Hi all,

We have had a very busy week between rugby skills and games during PE. We have played a variety of warm up games and larger games to work on the skills of passing back and tagging others. We have been enjoying this block of PE.

During topic lessons, we have been learning about the Roman Gods and Goddesses. We now know that they had a variety of different gods that were in charge of different areas such as love, war and sun.

We have been continuing to read ‘The Wild Robot Escapes’  by Peter Brown. We have enjoyed following the story of Roz the Robot and Brightbill the Goose. We have been recreating the front cover of the book, thinking about the different events in the book. We also use our predicting skills to think about what might happen in the chapters as we read.

Thank you for reading.

 

Dear Parent/Carer,

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

General Information:

I hope you all had a lovely summer! Primary 5L are continuing to settle in well and they are continuing to learn the daily routines within school.

We have already been working hard to establish a positive ethos within our classroom and have agreed on our class charter. This will be displayed in our classroom and referenced daily.

The children have now all been issued with a red folder. Please only use this for homework or letters, as they get ripped if they are filled with pencil cases etc.  Homework will be issued on a Monday and should be returned on a Friday.  Reading homework will be issued separately and information will be sent out in due course.

The children will take part in 3 PE lessons per week and these will be on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. PE kit can be kept in school.

The children will earn DOJO points for positive behaviour and choices within the classroom and House Points will be awarded in the playground and when they are lining up.

We have been busy adding information to our class BLOG and this will be updated weekly. Our BLOG can be accessed via the school website.

Family Learning Journals will be coming home so keep your eye out for these. This is a great way for you to see what your child has been busy learning in class.

We plan to be outdoors as often as we can and as the good weather won’t last forever, I’d ask that you ensure your child comes to school with a jacket. We have all been caught out by Scotland’s notorious 4 seasons in one day so bringing a jacket with them each day is advised.

Learning focus this term:

This term we will be learning about The Romans.

Through our topic, The Romans, we will be learning about/to:

• Who the Romans were and where they lived.
• What the Roman Empire was.
• What life was like in Roman times.
• What the historical impact of the Romans on Britain was.
• How the Romans influenced society today.

Core Literacy:

• We will be using our topic as a stimulus for writing in a variety of different styles and we will also be continuing to develop imaginative writing.
• We will continue to use VCOP strategies to develop our writing.
• Children will be given opportunities to develop their listening and talking skills through a variety of class based activities, including cooperative group work.
• During class reading lessons the children will use Blooms Buttons and Book Detective strategies to check their comprehension.
• Our class novel this term will be The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown.

Core Numeracy:

• Pupils will consolidate their understanding of place value. They will know that the individual digits that form a number each have a value of their own. They will be able to build and describe numbers in a variety of ways.
• Pupils will use addition and subtraction to solve a range of written and mental calculations.
• Pupils will continue to work on all multiplication tables and will be developing their quick recall of multiplication facts.
• Pupils will develop their understanding of area.
• Pupils will develop their understanding of expressions and equations by finding the missing number in a number sentence and they will use simple function machines involving all four processes.
• Pupils will create shapes and designs with more than one line of symmetry.

RME/ Health and Wellbeing

This term our RME focus will be Buddhism.

As a Health Promoting school we actively encourage and teach our children to make healthy choices, to enable then to become healthy, active and emotionally resilient young people of the future.

We are delighted to be able to continue to deliver 2 hours of PE a week as well as opportunities for children to be active in our fabulous new grounds.

We would appreciate your support in promoting a healthy and balanced diet, both in your child’s morning snack and in their packed lunch. We would discourage any type of fizzy juice in school or energy drinks.  Children are encouraged to bring in a water bottle, which they can use during class time and refill during the day.  There are water fountains situated throughout the school for daily use.

Please encourage your child to participate in the Active Sports Clubs that are on offer at lunchtimes and after school, as well as any school based clubs that take place throughout the year. Keep looking in school bags for further information.

A reminder that all children who cycle or scooter to school must wear a safety helmet and ‘walk’ their bikes whilst in the playground. There are bike racks available.

Class Birthdays

We always celebrate if a member of the class has a birthday however we would request that birthday cakes are not brought into school to share with the class. In school, we have children with allergies who may be at risk from some ingredients. The cutting up and distributing of birthday cake also cuts into valuable learning time.

Playground 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.

Golden Time 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.

Mobile Phones:

Children may bring a mobile phone to school however these will be stored in a locked classroom cupboard until home time and cannot be used during the school day.

Book & Blether:

Please look out for further information on the dates and times for Book and a Blether. These are a chance for parents/carers to spend time with their children promoting reading.

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

Kind regards

Mrs Hunter

This week we had fun doing lots of Maths games to practise our times tables. We got very excited over the card game and we shouted a lot!

In our Romans topic we read a story about Romulus and Remus. Did you know:

• Remus and Romulus’ Dad was Mars God of War.
• The king at the time told a servant to put the baby twins in the river but the servant put them in a basket and they were saved by a female wolf.
• Remus was killed in a fight with his brother Romulus about where to build Rome.
• Rome was formed on April 21^st 753 B.C.

Yesterday we performed in The Scots Song Celebration at Alloa Academy. Our families and friends came to watch us. In the middle of the concert we heard a band called Rura. We sang 6 songs in total and we sounded fabulous.

Today in PE with Mr Richardson, we have been working on our skills that are needed for our rugby lessons. We have been weaving, dodging and passing. We know that we have to find space to receive a pass from out team mates. We started with a small game where we had to get our opponents tag and ensure we didn’t lose our own. We then worked in small teams and had to complete 5 passes to gain points. We will use these skills in our games. Next we will be moving on to think about side and back passes.

We are all back and settled into a new class and wing and are reasonably happy to be back!

We have been discussing our class charter and rules for the new year. We have focussed on the Redwell Way and Values to help with our ideas for the charter.

Our PE days are going to be Monday, Tuesday and Friday and we should have a full change of clothes available in school for these lessons. We will have Art and Music on a Tuesday.

We have been doing a variety of different activities so far this week. On Thursday, we took part in some maths games focussing on place value. We all loved playing the times table card game. In writing, we wrote about our holidays and what we were doing.

We will be back next week with all of the happenings from P5H.

Mrs Hunter and P5H

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