Category Archives: Literacy and English
Competition time with SALT
The Speech and Language East Ayrshire Facebook page are holding a competition with some fab prizes up for grabs. Please see the poster above on how to enter. Best of luck everyone.
Participation Groups – Literacy and Library Groups
This week the Library and Literacy Groups joined up to tidy the library and enjoy some paired reading outside in the courtyard in the sunshine.
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week….
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week is 5 little ducks went swimming one day and if you click on the link above you will be able to view the Makaton signs to go along with the rhyme. Please point out the rhyming words to your child.
Singing rhymes with your child can impact their education as this aids their ability to hear sounds within words and identify other rhyming words. I will be gathering data on the children’s knowledge before it has been focused on and after and will share it’s impact on the blog in the near future.
Top tip to promote communication
Please click on the link below to get some tips from the speech and language facebook page. These are beneficial tips in promoting your child’s language development to maximise your child’s potential.
Is your child not talking yet?
Here is a helpful page on Facebook where the Speech and Language Therapists put up helpful tips on prompting your child’s communication skills.
Nursery Rhyme of the week is back :)
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week is Incy Wincy spider. Please try this at home pointing out the rhyming words to your child. Miss Clark is tracking the children’s knowledge of each rhyme before we focus on it in partnership with parents/carers and afterwards and I will share this data with you in the next few weeks.
4, 4, 2 Reading Challenge
Congratulations to Kallum Tang in Primary 4A for being the first person in the school to bring in a completed 4, 4, 2 Reading Challenge card! Kallum has borrowed 4 books from The Dick Institute, receiving 4 stamps on his card and a ticket for free entry to a Kilmarnock FC home game.
Very well done, Kallum! Hopefully lots more boys and girls in the school will follow in your footsteps!
Gardening Club
Now that the snow and ice have finally cleared away, the Gardening Club will be commencing for the Summer Term.
The Club is open for any pupils within P4 -P6 and will run from 3:15pm until 4:15pm.
Starting Wed 25th April – Wed 20th June.
Could any pupils, who are interested in coming along to the club, please see Mrs Bloomfield in Base 1 to pick up a permission slip.
Kickstart Reading
This sounds like a fantastic idea… If anyone manages to get a ticket, please bring it in and we’ll put a photo of you and your ticket on the blog. Happy reading!!
Mrs Lawson
East Ayrshire Libraries are delighted to be working in collaboration with the SPFL Trust and Kilmarnock Football club to bring the 4-4-2 Reading Challenge to local children.
As a reward for reading and using the library we are offering free tickets to Kilmarnock home games.
All that primary aged children need to do is borrow 4 books from the library (on their own card, not a group card) and when they return the fourth book they get a card stamped which they take to Rugby Park to exchange for 1 free child ticket and 1 discounted adult ticket on selected home games. The challenge runs until the end of May but completed vouchers can be redeemed until the end of October.
