Welcome back, and Happy New Year.

I hope you had a lovely Christmas break. The children have settled in quickly to our routines and learning after their break.

Below is a selection of photographs of some of the actvities that we have been carrying this week.

We have been consolidating our phonemes and tricky words, in Literacy and in Reading we have been working on our fluency and expression and using strategies to decode new words.

Over the next few weeks we are working on a Scottish theme, part of this will be learning a Scots poem and performing it in class. I have sent home a copy of the poem for your child to choose which one they would like to learn, and perform. I hope you will encourage and support them to learn it.   Also as part of our Scottish theme, this week we have been exploring where on the planet you would find us and learning that we are part of the United Kingdom.  We have explored the Scottish tradition of wearing tartan and in our Art lessons we are designing our own tartan by paper weaving.

In P.E. we are starting Gymnastics and the learners really enjoyed their lesson with Ms Corrigan on Tuesday.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and tune in again for our next update.

Mrs Mooney and P1/2