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To help you with your transition tasks, I have made an example one of how I probably felt when I was going into S1. As some of you may know, my family moved to Germany when I was 11. I started the first year of high school in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Deutschland. A new country, new language and new school all in one!

What are you nervous about?

What are you excited about?

I don’t speak the language.

I won’t understand anything in class.

The school is huge-there are over 1000 people!

Not knowing where to go.

The teachers might get cross with me because I don’t understand.

I won’t be able to do the work.

Getting back to school

Being in the same school as my sister.

The hot chocolate machine!

Being the best in the English class!

I can go to the shop at lunch time.

Making new friends.

Learning lots of new subjects.

Now, I understand that every experience is different. When I look at this list now, I can tell you a few things. I never did get lost because I went with my class everywhere. I did find other students who spoke English and loved to practise their English so they spoke to me and helped me.

I won’t fib and tell you I managed to learn well in another language straight away, I absolutely did not! That was probably the hardest part, because when you are learning in a language that is not your own, you have to concentrate so much harder. It took me some time and a lot of help from my parents and some really patient teachers, but as my German got better, I was able to understand and do better in school. Some of my teachers did get cross with me but others tried so hard to help me to understand. My sister went back to visit the school as an adult and her Biology teacher told her that he had ordered books in English off the internet when she was in his class, so that he could help her.

There was also lots of things to be excited about that I hadn’t thought of. For example, after about 6 months or so, I could travel home on my own (it was two bus journeys away). This meant I could go home via the shop in the village for a ‘Buntetüte’ which is a pick n mix! We also went on an amazing class trip (one of the days we went to a theme park!) and I started piano lessons close by.

So I know it can feel like a huge change now but in a couple of months, it will all feel second nature to you. Teachers are less cross than mine were (trust me!) and they really want to help you. Also, in high school there are so many departments that specialise in their own subject, so you will learn and experience so many new things!

I hope this little letter has helped you in some way. If you are not sure about anything or just want to chat to me by email or on TEAMS, please do.

I will be thinking of you all this week and I hope you really enjoy all the activities planned.

Miss Kerr

P.S. The hot chocolate machine was AMAZING by the way.

P.P.S A wee reminder that the link for JGHS is:

www.jamesgillespies.co.uk/p7-transition-2020/

Drummond High School:

P7-S1 Transition

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Learning Material for Transition Week P7

06/15/202006/16/2020 rmpstaff

Good morning Primary 7,

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Please see below the Moving on Up resource to support you with your transition days this week. I will post some things to help you on the blog during the week as well.

For James Gillespie’s High School, this link for high school activities is below:

www.jamesgillespies.co.uk/p7-transition-2020/

Now, for the activity on Task 1 on Tuesday, please don’t bring your goodbye message to school yet. We will schedule a time to do that later. I have also included the parent information leaflet if your parents would like to take a look. This has also been translated into Turkish and Spanish and you can find all versions below.

Moving On Up Pupil Pack

Moving On Up Parent Carer Leaflet

Moving On Up leaflet Parent Carer Leaflet – Spanish

Moving On Up Parent Carer leaflet – Turkish

Have a fantastic week and remember, if you are not sure about anything or need some help you can contact me in the usual way.

Miss Kerr

Primary 7 Blog

Dear Primary 7

06/12/2020 rmpstaff

Dear Primary 7,

Happy Friday! I hope you have all had a lovely week. I know that you and your parents will have received a lot of information about Transition activities for next week. I will post the ‘Moving on Up’ resource on the blog for you to access. You don’t need to do anything with it until Tuesday, but it will go up on Monday to give you a chance to read through it and think about the activities. Please remember that if you are stuck or not sure about anything, you can still contact me in the usual way. I will also post my own version of the activities on the blog on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to help you. These will also be available on TEAMS.

I have just emailed and posted out the weekly house point round up. It is wonderful to see all the hard work you are doing and I am looking forward to seeing or hearing about your experiences next week.

Now, for the leavers video. I have worked out how to upload videos and once I have written this, I will post in the TEAMS chat how to do it. If you cannot get it to work, please don’t worry. We have other things planned as well, so if it is too complicated and stressing you out, we can leave it.

For those of you not yet set up, please do read the code of conduct below and let the office know. They will send you your login details.

p7-contract-ICT-2020

When you do get access, I shall send you an email and it would be lovely if you said hello on the posts in TEAMS.

In other news, I made a coffee cake this week. This is my Mum’s favourite cake, so I make it for her birthday every year. Check out the recipe below! Copper is doing well, he has met a few friends on socially distanced walks in the park and he is so excited to see people again. Today, we are going to meet my brother in the park who I haven’t seen for months so I am very excited!

As always, if you have any questions or anything to share, please do email it to:

me directly, share it on TEAMS or admin@royalmile.edin.sch.uk

Take care,

Miss Kerr

Coffee Cake

Cake

150g margarine or butter

150g dark soft brown sugar

3 eggs

150g of self-raising flour (Plain flour and biocarbonate of soda will also work)

1 tbsp of coffee essence (Now I have not found this outside of Northern Ireland-but I looked up similar recipes and if you use a tablespoon of instant coffee, this should work as well).

Buttercream

60g of butter or margarine

100g icing sugar

1 tablespoon of instant coffee or coffee essence

Icing

Icing sugar

1 tablespoon of water

1 tablespoon of instant coffee or coffee essence

Walnuts or chocolate sprinkles to decorate

Method:

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees

Grease two cake tins (Rub the inside with margarine, then put a tablespoon of flour in. Shake it about in the tin until the margarine is covered with a dusty coating. Tip any excess flour into the sink.)

Cream the butter and sugar together using your mixer until pale and fluffy.

Beat in the eggs one at t time, added a teaspoon of sieved flour each time.

Sieve in the rest of the flour and add the coffee.

Fold the mixture together using a big spoon.

Divide between the two tins and bake for 20-25 minutes until well risen, golden brown and firm to the touch.

Leave to cool.

For the buttercream

Put the icing sugar and margarine in a big bowl (beware it can get dusty!) and mix slowly at first with your mixer, increasing the speed when it is less powdery.

Mix in the coffee essence or instant coffee.

If you want to add chopped walnuts, stir them in with a spoon.

Use this to sandwich the two cakes together.

For icing

Put 4 or 5 heaped tablespoons of icing sugar in a bowl.

Add a tablespoon of water and a tablespoon of coffee.

Stir with a metal spoon until glossy. Add more liquid or sugar as you need to.

Pour and spread on the top of the cake.

Add any nuts or chocolate sprinkles for decoration.