Easter Fun and some goodbyes

In the last two weeks of term we've been learning about the story of Easter and how Christians celebrate. On the last day of term we had a wonderful time, making chocolate nest cakes, and writing posters with messages for the Easter bunny. In the afternoon, we had an egg hunt in the playground.

This was the last day for some of the children who are moving on to new schools, as is Mrs Sutherland too. Miss Grant will be the new P1 teacher in April, and everyone at the Royal Mile welcomes her. We are also very lucky to have Miss Gordon, a PGDE student who is with us for her final placement.

Mrs Sutherland has had a wonderful time at the Royal Mile, and leaves with lots of fabulous memories of all the staff, parents and children.

World Book Day

We had a wonderful day, celebrating books on the 4th of March. The pictures show us reading with our buddies in P5/6. In the afternoon, we had a book themed activity afternoon, which involved making and sharing books, story activities and even book themed baking!

Chinese New Year

This week we will be learning about Chinese New Year, and the customs and celebrations that happen at this time. Every year is named after an animal, and 2010 is the year of the tiger. You can find out about how the years were named here.

Our daffodils have grown!

We planted bulbs back in October, and now with some tender loving care, we have these beautiful daffodils! We were given all the bulbs, pots and soil by Marie Curie to participate in their 'Little Pots of Care' fundraising event.
All the children have now taken home their daffodils and an envelope to collect donations for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

A song to help us learn

This week, we have been learning about vowel sounds, and have been writing and playing games to learn about the sounds ai and ay.
We have been learning the names of some capital letters, and love this song about capital I.

People Who Help Us

We've started a new project to learn about people who help us. We have made huge pictures for our wall of some of these people. We had to think about the clothes and equipment these people use. The children drew around each other, painted and stuck things on, then wrote labels. Aren't they great?

Parachute fun

Unfortunately, due to an icy playground, we've had to stay indoors quite a lot since we started back after the holiday. Primary 1 have been working very hard revising their phonics, reading, writing and number work so as a treat we went to the hall this afternoon to play parachute games.