World Thinking Day is tomorrow
We will be celebrating World Thinking Day in school tomorrow and are inviting pupils who are part of an organisation such as Rainbows, Guides, Scouts, BB’s etc. to come to school dressed in their uniforms .
P4 Confirmation
Primary 4 pupils will be making their Confirmation this Tuesday at 7pm. Please keep our children in your prayers.
Thank you
World Book Day Raffle- March 3rd
Raffle tickets are now available to purchase via Parentpay !
Tickets cost £1 per strip of 5
World Book Day- 3rd March
We will be celebrating World Book Day on 3rd March !
Children can come to school dressed as a character from their favourite book .
Please do not feel under pressure to go out and buy a costume; why not make one from whatever you have at home?
We will also be running a whole school raffle which will be drawn on the day. Tickets will be £1 per strip of 5 and will be available on Parentpay from Monday.
Congratulations Mrs Fergusson !
Everyone in our Mount Carmel family would like to congratulate Mrs. Fergusson for her successful interview for our Head teacher post.
Mrs. Fergusson will take up her post from the 31st March
Ash Wednesday Consent Form
If you have not already done so, please only complete the form below if you do not give consent to your child receiving ashes:
World Thinking Day – 22nd February
What is World Thinking Day?
World Thinking Day, formerly Thinking Day, is celebrated annually on 22 February by all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It is also celebrated by Scout and Guide organisations around the world. It is a day when they think about their “sisters” and “brothers” in all the countries of the world, the meaning of Guiding, and its global impact.
We will be celebrating World Thinking Day in school on Tuesday 22nd February and are inviting pupils who are part of an organisation such as Rainbows, Guides, Scouts, BB’s etc. to come to school dressed in their uniforms that day.
P1/2 explore the topic of “Forces and Electricity”
Primary 1/2 explored the forces of “push” and “pull”. They found that the size of the force applied affects the size of the movement!
They also had fun learning about magnets, magnetic materials and forces.
We also investigated electricity, discussing which appliances in our daily lives require power to work.
We even built our own circuits with a light bulb and switch using a battery as our power source!
Ash Wednesday Consent Form
Please complete the form below only if you do not wish your child to receive ashes on Ash Wednesday.
P4-7 Basketball
P4-7 Intro to Girls Football
Primary 4 Confirmation Preparation
At the moment, our Primary 4 pupils are preparing for their Confirmation.
Please keep them in your prayers.
Class Mass
Last week, Primaries 1-5 attended Mass on Thursday and Friday.
This week Primaries 6 & 7 will attend Mass today.
Unfortunately , we are still not allowed to have parents/carers joining us at Mass.
P4 junk modelling
Primary 4 have had an excellent afternoon junk modelling for their rainbow reward time 🌈
Language Week Scotland
Please click on the link below to view the fantastic work that has been completed this week as part of Language Week Scotland.
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Language Week Scotland
Bonjour!
This week is ‘Language Week Scotland.’ We are enjoying celebrating world languages, and all classes are participating in lots of fun language related activities, songs, and games.
We have been learning some facts and well known phrases in a different language each day and are using our languages skills around the school.
We look forward to sharing some of our learning with you!
P4-7 Multi Sports Community Club
American Day Lunch Menu- Friday 4th February
Menu
American Day- Friday 4th February
Burger & chips
Hot dog and chips
Cheese pizza and chips
Ice cream
Chocolate swiss roll
Popcorn
Change to Tomorrow’s Lunch Menu
There will be a change to tomorrow’s lunch menu; Instead of burgers it will be macaroni.
P6 & 7 Boxing Community Club
P1-3 Girls Community Football Club
P2/3 Scots Poetry Recitation
Well done to all the boys and girls from Primary 2/3, who participated in the recital of our Scots poem ‘Crocodile’ by JK Annand today in class. The pupils spoke with confidence and expression and did such a good job of reciting this in front of their peers! A huge well done! Each pupil has received a certificate for their efforts! Super job!
Change to Lunch Menu Friday 4th February
Menu
American Day- Friday 4th February
Burger & chips
Hot dog and chips
Cheese pizza and chips
Ice cream
Chocolate swiss roll
Popcorn
Thank You To Kellogg’s
A huge “Thank You” to Kellogg’s who have very generously awarded £1000 to the school which will be used towards our Breakfast Club in the future, when current restrictions relating to this are eased.
No Dogs in the Playground
We would like to remind parents/carers that dogs are not permitted in the playground either before 9am or after 3pm.
Thank You.
P4-7 Rugby Academy
Kidz Kard/NEC Application Forms
Below are the links to the application forms needed to apply for your child’s Kidz Kard/National Entitlement Card for free bus travel. These applications are for current pupils only.
Non current pupils should apply using the link below:
Scooter Friday
Primary 4 have had a brilliant rainbow reward afternoon on their scooters 🛴😁
Primary 4 Curricular update
Primary 4 Term 3 update
It is lovely to see the children all back after the Christmas break. I hope you all had a great time together and that Santa was good to everyone. Now that the children are rested, it’s time to get back to work. Here is an update of what is coming up in the term ahead.
