Primary 2 Curricular Blog Post – Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan

Welcome back after the holidays. The pupils all had worked very hard last term on the Nativity, so we hope all pupils and their families/carers had a fun festive period and a lovely new year.

Literacy

This term we will begin a book study, “The Snorgh and the Sailor”. Pupils will be developing understanding of new features of text such as punctuation and vocabulary. They will also look at sequencing and retelling the story. This will help develop with our reading skills, in addition to our weekly reading books.

We will also continue to develop our understanding of phonics and practise spelling common words. This term we will also revisit the sounds we have learned so far to consolidate these. Within writing, we are focusing on narrative writing, as we start to write stories. This will be connected to our book study.

Numeracy

This term for numeracy we will be focusing on multiplication and division with Miss Livingston. This is a new skill we are introducing, pupils will focus on counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and sorting numbers into equal groups. This will help before we start to look at the 2 times table. Mrs Strachan will focus on looking at fractions, this will help us when we introduce division.

We will continue to practise our addition and subtraction skills that pupils had worked hard on in term 2.

Health and Wellbeing

This term, our Health and Wellbeing topics will focus on our bodies and safety. We will look at what to do in an emergency and what to do if we feel unwell. This will be in addition to our PATHs inputs which focus on understanding our feelings, emotions and friendships.

Within PE, we start with a short block on fitness, and progress on to do Gymnastics with Mrs Strachan and racquet skills with Miss Livingston. Our PE days will remain a Tuesday and a Thursday.

UNCRC

This term we will be looking at the articles and rights involved and associated in Holocaust Memorial Day in late January, Safe Internet Day and Children’s Mental Health Week in February, and World Book Day and World Water Day in March.

Religious Education

This term we will begin by looking at the life of Jesus, focusing on his family and early life. We will then start learn about the importance of Lent and the lead up of Easter.

Pupils will continue to attend mass on the first Friday of the month.

Topic

This term we will focus on our book study till the February break. This will involve a lot of opportunities of inter-disciplinary learning. For example, we will be designing a boat and considering the materials we use to make it float or sink.

Pupils will then be involved in a mini-topic, “My Town/My school”, exploring our town, the local area and the school. We will be looking at our local area, as well as comparing Kilmarnock to other countries.

We hope this term is an enjoyable term for pupils, with lots of new learning taking place.

Miss Livingston and Mrs Strachan