Just a reminder that tickets for the
P1 & P2 Nativity and P3 Christmas Songs show,
on Wednesday 12th December,
are on sale in the school office.
Get your tickets before they sell out!
Category Archives: Primary 2
Christmas Fair 5.12.18
Christmas dinner and Christmas jumpers
Just a reminder to wear your Christmas jumper on Wednesday 5th December if you have one and also to remind you that it’s that time of year again for a Jingle Bells walk down the corridor, followed by a delicious Christmas dinner, lovingly prepared by our wonderful team in the kitchen!
Always a treat! What did you order this year?
Slight change to Murrayfield’s website address
We have just been notified that our school website address has changed slightly. Effective immediately, our new website address will be:
https://murrayfieldprimary.westlothian.org.uk/
Thank you
P2/1 News
Hi and welcome to P2/1’s first blog post!
Now that we have all our photo permissions you will be seeing us regularly! 🙂
We had a busy last week with Miss Akram and Miss Wyllie. Miss Wyllie was with us for 5 weeks but sadly she had to go back to university! We will all miss her and appreciate all her hard work and input in teaching us! 🙂
We have been learning the sounds r and b this week. We created buzzing bees and beautiful butterflies to help us remember the “b” sounds. We created rabbits, roads and rainbows to help us with our “r” sound. We have also been working hard on our blending so that we can read and write. Ask us what strategy we use to blend! Show us the words:
hat, bat and rat and see if we can show you our strategy to blend the sounds in these words to read 🙂
If your child is a P2 child show us the words: run, hop and bin 🙂
In Numeracy, we have been learning about addition and using the strategy of counting on to understand addition. Show us a + sign and ask us what is called and what it means! 🙂
It was Road Safety week so we were learning how to cross a road safely and what the colours of a traffic light mean.
Thank you for the parents/carers who popped in to see us on Wednesday for the bookbug/Read, Write and Count bags launch and helped us design our own special robots!
Last week Miss Wyllie taught us Gaelic as we have been learning all about Scotland; ask us how to say Hello in Gaelic! 🙂
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Akram
Bookbug Bag and Read, Write, Count Bag Gifting event
A big thank you to all the parents who were able to come along on Wednesday afternoon to find out all about the Bookbug Bags (P1) and Read, Write, Count Bags (P2 & P3). We had great fun showing you what is in the bags and know you’ll enjoy sharing the stories at home, as well as playing the games, writing stories and counting. It would be a great idea to keep everything in the bag as your teacher may send home some tasks which you will need the books and games to complete. You can also find more activities to try by going to the Parentclub website: https://www.parentclub.scot/
Dyslexia Awareness Week
Did you know that 1 in 10 people are dyslexic?
Dyslexia ranges from mild to severe. 1 person in 10 is dyslexic and of those, 1 in 4 has severe dyslexia. It often runs in the family.
Dyslexia can affect reading, writing and spelling.
If you have dyslexia you may –
- Have difficulty matching sounds to letter combinations
- Be confused by similar looking / sounding letters (for example p, b and d)
- Have difficulty remembering common letter patterns in spelling
- BUT
- You may be able to cope well verbally – talking may be a strength.
Dyslexia can also affect:
- short term memory
- ability to follow directions or instructions
- organisational skills
Everyone is different and dyslexia affects people in different ways. Not everyone with dyslexia will experience the same things.
Dyslexia is not a sign of low intelligence. Some of the most successful business people are dyslexic.
The process of identification of dyslexia involves the child, the class teacher, the parents and the Support for learning teacher. A profile of strengths and needs is developed. Targeted intervention and strategies are put in place, assessments carried out and an identification can be made dependent on progress made and the continuing needs of the child.
Log on to https://www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/ to find out more about dyslexia
or if you are between 8 and 18, log on to https://unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/
Take care on Bonfire Night
Safer Internet Day 2019
Safer Internet Day 2019 will be celebrated globally on Tuesday 5th February with the slogan: ‘Together for a better Internet’.
Coordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre the celebration sees hundreds of organisations get involved and join a national conversation about using technology responsibly, respectfully, critically and creatively.
The day offers the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community. It calls upon young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together and help to create a better internet.
Each year for Safer Internet Day the UK Safer Internet Centre creates a range of resources to help educational settings and wider to celebrate the day. This includes:
- Lessons plans, assemblies and films tailor made for all ages
- Resources to support social media involvement on Safer Internet Day
- Registration as a Safer Internet Day Supporter
- National research looking at young people’s use of technology
The UK Safer Internet Centre invites everyone to join Safer Internet Day supporters across the globe to help create a better internet on Tuesday 5th February 2019, and throughout the whole year!
UK Safer Internet Centre
The UK Safer Internet Centre is a partnership of three leading charities – Childnet International, the Internet Watch Foundation and South West Grid for Learning, (SWGfL) – with a shared mission to make the internet a better place for children and young people.
The partnership was appointed by the European Commission as the Safer Internet Centre for the UK in January 2011 and is one of the 31 Safer Internet Centres of the Insafe network.
The UK Safer Internet Centre delivers a wide range of activity to promote the safe and responsible use of technology by children and young people:
- coordinates Safer Internet Day in the UK, reaching millions every year. In 2018 Safer Internet Day reached 45 of young people and 30% of parents in the UK.
- founded and operates an online safety helpline for professionals working with children in the UK, including teachers, police officers, GPs and more
- operates the UK’s hotline for reporting online child sexual abuse imagery
- develops new advice and educational resources for children, parents and carers and teachers to meet emerging trends in the fast-changing online environment
- delivers education sessions for children, parents, carers, teachers and the wider children’s workforce, including free events across the UK
- trains children and young people to be peer educators and champions for the safe and positive use of technology
- shapes policy at school, industry and government level, both in the UK and internationally, and facilitates youth panels to give young people a voice on these issues.
For more information visit www.saferinternet.org.uk and the websites of the partners: Childnet, the Internet Watch Foundation and SWGfL.
Murrayfield Primary School Website launched
At Parents Evening, we showed you our Murrayfield website and promised that we would share the link with you.
Here it is!
http://www.murrayfieldprimary.westlothian.org.uk/
As always, please feel free to share any feedback. We hope you find it helpful.
