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!
Dalry Primary School will now be closed for use as a polling place in the European elections on Thursday 23rd of May.
Our apologies for the late confirmation of this closure due to the late confirmation of the election taking place.
There are also a number of other days the school is closed this term, all are listed below.
Monday May 6th- Bank holiday
Tuesday May 7th- In Service day staff only
Monday May 20th- Edinburgh Bank Holiday
Thursday May 23rd- European Elections staff only
New English as a second language classes for adults are being offered at Tynecastle Community Wing.
There are two new classes – an additional pre-intermediate/intermediate group with creche on Tuesdays 9.30 – 11.30 and a complete beginner class also on Tuesday 11.30 – 13.30.
For full details see the flyer on the following link: English for speakers of other languages SW Locality April – June 2019-2
This month P2 is has been finding out about how babies sleep and how important sleep is for the baby and parents. We have had a another visit from Arthur and his mum Miss Younger and the children were excited to see Arthur and see how much he is grown since we last weighed and measured him in November last year. Miss Younger shared with the children Arthur’s sleep pattern and what how she knows when he is feeling sleepy and needs a nap. Also that as he is so young and doing a lot of growing, he needs more sleep than the P2s need and we all require different circumstances to help us have a good sleep.
P2 really enjoyed learning about the different sleep cycles of REM and non-REM sleep and the different transitional objects that soothe babies and help them sleep. The children have enjoyed sharing their experiences and how they sleep and their favourite toy or blanket that helps them to fall sleep. In addition the children discovered how parents safely put their babies down to sleep on their backs, how temperament and routine is different for every baby.
Please check out our Roots of Empathy notice board in Mrs McDermot’s class room and https://uk.rootsofempathy.org/
Heriot Watt university are holdling a family fun day on Saturday 13th April.
The children in the nursery have been very interested in ‘shops’ and money.
They have been visiting several shops in the Gorgie/Dalry area where they had the opportunity to buy things including purses, hardware and plants, using real money!
P1C have enjoyed baking gingerbread men as part of their Fairy Land learning.
We held very successful Parents Consultations this week in school. The teachers, pupils and parents enjoyed learning conversations about the children’s progress and next steps.
The Pupil Council set up a very popular Healthy Snack stall to promote good choices for playtime snacks and also to include in lunch boxes.
Our P6 and P7 pupils consulted our parents on our new school vision, values and aims, as well as our teaching of languages at Dalry Primary School.
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