Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog

Hello all! A few updates delayed this post to today so thank you for your patience! To start with, homework will begin the week beginning the 21st September which is next week!
Next week is also Maths Week and a shorter school week, so our homework will be focused on Maths and Numeracy activities to start with.
Everyone should have their logins for Education City and Active Learn now. Please do check to see if you have log in to both sites. Let me know if you haven’t seen the log-in sheets. Your child’s log ins are attached to log-in guidance sheets for Education City and Active Learn which went home for most people last week or before.
If you still have your homework folder from Primary 1, please do send these in with your child to prepare for additional homework activities over the coming weeks. Each folder returned will earn your child House Points!

Last Week in Review

Our Community walk was one of our highlight of the week! We went on a ‘places’ hunt along the Royal Mile, identifying buildings and useful places or things around us such as post boxes, bus stops and different types of shops and buildings.

We have thought about and discussed jobs and places around us in our neighbourhood and will be looking more at mapping in the coming weeks.

In our Health and Wellbeing work we have continued looking at the power of kindness and ways we can ‘fill our buckets’ like in the story ‘Have you Filled a Bucket Today?‘ and our Happiness Wall continues to grow!

We have also been voting for roles in the school! Well done to everyone for voting and to everyone who went for a role as a representative for Art, Health and Wellbeing, ECO or Pupil Council! Congratulations to Elishka, Frankie, Neki and Tendai for being elected and to Maryam, Amelia, Thomas and Hasan for being their deputes!

In Maths we are continuing to focus on revision. We’ve been looking at adding, counting on and ordering and sequencing this week. You may want to look at https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering for some practise with ordering numbers or to practise spotting the patterns in number sequences.

We have some Classwork on Education City with a focus on addition and number bonds games as an other options for games your child might like to play.

In Literacy we are continue to play literacy games with our initial sounds and are revising some of our digraph sounds. Phonics Pop is also a good game for sound recognition for a broader range of sounds that can also be played for free.We had a look at the ai and ay sounds through games this week and you may wish to explore some of the free games on Galactic Phonics for digraph sounds your child already knows.

We started to read Who’s Our New Teacher on Active Learn, guessing at (predicting) what we think might happen before we read the story. This week we have been looking for the clues in the story about the new teacher since we have read the story! Please do feel free to read this or Class Two at the Zoo together, talking about the pictures and what has happened in the story!

Please look forward to seeing what we have been up to this week!

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