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Tomorrow is International Women’s Day
If you were asked to draw a scientist, would you draw the image below?
Can you think of any female scientists?
Reading books about women in science, or story books with female characters can encourage more women into science!
Ada Twist, Scientist is now available as a TV show on Netflix!
The Esplanade Eagles have been hard at work thinking of different activities for the school. Your teachers may do some activities at school, or set some for homework.
RSHP – Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood is a national programme in Scotland.
In Primary 1 we have to cover the Early Level learning experiences – https://rshp.scot/early-level/.
All of the learning your child will do, can be found on this website.
In term one, we cover some outcomes during ‘teachable moments’ e.g. washing hands, keeping ourselves safe and making friends.
Once we return from the February holidays, Primary one will start some more focussed RSHP lessons.
Learning about their bodies
The words we will use – penis, scrotum, testes, vulva, bottom and nipples. (Vulva is the part of the genitals that the girl can see – the vagina is inside).
Why do we use these words? This helps keep children safe and empowers children. When we all use the same vocabulary, we have a shared understanding of what our private parts are.
My body belongs to me! This is the big message we want share with children. Children learn that their body is theirs. At home, you may wish to consider moments such kissing someone goodbye or being encouraged to sit on someone’s knee, and checking if they feel they are being given a choice. RSHP teaches that if anyone touches or tries to touch their private parts, they can tell an adult they trust and they will not get in trouble for sharing this information.
In the bathroom – When your child goes to the toilet or has a bath or shower, you may wish to discuss their private areas. You might have heard of the PANTS rule. Also, unless you have to help, children can begin to do more things independently such as closing the toilet door, washing their bodies and putting on their clothes.
How do we teach this information?
Through incredible catchy songs!
Image – The official RSHP diagram
Please feel free to ask me anything about programme!
PANTOSAURUS website! https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/pants-underwear-rule/
Hello,
Many thanks to the family and friends whom were able to attend our quickly rearranged Scots Assembly!
Thank you to the families who provided feedback regarding recording performances. We really do value and love to hear your voice!
Below are the two recorded videos – I have noticed that the embedded videos seem to take a long time to load – you may have more success clicking the links underneath and watching direct on the ClickView Websites
Click here to watch it on the ClickView Website
Well done to Zoa, Erin, Liane and Ayat, who bravely volunteered to perform this as a small group.
You performed this so very confidently! The staff and pupils were very impressed!
We have been learning about emotions using the story The Colour Monster.
We learn that we can feel more than one emotion at one time, and that having all of these emotions is normal. We discuss why we might have these emotions and how we can share these in a safe way, and how we can help ourselves to feel better.
Sometimes little deals, can feel like big deals. We are learning about this though the Big Deal, Little Deal social story below.
This term, our Building Resilience module is Expect the Unexpected. Ms Finlayson launched the theme at assembly. Here are the 3 main learning outcomes:
Please see below the family home task and parent information linked to this block
Please see the overview of this term’s intended learning.
Best wishes, Miss Copeland
Royal Mile Primary School 