I hope you enjoyed the nativity. We are all exhausted from our 4 performances! The children were fantastic, confident individuals. I am a very proud teacher and I’m sure you are all very proud too.

We have managed to squeeze some learning in too! Here are some pictures from some of our activities.

Last week we were completing activities to help us  develop our reading, phonics and spelling skills. We were reading with a partner, filling a picture frame with our weekly sound and associated words, making and reading silly sentences and looking for and recording tricky words that we had searched for in books from our shared area library.

In art we have been making a line drawing of Hendry the penguin. We were using sharpies and oil pastels for a wax resist effect. We have also been learning about hot and cold colours.

 

 

 

Mrs Macleod (P2M)                            

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you find the following information useful.  If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact either of us.

Learning focus this term:

Through our topic Our Caring Community we will be learning about:

• What a community is
• What a charity is
• How local organisations and charities support the local community
• The difference between needs and wants

If you have any experience in this area, please let us know. We would love to have some ‘experts’ come in to share in our learning journey.

Core Literacy:

• As you are aware, we are continuing with our Read Write Inc programme for phonics and spelling. We are now using Storyworld books for our reading, along with our class novel, to help develop reading and comprehension skills. Your child may bring home a second reading book on a Wednesday, due to nativity. After Christmas, the children will receive two books every week.
• Our writing lessons will have a focus on functional writing this term. We are developing the use of connectives within our sentences, such as ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’ to extend our writing. We will also be developing our handwriting skills.
• We are working on our listening and talking skills through Show and Tell, Book Blessings and sharing our news at circle time. We will be learning about asking open and closed questions.

 

Core Numeracy:

This term will be focusing on

• Addition and subtraction, to include doubles, and tens and ones.
• Time, to include months of the year
• Symmetry
• Compass points

We will also be learning about Christianity with Mrs McCreadie.

Health and Wellbeing:

This term we are learning about health and wellbeing through our Rookie Rockstar programme. We are also participate in anti-bullying week. We will continue to encourage and teach our children to make healthy choices, to enable then to become healthy, active and emotionally resilient young people of the future.

Yellow Wing Cuddle on the Couch:

Please help us to promote reading by joining us for Cuddle on the Couch. Come along to the Yellow Wing and spend some time reading with your child.  Our last session for this term will be on Thursday 6^th December.

Nativity:

This year P2 will be participating in the nativity, which will be taking place during the week beginning 10^th December. All children will be learning songs and some will have speaking parts. These will be sent home for you to practice with your child.

Lost Property:

We are aware that children sometimes misplace jumpers and other items of clothing. Please ensure that your child’s name is on every piece of clothing that comes into school. Children are given opportunities to find their property in class and throughout the school. If your child comes out of school without some of their belongings, they will be given the opportunity to retrieve their property the next day.

I look forward to working in partnership with you this session.

Kind regards,

Mrs MacLeod