Caterpillars have arrived in primary 2!
Both classes have received five little caterpillars who are busy eating their way through special food (see the base of the pot in the photo). They’ve already started to get bigger and the children are really excited about watching them transform into beautiful butterflies. Watch this space!
P1B enjoyed an Afro Fusion dance workshop with Susan and Pascal from Zambia. This is part of a community link project with St Brides and Edinburgh Carnival.
P4 did a workshop on Farm Animals with the SSPCA. We learned how to look after farm animals and we made robot chickens! We then used coding to make them move and make a noise. It was great fun!
We always like to encourage our pupils to use the coder dojo at Hearts’ Tynecastle stadium.
Next week our friends at Robotical are bringing Marty to the dojo for a 6 week robotics and coding course.
We use Marty with our older coders at Dalry so this is a good way to get an introduction to what it can do.
Heart of Midlothian FC host a free coder Dojo.
After a lovely Easter Break and some truly FANTASTIC weather all the children have settled happily back at nursery. They have been keen to help staff set up and then enjoy some of our lovely new resources including a very special and relaxing story house, a refurnished creative area, a brand new mud kitchen, our very own water wall and lots of other smaller, but wonderful, items such as an outdoor clock and new tools and utensils for our sand, planting and mud kitchen areas. And we now have a great BIG shed to store everything safely overnight, during the weekends and holidays!
The children have been involved in every stage of the planning, selection and the layout of their playground and monies from the school’s outdoor learning fund, and the very generous donations you all make to our toy fund, which enabled us to purchase these items.
Finally, we would all like to thank the children, staff, and our janitor Mrs Smith for her help and in particular Mr Fituch, dad of Matylda (in the nursery) and Nell (Primary 4) for all his time and hard work!
Dalry Primary School will now be closed for use as a polling place in the European elections on Thursday 23rd of May.
Our apologies for the late confirmation of this closure due to the late confirmation of the election taking place.
There are also a number of other days the school is closed this term, all are listed below.
Monday May 6th- Bank holiday
Tuesday May 7th- In Service day staff only
Monday May 20th- Edinburgh Bank Holiday
Thursday May 23rd- European Elections staff only
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!
