Your new teacher

Meet the School Nurse

Yasmin our school nurse will be in school next Thursday 25^th August 2022 for our Primary one families at 9.15am. You are welcome to pop into school and have a chat/discussion with her. It would also be a great opportunity for you to meet other parents. Coffee/tea will be available from 9.00am.

Classroom Visit

On Tuesday 30th August at 2:30pm we invite you to come and view your child’s learning space.

Further information

Information about the school system in Scotland, including when children start and finish school and what children study can be found here
School Education in Scotland

Best Start Grant School Age Payment applications are now open for children who were born between 1 March 2017 and 28 February 2018. The one-off payment of £267.65 per child helps families with the costs associated with a child starting at Primary School. People who get tax credits or certain benefits are encouraged to apply before the window closes on 28 February 2023. Eligibility is based on age and relates to when a child is first old enough to start school. Parents or carers who have deferred their child’s entry to school from August 2022 to August 2023, or those home schooling, must still apply before the closing date or they will lose out on their payment. For more information about how to apply see Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods

If you have any questions, please email admin at

admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk

First we designed what a half boat-half car would look like. We then went on to choose the body, wheels and sail that we wanted. Next came the trial and error – do we need to change any part of it? Once they were happy with how it moved, some pupils added decoration before taking them to test outside in the playground. Luckily it was a very windy day!

Thank you to Generation Science for providing the resources!

Museum on the Mound

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!

Museum on the Mound Trip

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.

Alien Words

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)

Astronaut and Alien Word Game

Dance

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.

https://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/

New Teacher

Primary 1 will have a new teacher for Primary 2. They find out today who that will be!

Reports

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.
• Dienes or Dienes blocks – A maths resource, also known as Base 10 cubes. Click here for more information.

• 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

• Andoid BeeBot App
• Apple BeeBot App

FREE trial shinty sessions

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!