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Primary 2 have been learning about Judaism. They demonstrated great respect and curiosity during their trip to the synagogue. Pupils identified items and retold stories which they had learnt about in class and asked and answers questions with Rabbi Rose. They also walked very sensibly to and from the synagogue, demonstrating safe road crossing and awareness of risk. The pupils particularly enjoyed their walk back through Holyrood Park!
Colin and I were in awe Primary 2’s amazing effort, fabulous confidence and professionalism during their class showcase assembly. The class created the show, including recording the video in 3 short but busy days – what an achievement!
We’re sorry to say that we were so focussed on the pupils that neither Colin nor I took any photos of the assembly or art gallery!
A huge thank you to Primary 4 for this lovely feedback from our assembly!
Please see this term’s intended learning.
Many thanks,
Miss Copeland
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!
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…!
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!
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!
Check out these Time related activities you can do at home!
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…
Can you sort the coins?
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