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Cinema Trip Bake Sale
The Parent Council is holding a Bake Sale for pupils on Friday 7 December at 9.00am.
The money raised will be used to provide snacks and drinks for the Cinema Trip.
We would be grateful if you could send in a small amount of money with your child to enable them to purchase some cakes.
All donations of baking appreciated – please send baking in with your child on the day or bring to the waiting area (with the blue chairs). Please list ingredients if possible.
P2a and P2b Roots of Empathy Programme
This year P2a and P2b are experiencing a programme called Roots of Empathy.
The sessions are delivered by our, in school, trained, instructor; Mrs Harris-Toner, who is supported by Mrs McDermot and Miss Percival.
The programme aims to build caring, peaceful and civil societies through the development of empathy in children and adults.
The focus of ‘Roots of Empathy’, long term is to build the capacity of the next generation for responsible citizenship and responsive parenting, while in the short term raising levels of empathy resulting in more respectful and caring relationships and reducing levels of bullying and aggression.
Roots of Empathy Baby as “Teacher”
At the heart of the programme are an infant and parent who visit the classroom nine times over the school year.
Our ‘Roots of Empathy’ family is Ms Younger and her son Arthur. Our Instructor Mrs Harris-Toner coaches the children to observe the baby’s development and to label the baby’s feelings and intentions.
In this experiential learning, the baby is the “Teacher” and a lever that the Instructor uses to help children to identify and reflect on their own feelings and the feelings of others.
Emotional Literacy/Perspective-Taking
The emotional literacy taught in the programme lays the foundation for more safe and caring classrooms, where children are the “Changers.” They are more competent in understanding their own feelings and the feelings of others (empathy), and are therefore less likely to physically, psychologically and emotionally hurt each other through bullying and other emotional cruelties. The cognitive aspect of empathy is perspective-taking and the affective aspect is emotion.
For more information…
please ask Mrs Harris-Toner, Mrs McDermot and Miss Percival. Also check out our Roots of Empathy notice board in Mrs McDermot’s classroom, click this video, or visit www.rootsofempathy.org.
Family Reading Sessions at Dalry
On the 22nd November we were lucky to have some very special visitors to P1 – P3 classrooms – our families!!
They came to enjoy exploring some activities which were linked to the lovely books and games the children were gifted through the Bookbug and Read, Write, Count initiatives by Scottish Book Trust and the Scottish Government.
These provide resources to inspire a lifelong love of reading, writing and counting and help to strengthen links between school and home learning.
Here are some links to support parents:
https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/read-write-count
http://scottishbooktrust.com/reading/parents/read-write-count-bags
Thank you so much to the families who were able to join us and for the lots of very positive feedback that you left.
St Martins Family Fun Day
Local church St Martin of Tours is holding a Family Fun Day this weekend.
Sunday 2nd December
12.30pm-2.30pm
St Martins Community Resource Centre 232 Dalry Rd
All children and families are welcome: free sandwich lunch INFLATABLE, GAMES, CRAFTS Christmas theme
Dalry Pupil is Winter Windows Winner
Ciara, in P7, has had her artwork judged award winning in the Edinburgh Winter Windows competition.
She and her family enjoyed attending the prize giving ceremony on Fri 23rd November at Festival Square.
Her winning winter window design is displayed in Parliament Square.
Congratulations from Dalry Primary Ciara.
Nursery Sing Along
Yousouf Gooljary, the minister at St Martin’s Church, joined all the children, some mum’s and a baby brother too(!) for a Sing Along in the nursery. We sang some of our favourite nursery rhymes and had a lots of fun taking part!
P5 Remembrance Poppy Art
To mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war P5 took up their paint brushes and created some amazing artworks based of the poppy symbol.
Children in Need Bake Sale at Dalry Primary This Friday
This Friday P2a will be holding a children in need bake sale of items made by P2a and the staff.
If you would like your child to buy treats from the bake sale then please supply them with an donation of your choosing and they will be able to get something.
Last year’s sale raised over £260 and we would love to beat that total.
To learn more about Children in Need visit www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
Diwali Dalry Style
Dalry Primary’s early level children and families celebrated Diwali with a wonderful morning full of colourful costumes, dazzling dancing and marvellous music.
Children and parents put on a sensational showcase of talent for the nursery and Primary 1 children, their families, friends and staff. Afterwards the children enjoyed a variety of Indian foods in their classroom. Thank you to all the terrifically talented dancers and performers, the parents and staff who helped to rehearse the children and prepare the food, and of course a special thank you to the super school staff Mrs Roy and Mrs Dugal who made such a great effort behind the scenes to coordinate the event.
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ਖੁਸ਼ ਦਿਵਾਲੀ
દિવાળી ખુશ
இனிய தீபாவளி வாழ்த்துக்கள்
HAPPY DIWALI TO EVERYONE!
Dalry Primary Edinburgh 