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🩹 Blythwood Care SHOEBOX APPEAL 2022
This year Loanhead Primary school are excited to, once again, work with Loanhead Parish Church to support the Blytheswood care Shoebox Appeal.
Shoeboxes can be filled for boys, girls, teenagers, men and women of all ages. The essential items include underwear, socks and tights, hat, scarf, gloves, soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, sweeties (not chocolate) and a wee toy for a child. The essential items must be new. Other items are then included – stationery, toiletries, make-up, sewing stuff, kitchen utensils etc.
If you can donate an empty shoebox, just a couple of items or even a pre filled box this would really help make a difference this winter.
Donations should come in to school by 26th of October. If possible can Shoebox lids and bases be individually wrapped, elastic band around it and with a checklist inside? This is so they can be checked.
Go to https://blythswood.org/shoeboxappeal/ for more information or to download a checklist. Checklists are also on the letter home and can be obtained from the Office.
👑 P1-3 Jubilee Celebration day 👑
👑 P1-3 Jubilee Celebration day 👑
Wednesday 1st of June
Wear Royal Theme/Colours
Bring a small teddy and small cushion or blanket to sit on (needs to fit in your bag)
*Donations of flags, decorations etc are not necessary but gratefully received.
🇬🇧❤️🤍💙
UPDATE GOOGLE CLASSROOM
Just to keep everyone up to date , all homework and class updates will now be posted on Google Classroom from Monday 16th of May. All the children are familiar with this platform.
Miss Ramsay
P3 Homework – 29.3.33
Hi everyone,
Homework –
Homework will go out on a Tuesday and be returned the following Monday. This is to accommodate families who have parents working long hours and children with extracurricular activities. If you wish to still hand in Friday that isn’t a problem.
Spelling
Spelling words have been glued into the children’s jotters. Please remember to practise the words AND write the sentences unless this has been discussed with me previously. Remember the third column is optional.
Spelling focus for each group:
Ravenclaw – long o – oa and o-e and ow revision.
As Ravenclaw are the only group with spelling words I have agreed a trade off that work can be done on chrome books and either sent to me electronically or printed and stuck into books. If your child still wishes to handwrite that is ok too.
Gryffindor, Slytherin and Hufflepuff are all in a check up week therefore have no spelling words. If you wish to do some additional work please revise any spelling patterns previously taught. There is no formal homework set.
Reading:
Dragons : The Night of the Ticklers
Tuesday– Chpt 2 – 3
Wednesday – Chpt 4-5
Thursday- Chpt 6 – 7
Fri/Weekend Chpt – 8, 9, 10
Nessies: Okay, Spanner, You Win!
Tuesday– Chpt 1
Wednesday – Chpt 2
Thursday- Chpt 3
Fri/Weekend chpt 4-5
Unicorns – Robbie Woods and his Merry Men
Tuesday – Chpt 1 + 2
Wednesday – Chpt 3 + 4
Thursday- Chpt 5
Friday/Weekend – Chpt 6
Kelpies – Boss Dog of Blossom Street (Some books may be marked as level 9. This is due to changes within the ORT scheme. The book is still level 10)
Tuesday– Chpt 1
Wednesday- Chpt 2
Thursday- Chpt 3
Fri/Weekend – Author’s Note and research which other books she has written
Selkies – Survival Adventure (New Stage)
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- p17-24
Fri/Weekend – p25 – End
Mermaids – Egyptian Adventure
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- p17-24
Fri/Weekend – p25 – End
Have a fab week everyone!
Miss Ramsay
k.ramsay@midlothian.education
P3 Homework – 15/3/22
Hi everyone,
Reminders
Learning Trios
Having finally caught up with all my remain learning trios I can finally go about updating each of the target sheets. These will appear in children’s bags on Monday 21st March.
Chromebooks –
Children will sign their contract this week and the chromebooks will be sent home on Thursday if both parent and child have signed the agreement. These are a key tool for your child’s learning therefore the expectation is it will come to school every day and be charged every night. If a chromebook is forgotten a call will go home to ensure it returns to school.
Can you please discuss sensible usage with your children. Remind them these are heavily monitored for your child’s safety so children should consider if they are using it appropriately. Even simple terms such as ‘gun’ being used in a story or searched online as part of a video game will be flagged.
Homework –
Homework will go out on a Tuesday and be returned the following Monday. This is to accommodate families who have parents working long hours and children with extracurricular activities. If you wish to still hand in Friday that isn’t a problem.
Spelling
Spelling words have been glued into the children’s jotters. Please remember to practise the words AND write the sentences unless this has been discussed with me previously. Remember the third column is optional.
