All at Dalry Primary would like to wish you a fun and well earned October Break.
See you back in school on Tuesday 24th October.
Have A Great October Break
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Midterm Break Ideas
Ahead of the midterm break we thought we would round up some of things you can do around Edinburgh to keep little minds occupied this October.
- Edinburgh Museums and Galleries will be open over the break. In particular this is the last chance to visit the Museum of Childhood in its present for before it closes until March for an extensive refit and reinvention. They are also having a toy sale and offering a free magic show (book in advance) before they close.
- The National Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street are offering a big range of events and activities next week for free.
- Edinburgh’s Libraries are always open in the holidays for your reading needs.
- The Botanics continue to offer their Family Art trail and are bringing Halloween early with their spooky Halloween Trail starting today.
- There are great family walks in and around Edinburgh. A good website for finding these is Walk Highlands .
- The National Mining Museum is open through the holiday and is always a favourite with it’s mine tunnel recreation tour.
- Gorgie Farm is always there for Dalry Locals.
Have fun in the holiday!
Diwali Celebration
We all had an amazing nursery and P1 Diwali celebration on Tuesday 10th October.
We were treated to a morning of singing, dancing, activities and food which was celebrated by many of our families at Dalry.
Thank you so much to all the families and pupils who performed and helped out.
Head Lice Information
With younger children head louse vigilance and treatment is a constant battle.
NHS Health Scotland have recently updated their information and advice and have encouraged us to share it with parents to keep nipping this perennial problem in the bud, before it nips us.
Football Taster Sessions at North Merchiston Club
North Merchiston FC are looking for players born 2010/2011 to join their Sunday morning soccer school
North Merchiston soccer school runs on a Sunday morning at 10am, North Merchiston club.
More details are to be found on the below leaflet.
Our Clan Chiefs and Deputes
Our New Clan Chiefs and Deputes are:
Alba
Clan Chief: Tanisha P7
Depute: Andrew P6
Caledonia
Clan Chief: Struan P7
Depute: Adam P6
Dalriada
Clan Chief: Aayan P7
Depute: Niamh P6
Scotia
Clain Chief: Ellie P7
Depute: Bronagh P7
Congratulations to all!
Phonics Resources for Parents
We have recently added a new area to our parent zone pages hosting phonics resources for parents and carers to try out with their children at home.
You’ll find it here.
These resources include posters of all the letter sounds for you to work on reading and saying at home , great songs and videos to help learning and an audio catalogue of all the basic letter sounds.
When we teach in school we do so using the sounds of the letters rather than their names. We would encourage you to use these resources to help you to do the same at home.
Please check back to our phonics resources area often for new resources including common words (the, they, their etc) and digraphs of other common sounds in English (th, ck, sh etc).
