The children in the nursery have been very interested in ‘shops’ and money.
They have been visiting several shops in the Gorgie/Dalry area where they had the opportunity to buy things including purses, hardware and plants, using real money!
P1C have enjoyed baking gingerbread men as part of their Fairy Land learning.
We held very successful Parents Consultations this week in school. The teachers, pupils and parents enjoyed learning conversations about the children’s progress and next steps.
The Pupil Council set up a very popular Healthy Snack stall to promote good choices for playtime snacks and also to include in lunch boxes.
Our P6 and P7 pupils consulted our parents on our new school vision, values and aims, as well as our teaching of languages at Dalry Primary School.
Museum on the Mound are offering free money workshops as part of the science festival this Easter Holiday.
Over the last few weeks primary 2a have been working hard on our space topic.
We have explored life on the international space station, investigated the planets, stars and moons in our solar system and learnt lots about how astronauts prepare for their journeys into space!
Last week we speculated about aliens… Do they exist? We don’t think so but we decided to make some Play-Doh versions ourselves have a look!
We also collected lots of recycling materials to create our very own rockets. We worked together in small teams to build the best rocket we could.
Make sure to take a look at our fabulous space pictures made with paper cuttings and oil pastels outside our classroom!
P4/3 have been making paper mache Easter Eggs. It was a very messy experience, but we all had fun!
This month P2 have been learning about emotional literacy, to identify, name and feel comfortable about discussing emotions.
They have discovered that emotions are not good or bad, but pleasant or unpleasant. Also that everyone experiences the same emotions and that our temperament influences how we deal with them.
The children understand there are four core emotions of sadness, anger, fear and happiness. That they vary in how they are triggered and how long they last. From our family visit with Arthur, and his mum Miss Younger, the children recognised and named baby Arthur’s emotional cues and facial expressions. How he his mum reads his emotional cues to meet Arthur’s needs and makes him feel understood. The children really enjoyed their visit, asking Miss Younger lots of questions and sharing their experiences.
We also talked about different types of teasing and bullying behaviour, how this makes us feel and how talking about our emotions can help us manage them.
Please check out the children’s artwork on our Roots of Empathy noticeboard in Mrs McDermot’s classroom and www.rootsofempathy.org
This week Mrs Honeyman sent home a letter about breaktime snacks and healthy snacks in school.
The NHS are offering stress control classes for adults in either Niddrie or Bruntsfield in May.
Full details on the links below.
Dalry Primary Edinburgh 