Spelling focus for each group:
Ravenclaw – long a – ai and ay and a_e revision
eg – strain, clay and stage
Gryffindors: compound words
eg – football, handbag and rainbow
Slytherin and Hufflepuff: the -all word family
Reading:
eg- call, ball, fall
Dragons : Petey
Tuesday– p11-20
Wednesday – p21-30
Thursday- p31-40
Fri/Weekend p41-62
Nessies: Grace the Pirate
Tuesday– Chpt 1-2
Wednesday – Chpt 3 – 4
Thursday- Chpt 5 – 6
Fri/Weekend chpt 7 – Historical Note
Unicorns – Cool Clive and the little pest
Tuesday – Chpt 1 + 2
Wednesday – Chpt 3 + 4
Thursday- Chpt 5 + 6
Friday/Weekend – Chpt 7
Kelpies – Purple Buttons
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- Chpt 17-31
Fri/Weekend – Activity – Design your own costume using buttons. What would it look like, would the buttons be decorative or functional?
Selkies – Save Floppy!
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- p17-24
Fri/Weekend – p25 – End
Mermaids – The Kidnappers (cont)
It seemed many of the kids had not finished this book so we are keeping this for a final week.
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- p17-24
Fri/Weekend – p25 – End
Have a fab week everyone!
Miss Ramsay
k.ramsay@midlothian.education
🇺🇦 DRESS DOWN FOR UKRAINE 💛💙 11.3.22
Our school community have been desperate to do something to help Ukraine. 🇺🇦.
We have decided to have a dress down day on Friday and ask everyone to wear something blue and yellow if possible. We ask that everyone brings a cash donation too. We are donating money to a charity that matches your donations, so anything we raise will be doblubled. More info will be given when donations are in.
Thanks for your support
P3 Homework – 28.2.22
Hi everyone,
Reminders
Learning Trios
All appointment slips have been handed out today. If this slot is unsuitable please contact the school office to rearrange . Please also remember these are learning trios. Your child must be present and due to restrictions we are limited to 1 parent/guardian. We are following the same format as last time, with entering through the classroom door and wearing masks (unless arranged otherwise).
World Book Day
On Thursday the children have been invited to dress as their favourite book character. Please note that the children do still have PE on Thursday morning so if their costume is unsuitable for PE can they come to school in PE clothes and bring their costume to change into.
Change of Footwear
The weather has been particularly wet recently and as a result we have noticed the carpets are suffering. We are requesting that children return to bringing a change of footwear for indoors to try to limit the damage.
Homework –
Homework will go out on a Tuesday and be returned the following Monday. This is to accommodate families who have parents working long hours and children with extracurricular activities. If you wish to still hand in Friday that isn’t a problem.
Spelling
Spelling words have been glued into the children’s jotters. Please remember to practise the words AND write the sentences unless this has been discussed with me previously. Remember the third column is optional.
Spelling focus for each group:
Ravenclaw – un, dis, re, pre , de prefixes
Prefixes are a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the start. Most prefixes mean a similar thing when they’re added to different words.
- un usually means not. For example, unhappy, unlocked, unfair
- dis and mis usually have negative meanings. For example, disagree, disobey, misbehave, mislead
- re usually means again or back. For example, redo, reappear, redecorate
What are prefixes? – BBC Bitesize
Gryffindors: suffixes -ly and -ful
A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word and changes the word’s meaning.
Sometimes they also change the original word’s spelling. When adding a suffix you might have to double the last letter. For example when adding ‘ed’ to ‘drop’ you also double the p so it becomes ‘dropped’.
What are suffixes? – BBC Bitesize
Slytherin and Hufflepuff – i_e split spelling pattern. Magic e.
Magic ‘e’ words have an ‘e’ at the end of them to signify that a short vowel sound can be changed into a long vowel sound. An example of a magic ‘e’ word would be time. Without that magic ‘e’ at the end, the word is tim. This creates a short ‘i’ sound.
Reading:
Nessies : Bones
Tuesday– p1 -11
Wednesday – p12-22
Thursday- p23-33
Fri/Weekend p33 – 55
Dragons: The Goalie from Nowhere
Tuesday– p1 -11
Wednesday – p12-22
Thursday- p23-33
Fri/Weekend p33 – 55
Unicorns – The Terrible Present
Tuesday – Chpt 1
Wednesday – Chpt 2
Thursday- Chpt 3
Friday/Weekend – Chpt 4
Kelpies – The Great Spaghetti Suit
Tuesday– Chpt 1
Wednesday- Chpt 2
Thursday- Chpt 3
Fri/Weekend – Activity – Design your own food suit. What would be the pros and cons of that suit. Draw it and write your pro and cons list in your jotter.
Selkies – The Rainbow Machine
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- p17-24
Fri/Weekend – p25 – End
Mermaids – The Hunt for Gold
Tuesday– p1-8
Wednesday- p9-16
Thursday- p17-24
Fri/Weekend – p25 – End
Have a fab week everyone!
Miss Ramsay
k.ramsay@midlothian.education
