I hope that you are all enjoying Health Week! I know the weather has been a bit miserable but that has certainly not dampened our spirits as everyone has been enjoying a whole range of activities to support our physical and mental health and wellbeing!
It has been great fun watching the Buddies in Primary 5, 6 and 7 Wake Up! Shake Up! with the nursery and younger classes. There have been some energetic daily miles, some relaxing yoga, mindful colouring and concocting of healthy smoothies! I believe the next focus is sleeping! I am pretty good at napping (so is my cat) so this could be my forte!
Sounds – Try using these flashcards to check your vowel digraphs (ee, igh, oo) and consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th). Do you know them all?
Maths – Try playing this money game at home and count/add up the coins
This week is HEALTH WEEK!
We will be learning about keeping our minds and bodies healthy, sun safety and completing lots of fun activities. Make sure to wear a waterproof coat and study shoes every day.
We will be revising the SHANARRI calamari!
Gymnastics
Shapes – Straight, star and tuck
Jumps – Straight jump and star jump
Rolls – Pencil roll (straight) and egg roll (tuck)
Using our creativity to travel in different ways
Being responsible while spotting our partners
Performed and videoed our ‘routines’ so we could watch them back in slow motion and set our targets for next week.
Sowing seeds for the big playground planters
If the dinosaurs came back…
Our once quiet city has now been overrun with dinosaurs! We loved the story If the dinosaurs came back and it inspired some brilliant writing. Listen to the story by clicking here
We made salt dough dinosaur bones and fossils
We excavated chocolate chip cookies to practise our archaeology skills!
Have a lovely weekend and see you on Tuesday! Miss Copeland, Mrs McGlashan and Mrs B
Hello. It’s been a busy week – our planters are now filled with soil and classes are starting off seeds on the windowsills for a colourful welcome next session.
Our Vice House Captains had the lovely job of thanking the Dumbiedykes Residents’ Association for a kind donation as they closed their accounts for the last time. We are going to put it towarsd our ‘greening’ project.
Sadly our House Captains have had a less pleasant job checking the upper school loos after a spate of vandalism and careless behaviour led to inconvenience and a repair bill. Please can we all work together to look after our school and each other.
We found out that Mrs Henry will be joining Royal Mile as Head Teacher next session And we had yummy fruit for snack on Friday thanks to the Parent Council. We have the same again this Friday too!
Reading – Reading books will go home on Thursday. Please return them on Tuesday when you come back to school (bank holiday on Monday). You can read a range of stage books for free on the Oxford Old eBook Library.
Gymnastics has risks, and we are learning to reduce and manage these risks. We all know that Miss Copeland’s instructions keep us safe and when we prove that we can be safe, we can add more challenge! This week, we learned how to ‘spot’ for each other. A spotters job is to make sure the equipment is ready and to watch and catch them if needed. We also learned how to land safely (knees bent and arms straight out in front. We can all perform a straight jump!
You may wish to wear trousers or shorts under your skirts/dresses on Wednesdays and Fridays
Worry Monsters
A Worry Monster likes to eat worries. You can draw your worry, write it down or ask an adult to write it down. Feed it to your monster and it will gobble it up! We enjoyed getting super creative (and very messy) decorating our worry monsters. Thank you to the Equalities Group for the challenge!
Dinosaurs
We had a live session with Lizzy from Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham. She showed us Roary, their allosaurus, along with fossilised poo, footprints, the backplate of a Stegosaurus, a sabertoothed tiger and a maiasaura skull!
*We had a few technical issues during our session, so Lizzy wants to try and join us again on another day!* You can also check our their YouTube page
We enjoyed being archaeologists and brushing off hidden bones
Wow! Our dinosaurs went on so many different adventures over the weekend. I can see some of you researched all about your dinosaurs and some have used your imagination and creativity to look after them! Super job P1!
Money
This week we were matching the correct coin to the price of the item. We also learnt the names of all of the coins. We have to be careful with our 1p and £1 coins. Some pupils know that £1 is the same as 100p.
We also set up a shop where you pay with dot cards. Some pupils noticed that you could combine the dot cards to pay for an item e.g. 1+2+2 = 5. Next week we will be replacing these dot cards with 1p, 2p and 5p coins, aiming to add the coins together to pay for an item.
On Thursday and Friday we were revising Greater Alligator. Would he rather eat four lots of 1p coins or one 5p coin? Watch the video below to remind yourself about what he likes to eat…
Another plant update
Theodora has also been taking super care of her plant! Remember to send your photos to admin if you want to share them on the blog.
Have a great week! Miss Copeland, Mrs B and Mrs McGlashan
Royal Mile Primary School 