Here are some pictures of the school during last week’s snow closure.
Thank you to Sophie and Alex’s Dad for taking them.
Dalry in the Snow
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Be Resilient- Respect Yourself
Our new Be relilient Unit is called “Respect Yourself”
Here is the leaflet that is going out at hometimes.
Sounds of Common Words in English
As with all languages some of our most common words in English are those associated with its grammar.
Some of these words are also among the trickiest to read straight from the page. So it is worthwhile spending time practicing reading these words with your child.
To be able to progress to fluent and simple reading it is vital that a child knows these common words.
You can support that learning at home with the sounds below and the other resources in our phonics resource pages.
I
the
to
he
me
is
his
put
was
want
saw
no
(please note, this page is not finished. Lots more common words will be added soon, including female pronouns. These words simply happened to be in block 1 processed.)
Sounds of Vowel Digraphs In English
In written English some of our vowel sounds, the key building blocks of spoken language, are not represented by one letter but by several written together.
These are known as “Vowel Digraphs” and after learning the Sounds of the English Alphabet are the next step in a phonics based approach for reading.
We take this approach in school and you can support that learning at home with the sounds below and the other resources in our phonics resource pages.
ck
qu
sh
ch
th
wh
ai
ay
ee
ea
igh
oa
ow
oo
ew
oi
oy
ou
ow
au
aw
Sounds Of the English Alphabet
When we teach English in school, both speaking for EAL students and written English for all, we teach the sounds of the letters, not the names of the letters.
This approach is often known as learning by phonics.
To help parents and carers to support the learning in school we would encourage you to do the same at home and have supplied the below sounds as a reference.
Once these sounds are learned they are supplemented by common diagraphs (letter combinations that make set sounds when placed together). You will soon find these are also available on our phonics resources page, along with commonly used words that form the key building blocks of English grammar.
To hear the basic letter sounds click on the players below each of the letters that follow (we have shown both the capital and lower case versions of each letter):
Aa
Bb
Cc
Dd
Ee
Ff
Gg
Hh
Ii
Jj
Kk
Ll
Mm
Nn
Oo
Pp
Rr
Ss
Tt
Uu
Vv
Ww
Xx
Yy
Zz
Dalry Nursery: Swimming, Singing and Sharing!
Some of us went swimming, we had a Big Sing with Mrs Ewen, the school music teacher and many of our parents joined us and also a Harvest Celebration, with David at St Martin’s Church, from where all our donations will be shared with people in need in our community.
P1a Planting
Primary 1A have been learning about growing plants.
They planted seeds and some seedlings in the playground and have been watering them and checking on them each week.
It has been very exciting seeing the changes that the plants have made. Hopefully we will have broad beans, lettuce and pumpkins to enjoy soon.
Nursery Swim Sessions
Our morning and afternoon children enjoyed fun swim sessions at Dalry Swim Centre.
Great swimming mums, dads and children!
Nursery Reading Rainbows
Our pre-school children went to Fountainbridge Library for our Reading Rainbows event.
The children got a bag of books and other items.
One of the books ‘One Mole Digging a Hole’ will be used for our transition activities in the nursery and when we begin Primary 1. We followed a number trail up to the library, listened to the story, did a creative number activity and had snack.
Thank you to everyone who helped us make this such a special day!
P1a Creativity Week
Just before Easter P1a got creative as part of Dalry Primary’s creativity week.
They learned Musical Theatre dances, bollywood dances and (here with Mr Moreton) how to Cha Cha Cha
They learned about weaving,
and they had fun with henna tattoos.
A great week!
Dalry Primary Edinburgh 