Our jubilee celebration is on Thursday afternoon. Please dress the children in red, white and blue if possible.
School is closed on Friday for the holiday.
Letter Sounds
Blending and spelling homework continues this week. Please see the homework books for word lists and instructions. Please complete this homework for next Monday.
Common Words
Please continue to use the word walls in the white homework book to revise the sight vocabulary. The fifth word wall is now in the homework book. Words for this week are came and little. Please complete the common word homework for Thursday by counting and writing each word.
Reading
Reading continues on Monday only this week.
Maths
This week we will continue with our topic of time.
Topic
Our World of Work topic has now finished. This week we will be doing some activities on the queen and the platinum jubilee.
Parent interviews are on Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Letter Sounds
Blending and spelling homework continues this week. Please see the homework books for word lists and instructions. Please complete this homework for Friday.
Common Words
Please continue to use the word walls in the white homework book to revise the sight vocabulary. The fifth word wall is now in the homework book. Words for this week are like and look. Please complete the common word homework for Thursday by counting and writing each word.
Reading
Reading continues on Monday and Thursday.
Maths
This week we will continue with our topic of time, looking at months, seasons and telling the time on clocks. (o’clock times)
Topic
We continue with our World of Work topic. This week we have two nurses coming in to talk to the children.
Primary 1 – 7 sports day will be held at Abbotswell on Thursday 19th May 2022. We are pleased to announce that parents are more than welcome to come along this year!
Each class will participate in races on this day, at the following times;
P6 + P7 – 9.15am – 10.15am
P4 + P5 – 11am – 12pm
P1 – P3 – 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and join in a wide range of activities.
The Primary 7’s will be organising a potted sports event on a later date for all children to join in, be active and have fun!
This week we have outdoor learning and Sports Day on Thursday. Our outdoor learning will be in the morning and P1-3 Sports in the afternoon 1.30-2.30pm (weather permitting). Please send the children to school wearing their sports gear and trainers suitable for running races.
Miss Spowart, our student teacher leaves us on Friday this week. We thank her for her help and wish her well in her future teaching career.
Reports go out on Friday.
Letter Sounds
Blending and spelling homework continues this week. Please see the homework books for word lists and instructions. Please complete this homework for Friday.
Common Words
Please continue to use the word walls in the white homework book to revise the sight vocabulary. Words for this week are only and old. Please complete the common word homework for Thursday by counting and writing each word.
Reading
Reading continues on Monday only this week due to outdoor learning and sports day on Thursday.
Maths
This week we will continue to learn about money and start a new topic – time.
Topic
We continue with our World of Work topic. This week we have the countryside classroom visiting to speak to the children about farming.
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
We are now covering all the letters in CLIC.
Counting – saying numbers, counting skills and counting actual objects, one more and one less, two more and two less, three more and three less, four more and four less, five more and five less, counting in tens.
Learn its – 1+1=2,2 + 2 =4, 3+3=6, 4+4=8, 5+5=10
2+1=3, 2+3=5
say multiples of 10 to 100
It’s Nothing New – doubles to 5
Calculations – basic addition and subtraction (add together and take away), counting groups of objects as a start to multiplication, sharing out as a start to division.
If you would like to do some maths homework, you can practise these skills at home. Try counting by saying the numbers up to 10, 20 or beyond if you can manage. If you can go forwards, try going backwards. You can also count actual objects, making sure you count each one once to get the correct total, or try to find the number 1,2,3,4 or 5 more or 1,2,3,4 or 5 less.
You can also practise the learn its and it’s nothing new by asking What is 1+1? and What is 2+2? What is double 4? or What is double 5?
I have added some resources below which may be useful for practising CLIC at home.
Blending and spelling homework continues this week. Please see the homework books for word lists and instructions. Please complete this homework for Friday.
Common Words
Please continue to use the word walls in the white homework book to revise the sight vocabulary. Words for this week are they and one. Please complete the common word homework for Thursday by counting and writing each word.
Reading
Reading continues on Monday and Thursday this week.
Maths
This week we will continue to learn about money.
Topic
We continue with our World of Work topic. We have already had a police officer and firefighters visiting the school. Our visitors this week are an engineer and a footballer to talk to the children about their jobs.
