Blogs and News - St George's School For Girls, Edinburgh
As we are approaching the end of another busy term in preschool we wanted to share with you the highlights of our learning. At the end of February, the children came back having spent a substantial time of the year away from the nursery. Thus, when we opened our doors again we focused on supporting their transition back to nursery. The children's emotional well-being was and continues to be our main area of focus.
We based all our health and well-being activities on the story of "The Colour Monster". The story helped us understand that how we feel is a big mix of emotions which we can identify and talk about. Building our emotional vocabulary was very important! Drawings of our families helped us visualise the people who we love and will always be there for us. The children themselves started creating pictures of their homes - the homes that kept them safe and house their families. We learnt that home is not always a 'place' and as with the rest of our emotions it can be an emotion too. We feel safe in the nursery, our friends are here, and we are all a big family! This was our motto.
Along with our learning on how to express our feelings we worked through games and playful learning on number recognition, understanding quantities and comparing amounts using measurement language. Food handling played a big part in this as the girls had to follow recipes and count lemons and oranges for our messy cooking. Spontaneously all girls developed a huge interest in mark making which led to an early introduction of sounds and letters. Our self-registration was based on identifying the different letters of our names, clipboards were used everywhere, letters and cards were written to friends every day. Recipe books, rhyming stories, shop registers and many many more literacy rich experiences and mark making opportunities played their role in developing the girls' understanding of how sounds work together to create what we read and write!
The staff were involved in a course for professional development delivered by Virtual Nature School. Inspired by our learning we introduced new outdoor activities based on the possibilities of looking down, up, through and in! These experiences weaved in nicely with our photography project as all girls used the iPads to take their own photos of the things they can see up, down and through in the forest! The photography project and Virtual Nature School activities will continue throughout next term and we will finish with a photography exhibition!
January
Looking to the Future: e-learning at St George’s
Primary 1 Learn the 'ng' Digraph
Primary 3 Rainforest Explorers
U6 Enrichment Programme – 13 January 2021
U6 Enrichment Programme - 20 January 2021
February
Start of Spring Term in Nursery
St George’s School & Shree Bhagawati Basic School, Nepal
P1 learn the ‘ou’ and ‘wh’ digraphs
A Change to the Entry Age to St George's Nursery
Final School Kilometre Challenge Results
Anna James Virtual Author Visit
Preventing Mental Health Problems in Children: Webinar with Dr Aric Sigman
Careers Newsletter February 2021
March
U6 Enrichment Programme - 17 February 2021
U6 Enrichment Programme - Cooking on a Student Budget
Shree Bhagawati Basic School Fundraising - £1000 raised!
Primary 2: Spring Walk and More!
Neurodiversity - It Takes all Kinds of Different Minds
Distance Learning... 8000 Miles Away!
Primary 3’s First Week Back at School
#BeYou House Challenge in Junior School
St George's School Extends Provision for Boys in Younger Primary Years
U6 Enrichment Programme - Blood Transfusion Service
U6 Enrichment Programme - Mercy Corps
The Great St George's Bake Off
Celebrating Red Nose Day in Junior School
April
May
Learning about the Digestive System
U6 Enrichment - Looking Ahead to June
Update from Shree Bhagawati School, Nepal
Join us at Scotland's Virtual Boarding Schools Fair
Houldsworth's Weekend, 8 & 9 May
P2 investigate ‘Can seeds germinate without any soil?’
A Day in the Life of a Victorian School Girl
June
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