IDL
Our rainforest topic was a great success with lots of rich learning taking place. Our topic this term will be focussed around the work of charities, with a particular focus on the charity Missio. This is the Pope’s charity for world mission and will link in nicely with the Sacrament of Confirmation that some of the children will be celebrating. The class will complete this topic throughout the Lenten period and will be responsible for organising fun Lent activities to raise funds for the charity.
Literacy
Reading – The children are making excellent progress in their reading skills. They are reading with much more expression and fluency as well as beginning to utilise their word attack strategies to help them decode difficult words. This term will continue to look at how we summarise texts, a skill that we can then use in our writing. Another focus for this term will be the children’s opinions on what they are reading. They will learn how to evaluate a text from the author’s point of view. They will share their thoughts and feeling on what they are reading and this in turn will help shape them into the kind of reader they will be.
Writing – This term, the children will continue to look at narrative writing whilst using their description bubbles to aid planning. We introduced free writing as part of our routine which gives the children the opportunity to write about anything that they would like to, whether it be comic books, or short stories. In terms of new skills, the children will be encouraged to develop their awareness of conjunctions and connectives and how these can be used effectively in their writing. The children will also be trained in how to read over their work to ensure they have met their success criteria for that particular piece of writing. The children are continually encouraged to complete neat work and take care of their presentation when completing tasks; however this is something that requires more attention as they progress in their learning.
Listening and Talking – This term, we will continue with listening for instructions and acting appropriately. The children will also be developing their ability to be a ‘good, quality audience’ which means looking eyes, listening ears and proper body language. When presenting, we will be concentrating on speaking clearly as well as good eye contact and relevant information.
Numeracy
I am delighted in the progress made by the class in terms of their numeracy. They can now use several strategies to attack a single calculation. Their number talks strategies are valuable as we continue to explore addition and subtraction within 3 digits. Our prior knowledge of place value will also help us in partitioning these numbers to help us calculate within these operations.
We will spend time looking at word problems within addition and subtraction and how we can extract the relevant information from the problem to enable us to solve it.
The children will also continue to look at and learn our 3, 6, and 9 times tables. We will explore maths within the real world through our enterprise topic in which we will explore the charity ‘Missio’. We will also organise activities to raise funds for the charity which will work towards our understanding of numeracy in our real world.
In terms of our beyond number topics, we will continue to look at time, money, data handling and measurement.
A big focus this term will also be our ability to use mathematical language and solve simple equations.
Health and Wellbeing
As well as our PATHS programme which will run throughout the year, we will be looking at our bodies this term and how we can keep ourselves healthy. We will look at food, allergies and how our bodies gain energy from the foods that we eat. As an ongoing learning input, we will continue to look at how our choices have consequences, both negative and positive and how these choices impact on the relationships we build.
Our physical education inputs will be gymnastics, hockey, basketball and tennis throughout this term with Mrs MacKinnon teaching two of these sports and myself teaching the other two. Our P.E. days will continue to be a Tuesday and a Thursday. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD HAS INDOOR SHOES FOR THE PURPOSE OF P.E. ON THESE DAYS. THESE SHOULD NOT BE SHOES THAT THEY WEAR TO SCHOOL.
Religious Education
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the children in the class who celebrated their sacrament of reconciliation in December and I would also like to thank the rest of the children for supporting their peers on this journey. We will begin preparation for our sacrament of confirmation after the holidays which will take place on the 22nd February 2022. As part of this preparation, we will explore the celebration of the Passover and how Jesus celebrated this festival. We will also explore Jesus as our teacher and his teachings.
Expressive Arts
Within Art this term, we will be looking at the work by an artist called Piet Mondrian who was a Dutch painter. We will also hopefully explore the use of clay in modelling.
Our music inputs will focus on the children showing a certain control over certain instruments as well as identifying the main instruments used within pieces of music.
Our drama inputs will take place during our PATHS sessions.
Technologies
Our knowledge of the general use of ICT is definitely improving. Last term we were able to use the ICT suite, laptops, sphero robots, iPads and applications within each of these. The children are much more confident in how this equipment should be used. This term, our focus will be on the safe use of ICT and the internet. We will learn about the safe use of the internet with a specific focus on internet safety day on the 8th February as well as our digital footprints.
Modern Languages
The class will continue to learn French with Mrs MacKinnon this term. Their knowledge of the French language so far is very impressive.
Science
Last term, the children explored the use of renewable and non-renewable energy within their topic of energy. This term, we will learn all about electricity and what we use it for.
As always, thank you for your ongoing support.
Take care, Mrs McCreadie
Primary 1 Term 3 Overview
Primary 1 Curriculum Overview Term 3 2022 (Jan-Apr)
Welcome back to the Primary 1 blog. Here you will find out what Primary 1 will be learning about this term.
