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Our P7 class would be very grateful if you could help them
fundraise for their leavers’ celebrations by taking part in our
Surprise!
If you are interested in winning a fun prize please bring along 50p
(every shot is a winner such as rubbers, pencils, bracelets, bouncy balls and much more)
P7 will pop in your classroom over the next 2 weeks and give every class an opportunity to take part.
so much for your support!
Wow! This week we have done so many exciting things from learning new dances like Bollywood, Hula and Ukrainian Hopak, to trying out new sports like yoga and shinty, while also practising those skills needed for sports day! We have also been learning how to keep our bodies and minds healthy too.
We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Mr Madine for running sports day this year. We hope all the pupils and parents enjoyed it. Not all pupils in our school have permission to be photographed and due to the team nature of sports day, this became a challenge (!), so below is just a tiny snippet of all of the fun that happened today!
For a more interactive approach to life cycles, we ordered caterpillars for our classroom from Insect Lore.
We have been observing our caterpillars closely, watching them eating their food and getting bigger. A few of the caterpillars have now started their transformation into a chrysalis. Very exciting!
Primary 1 have been learning about all of the different ways you can pay for items such as with coins, paper money, cards and now even with your phone. We are learning to identify coins through their size, shape and colour, and we are beginning to understand that each coin has a different value. Lots of shops have been moving towards becoming ‘cash-less’ and this has sped up since the pandemic. Dust off those coins and have a play at home!
Sort, order and count the coins
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game
Use coins to pay for items
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Lots of games on Natwest’s My Money Sense page
To see what we will be covering this term, please click the file below
Below are some of the important dates for those starting Primary 1 with us in August. Like all nurseries in Edinburgh City Council we will also be offering those children who currently attend our nursery classes opportunities to explore the story ‘The Bookworm’ by Debbie Gliori, we will post these activities here for all our new children to enjoy too! 😀
Hello! We hope you enjoy looking at what we have been learning.
We would also like to take this opportunity to wish our Muslim families a happy and healthy Eid! Thank you to the very kind parents and friends who came with food, face paint, henna and gifts for the pupils. We really appreciate all the work that went in to setting up and organising today for the whole school!
Working in teams and moving fast we have had to communicate, collect and arrange items to make these funny faces!
P1 went on a walk to Holyrood Park to go on a scavenger hunt looking for signs of spring. We spotted everything apart from the elusive squirrels!
Our whole school has been learning all about the Ukrainian Easter tradition of Pysanky eggs. We decorated eggs which will be combined to make bunting for outside the school. Mohtada made this beautiful card at home to welcome our new pupil, Alisa, who is from Ukraine.
We used ‘bossy’ imperative verbs when making our salt dough. kneading, mixing, pouring, stirring, flattening, rolling, cooking, painting – so many verbs!
We went on a tour around Edinburgh with Cobbles the Scottie Dog!
We were kindly invited to Canongate kirk to look around and hear the Easter Story. We enjoyed spotting the Christian symbols and stained glass windows.
We set up an experiment to learn about sinking and floating. This sparked discussions about materials and their uses e.g. what are boats made out of and does the shape make a difference.
Here it is! Our two pieces of collaborative art. The titles were voted on by the class
Primary 1’s Hand Gallery
“We were drawing around our hands.”
“We needed to cut it then we painted it.”
“We painted it the colour of our skin.”
“Our skin colours are not all the same colour because all of us have different skin colour”
Primary 1’s Best Eye Gallery Ever
“Miss Copeland took a picture of our eyes.”
“We needed to look at our eye picture and then we had to copy it.”
“The colours of the eyes are not the same.”
“We all have different colour skin.”
“We are all unique”
We were given a tour by our Art Reps. Well done to Morgan, the P1 art rep who helped create posters, invitations and remember the descriptions of some of the art.
We were kindly invited to Holyrood Palace to have a closed off tour just for our school! We enjoyed seeing rooms that the Queen goes in and learning about the decoration of the palace and what each room was for.
Sometimes called calming bottles or sensory bottles, – these can be used for general fun or to help someone who is feeling dysregulated. We shake the bottle very hard and then watch as the glitter settles and falls, stops spinning and sinks to the bottom again.
We used water, clear PVA glue and old glitter. Enjoy!
Dear Royal Mile Families,
As you may be aware, our annual Art Exhibition is coming up on the 8th of April, 2022.
Due to regulations still surrounding schools, we can only invite a few of our community partners to the opening this year. They will be taken around the exhibition by our diligent, creative Art Reps. All the classes have been working very hard on our theme: Our Diverse Community and there will be a range of learning and artistic endeavours on display.
Unfortunately, parents and carers are still not able to visit as we did in previous years, however this will be a possibility after the Easter break.
We very much hope that you will be able to enjoy viewing it in person during the summer term and we will keep you informed as to when and how this will take place.
In the meantime, I wanted to share the beautiful posters created by the Art Reps to advertise the event.
We are so looking forward to welcoming you in to see the hard work by the pupils, just not quite yet!
Royal Mile Primary School 