Very exciting!
Money
Primary 1 have been learning about all of the different ways you can pay for items such as with coins, paper money, cards and now even with your phone. We are learning to identify coins through their size, shape and colour, and we are beginning to understand that each coin has a different value. Lots of shops have been moving towards becoming ‘cash-less’ and this has sped up since the pandemic. Dust off those coins and have a play at home!
Hello! We hope you enjoy looking at what we have been learning.
We would also like to take this opportunity to wish our Muslim families a happy and healthy Eid! Thank you to the very kind parents and friends who came with food, face paint, henna and gifts for the pupils. We really appreciate all the work that went in to setting up and organising today for the whole school!
Orienteering in P.E
Working in teams and moving fast we have had to communicate, collect and arrange items to make these funny faces!
Signs of Spring
P1 went on a walk to Holyrood Park to go on a scavenger hunt looking for signs of spring. We spotted everything apart from the elusive squirrels!
Ukraine
Our whole school has been learning all about the Ukrainian Easter tradition of Pysanky eggs. We decorated eggs which will be combined to make bunting for outside the school. Mohtada made this beautiful card at home to welcome our new pupil, Alisa, who is from Ukraine.
Easter Salt Dough Decorations
We used ‘bossy’ imperative verbs when making our salt dough. kneading, mixing, pouring, stirring, flattening, rolling, cooking, painting – so many verbs!
Bus Tour
We went on a tour around Edinburgh with Cobbles the Scottie Dog!
Easter at Canongate Kirk
We were kindly invited to Canongate kirk to look around and hear the Easter Story. We enjoyed spotting the Christian symbols and stained glass windows.
Floating and Sinking Experiment
We set up an experiment to learn about sinking and floating. This sparked discussions about materials and their uses e.g. what are boats made out of and does the shape make a difference.
Royal Mile Art Gallery
Here it is! Our two pieces of collaborative art. The titles were voted on by the class
Primary 1’s Hand Gallery “We were drawing around our hands.” “We needed to cut it then we painted it.” “We painted it the colour of our skin.” “Our skin colours are not all the same colour because all of us have different skin colour”
Primary 1’s Best Eye Gallery Ever “Miss Copeland took a picture of our eyes.” “We needed to look at our eye picture and then we had to copy it.” “The colours of the eyes are not the same.” “We all have different colour skin.” “We are all unique”
We were given a tour by our Art Reps. Well done to Morgan, the P1 art rep who helped create posters, invitations and remember the descriptions of some of the art.
Holyrood Palace Trip
We were kindly invited to Holyrood Palace to have a closed off tour just for our school! We enjoyed seeing rooms that the Queen goes in and learning about the decoration of the palace and what each room was for.
Glitter Bottles
Sometimes called calming bottles or sensory bottles, – these can be used for general fun or to help someone who is feeling dysregulated. We shake the bottle very hard and then watch as the glitter settles and falls, stops spinning and sinks to the bottom again.
We used water, clear PVA glue and old glitter. Enjoy!
Royal Mile Primary School 