Mandarin Lessons Are Back!
We are very glad to be able to offer Mandarin lessons with our confucius suite and teacher for the first time since Covid.
P4 had a great time in their first lesson!
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Congratulations to Lucy in P5/6 who won the Confucius Institute for Scotland’s School Chinese New Year Poster contest a few weeks ago.
Here’s the tweets that announced her win!
THREAD: 📣 🎉 We are delighted to announce the winner and runners up for our #ChineseNewYear poster competition for primary schools! ⬇️
🥇1st place: Lucy, P5/6, Dalry Primary School, Edinburgh @Dalry1876
👏 A huge well done to our winner and runners-up, and to all the participants. We received over 100 wonderful creative entries and it was very hard to narrow it down to a top 3!
See more of the entries at
@Lynne_SCILT @SheenaSCILT @KarenScilt @Miss_Liddle_mfl @scottishcilt @LisaSCILT
Originally tweeted by CISS (@CISSStrathclyde) on February 11, 2021.
Well Done Lucy!
(also thanks to Mrs Lockey for spotting that I’d only put this on teams not the website. Sorry it’s a bit late! Mr Bennett)
Dalry P1 PE Grid (also appropriate for nursery)
Dalry P1 Home Learning Grid Week 2
P1/2 P1s Home learning grid Week 2
P3 Home Learning Grid – 30.3.20
P5 and P5_4 school closure learning grid 2
Edinburgh Zoo and the Confucius institute Scotland have put all the resources for the Beyond the Panda project online.
Well done to all our amazing P5, 6 and & 7 perormers who joined Scottish Opera in a performance of Terracotta Warriors last week.
We were so proud of their hard work and its results.
Here are photos from the rehearsal and performance.
Primary 7 have been working on a project with local artist Damien Callen. During our 5 week project, Damien has been assisting us with creating our very own Chinese Lanterns inspired by those at Edinburgh Zoo. The class decided to. Feats a collaboration piece Of an ocean scene, creating animals such as octopus, jelly fish, sea snakes, dolphins and fish. I think you’ll agree they look fish-tactic!
P5/4 have been investigating Chinese Opera masks as part of international week and their Mandarin studies.
P2A have been really enjoying the first couple of lessons within their Mandarin block this term. We have been learning to count to ten in Mandarin and playing lots of fun games to help us remember them. It has been great spending time in our lovely Confucius classroom!
This year we have a new Mandarin teacher called Mr Wang.
He teaches us Mandarin in our Confucius suite.
He also works in other schools in Edinburgh.
He worked in Edinburgh Zoo last year.
Welcome Mr Wang.
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P5 were recently invited to the National Museum of Scotland to support the design of a Mandarin language project and to learn more about chinese object.
The class have written the following report:
P5 Museum Trip
On 19th of September 2019 primary 5 from Dalry Primary School in Edinburgh had the opportunity to visit the National Museum of Scotland to help design a Mandarin educational resource.
Dalry was chosen as we are a primary school with a Confucius classroom and teacher.
We were introduced to the filmmaker David who is going to make an animation to teach people about Mandarin colours. When we got there, we learnt about some fascinating objects like vases, statues, children’s clothing and animals from China. There were wonderful colours on the objects like red, which is hong-se in Mandarin.
Then we had the pleasure to explore the museum. We were split into 2 groups, 1 group went with Ms Younger, the second went with Mr Bennett. We had to draw our favourite Chinese objects and write which colours were in them. We chose objects that had really bright colours that would catch people’s eyes. We also made sure that the objects didn’t have too many colours to make sure it was easy for people to see what the main colour was. Some of our favourite objects were the Chinese fan and the lion dogs because the fan was a beautiful object and the lion dogs were funny.
Next, we got to ask the filmmaker, David,questions about his proposal, so we learnt about the process of designing a new resource. Once we were shown the dragon David had designed for the animation film we got to suggest names for it.
Before January, someone from the museum is going to come and show us small clips of animation so we can give them feedback. Then in January we are going back to the museum for the launch.
We are excited to be part of this project. We think it is important because we it is helpful for people who don’t know Mandarin. They can learn the colours from the resource.
Dalry Primary Edinburgh 