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.
St Martins Community Resource Centre (232 Dalry Rd) will be holding a fun day on 2nd of june.
‘Magic Ian’ will be performing a magic show from 12.45-1.30,
all welcome, light sandwich lunch and games.
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.
This week we were joined by Christine Eccles for RHET (Royal Highland Education Trust) who taught us how to make bread. She brought some real wheat for us to look at and we ground the grain into flour. Then we mixed, pounded and starched out our dough before shaping it into rolls which we left to rise before baking. AND we got to take our tasty bread home. YUMMMY!
See our EASY bread recipe attached.
The RHET also run the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston which makes a great day out for children and families to visit. Ingliston is near Edinburgh Airport on the 300 bus and tram route.
Heart of Midlothian FC host a free coder Dojo.
St Bride’s centre, our local community centre, will be running a breakfast club for parents and carers after school drop off starting on Monday 13th of May.
The sessions aim to offer support through both chat with other parents and carers and also useful training in first aid and other skills for parents.
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!
