Before the break our Nursery celebrated a musical, colourful, wonderful Diwali at Dalry!
Thank you to everyone who joined us and all our fantastic performers!
Nursery Diwali
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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).
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
Autumn At Gorgie Farm
All the nursery children had the opportunity to visit Gorgie Farm during the week
We saw amazing things growing in their garden and greenhouses. Look at the runner beans, leeks and tomatoes we saw.
We also looked at the farm animals and enjoyed our snack together.
Confucius Classrom Grand Opening
Our Confucius Classroom was opened this week in a fantastic ceremony led by our P7 pupils.
We hope that the new facility will be a great success in fostering mutual learning and stronger ties with our partners in China.
P1B Visit the Library
P1B have a school library time every Wednesday at 2-2.30pm.
They enjoyed their first visit and explored all the different books available.
They will soon be able to choose a book to take home to share with their family and return it the following week so that they are able to select another
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.
Visitor From China
On Wednesday 20th September Dalry Primary School welcomed Mr Hua & Liu Xue to our school.
Mr Hua is the Head Teacher at Zhongying Primary School in Tianjin, China. Liu Xue is a Mandarin Teacher at Portobello High School.
Edinburgh Sounds
Here is the Edinburgh Sounds Poster that we use in school in our phonics lessons and literacy.
We will soon be putting up a page on this site that has the sounds for you to hear.
P1B Explorers
Primary 1B have been exploring their school.
They found out that there is a library , music/drama room, a computer suite and a Confucius hub.
They also interviewed Mr Wilson who told them all about his job. Can you guess what he does?
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