Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

It has been very busy in Primary 2 since we have started back!
On Friday we will be aiming to post our weekly highlights and share some of our work with you. Please enjoy our first highlights post!

We started by talking and thinking about emotions and what they feel and look like. We have started a Happiness Wall in school. We read both The Colour Monster (by Anna Llenas) and The Colour Monster goes to School in class. 

We have been looking at our newest Building Resilience unit – Be Kind. We thought about kind things to do, what was unkind and have started our own kindness tree.

We have also looked at superheroes and the types of powers they have. Superheroes Unite is a great song to act out to! It has been really popular and Primary 2 wanted to share it on this blog!

While we don’t have those kinds of super powers but we are thinking about our learning powers and how they help us.  We have started by looking at Curiosity this week and started to look at Resilience too. We thought about what we were curious about and what this might look like. We will be looking at Reflection, Creativity, Independence and Cooperation in the coming weeks. 

Lastly we have started Our Community topic! We had a think about the world we live in, all the places and countries we could see and where we are in it. We narrowed ourselves down to Scotland and our city of Edinburgh. We have started to look at our city and the area around where we live and made some lovely silhouettes with cityscapes in our art. We are starting to look at the kinds of jobs people do, and what we want to do when we grow up.

Please look forward to seeing more next week! Education City logins have started to go home and Active Learn logins will start to go home next week. I will update the blog on Monday with regards to logins and how we plan to use them but feel free to check that you can log in and use/see content. If you have any issues to raise, information to pass on or questions about logins, please feel free to email admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk with the subject “For Mrs Aylward.”

In the meantime, remember to have fun and have a lovely weekend!

Regards
Mrs Aylward

A belated hello and welcome back to the blog! We have been busy settling back into school. We will be sharing our learning with you on this blog and posting some updates so please do check this page out regularly.

Here are some things you might want to know:

Names in clothes – Please make sure all items that your child wears has their name somewhere on it! This includes indoor shoes, hats/gloves and cardigans or jumpers.Their first name or initials in permanent marker/sharpie should be sufficient.

Indoor/outdoor shoes – Your child will keep a pair of ‘indoor shoes’ at school. They need to be able to change shoes by themselves.

PE Kits – At the moment, we are not changing clothes for PE but if you do not want your to do outdoor P.E. in their school clothes you can send in an outdoor P.E. kit (labelled joggers, trainers etc.) to leave in a bag on the back of their chair. We are aiming to have P.E. on Thursday and Fridays. Additionally, we will be doing a lot of outdoor learning so remember to bring a coat every day even if it looks like it is sunny.  We may well get muddy or a bit wet when we go outside as we like to explore so a warm change of clothes might be a good thing to pack too.

Snack – ‘snack’ is one item of food, ideally fruit, that will give energy but that can be eaten quickly. If your child brings their own packed lunch, you might want to have a chat about which one thing will be their snack. Likewise water bottles should come to school with water not juice in them. A juice drink can be had at lunch time but we can drink water during class time.

Homework – homework is not due to start yet however we will be sending your child home with log-in information for Education City and Active Learn this week to begin to access and familiarise yourself with these platforms.

Do you have any questions or updates? – Is there something you want clarified, to update us on or have questions about? Due to social distancing, I can’t stay and chat outside so please pop these questions in an email…
admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk with the subject “For Mrs Aylward”

Thank you!

Welcome back everyone!

Mrs B and I are very excited about seeing you this week! We are still busy preparing the classroom for you to come back to school.

I thought I would give you an idea of what we will be doing on Wednesday and Thursday.

In the morning before break we will be learning some of our new routines in school, looking at how we will be staying safe and looking after each other and getting used to our new classroom.

After break we will have milk, snack and story and go on to creating some art around our emotions.

In the afternoon, after lunch, we have an assembly and then we are hoping to go out into our playground for some outdoor learning.

If you or parents and carers have any concerns or questions please contact the school. If you haven’t read through the Return to School letter please do so before coming in. There is a lot of helpful information in it that might answer some of your questions.

Looking forward to seeing you!
Mrs Aylward and Mrs B