Please see this term’s intended learning.
Many thanks,
Miss Copeland
Category: Primary 1/ 2 Blog
P2 adventures
Scottish Portrait Gallery
Paintings, photos, glass(!) and sculptures – we found so many different mediums of portraits!
Robert Burns’ portrait and sculpture were a big hit and it was ‘so cool’ to see the portraits of kings and queens.
Ken Currie’s Unknown Man, 2019 Portrait of Professor Dame Sue Black and Three Oncologists intrigued the pupils and we had a discussion around their red eyes and ghostly like appearances.
We noticed how a lot of the people were not smiling in the paintings and how it could be because it would take such a long time to paint, that their faces would hurt by the end!
We also admired the frames in real life, having worked from photographs to make our own. We spotted some repeating patterns that looked a bit like… pasta, pea, pea, pea, pea. Maybe try mixing up dinner time and frame your food!
Portrait photo shoot
Inspired by a visit to the Scottish Portrait Gallery, we experimented with costumes, facial expression and body position when being photographed. Here is just a snippet, before we choose one to go inside our frames…!
British Science Week
Timing helicopters falling, helping preserve apples last for a long amount of time and timing how long we can dunk biscuits… we had a great time!
Edinburgh Science Festival
We were lucky to get early access to the ESF at the City Art Centre. We had lots of fun at Energy Makers, Little Sparks and Imagination Playground!
Show and Tell Superstars
Ann taught us about Finland and her holiday there
Olivia taught us about tattoos
Mustapha taught us about the body
Yasmine taught us about Algeria
Were you inspired by Science Week?
Check out these Time related activities you can do at home!
Money
As society moves towards a becoming cashless, more pupils in Primary 2 have seen their grown ups pay use a mobile phone than pay with coins!
It is vital that pupils experience handling money – looking at the shapes, sizes and values of coins, paying with them, receiving change and receipts.
To make it even trickier for young learners, did you know that most coins do not have numbers on them anymore? They were replaced with words!
Old vs new 1p
Your child should be able to…
- Identify all coins to £2.
- Apply addition and subtraction skills and use 1p, 2p, 5p and 10p coins to pay the exact value for items to 10p.
Click the link below to see an array of money games
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/money
Can you sort the coins?
- By colour – Gold, Silver, Bronze
- By shape – Circle, Heptagon, Dodecagon
- By size – Smallest to biggest
- By value – lowest value to highest value
Sharing Wider Achievements
We are continuing to collect, share and celebrate the wider achievements of our learners at Royal Mile. These are displayed in our open area so all learners, staff and visitors can see the achievements of our amazing learners.
If you would like to share your child’s achievement please click here.
Thanks,
Mr McPheely
homework – Mental Agility
Please find attached activities children experience in class daily and are asked to practise at home.
This term we are focusing on the yellow rainbow section –
NUMBER RECOGNITION:
Primary 1 chilli challenges:
Primary 2 – P4 activities:
Primary 5 – P7 tasks:
We will focus on number recognition for the next 5 weeks –
Please choose 1 chilli challenge each week at home, complete it in your jotter and return it each week!
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