Literacy

This week we have learned 2 new diagraphs. OO like zoo and ar like car. In reading we learned about the importance of a full stop. In writing we practised re telling a story. This week it was based on The Three Little Pigs.

Numeracy

We have been continuing with money, practising how to add 1p more or 2p more.

The Body

This week we have been looking at the journey our food goes on inside our bodies.

Its been another busy and productive week in class!

Literacy

We have learned two new sounds this week which are ‘igh’ like ‘light’ and ‘ow’ as in ‘snow.’ In reading the children are becoming more independent and learned how to sound out tricky words when we get stuck or missing the word out then looking for clues on the page/picture.

As part of our Literacy we have also started learning some favourite songs, with Makaton through ‘Singing Hands’ on YouTube. This week we have enjoyed learning how to sign to George Ezra, ‘Shotgun.’

If you’d like to carry this on at home I’ve provided the link below.

Numeracy

We have been consolidating our knowledge of addition within 10 this week and next week we will begin to use this knowledge to work with money.

The Body

There was high excitement on Thursday afternoon as we discovered more about the human heart. We learned that the heart pumps blood around the whole body. We then conducted an experiment to see how the heart squeezes and pushes blood around.

Here are our star writers of the week are Eva and Kole! Well done! Your news stories were fabulous.

 

 

2019-2020

Class Newsletter: Term 3

 Primary 1M:

Dear Parent/Carer,

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

Learning in Term 2:

In term 2 we learned all about Space. We learned to recognise the sun, moon and stars and link these to times of the day and our routines at home and school. We learned how day and night are linked to the sun and the rotation of Planet Earth. We also learned about the solar system and managed to name and order the planets from the Sun.

We also worked really hard on developing our reading and writing skills. We learned more letter sounds and some digraphs (special friends).  We are continuing to practise our letter formation.

In Mathematics and Numeracy we continued to learn more about number and are continuing to practise our number formation.  We were also learning about the days of the week, months of the year, seasons,  pattern, 2D and 3D shape and

Learning focus this term:

Through our topic The Body we will be learning about:

• The skeleton
• The major organs
• Spreading of germs and common diseases

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:

• We will continue to learn the sound digraphs and revise previously taught sounds.
• Tricky words will be taught and used in class.
• The children will continue to focus on using capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in their writing. Some children will begin using a connective to join 2 sentences together.
• The children will also learn about labelling within their writing.
• The children will be learning about different reading strategies such as looking for picture clues as they continue to develop their reading skills.
• We will look also look at poetry and recite a Scots poem or song at our Scots Assembly.

Core Mathematics and Numeracy:

• The children will be learning about time on both analogue and digital clocks.
• The children will learn new Maths vocabulary related to addition and subtraction and will be able to recognise the Mathematical signs for the processes.
• The children will be able to complete addition sums using a variety of resources to support them, such as cubes for counting and number lines to use for ‘counting on’.
• Number formation and recognition will continue to be revised throughout this term.
• Subtraction will be introduced and the children will be able to explain the difference between addition and subtraction.
• The children will learn to work with money and will be able to recognise and name coins as well as work out the correct change to be given.
• The children will learn to use tally marks and collect data.

Core Health and Wellbeing:

As part of our learning about the body, we will also be learning about respecting our bodies and the correct names for different body parts. More information on this will be sent out to parents. We will continue to develop our friendship skills, such as respect, sharing and listening.

This term, we are learning to be like Heard Hazel. Pupils will be able to receive their Heard Hazel certificate if they:

1. Listen carefully
2. Wait their turn and do not interrupt others
3. Share their ideas with their classmates
4. Allow others to have their say

We will have further certificates for other Redwell’s Rights and Respecting School characters later in the session.

We will learn about Buddhism in RME.

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. If you require a schedule of Cuddle on the Couch dates, please contact the school office.

Please look out for more details about our Sharing of Learning afternoon later in the term.

Kind regards,

Emma McCole

This week the children have been very busy in all aspects of their learning and having fun along the way.

