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Scottish Book Week 13th – 17th November

11/10/2023 Mrs Leslie

Royal Mile Primary will be taking part in Scottish Book Week (13^th – 17^th November). We will have fun and exciting activities for the whole school and in the classes during the week and we are hoping that you and your children will be able to join us in our reading week at home.

We will be launching Book Bugs P1 -3 on Friday 17^th November and a separate invite will be sent from the class teachers with a time to join the class.

We will have book competitions that the children can take part in and win a book prize. This year we have a Draw Your Favourite Character from a Book competition for Nursery, P1 and P2. We have quizzes for P3-4 and P5-7 and a chance everyday to guess who was caught reading in school. There will be a reading challenge grid on the School classes Blog and we hope that you will help the children complete some of these challenges and send in either the challenge or pictures that we can share their achievements.

Staff will be reading in different classes over the week and sharing their love of reading.

The challenge in class this year is for children to agree a Recipe for Reading in Royal Mile Primary so please discuss with your children at home what they enjoy about reading and what makes them want to read. We will compile all the ideas and use that to encourage more great reading in school.

We are passionate about creating a Royal Mile Primary Reading Community and hope that you can share sometime with your children next week to read with them or even tell them about your favourite book as a child.

LETS GET READING!

Thank you.

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maths week 2023

10/10/202310/08/2023 Ms.Brunner

What an exciting maths and numeracy week we had! 🙂

Look for yourself:

Launching maths week with a whole school assembly and an Ipad challenge all about PLACE VALUE

Royal Mile learners buddying up and completing a playground challenge all about

TELLING THE TIME:

Maths walks and more outdoor learning:

Outing to the MONEY MUSEUM:

and lots of positive feedback about activities pupils enjoyed…

such as QR code online games and singing number songs in different languages 🙂

And now to the big reveal of the PLACE VALUE RIDDLE:

and the answer is…

Already looking forward to

next year – 2024! 🙂

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Mental Agility Second level

10/02/202309/29/2023 Ms.Brunner

Hi and welcome to the second section of our MENTAL AGILITY rainbow this term!

Until Christmas our school will focus on ADDITION and SUBTRACTION!

Please find attached activities children work on in class.

We would really appreciate your support in practising them at home too!

Second Level 6 Indigo Addition and Subtraction Download

One of our main aims is for children to be competent with numbers.

Pupils are introduced to a new mathematical concept through the use of concrete resources (e.g. fruit, Dienes blocks etc). When they are comfortable solving problems with physical aids, they are given problems with pictures – usually pictorial representations of the concrete objects they were using.

Then they are asked to solve problems where they only have the abstract i.e. numbers or other symbols. Building these steps across a lesson can help pupils better understand the relationship between numbers and the real world, and therefore helps secure their understanding of the mathematical concept they are learning.

Most Second level learners are ready to move on from concrete materials and focus on pictorial and abstract methods. An increasing understanding of number allows transitioning through the approaches.

It is vital to have a variety of strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Here are some examples:

At second level learners will also work with numbers up to/beyond one Million, decimal, percentages and fractions as well as negative numbers:

Take a look at this amazing website, have a go at the games or quizzes!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2wrf82

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Home Learning

09/25/202309/25/2023 Miss Copeland

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, school will be closed. This is due to strikes by UNISON members.

As teachers are not part of these strikes, home learning will be posted each day on your class blog at 9:00.

Below is a document explaining the format of each day.

We have aimed to support pupil routine by creating a timetable very similar to our school day. We hope by being consistent across the school, this will support families whom may be working together or sharing resources.

We look forward to welcoming you back to school on Friday, when pupils can share the learning that has been completed at home and we can celebrate their achievements.

daily-timetable-visuals-explained-september-home-learning-1 Download

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CELEBRATING SUCCESS

09/25/202309/25/2023 Ms.Brunner

thank you for popping in! Before we start our new

MENTAL AGILITY

focus we were keen to show you how hard we worked on

across the school:

having fun with numbers to 5, 10 (and beyond)!

experimenting with Place Value arrow cards and partitioning numbers into

100s, 10s and 1s

Place Value arrow cards represent numbers in expanded notation. The cards overlap to form multi-digit numbers.

and consolidation with online games.

lots of practice with visualising and learning important principles of seeing patterns, anchoring numbers and enforce number bonds with the hands on teaching resource REKENREKS.

and Ten frames – to help develop a strong number sense! Ten frames are very useful in helping learners visualise numbers and build a good understanding of the relationships between numbers.

fun with board games and

using DIENES resources to represent 1,10,100 and 1000

allowing the learners to understand the relationship between the different columns on a place value grid:

using a variety of resources to identify, write and partition numbers up to 1 000 000 including Place value charts to help find the place value of each digit based on its position in a number.