Tag Archives: Literacy and English

Young Authors Book Launch!

Over the past six months, three budding young writers from Primary 7 have been working tirelessly to plan, write, edit and produce their very own books! The tenacious trio thought long and hard about what makes an exceptional book, and tried to re-create the feeling they get when they read for their very own audience.

This morning, to celebrate their hard work, the children hosted their very own book launch in our Rainbow Room. They invited along their friends and family and put on a truly inspirational display. Each of our young authors spoke about the motivation and inspiration behind their book, as well as what they learned from writing their texts, before treating their captive audience to a reading from their favourite chapter.

Finally, the children signed first edition copies of their books for some of our lucky guests to take home. Some extra special audience members were also given souvenir bookmarks and posters to mark the occasion!

Mr Innes would like to congratulate our pupils on their incredible achievement.  Special thanks also to our supportive and encouraging audience of parents and friends, and to Mrs McGowan in our school office for making such an excellent job of preparing our books.

Nursery Train Trips

Did you know that our nursery class regularly take short trips on the train?

Our children walk to the train station in small groups, talking about road safety as they go. The children also learn about the different roles people in society play. When the children are out and about they also look for where text and signs can be found in the environment.

Sounds like fun boys and girls – take us with you please!

P1E Teddy Bears’ Picnic!

On Wednesday morning, Mrs Polatajko and the children of Primary 1 Edinburgh hosted a wonderful family Teddy Bears’ Picnic!

The children sang beautifully, wrote about their bears and drew some excellent pictures. They also made some delicious jam sandwiches from instructions they had written themselves! Their guests then joined them in playing some parachute games, before they finished off their day listening to Mrs Polatajko reading ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!’

We’re not scared!!!

Great job P1E; great job Mrs Polatajko! Check out the gallery below to see the fun!

World Book Day 2017

Our pupils and staff had a ball celebrating World Book Day yesterday, with a whole host of ‘Booky’ activities happening across the school and nursery.

There was a real buzz of excitement in the air, creating a wonderful atmosphere as our pupils dived head first into Literacy and English.

Boys and girls: don’t forget to pop to the shops this weekend to exchange your World Book Day vouchers for one of the wonderful brand new titles created especially for the day!

Take a look at the gallery below to check out some of the fun!

More photos to follow soon.

Scottish Assembly

As you will know, our pupils have recently been learning Scots poetry in class and at home as part of our annual Scottish Verse Speaking Competition. Today, we held our Scottish Assembly, where our pupils who had finished 1st, 2nd or 3rd in their class were presented with certificates in front of the whole school and invited guests.

Our competition winners performed their poems on stage to a jam-packed gym hall, and they were absolutely superb. Following the wonderful poetry recital, we were treated to a highland sword dance by two of our pupils, which was spectacular!

Congratulations to all of our winner, and to every pupil who competed in our Verse Speaking Competition – the standard of the performances was higher than ever!

Many thanks as well to all of our families who supported their children at home, taking the time to practice and get all of those tricky words just right!

Curriculum Evening

Last night we held our Curriculum Evening for the 2016/17 session.  In response to demand, the theme of the evening was Literacy and English.

Staff and pupils presented examples of resources and activities and were on hand to answer questions from our parents.

PowerPoint presentations used by Mrs Hill, Mrs Paterson and Miss Duncan/Mr Innes will be available to download from the website in the coming days.

We would like to thank our parents and carers very much for attending and our staff for working so hard to prepare for the evening.  We would also like to thank our parents and carers for providing us with feedback from the event in order to help us improve!

Special thanks of course to our pupil volunteers, who did us all proud as always, and were the real stars of the show!