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Primary 1 have been talking about how we can Challenge our Mindset. We hope you enjoy our video below
On Thursday afternoon, Primary 1 will be exploring our local area with our Primary 6 buddies. We will be…
Term 1 is from August until December. Please see the file below showing an overview of learning for Primary 1.
Dear Primary 1 and families,
Due to our proximity to Holyrood Palace, we will be learning from home for the next few days. Below are the suggested activities for this time.
Although I have not directly set activities about the current news, I appreciate if you choose, as a family, to spend some time together attending, discussing or researching this, and will look forward to hearing about all of your experiences when we return to school.
Kind regards, Miss Copeland
Sorting colours, balancing, stacking and building.
Self directed writing, letter learning and practising writing our names and numbers.
Patterns repeat with a rule. We have been focussing on two step colour rules such as red, yellow, red, yellow. Can you spot any patterns at home? Maybe you could make one with Lego, sweeties or paint?
Primary 1 looked at the changes in Pablo Picasso’s self portraits as he got older. We shared our opinions, sometimes we felt happy, sometimes confused, and sometimes we found the pictures silly. We are all entitled to our own opinions. After seeing all of the pictures, we each added a star on to our favourite one. Isn’t it interesting how we all had different favourites? Some of us then chose to make a self portrait in the style of Picasso’s cubism period. We were practising our choice, cutting, sticking and painting skills during this task. Look out for our final art gallery. To quote Picasso, “Every child is an artist”.
Primary 1 had great fun mixing paint on their hands!
Try playing this colour mixing game at home
You can see we looked so happy during this fun 1 hour session with Play2Learn. A big THANK YOU for coming in!
Reading, imaginative play, role play. Primary 1 particularly enjoyed playing the ‘roll an emotion’ game with our Colour Monster dice.
Attached below are some activities you may wish to practise at home to support counting forwards and backwards.
Last week we had the first Skipper Assembly of the new school year, led by our support for learning teacher, Ms Finlayson. Click here to learn more about Skipper.
Please see the parent leaflet and home learning tasks below.
We asked the class what we should/shouldn’t do to help make Primary 1 a ‘good’ class to be in and these are the comments we collected
From this we matched 4 rights – The right to be safe, healthy, to play and to learn.
Our school values were created in collaboration with pupils, parents, staff and school community. Below is the Primary 1 display representing these.
At Royal Mile we believe block play is a fantastic learning resource for developing skills across the curriculum. Block play can help develop vocabulary when working collaboratively with friends. Pupils can create patterns, develop gross and fine motor skills. It’s open ended nature allows for endless creativity. To learn more about it’s value, click here. We are privileged to have construction materials of all sizes to explore at our school!
Can you spot who has made a see-saw? Who is eating a burger in bed? Who has made stairs? Who is riding a robot horse? Who has blasters?
In phonics lessons we learn that a written letter has a matching sound and name. Here is a video showing the name and sounds for the alphabet.
We follow a programme called Read, Write, Inc.
Last week, we learnt the letters m and a. As you see below, each letter has a rhyme that helps when forming the letters.
You can play the Doorway Online game below to practice your letter formation
https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/letterformation/
If you wish to quickly hear how to pronounce the pure sounds of letters, click on each letter in the website here
Identifying different sounds is a key foundation for phonic learning. Try playing these fun games at home
What animal is behind the door?
Match the sounds to the picture
To support our number skills, each month the whole school focusses in on one colour of the Mental Agility Rainbow. We have started the year on the red section of the rainbow – counting forwards and backwards. We try to embed these activities within our day such as singing songs such as 10 Green Bottles and counting how many pupils are lined up. We have also been completing Join The Dots pictures, jumping along our number line/rug and playing Number Tennis.
Here are two songs we really enjoy!
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