Below are the class overviews for learning during this coming term.  Please enjoy reading.

P.1/2

Well, we have already had a great start to our Term 2 learning. Everyone has come back ready and enthusiastic to learn. We will be exploring the festivals and celebrations that this term brings through literacy, numeracy, music and art. There will also be a great deal of work in our enterprise project for the Christmas Fayre, so look out for our wonderful products coming your way soon! In addition to all of this we have a small matter of Nativity during the term, and we look forward to sharing our acting and singing talents with you all in December.

This term our gym days will remain the same, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Thanks in advance for your support and encouragement this term.

1. 3/4/5

In P3/4/5 our homework will be given to pupils on a Thursday and will be returned the following Monday. This homework will include reading, spelling and a choice of one activity from our homework grid. Our P.E will be Monday afternoons and Wednesday morning.

Our topic this term is enterprise; this will involve pupils designing, creating, making and selling a product for our Christmas Fair. We will be carrying out background research, illustrating our product posters and advertisements, as well as interviewing for job roles.

In literacy P3/4/5 will be learning how to create persuasive posters that will help us showcase our Christmas product. We will be learning to persuade others to buy our product through using powerful adjectives and bossy verbs.

In numeracy we will be learning different strategies in addition and subtraction, as well as solving word problems. Some of us will be learning these strategies using decimal numbers. We will also be learning all about money. We will be learning how to recognise different amounts of money, how to count different amounts, as well as profit, budgeting and loss.

1. 5/6/7

This term P5/6/7 will learning about a different country as their topic work. They voted to study Vietnam.

In our writing work we are learning to write informatively. We are taking part in the ‘Mock Court’ programme which incorporates a significant amount of our literacy work.

In maths we are learning about different strategies to help us add and subtract. We are also learning position in a mathematical sense.

Our PE days remain Tuesdays and Thursdays. We will be learning about Scottish Country Dance and Rugby. Some PE may take place outside so please pack a warm layer just in case.

Homework will continue to go out on a Thursday to be returned on the following Monday.

Primary 5/6/7 had the opportunity to work with the BBC recently to produce a short report about our iconic bridges.

They had a great experience learning about how these reports are planned, fact checked and created for production to an audience.

See the final report here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gh6msb

We think you will agree that they did a great job. Well done P5/6/7

Well done to all of our pupils who participated in the very well attended shared start to celebrate our Scottish song and poetry.

It is always wonderful for the the pupils to see the joy on adults faces as they share their learning in such a welcoming way.

P1/2/3 did a super rendition of The Jelly Piece Song, accompanied by Mr Morton on ukulele.

P3/4/5 did a super job ending the celebration with a rousing performance of Loch Lomond.

P5/6/7 sang a beautiful version of Wild Mountain Thyme which was sung with a lot of heart.

All pupils had been set the homework task of learning their Scots poems and performed them well individually or with year groups.

As always, we are incredibly proud of our young people and their enthusiasm. Well done everybody.

Happy New Year to all of our families at North Queensferry Primary. We hope you all had a relaxing but fun filled festive break.

This week we have loved hearing all the stories and experiences of the pupils as they return to begin term 3.  There is a lot of great learning to be had this term and we look forward to sharing these  opportunities with you all.

Advice to parents and carers

Parents and carers may be concerned about scarlet fever and other group A strep infections. Public Health Scotland has published information about the situation in Scotland.

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a minor illness which can be cared for safely at home, and the small number of infections that are more serious and require specific medical treatment. NHS Inform is a reliable resource for health advice, including how to safely look after unwell children, when to seek medical advice, and what to look out for. In particular:

• Group A strep information and advice, which also links to information specifically about scarlet fever
• Self-help guides for illnesses, including for sore throat
• General winter ailments advice

The premier of our Nativity performance took place yesterday. A huge congratulations to all of our young people for their commitment and enthusiasm during the performance (audience participation wasn’t too bad either!)

A great deal of work goes into these performances and we hope you see that shine through.

We look forward to our final performance on Thursday night at 5.30pm.

Well done everyone!