Literacy
Primary 1 have worked very hard to learn most initial sounds. They have only a few initial sounds left to learn before they have learned all 26. They have begun to use the sounds they do know to word build using the “say, make, break, read and write” strategy. They will continue to learn two new sounds every week until they have learned all initial sounds (26). Primary 1 are now becoming increasingly confident when using initial sounds to word build, they will continue to develop this skill throughout this term focusing mainly on CVC words (3 letters) and being challenged with CVCC/CCVC words (4 letters) where appropriate. In addition to this, Primary 1 will continue to learn new common words every week. Primary 1 will have lots of opportunities to practise word building and common words in a range of active ways in line with the Active Literacy approach to learning. As Primary 1 become more confident when word building and recognising common words, they will focus on using these words to build simple sentences as well as apply this knowledge to read worded texts as well as answer simple comprehension questions related to each text. The children’s comprehension skills will be developed through a range of sequencing, visualization and simple questions which focus on remembering.
In writing, Primary 1 will continue to focus on descriptive writing. The children will continue to describe familiar objects as well as characters from known stories. Primary 1 will continue to use the descriptive bubble to support this learning.
Primary 1 will continue to develop their talking and listening skills; understanding when to listen and when to respond, taking turns and communicating with others. They will also continue to develop their letter formation through regular handwriting lessons/activities.
Numeracy and Mathematics
Numeracy – This term, Primary 1 will continue to develop their understanding of the concept of addition within 10. They will have the opportunity to use a range of concrete resources to develop their understanding of each number story 1 -10 before moving towards applying their knowledge mentally. As Primary 1 become more confident in their ability to add within 10 they will have many opportunities to develop their mental accuracy through mental math quizzes, fast 10 and Number Talks. In addition to this, Primary 1 will develop their understanding of missing number calculations through applying the “lock in and count on” strategy.
Mathematics – Primary 1 will continue to develop and apply their new knowledge of money. They will continue to work towards being able to confidently identify coins as well as understand that each coin represents a different value. Primary 1 will continue to have many opportunities for challenge by adding to find totals, this will create a meaningful link between their addition skills and the concept of money. In addition to this, Primary 1 will learn about time. The children will learn about both analogue and digital clocks. They will learn to tell the time using both types of clocks as well as match them. They will focus on tell the “o’clock” time on both clocks. Primary 1 will learn about what the hands (minute and hour) on the clock face mean (analogue) as well as the numbers on the digital clock (00). Primary 1 will learn the days of the week as well as the months of the year as part of this new learning. This term, Primary 1 will also learn about shape. They will learn about 2D shapes before moving onto focusing on 3D shapes. The children will learn the names of both 2D and 3D shapes as well as the properties of each shape. Miss Mulhern will cover this new learning with Primary 1.
Health and Wellbeing
Primary 1 will continue to develop their social and emotional skills through our whole school PATHS programme. The children continue to enjoy engaging with the puppets and love it when they visit our classroom. Primary 1 love giving and receiving compliments each day as part of “Pupil of the Day”. Primary 1 will continue to learn about their emotions through a range of activities and stories based around the PATHS puppets. The children in Primary 1 continue to engage enthusiastically with this programme. In addition to this, Primary 1 will learn about how living things grow and change. The children will learn about the life cycles of different living things including plants and minibeasts. Primary 1 will also compare these life cycles to the life cycle of a human. This new learning will be covered as part of the Spring topic.
Physical Education
This term Primary 1 will focus on developing their stamina and strength through “fun fitness”. The children will participate in activities such as skipping, bench stepping, planking, and running on the spot within a fitness circuit. They will develop their stamina and strength through increasing the time they spend doing each part of the circuit each week. Primary 1 will also learn basic racquet skills this term. They will learn how to send and receive using both a beanbag and a ball. Primary 1 will also be developing their balancing, rolling, jumping and travelling skills through a block of gymnastics. This will be taught by Miss Mulhern.
P.E. days will continue to be Monday and Thursday.
Religious Education
Primary 1 will learn about the life of Jesus throughout this term. They will revisit the nativity story and compare their own lives to Jesus’s life, thinking about their families. Primary 1 will think about the love that God has shown towards them through creation, through Jesus his son and through the people who care for them. Primary 1 will revisit the importance of showing love and kindness through making Lenten promises during the period of Lent, again, giving thanks and praise to Jesus for the sacrifices he made. In addition to this, Primary 1 will learn the Easter story. They will re-tell and sequence the story when confident.
IDL
This term, Primary 1 will learn about different materials through the science-based topic materials. They will explore a range of materials to enhance their understanding of the world. They will carry out different experiments which enable them to investigate and compare materials. Primary 1 will also be completing the topic Spring. During this topic, Primary 1 will learn about new beginnings and growth. The children will learn about different life cycles including their own life cycle. They will look at how they have changed and grown since birth, starting school and last year. Primary 1 will also make Lenten promises as well as learn the Easter story through this topic, they will re-tell and sequence the story when they are confident. In addition to this, the children will use different materials to create a range of Spring artwork.
Thank you for visiting the Primary 1 blog, keep a look out for any further updates as term 3 progresses!
Thank you,
Mrs Dunsmore.