Literacy

This week the children have finished consolidating their learning of all initial sounds and will begin learning new sounds next week. We wrote about our news this week and it’s lovely to see the children become increasingly independent during formal writing activities.

Here are this weeks star writers! Well done to you both!

Numeracy

we have completed our learning on o’clock times this week and it’s satisfying to see the children tell the time with o’clock so confidently. Next week we will begin learning about addition to 10.

Here are this weeks Maths Stars! Congratulations!

Topic

Our topic this term is the body. This week the children enjoyed learning about the skeleton. The children are aware the skeleton is made on bones and can even name the largest (femur) bone and smallest (stirrup) in the body. We worked cooperatively to create our own skeletons!

Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday and it has been lovely to hear stories from the children about their time off.

Literacy

This week we have been revising some of the sounds that we learned in term 2. I have extended this learning by introducing a formal handwriting jotter. The children have enjoyed learning to write on lines and feel very grown up!

This week the children wrote about the Christmas presents they received this year and enjoyed having time to talk and share their news. This week we have two star writers! Well done!

Numeracy

This week we have started learning how to tell the time using o’clock on both an analogue and a digital clock. The children have been practising their new skills through games, show me activities with mini clocks as well as taking part in some songs about o’clock times.

Science/Health and Wellbeing

This term our topic will The Body. This week we spoke about what we would like to find out. Questions from the children included, ‘how do our eyeballs move’ to ‘Why do we be sick sometimes!’ Next week we will begin by looking at the skeleton.

 

This week the children have enjoyed many fun activities in the lead up to the Christmas holidays.

On Thursday the children were surprised to find a reply from Santa after the children had posted their letters a week before.  He wrote them a lovely letter, left a Christmas story for us to enjoy and even a bag of candy canes! Wow!

On Thursday afternoon the children got dressed up in their party clothes and enjoyed the P1-3 Christmas party. The children played party games and took part in a few Ceilidh dances. Santa even took time out of his busy schedule to visit us and leave a present for each class. Our class received a guess who game and a hungry hippo game.

I would like to this this opportunity to say how incredibly proud I am of all of the children and the progress they have made in their first half of P1. I would also like to say thank you to all of the parents and carers who work so hard at home with the children and together we are really making a difference. Thank you for your continued support and I look forward to welcoming everyone back on Monday 6th January 2020. Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy New Year to everyone.

We have been getting festive in P1M this week. The children have enjoyed taking part in Christmas themed purposeful play opportunities. Ranging from reinacting he Nativity story in our own stable to creating festive designs at the craft table.

Our class have also taken responsibility this week for the school’s Christmas Post. We developed our skills for the world of work by sorting the post and delivering cards to the correct classes on time. We had to work cooperatively, use our organisation skills and have good time management.

Literacy

In Literacy this week we have learned 3 new sounds. Ch, au and x. We also used our writing skills to write letters to Santa which we are going to post on the morning of Friday 13th December. Hopefully we will get a reply from the man himself before the Christmas holidays!

Numeracy

We have been consolidating our knowledge of numbers to 30 as we head towards the holidays. We have also learned about the seasons and the order of a school day.

Space

This week we enjoyed learning about what the solar system is and even learned the names of all 8 planets.

2019-2020

Class Newsletter: Term 2

Mrs McCole and P1M

Dear Parent/Carer,

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

Learning in Term 1:

In term 1 we learned all about life at school and the routines that we follow here at Redwell Primary. We focussed on creating new friendships within our class and finding out about all the people who help us in school. We really enjoyed reading The Lighthouse Keeper’s stories and finding out about Mr and Mrs Grinling and their cat Hamish.  The stories also provided an excellent stimulus for writing.  We wrote speech bubbles, imaginative stories and shopping lists.  We have been developing our knowledge of number this term and will continue to do so in term 2.

Homework will continue to be issued on a Monday and should be completed by Friday. There will be a selection of Numeracy and Literacy activities and occasionally topic related tasks.  Reading books will also be sent home and you will find details of the books in your child’s diary.   Please make sure that your child’s diary and reading books are kept in their red folder every day.

