As our Bear Hunt comes to an end, your journey is just beginning. We look forward to welcoming you to Pilmuir Primary after the summer holidays.
Please share any photographs you have of your children’s work to admin.pilmuirp@moray-edunet.gov.uk
Category Archives: P1 Transition 2022
2021 P1 Transition Week 5 Bear Hunt
This week we encourage you to ask your child if they have any questions about starting school and share those questions with us so we can try to answer them. Email admin.pilmuirp@moray-edunet.gov.uk
2021 P1 Transition Week 4 Bear Hunt
We would love to see any photographs of you on a walk to Pilmuir Primary, tag us on Twitter @PilmuirPrimary #P1Pilmuir
or email admin.pilmuirp@moray-edunet.gov.uk
2021 P1 Transition Week 3 Bear Hunt
This week we are thinking about sounds on our bear hunt.
We would love to see your photographs on Twitter, tag us @PilmuirPrimary #P1Pilmuir
or email admin.pilmuirp@moray-edunet.gov.uk
Play Based Learning in Primary 1
In Scotland we benefit from a curriculum model that spans Early Learning Centres (ELC) and the early years of Primary School. The Early Level of CfE supports the use of a responsive, continuous and play based curriculum for children aged between 3 and 6. This involves learning in ways which include a more active, play-based approach to learning and teaching in early Primary School and also supports the transition for ELC to Primary School.
Play is an essential part of human nature and development, through play a child develops their cognitive, social, emotional and physical capacities. Play can be thought of as children’s work (Isaacs, 1930) and is anything but simple!
Play allows children to make connections in their learning and to be actively involved with their learning. A play-based curriculum offers rich opportunities to equip our young learners with the skills, attributes and dispositions necessary for them to thrive in an ever-changing world.
Teachers and other adults in the class take the lead from the children, to identify what needs to be reinforced and how to extend children’s learning and development. It involves supporting, enriching and giving children space to build their own ideas.
2021 P1 Transition Week 2 Bear Hunt
We hope you have managed to put a bear in your window and are ready to continue on your bear hunt this week. There are some new activities for you to join in with if you would like. We would love to see any photos – you can post on Twitter and tag the school @PilmuirPrimary #P1Pilmuir . You can also email the school admin.pilmuirp@moray-edunet.gov.uk
Last year we were sent a great outdoor activity hunt for Forres that is all about following directions – going up, down, across, towards, over and under. It is a circular route and should take about half an hour. Have fun!
2021 P1 Transition Week 1 Bear Hunt
Look out for bears in windows, you might even see a warning sign!
If you are happy to share pictures from your Bear Hunt you can post them on Twitter @Pilmuir Primary with the tag #P1Pilmuir
Or you can email the school – admin.pilmuirp@moray-edunet.gov.uk
P1 Transition Summer 2021
Moving on to Primary 1
Supporting you and your child
If your child is going to start Primary 1 at Pilmuir Primary after the summer holidays we would normally be supporting your child along with their nursery to prepare for this move. This year things are a bit different and we have had to change how we do this. We are going to help your children to think about moving into Primary 1 using Michael Rosen’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. This means all the children will all know the same story and have shared experiences before they start school.
We will share activities for you and your family to take part in over 6 weeks from Monday 10th May 2021. Please join in with any of the activities your child is is interested in, there is no expectation that you complete all of them.
We hope to include a virtual parents information session to allow you to meet some of our school staff and answer any questions you may have about your child’s start to school. Dates and times are to be confirmed and will be shared with you.
