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Thanks again for making it along.
Author: rmpstaff
September
Hello and welcome to our blog.
We are going to be telling you all about what we do in school for the next 9 months (we will be writing, not our teacher). Have a look at our photographs and read the first entry below.
Getting back into the school routines has been challenging but our school learning heroes: Reflection, Independence, Curiosity, Resilience, Collaboration, Creativity and our own- Appreciation, have been very helpful.
Every morning we have times tables challenges and we also do maths outside and on iPads using different programs, like Education City. We are learning about angles and shapes just now.
As a class we have been reading a novel called Tribes. It’s a really good book and I am sure the whole class will recommend it.
In drama we have been learning how to improvise. It is really funny and the whole class wants to do it again and again.
We also learn languages: French and Gaelic. French is new but all of us learnt Gaelic last year.
In the playground we have a new climbing frame and everybody is eager to go on it. We follow a timetable to make sure we are all safe there. We have fun in the train area, trim trail and basketball pitch as well. Together with P7 we use our playground for fitness and athletics activities.
Now that we are older we have more responsibilities in school, such as P1 buddies and vice house captains roles.
We meet with our P1 buddies after Building Resilience assembly twice a month to learn together how to manage difficulties, make and play games, and read books. We look forward to having more fun together.
Our house and vice house captains were elected on the 14th of September. The class has also already voted for our reps: Health, Art, Eco and Pupil Council and Junior Road Safety Officer.
Our topics for this year are: Victorians, Edinburgh, Industrial Revolution: coal, steam and oil, South America and mapping Europe.
We have started planning our Victorians study and are going to explore it during our visit to Lauriston Castle on the 28th of September. We look forward to more amazing and fun trips, like climbing a hill (we will tell you more about it later)!
Thank you for reading.
Teyyibah and William
PS. We have attached Term 1 Overview of what we are going to learn.
term 1 parent overview P6 Reading Journal P6 spelling palette
New Term, New Adventures!
We hope everyone had a lovely Summer and that they are ready for the year ahead. The children have been very busy this month already settling in with their new, fulltime hours and focusing on “All About Me” – learning about themselves, their attributes and abilities.
We have been measuring our height, foot size and doing hand prints to compare to in a years time to track how much we have grown. We have also been painting with our feet – a task which some of us found extremely ticklish and funny!
We are making the most of the good weather whilst it lasts by exploring the garden and helping to keep the plants watered and free of weeds. Our fruit and veg will soon be ready to harvest!
It has also been a month of celebrating a few birthdays – which of course involves a lot of baking cakes!
We are requesting that parents bring in a picture of their child at newborn and toddler stage for their “All About Me” project so they can see how much they have grown and changed. We will make a display of these photos before returning them to you.
Keep an eye out of for information on upcoming PEEP sessions on Tuesday mornings beginning the 5th of September. Come along and have some fun with your little ones :)!
Literacy in P3
P3 were thinking about what they would expect to see in different genres of story today. We were thinking about adventure stories, spooky stories and fairytales. We put our ideas into a big mind map. 
International Day of Plants
Last week the children of both Languages Classes planted Pansies in the school playground. They pulled the flowers out of the pots, they broke the root ball with their fingers and placed each plant into the holes they made, filling the empty space around each flower. At the end they watered the plants.
All the children were very happy and really enjoyed the gardening and the lovely weather. They asked to do it again. And of course we will!!!!
Royal Mile Primary School 