Well done to Marvellous, our latest pupil of the week. He has been showing fantastic effort in literacy activities this week.

Here is our display of animal cave we created for our Stone Age Topic.

Well done to Lena, our latest pupil of the week. She has been showing excellent effort and motivation with her fine motor skills.

Well done to Libby, our latest pupil of the week. She always tries her best and is an excellent role model for others.

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

Well done to Jaden, our latest pupil of the week. He has been showing good motivation in all classroom activities.

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

As part of our Big Maths scheme in school we do CLIC sessions for core numeracy.  Each letter stands for an area of numeracy.

C – Counting

L – Learn Its (these are number facts which we learn so they can be quickly recalled without needing to work out the answer).

I – It’s Nothing New

C – Calculations

These are the topics we will be covering in terms 1 and 2.

Counting

Saying and reading numbers within 100

CORE number to 10 (showing good understanding by comparing, ordering, estimating and doing number stories)

Counting multiples of 10 and 5.

Learn Its

Number bonds to 10.    1+9  2+8  3+7  4+6  5+5

The doubles from 1-9.

It’s Nothing New

Jigsaw numbers to 10. Knowing the missing number to make 10. e.g. the jigsaw number for 3 is 7 etc.

Doubling single digit numbers.

Calculations

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication – grouping sets and counting the total

Division – sharing into 2 or 3 equal groups

Well done to Grace, our first pupil of the week for this school session. She has been kind and caring to others, particularly our new P1s in the class.

Term 1 is going to be very busy in Primary 1/2! Here are some of the things we will be learning about:

Literacy

P1

The P1 children are beginning 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 first sets of sounds are as follows

s, a, t, i, p, n

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

We will also be starting to read by learning the character names from our Oxford Reading Tree story books. They are:

Kipper, Biff, Chip, Floppy, Mum, Dad

These words can be found in your child’s word pot.

We also practise two common words per week. These are words that appear frequently in texts.

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.

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

Our focus for grammar is capital letters and alphabetical order.

Numeracy

P1

We will be introducing the numbers 0-10 through the Number Zoo scheme. This focuses on number recognition, correct written formation and counting skills.

We will also be doing lots of verbal counting skills.

Our topic maths this term is shape and pattern. We will also recognise Maths Week Scotland beginning on the 26th of September.

P2

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

They will also focus on 2D and 3D shape and pattern.

 

Learning Across the Curriculum

We will cover two topics this term.

Caring Citizens

We will be learning about our school aims and expectations and how to take care of our learning environment. The children will be involved in creating a Class Charter displaying their rights in line with the UNCRC. They will also learn about the Pupil Council and vote for a class representative.

Historical – The Stone Age

We will be learning about life in the Stone Age. We will explore how people lived – their homes, clothes, food and art. We will also look at animals. As part of this topic we will create our own cave paintings and necklaces.

Health and Wellbeing

We will be using the Bounce Back program. In term 1 we focus on mental and emotional values and people bouncing back to encourage resilience.

In PE will be focusing on movement, including how to move safely within the gym hall and different ways to move in a space. Our gym day is a Monday.

Our first outdoor learning session with Mr Miller is on Wednesday 28th September.

Science

In science we will be looking at two main areas:

Biodiversity and Interdependence

Looking at simple food chains and how animals and plants depend on each other for food.

Looking at plants and finding out what they need to help them grow and develop.

Energy Sources and Sustainability

We will be experiencing and using a range of toys and common appliances and learning ‘what makes it go’. We will look at battery,  wind-up, solar and electric power.

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 and enjoy the school as we settle into our new class and new routines.