Block One (August – December)

Hello, and welcome to the class page for Primary 2/3! 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
• My family/All our families are different
• Feelings and safety
• Similarity, diversity and respect

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

We also discuss our school values daily – Safe, Ready and Respectful. The children have already been demonstrating these values throughout the school.

Physical Education

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

• Group games and partner work
• Coordination and balance (Gymnastics)
• Dance and movement skills
• Safe use of equipment, and use of equipment during games, e.g., using a ball.

We also aim to do our Daily Mile as much as possible (weather dependent!).

Literacy

In Literacy, we focus on the topics of Reading, Listening & Talking, and Writing. This term we will be focusing on:

• Revision of the 42 Jolly Phonics sounds.
• Digraphs and trigraphs
• Listening and contributing our thoughts and ideas to group discussions.
• Using context clues to support understanding of new texts.
• Identifying consonants and vowels
• Decoding, blending and making CVC, CCVC and CCCVC words.
• Reading and writing common/tricky words.
• Using correct punctuation in sentences.
• Using conjunctions.
• Adding openers to sentences.
• Magic ‘e’.
• Using a dictionary.

Within reading, we are developing our use of segmenting and blending strategies to help to decode unfamiliar words in a text. We use the literature circle skills to support reading lessons, and this term we are focusing on the skills of Illustrator and Predictor.

We also utilise technology to support learning. Here are some links to Literacy resources that we will be using in class:

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 throughout the week.

Numeracy and Mathematics

In numeracy this term we will be focusing on:

• Place value and number
• Estimation and rounding
• Addition and subtraction to 10, 20, 100 and beyond.
• Multiplication and division
• Skip counting
• Money
• 2D and 3D shape.

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.

We also utilise technology to support learning. Here are some links to resources that we will be using in class:

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

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

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

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

Shape Patterns: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/shape-patterns

Topic

Our topic for this term is Lego (Inventors).

We have begun by creating a mind map of the things that we already know about this topic, and the things that we would like to find out. The children had lots of ideas and have shown lots of enthusiasm for our new topic. We have already created our own Lego characters. We will be learning about the history of Lego, and how Lego works. Our topic lessons will cover a range of curricular areas, including Literacy, Art & Design and STEM.