The children are off school on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday this week. Monday is a public holiday, Tuesday is an in-service day for the teachers and on Thursday, Abbotswell will be being used as a polling station.

Primary  1 will no longer have handwriting homework as we have now covered all 26 letters.

Common Words – This week our words are here and there. P1s, please complete the homework in the white book for Friday.

Reading – Primary 1 and 2 children will receive a new reading book on Wednesday. Some children have a new word list in their Home/School Book which will continually be assessed in school, but please use it to help you practise the new reading words at home.

Phonics – This week we are learning to recognise, read and spell with the sound ng.

P2 spelling homework will be given out on Wednesday to be handed in on Friday.

Primary 1 spelling homework will begin next week.

Number – Most of Primary 1 will be working with numbers to 20 – counting, reading, writing and sequencing the numbers.

Most of Primary 2 will be revisiting the numbers to a hundred – number before and number after.