Teacher – Miss McKeever
After a very successful year in P1 and P1/2, where we developed our Play Pedagogy, we hope to continue to build on this by improving our environment, resources and structures to suit the needs of our new cohort of children. Children in P1 and P1/2 are working across three play-based classroom settings and embracing the opportunities to learn through play each day. Mrs Smart and Miss McKeever are working with the children during their play and all adults are involved in observing the children’s play and planning next steps. All children will also work with Mrs Smart and Miss McKeever at the “Teaching Table” for focussed, targeted learning suited to their individual learning needs.
For more information about play please access the following link ThingLink .
| Literacy
WRITING: P1 – Children will be using “Foundations for Writing” programme to add details to their pictures before “talking a story”. We will be working on forming all letters in their name correctly and to size. Finally children will be working on writing CVC words using decoding skills and using these skills to write labels and lists. P2 – Children will be working on weekly handwriting learning about alphabetical order. Children will use decoding skills to write lists and labels and will begin to think about alliteration. They will be working on sequencing a story through Wfl and using interesting words to write their own fiction stories focusing on ordering their ideas and entertain their audience. SPELLING & PHONICS: Jolly Phonics P1 – Children will be learning to recognise and form all initial sounds, using these within their writing and play. P2 – Children will be working vowel diagraph blends through Jolly Phonics songs and then working on consonant blends to help with independent reading and writing. READING: In primary 1 the children will initial focus on prewriting skills such as visual discrimination and tracking words from left to right, blend the initial sounds covered in terms 1 and 2 and practise re-telling stories they have heard or seen. In primary 2, children will work on their sight word recognition and reading strategies to help with independent reading. Some children will be working on conceptual understanding and learning terms such as characters and setting. We will also work on becoming more aware of their voices when reading to different audiences. Together we will be using the “Workshop for Literacy” to use books as a stimulus for all areas of literacy. We will retell, sequence and finish stories as part of this. Tricky words All children will be introduced to word walls for the “Story World” reading scheme. They will also be working through “Frys 100 High Frequency words”. Fry Sight Words – 1-100 (educationoutside.org) LISTENING & TALKING: In primary 1, the focus for talking and listening is to listen and respond to instructions, to take turns in talking and listening to each other and joining in with songs and rhymes. In primary 2 the children will be developing their questioning skills and asking and answering relevant questions related to texts they have listened to or watched. |
Numeracy and Mathematics
NUMERACY: P1 – Number recognition and formation for 0-20 using the Communication for All number rhymes. P2 – Recognising, forming and using numbers to 100. All children will work on the skills of sequencing, ordering and partitioning. We will be working developing our number sense and the language of number. All children will develop addition and subtraction strategies and use a range of strategies to support them both during teaching table activities and during play. Number Formation Rhyme Cards (communication4all.co.uk) MATHEMATICS: Data Handling We will be learning to gather, sort and read different types of Data through our “Under the Sea” topic and during play. Measure We will be focusing on using the vocabulary for measuring. Thinking about the different equipment and ways that we can measure capacity, length, and weight. P2 children will be encouraged to consider different units of measure and will be exposed to different ways to record these. Time We will be learning about the order of the days, months and seasons through songs and rhymes. P1 children will be reading analogue and digital clocks for o’clock times and P2 children will also be thinking about half past times.
We will use a variety of technology to help us explore these topics. Learning games can help children to reinforce learning during play.
Learn to Count with fun Counting Games for KS1 Children (topmarks.co.uk) |
| Health and Wellbeing
P.E The children will learn about different aspects of health, including physical and emotional health both inside and in the outdoors. We will have class gym every Wednesday and will focus on the following: Term 1 – Bat and ball skills Term 2 – Ball games Health: We will be exploring safety, friendships and understanding our feelings using resources such as Emotion Works, RSHP, Kitbag and Treehouse – Tree of Knowledge. |
Our Topic will be about…..
Term 1 topic: Under the sea We will be learning about habitats and creatures that live in the sea. As an Eco Schools Green Flag holder, we will be learning about our responsibility to look after the environment but above and below the water.
Term 2 topic: Santa’s Workshop We will be learning about different forces that help our toys to work and using creativity, we will create and design our own toys to help Santa get ready for Christmas. We will also be learning Christmas, as we are so lucky to have such a multi-cultural school, we will also be thinking about different important celebrations as the arise throughout the year.
Outdoor Learning: Weekly lessons to explore all curricular areas outdoors in our Quad – focusing on continuing to develop our learning spaces. |
