April 2026 – Primary 1/2 with Mrs Kane

Home Learning week beginning 27th April

This week we are focusing on the <sh> sound for Primary 1s and the <ay> sound for Primary 2s. Please choose an activity from your sheet to practise your spelling words at home. It may also help you to highlight your sound in your word list.

In maths, we are looking at Telling Time this week. Primary 1s will read o’clock times from analogue and digital clocks, while Primary 2s will also look at half past times.

Please play the time board game at home to practise telling the time.

As always, please return your homework packs next Monday.

Class Update Week beginning 20th April

We have had a brilliant week back at school after our Easter holidays. Our highlight this week was definitely our Cattle Show visit but we have also done lots and lots of learning.

We were lucky to have had fantastic weather for our Cattle Show visit on Wednesday. Our crafts winners are: 3rd place – Harley; 2nd place – Amber; 1st place – Niamh. Congratulations!

In Literacy, we practised our phonics, compared a sea snail and a humpback whale as part of our book study on The Snail and the Whale, wrote postcards to the snails on the rock (free writing) and labelled the body parts of a snail.

Our maths focused on finding missing numbers in subtraction calculations. We used number lines to help us. We also looked at o’clock times and explored different coins for our money topic.

We also did lots of activities linked to The Snail and the Whale but also developing our maths, art, literacy and find motor skills:

In PE we started to learn Basketball with Mrs Cunningham and Badminton with Mrs Kane. Badminton is definitely trickier but everyone did a super job.

I hope that everyone has a fantastic weekend and that you can get to enjoy the lovely weather. See you on Monday!

Home Learning Week beginning 20th April

Welcome back!

It sounds like everyone has had a relaxing and very exciting holiday. It was lovely to see everyone again yesterday and to hear all of the news.

Literacy

This week, Primary 1s are learning the <qu> phonic and Primary 2s are looking a bit more closely at <wh>, practising harder words than last year.

Please check your word jotters and do one or more activities from your activity list to practise your spelling words for our spell check next week. If you want, you can highlight your spelling sound in your word list to practise spotting the grapheme you are learning.

Maths

We are continuing to practise subtraction. Fact fluency is very helpful in subtraction (and addition) so I have given you a Roll and Race game to play at home this week.

Instructions – Each player needs a different colour of counters to mark their equations. You also need a die. Players take turns to roll the die and solve the first equation that corresponds to the number they have rolled (starting from the bottom). If they give the correct answer, they can put a counter on the equation marking it as theirs. If the answer is incorrect, they miss the turn. The game continues until a player solves the last equation in a column, making them the winner of the game.

In the example below, yellow is the winner of the game: