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!
Congratulations to the winners of the Royal Mile has Got Talent. Well done Omer, Aron and Mustafa for coming third with their great Hip-hop performance.
This week is British Science Week and we will be focusing on doing lots of fun experiments and writing about them. The theme is Connections and we will be making lots of these over this week.
As usual we will be swimming on Monday at Abbeyhill Primary, please remember hat, swim wear and towel. We will have a special assembly on Monday morning to launch Science Week. Home Learning this week will be Science based. Home Learning bags will be given out on Monday and should be returned for self correction and discussion on Friday. I have attached below a copy of a British Science Week word search, a Phases of the Moon challenge sheet and Where is the sun coming from challenge sheet for Home Learnng.
Primary 5 took part in the Social Enterprise Academy Dragon’s Den Competition on Thursday 2nd March at Morningside. They took on other Primary 6 and 7 classes from Primaries across Lothians and Borders and won!
The Dragons were from local Businesses who support and have developed Social Enterprise Businesses themselves. They were ‘blown away’ ( their words) by the level and commitment of the class to their idea and were impressed by their presentation and how they answered the questions that they were asked. However what stood out most about their idea and the work they were doing was their passion about the community they live in and how their idea could support the people around them from families in the school to those in the local community.
The class worked as a team from poster making, to creating logos, to supporting the presenters on the day, creating powerpoint for the presentation and throughout the process of writing the pitch, to some of the class presenting the pitch, all the children had a role to play and succeeded in winning £200 for their enterprise. We will now be starting to build our business and hope to launch it to the families in school in June at a special event.
Mrs Leslie and Mr Humphreys are so proud of being part of your team and were so impressed on the day with how you all worked together as a winning combination. Well done Primary 5!
Please remember that we have swimming on Monday at Abbeyhill Primary and Music with Youth Music Initiative. On Tuesday we have Magic Torch Comics coming to give us an all day workshop on producing a comic based on our social enterprise story and idea.
Home Learning will be issued on Monday and please return on Friday for self correction and discussion. The class are really doing well returning their home learning and supporting each other when they are discussing what they have done. Please have a go at home to complete it even if you find it difficult then we can discuss it together in class. Thank you once again for your support.
Can you believe that we are already two months into 2023 and this week we begin our swimming block at Abbeyhill Primary School, please remember your swimming cap, swimming wear and towel. We are also going to do our Dragon’s Den pitch on Thursday 2nd March and we have been preparing all last week for our presentation. We have produced a power point about our Enterprise , the pitch, a logo and posters to take with us to deliver our ideas. We had a visit during the week from the Social Enterprise Academy team and they took pictures and interviewed some of the class to produce an article for the Big Issue about our plan. I will let you know when the article is to be published.
Logo by Colin
We have been starting our new reading books in class and will be focusing on developing understanding and analysing text through our Literacy Detectives. We have been looking at the James Webb Telescope in Topical Science and produced fact posters.
Please find attached a copy of home learning for this week. Please return on Friday for self correction and discussion. Some of the class will have the copy of the presentation sent home to practice Tuesday and Wednesday, thank you for your support in this matter.
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