Week Beginning 8/6/26

Happy Friday !

We have had lots of fun taking part in lots of sports activities to celebrate the World Cup and the Commonwealth games.

Literacy- We have been practising some of our tricky words. We all enjoyed our reading books this week.
As part of World Ocean day we made Save our Ocean posters and made paper plate fish.

Maths/ Numeracy- We did a weighing activity. This was fun. We also worked on our numbers to 20/100 learning .

Topic- We had a visit from Brodies dad and his crew. We loved getting to use the hoses. We also got to sit inside the fire engine.

PE- We took part in house football, wake up shake up, bowling , relay running, cross country, target zone, bench ball , scatter rounders , long jump and sports day races.
Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 1/6/26

Happy Friday from Primary 1!

We have had another fun week.
Topic – We had a visit from Elyn’s dad who is a doctor. We learned about his job and asked him lots of questions.
Health- We discussed that our families are all different but very special to us. We drew detailed pictures of who lives in our house with us.
Literacy- Our piece of writing was about Elyn’s dad. We all enjoyed our reading books. Our spelling words all ended in y.
Maths/Numeracy- We have been continuing our numbers to 20/100 learning and our money learning.
PE- We have been enjoying practising for sports day.

Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week beginning 25/5/2026

Happy Friday !

PE- We loved practising some of our races for sports day. Our favourite was the sack race. We loved taking part in the whole school mile.

Maths/Numeracy- We have been continuing our numbers to 20/100 and our money learning. We enjoyed some time on Sum Dog.

Literacy – We did a piece of writing about our visit from two police officers. We loved hearing all about their jobs and having a chance to look at their police car. We all enjoyed our reading books this week. We have been learning all about magic e.
Health- We were learning about what babies need to be safe, healthy and happy.
Art- We drew very cool pictures of ambulances. We used a step by step video to help us.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 😄

 

 

Week beginning 18/5/26

Happy Friday!

We loved presenting our assembly ‘People who help us’. We received some lovely feedback – Thank you 😄

PE- We have been continuing try our different athletics stations. We also enjoyed taking part in in the mile.
Numeracy- We continued our numbers to 20/100 learning. We also did a little money work.

Literacy – We all enjoyed our reading books this week. Our new final consonant blend was ck.

Outdoor learning- We went on a walk ( journey ) to the woods. We loved walking with our P7 Buddies and having time to explore there. We also loved making pancakes with Tony Crelland. All these activities are part of our Natural Connections Programme.
Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 😄

 

Week beginning 11/5/26

Happy Friday !

We have had another hard working week in Primary 1.

Outdoor learning – We enjoyed time exploring the large loose parts.

PE – We enjoyed trying out different athletics stations. We also enjoyed taking part in the mile.

Numeracy/Maths – We have been continuing with our numbers to 20/100 learning. We have also been working on our money learning. We enjoyed some time on sum dog.
Literacy- We enjoyed our reading books this week. Our spelling words ended in all and ell. Our handwriting letter was Gg. our piece of writing was about Police officers.

Art- We drew our own police cars using a step by step video. They look cool!

Topic- We have been practising for our assembly on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 😄

Week Beginning 4/5/26

Happy Friday!

A short but busy week in Primary 1.

We have been practising for our special assembly about ‘People who help us’.

Art- We printed firefighters. They look great !

Literacy-Our final consonant blend was ft. Our special handwriting letter was Ff. We all enjoyed our reading books this week.  We loved sharing a book with our P7 Buddies. Our piece of writing was about our school lollipop man.

Maths/ Numeracy- We have been working on our numbers to 20/100 learning. We also did some weight and capacity learning.

We enjoyed taking part in the mile.

Outdoor learning- We explored with the large loose parts.  We also did some planting with our P7 Buddies.

Today is Miss Appleby’s last day in our class. We will miss her.
Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 😀

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week beginning 27/4/26

We have had a great week in Primary 1.

Music/ Science – We got to experiment with different instruments. We discussed what they were made of and what we had to do to make them play.
Literacy – We all enjoyed our reading books this week. Our new final consonant blends were ng and nk. Our piece of writing was about Firefighters. We were practising the letter Ee during handwriting time.
Maths/ Numeracy – We have been continuing with our numbers to 20/100 and measure learning . We made wiggly worms and put them in order from the shortest to the longest.
PE- We all enjoyed running the mile. We also enjoyed trying out different athletics stations.
Outdoor Learning- Our Buddies helped us measure different objects in the playground using natural materials.

Health-We were discussing different brain breaks we could have.

Have a lovely weekend.
Have fun.
Take care .
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 20/04/26

Happy Friday!

We had a fun and hard working first week back.

Art- We drew beautiful flowers that we may find in our gardens. This is a job for a competition hosted by ‘Newport in Bloom’.

Numeracy/Maths- We have been working hard on our numbers to 20 learning. We have also been using lots of non standard units to measure different objects in our classroom.

Literacy- We all enjoyed our new reading books this week. Our new final consonant blends were – lt and ld. We also were practising our letter formations. Our writing was a poster about different weathers.

PE-We were taking part in different athletic stations- discus, shot putt, javelin and hurdles. We enjoyed running the mile.

Outdoor Learning- We enjoyed some time exploring the bottom garden. As part of Earth Day we weeded some of the school garden and did a litter pick.

French- We were learning the weather in French. This was lots of fun.

Topic- We were learning about different clouds. We made a cloud view finder. This was lots of fun using it to identify clouds.

Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.

Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 😀

 

 

Week beginning 30/3/26

Happy Thursday and Happy holidays !

PE- We loved using lots of apparatus during our gymnastics time. We practised our jumping, rolling and balancing. We also love taking part in the whole school mile.

Art- We made easter baskets and decorations.
Music- We have been practising our Easter songs and a very special one with our P7 Buddies.

Literacy- We love writing silly sentences. We also did a piece of writing about a missing rabbit.
Numeracy / Maths- We were working on our numbers to 20 learning. We also did some time learning – one hour more and less.

We enjoyed our Spring together time.
Have a lovely weekend and holiday.
Have fun .
Take care.
Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 🙂

Week Beginning 23/3/26

Happy Friday from Primary 1!

PE-We enjoyed our gymnastics activities. Our new learning was shoulder stands.
We also enjoyed taking part in the daily mile.

We all enjoyed taking part in our pupil committees. We all had fun activities to do.

Numeracy/Maths- We were working on our numbers to 20 learning. We also were learning about telling the time half past on a digital clock.

Literacy- We made lovely thank you cards for all the staff at Falkland Palace. Our final consonant blends were nt and nd. We all enjoyed our reading books this week.

Health- We have been discussing how to cross the road safely.
Art- We made Easter cards.
Science- We were leaning about the life cycle of plants. We planted sunflowers seeds to look after.

Have a lovely weekend.

Have fun.
Take care.

Love Primary 1 and Mrs Carmichael 😀