Block One (August – December 2025)

Hello, and welcome to the class page for Primary 2! The class teacher is Miss Ramsay.

Health and wellbeing

The topics that we will be covering during this block for Health and Wellbeing are:

• Friends and friendship
• People who help and look after me

These topics are part of the First Level learning outlined by  RSHP (Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood).

We regularly discuss our school values daily – Safe, Ready and Respectful. These values help to form our Recognition Board focus for each week, which is decided on by the children.

We also plan on having our weekly class meetings on a Friday to review our week. We will discuss the things that we have enjoyed and the things that we want to improve on or change.

Physical Education

Our gym day is a Wednesday.  In P.E this block we will be focusing on:

• Group games
• Team/partner work
• Using gym equipment
• Dance
• Gymnastics

We aim to do our Daily Mile as much as possible (weather dependent!), and we always have regular movement breaks throughout our day.

Literacy

Reading, Listening & Talking, and Writing.

This term we will be working on:

• Revision of Jolly Phonics sounds.
• Enjoyment and reading for pleasure.
• Engaging with fiction/non-fiction.
• Initial and final consonant blends.
• Sentence structure – using success criteria, e.g., capital letters, full stops, finger spaces.
• Using conjunctions.
• Listening and talking to others in group scenarios.
• Alphabetical ordering.

Within reading, we will continue to develop our use of blending strategies to help to decode unfamiliar words in a text. We regularly practise our tricky words and words appropriate for each stage of reading. We will also be learning key words related to our topic.

We use the literature circle skills to support reading lessons. In Block 1 we will be focusing on the Predictor and Summariser skill.

We utilise technology to support learning. Here are some links to Literacy resources that can be used to support literacy skills:

Alphabetical ordering: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/alphabetical-ordering

Balloon Phonics: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/phonics/balloon-phonics-cvc-game

Doorway Online: https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/literacy/

Little Bird Spelling: https://ictgames.com/littleBirdSpelling/

Homework

Homework is given out every Friday and should be completed by the following Wednesday. Children are provided with a reading book, and a word wall of common words to practise. Please ensure that your child brings their homework folder into school every day as we use these regularly throughout the week.

Numeracy and Mathematics

In numeracy this term we will be focusing on:

• Number word sequences
• Place value
• Addition and subtraction
• 2D and 3D shape
• Patterns
• Symmetry
• Money

We use practical resources and strategies to help us in Numeracy. The children also use their maths workbooks to support their progression in Numeracy and Mathematics.

Here are some links to online resources that can be used to support your child’s numeracy learning. We use these games regularly:

Number games

Place Value Basketball: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Paint the Squares: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Coconut Ordering: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/coconut-ordering

Addition/subtraction games

Hit the Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Time games

Teaching clock: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Telling the time: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

Money games

Toy shop money: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Coins game: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

Topic

Our topic for this term is Bridges and Buildings. Within this topic we will be learning about different bridges in Scotland and the wider world. We will make links to other areas of the curriculum when engaging in topic lessons.