Hello there! How are you all this week? Welcome back to our P1 blog. We hope you enjoy following our journey through our first year at Longhaugh Primary School.

We have continued to revise all our sounds and tricky words. We have been using our sounds to build words and construct simple sentences.

              

In number this week we have continued to work on addition. We have been writing adding sums, making our own adding sums and filling in the missing number. lots and lots of number work!

  

In topic this week we watched 3 video clips that showed us schools from the past. One was a school in 1948, one was a school in the 1970’s and the last one told us about a Victorian school. We had to watch and listen and see if there was anything similar between those schools and our school today. We then had to look for the things that were different to our school. We noticed one or two things that were the same but there were a lot of things that were different.

              

We then created a poster to show schools in the past and schools in the present. We worked in groups and we all had to draw a picture of something that a school in the past had, e.g., a slate and chalk or an old fashioned desk with an ink well. Then we each drew a picture of something that a school would have now, e.g., an interactive white board.

  

It was also the turn of P1A to go and visit the senior citizens at the local servite home. We took along pictures of some of the activities in our classroom and we also took some of the games etc that we use every day. The ladies told us what school was like for them when they were children. It sounded very different indeed! They used to get their knuckles wrapped with a ruler!

  

We had been talking about our emotions last week and what it felt like and how our faces and bodies reacted when we were happy, sad, confused, frightened etc.

We drew our portraits focussing on our features and what they look like and how they change when we are happy, and how they change when we are sad. I think you’ll agree we made a really good job of our portraits!

   

Parent Notices

Gym – Please ensure that your child has a full gym kit in school. Gym days are on a Tuesday and a Wednesday. Also please note that all jewellery must be removed for gym.

Your child has been given a blue homework packet, please ensure your child brings this to school every day.

Open Doors – Every Friday from 3.00 – 3.15pm. Come into class and see all your child’s hard work.