Well done to everyone in primary one for receiving their Wild Challenge award 👌🏻😊.

We took part in a fabulous range of fun activities during Health Week 👍! Some sessions involved developing our physical health through lots of exercise while others centred around healthy lifestyles. In addition, we talked about our emotional health by exploring emotions and friendships. Staying safe indoors and outdoors was also a focus of the week.

We loved our visit from the fire brigade!

Anyone for “Tri-golf?”

How clean are your hands? 🤗 

Mmmmmm delicious fruit kebabs 😋

Run, jump & throw fun with the harriers!

We were learning about halves and quarters while eating healthily!

Well done to Primary 1 for their fabulous assembly. The children discussed their learning “journey” since starting school and used this as a stimulus for their performance! Everyone had something to say and did a wonderful job 👌🏻😃.

Primary one have been having fun while learning about measure! They were focusing on weight, capacity and length, taking part in activities indoors and outdoors!

We had a very special visitor in primary one this week! Baby Noah came to visit so we could find out more about looking after a baby. We used our wonderful talking & listening skills to ask Noah’s Mummy lots of questions. We were surprised at how much work is involved each day to keep Noah fed, safe, warm, clean and happy 😊. Noah seemed to really enjoy his visit and we hope he comes back soon so we can see how much he has grown! Mrs Duff certainly enjoyed her cuddles. Afterwards we thanked God for giving us people who love and care for us ❤❤.

Welcome back after the Easter break! Primary 1 are ready to learn lots in their final term and are now officially in training to become very grown up Primary 2’s!!

Literacy

This term we will be concentrating on our two letter phonemes (sounds) to further develop our reading and spelling skills. We will also be using our strategies to help us spell common words.

During reading times we will focus on our comprehension skills by asking and answering a range of questions. Some questions will have obvious answers in the text, but other types of question will make us think deeper about what we have read and will require us to “prove” our answers.

We will be writing sentences independently and using our imaginations to create stories with a beginning, middle and end.

To develop our talking and listening skills, we will be giving each other instructions and presenting to our groups.

Numeracy

We have been learning about Money, discussing different ways of paying for things and exploring the coins up to £2. We will develop our skills in selecting appropriate coins to pay for items in our shop and café, with some children being challenged to calculate the required change.

Throughout the term we will revisit our addition and subtraction skills, ensuring that we are aware of which strategies we can use to help us. These skills can then be applied to some real life and play scenarios.

Sharing out will also be a focus this term, exploring how to “split” quantities into equal groups or set amounts.

For our “Beyond Number” focus we will be concentrating on Measure, Position and Movement and Data Handling.

Our Position and Movement skills will be a focus for Outdoor Learning and will have cross-curricular links with Technology, when we use our programmable Bee Bots.

Measure will take place through lots of play activities, allowing the children to explore what to measure and how to do it. The children will sort according to size, weight and will experiment with non-standard units eg cubes, hands, feet etc.

RE

“God’s Loving Plan” is our focus for the first part of the term. During this component of RE the children will consider the people in their lives who take care of them, those who help us in our wider communities and the love and care required to look after a baby. The children will thank God for the love He has surrounded us with.

Interdisciplinary Learning

We will continue with our “Sun, Moon and Stars” topic at the start of term before introducing our final topic; “Our Community”.

During this topic we will explore our local surroundings, observing and recording places/ buildings of interest to allow us to create a model and map of the area. Following this we will look at shops and services in our community, considering the various roles people play.

Health & Well-Being

During our final term we will participate in Health Week, taking part in lots of fun activities involving physical health, emotional health, internet safety and healthy eating.

Our focus for PE will be Athletics and we are fortunate enough to have our sports coordinator Mark Devlin running “Run, Jump & Throw” sessions. Mr Bertoncini will also be developing striking and fielding skills.

Primary 1 have been learning how shadows are made! We had super fun chasing ours around the playground before drawing around our partner’s! We also noticed that it wasn’t only people that created shadows!

Primary one were lucky enough to welcome 10 Chicks into Mount Carmel! The children loved watching them hatch, grow and could experience the level of care required to look after them first hand. The chicks provided a great stimulus for our descriptive writing too!

Primary 1 weighed their ingredients, mixed them together then sat back and enjoyed some very tasty pancakes 🥞! Everyone gave them a thumbs up 👍.

Well done to our Star Writers from last week ⭐️⭐️⭐️