The Parent council held a very successful bake sale last Friday, raising funds towards snacks for our Christmas cinema outing this week.
Thanks you very much to all who baked, sold, and bought!
For more info on the Parent council and how to join in click this link.
The lovely folks at St Brides community centre, just around the corner, have a fabulous Friday planned this week with winter films, food and crafts on offer. Full details on the poster below.
Congratulations to Rozalia in P4 for winning an Edinburgh wide maths contest on the learning game Sumdog.
In the contest the 3509 entrants from across the city had a week to answer 1000 maths questions.
Rozalia came first by answering an amazing 970 questions correctly.
Rozalia has won a certificate for her amazing achievement as well as 6 months of free Sumdog for her class!
Congratulations Rozalia!
Also well done to our other top 50 stars Juan in P3/4 who came 46th and Nell in P4 who came 49th.
Also well done to Akshaj, Samarth, Shriya and Harshu who all made the top 100.
P4 also made it to 10th placed class overall.
All children at Dalry have access to a Sumdog account they can use in school and at home on PCs and tablets. The programme learns their maths ability and tailors the learning to each child. So if you haven’t seen Sumdog yet get your child to login at www.Sumdog.com (just remember not to help them with the answers! If you do it’ll keep giving them harder questions up to S3 level!)
Next week there is a national Sumdog contest. Let’s hope that all the great Sumdog stars at Dalry can do well there too.
A 7 week “Raising Children With Conifidence” course will start on 28th of January 2019.
This course will be aimed at Arabic speakers with limited English.
Click here for more information.
هذا الكورس موجه الى كل االمهات واالباء الذين يرغبون في زيادة ثقتهم في تربية اطفال يتمتعون بصحة نفسية متوازنة ومساعدتهم
في تكوين شخصيات مستقلة. للمزيد من المعلومات او التسجيل الرجاء االتصال ب ميسون على الرقم 0131- 3371376
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You are cordially invited to….
Click on this link to your invitation to our P4, P5, P6 & P7 celebration of home learning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s common for nits to appear in kids aged 4-11 but it’s vital to nip nit problems in the bud.
To help us all stay vigilant our school nurse has given us this link to brilliant information from the NHS at this webpage.
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
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