Well done to Maka, our latest pupil of the week. She always follows our school aims and is a good role model to others.

Well done to Ethan, our latest pupil of the week. He has been a kind and caring friend to everyone this week.

As part of our upcoming block of learning on Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood we will be covering the following topics in an age appropriate way:

• My body
• Private/ Public
• My Body Belongs to Me
• Trusted Adults 

 

For more information on these subjects, please see the attached parent information letter. If you have any concerns please get in touch.

Highlighted RSHP Parent Letter – Early Level

We have come to the end of our Historical topic focused on The Stone Age.

The children learned about the people, animals, food, art, housing and clothes from the Stone Age.

Last week we used clay to create Stone Age inspired necklaces. We used our hands to make beads and fangs from the clay and added a hole to thread them.

We enjoyed using the clay and getting a bit messy! I think they all look absolutely fantastic!

Happy Birthday Lena, we hope you have a lovely day!

Well done to Ruby, our latest pupil of the week. She wrote an amazing letter all about our Stone Age topic this week.

Last week we had a visit from the Teddy Bear Hospital! We learned about how doctors and nurses help people who are hurt or unwell. We had a go at helping a Teddy who was was feeling ill and we learned a little bit about bones, and surgery!

We had a great time dressing up as doctors, nurses and surgeons and enjoyed meeting the Medical Students from University of Aberdeen.

We have another busy term coming up in P1/2. Here are some of the activities we will be doing this term:

Literacy

We will be celebrating Book Week Scotland from the 14th-18th November by doing lots of literacy activities related to books. P1 children will receive their Bookbug Bags and P2 children will receive their Read, Write, Count Bags to take home at the end of this week.

P1

The P1 children are continuing with the Jolly Phonics program in class. We will cover 2 alphabet sounds most weeks, looking at words beginning with the sound, correct written formation of the letter and using the sound to segment and blend words.

The sets of sounds are as follows:

c/k, e, h, r, m, d

g, o, u, l, f, b

After each set of sounds we will have a consolidation week for practice of all the sounds covered. Homework on these weeks will be word making with the letter sounds.

We will continue with our reading books on a Monday and Thursday. The children will hear the extended story in school and can then take the book home to read.

Common words from each set of reading books will be put in your child’s word pot. These can be used at home to match to the words in the books or to sight read when your child is able.

We will also practise two common words per week. These are words that appear frequently in texts. These are in the white homework book and should be completed for Thursdays.

P2

The P2 children will be working on their own phonic sounds each week with spelling lists of words containing the sound, and two common words. Please write out the words and sentences for homework each week and spelling test will be on a Friday.

Sounds for this term:

qu, ar sk/sn/sm, rk/lk/sk, ff/ll/ss, ck, a-e

Reading will be done in school on a Monday and Thursday and the children will also take these books home to read. Comprehension related to the reading books will be done in school.

Our focus for grammar this term is proper nouns, using capital letters at the start.

Numeracy

P1

We will continue to work on number to 10 in activity books.

We will also be doing lots of verbal counting and learn its 1+1 and 2+2 for the start of Big Maths CLIC sessions .

Our topic maths this term is time and estimation. We will be looking at the sequence of days, months and seasons and telling the time for o’clock times. We will be estimating how many and then counting to check.

P2

The P2 children will do daily CLIC sessions and Beat That at the end of the week.

Topic maths is time and estimation and rounding.  We will be looking at time values – seconds, minutes, hours, sequencing months and linking to the appropriate season and telling the time for hours and half hours on analogue and digital clocks. We will estimate quantities and position of numbers and also round to the nearest ten.

Learning Across the Curriculum

We will finish our historical topic of The Stone Age in the first two weeks of term.

Our topic for the rest of the term is Showtime, with the main focus being learning the songs and practising with the other classes for our Christmas performance of The Grumpy Sheep.

Health and Wellbeing

We will be using the Bounce Back resilience program. In term 2 we focus on no bullying and relationships.

In PE will be focusing on using small equipment such as bean bags and balls, rolling and balancing and playing games. Our gym day is a Monday. The children can come to school on a Monday wearing clothes suitable for gym and do not need to change into shorts.

Our outdoor learning session with Mr Miller is on Wednesday 14th December.

RME

Our RME this term will focus on Christianity and the Christmas Story and traditions.

French

French will be delivered by Mrs Forsyth every Wednesday.

Music

Music will be delivered by Mr Smith every Thursday.

We will also be taking lots of opportunities to play during our soft starts and at other times throughout the week.

Well done to Emily, our latest pupil of the week. She has been showing great motivation and enthusiasm in classroom activities this week.

P1/2 had fun wearing yellow masks on Hello Yellow Day.