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Yesterday at Assembly the House Captains revealed the winners of their Logo Competition.
Clara from The Arthur’s Seat Dragons, Julian from the Holyrood Royals, Fraser from the Parliament Pandas and Carla from the Castle Lions. Congratulations to you all!
Prizes included 10 HOUSEPOINTS and pen for secret messages!
Runners up received notebooks. Well done to everyone who tried – you might be the winner next time!
General homework for 9th November 2020
Literacy – There is a task for your child’s tricky words and a task for writing down some fr, gr, pr and tr sounds words. Please remember to use no more than 2 pages in the jotter for this task and thank you all for working to stick to this.
Maths – There is a homework for some fractions work on Active Learn to have a go at. Replaying the game or having a go at a different level of a game counts as 2 games. If you are struggling to log into this there is a Fractions Homework on Education City to practise some fractions with and some Learn Screens have also been assigned if you find these useful.
Reading – Reading books will continue to go home this week on THURSDAY, please ensure that these are returned on Monday. Spelling and Maths work should be returned on Thursday and will go out again on the following Monday.
From MONDAY 9th NOVEMBER 2020 we will be selling tuck at the school office between 9 – 9.15am daily.
Every item will cost 50p and exact change would be great. We have risk assessed and will choose only individually wrapped items or fruit with an easy peel skin. Where possible we will buy our stock from Edinburgh Food Initiative which is a community social enterprise.
These labels show the ingredients and warnings so please ensure that you advise your child as well. We will be aware of dietary requirements as well.
The pupil council will be asking for suggestions for stock going forward as well.
Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful October break!
In Maths we continued to look at symmetry and positional language. In Literacy work we were revising our vowel digraph sounds (such as oi/oy and oo/ew) and we chose games to play to practise these as well as writing sentences and our own story this week.
We were learning about Mary Seacole this week as both part of Our Community topic and for Black History Month. We are starting to look at the sorts of groups that we are part of in our community and we are starting to work towards our JASS award at Yellow level (https://www.jasschools.org.uk)/what-is-jass/ which starts this week with a focus on Me and My World.
The week ended with our Halloween party on the 30th of October. I will upload some photos from this in a separate post but congratulations to Dhruv for being selected as a winner by our Pupil Council rep! Well done everyone for some super outift and for a lot of fun!
Our homework will focus on a JASS task this week. As part of Me and My World, we are asking you to look into some groups you belong to. This can be clubs or organisations or links through family. These can be groups you joined in the past or are still a part of. The idea is to find out the range of links you have within your community and to become aware of these for yourself. Below is some suggested ideas you could look at together:
While some notes or paper copies of what you discuss would be lovely to put into their JASS folders, it will be sufficient for your child to be able to talk about some of their wider community groups for Thursday. As we progress through our JASS work, your child might consider ways they can help out in their community but to start with it can be really nice and helpful to see all the places and people we have connections with!
Thank you to everyone who has sent in bottle caps to help us make poppies!
We will be working on this tomorrow to have complete for Thursday. If you are making some poppies at home yourself please feel free to send some in for then.
We leave you with a traditional French song (translated as The Cats’ Ball) that the children enjoyed watching and listening to:
https://royalmileprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/halloween-tales-with-tim-porteus-6.pdf
Enjoy some stories with a local storyteller and you can join in a ZOOM craft session on Friday with the Crannie.
Royal Mile Primary School 