Your child should also have a clearly labelled water bottle everyday which is filled with plain water prior to arriving at school.  Please ensure your child has a labelled weather appropriate jacket as there will be outdoor learning opportunities.

You will be able to follow what we have been doing in class each week by looking at our class blog. This can be accessed via the link on our class page on the school website and via the school app.

PE days

This term P.E. days are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

On these days it would be helpful to the children if they could come to school dressed with polo shirt and jumper rather than shirt and tie in order to make changing for P.E. easier.

 Learning focus this term:

Through our topic Space we will be learning about:

• The Sun, Earth and Moon
• The Planets
• Life as an astronaut

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:

• RWI Speed sounds
• We are working on our listening and talking skills through Show and Tell, Book Blessings, the Nativity and sharing our news at circle time.
• Sounding and blending with the help of Fred talk
• Introduction of Storyworlds Reading Books and other texts
• Our writing lessons will focus on letters, lists and imaginative stories.
• We are working on our listening and talking skills through Show and Tell, Book Blessings, the Nativity and sharing our news at circle time.

 Core Numeracy:

• Number rhymes 0-20
• Number recognition 0-20
• Number formation 0-20
• Number sequencing and number ordering
• Time
• Pattern

Health and Wellbeing

This term, we are learning to be like Learning Larry. Pupils will be able to receive their Learning Larry certificate if they:

1. Come to school with everything they need to learn (including red communication folders, reading books and diaries)
2. Listen carefully to instructions
3. Follow instructions promptly
4. Always try their best
5. Present work neatly and take pride in their work
6. Never give up!

We will have further certificates for other Redwell’s Rights and Respecting School characters later in the session.

Playground toys: Children can bring a ‘toy’ to school on a Friday to play with during Golden Time. Please remember that the school cannot take responsibility for the safety of these toys and therefore we request that your child does not bring in expensive/ electronic items without your consent. We appreciate your support with this matter.

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 Monday 9th December. If you require a schedule of Cuddle on the Couch dates, please contact the school office.

Nativity:

This year P1 will be participating in the nativity, which will be taking place during the week beginning 9^th December. All children will be learning songs as part of the show.

Golden Time toys:

We have a playground equipment for children to play with during lunchtime. Please do not bring in your own toys – except for Golden Time on a Friday – so that we can be sure that all toys in the playground belong to the school. Many thanks for your support.

 

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

 

Kind regards,

 

Mrs McCole

Literacy

This week the children have been consolidating their knowledge of phonics by sounding and blending 3 letter words using the magnetic letter boards. They have also had lots of opportunities to read aloud this week using their reading books.

Numeracy

This week the children have been continuing to further their knowledge of numbers by working with numbers to 20 and 30. Taking part in active tasks using uno cards, tens frames, dice and chalk.

Science

This week the children have continued their learning about Space by learning what the sun and the moon are and their relationship with Earth. Here is a short video during learning outdoors day. The children were exploring how the Earth revolves around the sun and the moon revolves around the Earth.

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Music

The children enjoyed exploring different types of percussion with Mrs Penny this week as well as the keyboards and guitar.

P.E.

During their sessions in PE this week the children have been building their team working skills through fun games.

This week the children have enjoyed some Halloween themed learning.

On Tuesday they created pumpkins using oil pastels and explored the use of line and shape to create a picture.

In Literacy the children listened to the Julia Donaldson story, ‘Room on the Broom’ and then wrote about what they would put in the cauldron.

In numeracy we have continued to consolidate knowledge of numbers to 20 and have been counting forward to 30 and sequencing these numbers too.

Our topic this term is Space and the children have leanrned this week about how the Earth spins and its relationship with the sun to create day and night. Next week we will move to talk about nocturnal animals.

As a special treat the children were able to choose a sweet from my witches cauldron which they thoroughly enjoyed and I hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween this year.