Starting from Monday 20th until Friday 31st, Royal Mile Primary School will be participating in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel competition. This is a UK wide initiative to help all of us keep active and fit by walking, wheeling, scooting and cycling to school so that we reduce car journeys, improve air quality and help the environment. Research shows that the more active we are, the more alert and energised we will be – ready for our learning.
We hope all the children can work together to help the school win some fantastic prizes. Thank you in advance to all the parents who will be supporting us.
More information can be found on the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel website where you can also see a full list of the prizes.
Let’s all get ready for some active journeys to school next week!
Recognising how to recharge your batteries is one way to build resilience. Taking the time to be active can help you feel good. Primary 1 enjoy playing in the park, swimming, using scooters and bikes and running!
Block Play
We are becoming increasingly confident with using height in our play! Can you spot the gym, DJ and house?
World Book Day
This year we dressed up as adjectives. Colours, appearance, personality, physical attributes are all adjectives!
Did you know that there is a grammar rule that explains adjectives should only be used in a certain order? That is why the red, round, big ball sounds wrong and the big round red ball sounds right!
Buddy Reading
The buddies worked together to make their own reading dens! Primary 6 read to Primary 1 and Primary 1 also read to Primary 6!
Reading together should: • Improve confidence in reading aloud and develop questioning skills. • Develop nurturing and leadership skills in older pupils through the opportunity to act as role models. • Develop a love of reading in all individuals involved. • Enable all pupils to participate regardless of learning ability, allowing less confident pupils to shine. • Encourage friendships between younger and older pupils and aid school cohesion
Writing our own books
Writing a book is a long process that involves lots of different stages. This week we have…
Created our own character and used adjectives to describe them
Created a setting
create a climax or ‘thumbs down’ section as we call it
decide on a solution and end – or as we call it – the ‘thumbs up’ end!
choose a story opener e.g one day, early one morning, one dark and gloomy night
Decided on a title
Next week we will be using all of our notes to create the book including an ‘about the author’ section and price/barcode, stay tuned!
We have been learning that Talking Things Over with my Back-up Team can help me build resilience.
Below we have drawn who is in our back-up teams.
Pancake Day Fun!
We have been learning about the origins of pancake day – Shrove Tuesday.
Below are some of the things Primary 1 would give up if they were participating in Lent, which started on Ash Wednesday. We chose things that we want but don’t need.
Ps4 – Clay
Playing on my iPad – Aiden
Watching YouTube – Mustapha
Watching TV- Lola
All my toys – Sidrah
Watching things on the phone – Sarah
My purple tablet – Yasmine
Watch tv – Eddy
Watching tv – Jana
Biscuits – Mohamed
Chocolate – Loai
Strawberry jelly – Daniel
Addition
Below shows how we use our fingers to help with counting on
We also find it helpful to tap the dots or images with our pencil and count as we touch them
Gymnastics
We will be celebrating World Book Day on Friday 3rd March 2023.
Children are invited to wear something that describes an adjective; a colour, spots, stripes, big, short etc.
After listening to The Huge Bag of Worries Primary 1 discussed what a worry is, what it feels like and what sort of worries we have. We then drew our worries on a bubble to share them and let it float away…
Here is the home activity for this period of the Building Resilience Programme
Following the Scottish RSHP programme, this week we have been discussing families; which people make up their families, what we call those people, what love is and how this can look different for different people. We also focus on the UNRC rights of the child, and how all children have the right to be safe, cared for and healthy. Primary 1 did some excellent writing around this topic – drawing and labelling their picture, as well as writing the title and information about their family. All pupils progress at different speeds and we were incredibly proud of the effort that each pupil put into this work, well done!
Numeracy
We enjoyed creating number pages, finding objects from around the room which matched their number. The pupils selected their picture and photographed their own work so we can see what they were doing when working independently.
Using Dienes blocks to make numbers. Try practising your skills at home with the following 2 games
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