Each day, Monday to Thursday there will be pictures of staff caught reading. Can you guess who they are? The answers will be revealed at the end of the week! Here is Monday’s!
Whole School Reading Challenge Grid – Give it a go!
Category: Nursery Blog
Scottish Book Week 13th – 17th November
Royal Mile Primary will be taking part in Scottish Book Week (13th – 17th November). We will have fun and exciting activities for the whole school and in the classes during the week and we are hoping that you and your children will be able to join us in our reading week at home.
We will be launching Book Bugs P1 -3 on Friday 17th November and a separate invite will be sent from the class teachers with a time to join the class.
We will have book competitions that the children can take part in and win a book prize. This year we have a Draw Your Favourite Character from a Book competition for Nursery, P1 and P2. We have quizzes for P3-4 and P5-7 and a chance everyday to guess who was caught reading in school. There will be a reading challenge grid on the School classes Blog and we hope that you will help the children complete some of these challenges and send in either the challenge or pictures that we can share their achievements.
Staff will be reading in different classes over the week and sharing their love of reading.
The challenge in class this year is for children to agree a Recipe for Reading in Royal Mile Primary so please discuss with your children at home what they enjoy about reading and what makes them want to read. We will compile all the ideas and use that to encourage more great reading in school.
We are passionate about creating a Royal Mile Primary Reading Community and hope that you can share sometime with your children next week to read with them or even tell them about your favourite book as a child.
LETS GET READING!
Thank you.
Maths Week 2023
Learners of the Royal Mile Primary School –
In preparation for this year’s
15th September – 1st October 2023
We value your ideas and would appreciate your suggestions greatly!
Why not check out this website and get inspired:
https://www.mathsweek.scot/news/maths-week-scotland-2023-dates-and-theme
Here are some ideas from staff to celebrate
at the Royal Mile:
We will launch maths week with a fun buddies
assembly to revise all our hard work on
Primary 3, 4, 6 and 7 will visit the Museum on the Mound –
Located in the historic Bank of Scotland Head Office, this fascinating museum takes a fresh look at money – and much, much more. Art & design, technology, crime, trade and security – all feature in the story of money.
and focus on amazing workshops such as:
- What is Money? – Investigate a range of extraordinary artefacts once used as money in other cultures.
- Heads and Tails – Explore the design and security features of coins. Discover how they were made in medieval Scotland and strike your own.
- Design Your Own Banknote – Compare and contrast banknotes past and present. Add security features to your own note using stamps and invisible ink.
- Kists & Keys – Spark conversations about value, some of the benefits and risks of using cards and how to keep money safe using the Museum’s collections, including £1,000,000.
We are hoping to experiment with BBC coding challenges and
Lots of opportunities to play motivating maths games by just scanning QR codes dotted around the school and spend lots of time focusing on
such as maths walks.
We already look forward to a
competition!
for your ideas and suggestions too! 🙂
Is there something maths/numeracy related that you always wanted to find out more about?
What did you really enjoy during the previous maths weeks?
LET US KNOW! Please help us make it a fantastic maths week!
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2023
Hello everyone,
What a fantastic fortnight of keeping active and trying hard to come to school by walking, scooting or cycling!
All our journeys have been submitted and the results are:
Regional position for small schools in Scotland, we ranked 21st!
Out of all the Edinburgh schools that entered, we came 2nd!
Overall position for all small schools in the UK, with 700+ schools entering, we ranked 83rd!
That is a great achievement and well done to all the learners plus parents and carers for supporting this initiative.
Continue to keep active and hope everyone has a fun filled Spring break!
Mrs Ho
Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel!
Starting from Monday 20th until Friday 31st, Royal Mile Primary School will be participating in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel competition. This is a UK wide initiative to help all of us keep active and fit by walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling to school so that we reduce car journeys, improve air quality and help the environment. Research shows that the more active we are, the more alert and energised we will be – ready for our learning.
We hope all the children can work together to help the school win some fantastic prizes. Thank you in advance to all the parents who will be supporting us.
More information can be found on the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel website where you can also see a full list of the prizes.
Let’s all get ready for some active journeys to school next week!
Royal Mile Primary School 