1. DAILY ROUTINE                                                                                                          ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING (IDL)

P1 have been working very hard and have settled into their school routine nicely.  Remembering and recognising their name labels, the children  hang up the coats and bags carefully beside them. They have also been learning how to use our Active Registration and Lunch register. The children are becoming really confident and quick to  recognise their own  names and placing them on the  colour of the lunch band, they are going to be using.  They are even recognising some of their friends  names too.   Then when all the children have registered their names on the colour chart, they help their class teacher count the total number of children on red,  green, yellow and blue colours, to give to Mrs Stirling, to help her make the correct amount of dinners.  Fantastic P1!  Well done.

LITERACY

TALKING/LISTENING , READING AND WRITING

The children are  working hard to  stay focused as they learn about their Initial sounds and how to use them, through active participation.   Using, North Lanarkshire’s Active Literacy Programme. E.g.  Magnetic Board and Letters/ etc.,  as well as Jolly Phonics/Big books/Songs / Interactive  and Animated film clips/White board and Pen/ Cut and Stick activities, etc.,  help the children  to  engage  and  develop their skills through active participation, as they learn about their initial sounds and  common words.  Their reading books also help to reinforce these sounds and common words. The children are also working very hard to  remember to use their good listening skills as well.  Such a lot of learning P1. You are becoming very ‘successful learners’ indeed!

NUMERACY

The Children are really enjoying learning about the Days of the Week/Months of the Year, through song and rhyme and also particularly with number, having worked very hard to learn about their numbers from 1-10.  They have been learning about what each number looks like.  How to form it correctly.  What it looks like as a number and a word.  How to make each number with a variety of resources. (cubes/buttons/pencils/rulers/pasta shapes (whatever resources are available.)  What number comes before and after.  As they learn through song/rhyme, active participation and interdisciplinary learning, the children have also been naturally learning about number through real life situations.   As they go about their day, your child  may say to you “Oh thats a 5″.  Or, ‘I can see 2 apples in the bowl’   Or I am using a pink/green/blue/red/orange and yellow pencils to colour my picture .  Thats 6 pencils”  Which is wonderful, as they are applying what they have been learning in the classroom, to real life situations.

R.E.

The Children have been learning about  their daily prayers. (Morning when they come in.  Before and After Lunch and just before we go home.)  They are learning about being kind and giving thanks for all we have and do.  Also in  October the children have been learning that this is a special month dedicated to Our Lady where we pray and learn about the Rosary.

TOPICS  INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING (IDL) – AUTUMN//HALLOWEEN/EXPRESSIVE ARTS

The children have really enjoyed learning about Autumn and watching out for the different signs of this every day.  They have been able to learn about Autumn through a variety of disciplines e.g.  Maths, (Months and Seasons of the Year,) Literacy, (Spelling /Writing Reading) Expressive Arts Drawing/Art Work/Crafts etc., /Health and Wellbeing (Autumn Walks/Beat the Street).The children have really enjoyed learning about Autumn through a variety of different subject areas and experiences. The  children particularly enjoyed getting ready for Halloween and making lots of different decorations using a variety of media to get their class ready  for their Halloween party.

 

SCIENCE – MINI-BEASTS             (PICS TO COME)

The children have  really enjoyed learning about Mini-Beasts at home and in school.  Before the children began their new learning, they shard   what they already know.  Then, what they would like to know.  So their Mini-Beast Science topic was Pupil lead.  Then  When they children  have completed their  investigation we  will record what they  have learned from their  investigations.  cant wait!

P1  also noticing signs of Autumn and Mini-beast activity as they have fun with P2 at  our Community Park .

HEALTH AND WELL BEING   (H&WB)                                                                   P.E AND EMOTION WORKS (EMOTIONS/FEELING)

P1 have really enjoyed  P.E. and  have also been very lucky with the weather, as they have been able to have  P.E.  outside in the fresh air most of the time. The children have been learning about rules for Health and Safety, following instructions e.g. Listening carefully and turn taking.  Also  they have been learning about working together as part of a team to achieve a successful outcome.   Fantastic work P1.  We can see you a really working hard to develop these very important skills.

EMOTION WORKS  –  (WHOLE SCHOOL INITIATIVE)

The children have been learning about their emotions through Emotion Works.   At the beginning of our Emotion Works lessons the children love to sing and act out their Emotion Works song. (Ask your child if they can sing a little bit for you. It’s called ‘These are Our Emotions’) They also enjoy learning  through a variety of fun filled activities e.g. animated film clips games song/drama etc..  They  have been learning about ways to identify what they are feeling  and why?  Also they have been learning about  different strategies and ways to deal with this.  They have also   have been learning that sharing  how they  are feeling, with an adult they can trust,  is very important,   As  they  might be able to help them  understand why they  might feel the way they  do and give them the support they need.

Lastly P1 enjoying their very first Halloween party with P2 and P3

Wow ! Can you believe everything you have achieved since starting School in August P1.   Well done.  Mrs Stevenson and I are so very proud of you.

Hello and welcome to our Primary 1 update for this month. Since starting school in August we have worked very hard to learn all of the new routines in the school and classroom. We can unpack and pack our bags and organise our own belongings. Every day we can order our own lunches and are enjoying eating with our friends. We are working hard to learn to zip up and button our own jackets. We have made lots of new friends and are enjoying playing together during our outdoor play.

We have been talking about our feelings and emotions with our teachers and friends. Our Mood Monster wall helps us to name our feelings and we can talk about how to name our emotions. When we feel sad or worried we can feed our worries to ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy’ the Worry Monster and he eats them all up for us! What a great little monster!

In the classroom we have been very busy learning to write our own names and to learn lots of new letters. We now know a, t, s, i, p, n, r, m, d, e. We have been so busy! We can use our magic reading fingers to read sentences and are beginning to build our own sentences. We know that Mr Capital letter should come at the beginning of our sentence, with his friend Mr Full Stop at the end.

We have been learning all about our numbers to 10 and can read, write and order our numbers. When we are counting we like to play games to learn more about before/after and in between numbers. Every day we count aloud with our class and try to beat the teacher! We have a number of the day and this helps us to focus on a different number every day. We like to count when we line up and count forwards and backwards to 20. Every day we practise how to write our numbers and make sure they are facing the correct way.

 

 

P1/2a have been extremely busy over the past few weeks.

In literacy, we have finished learning all of our new sounds and common words for the year and have been busy consolidating this knowledge. We have also been doing lots of writing linked to our topic of journeys. We created passports, boarding passes, in-flight menus and stories about exciting journeys.

In numeracy, we have been working hard on our numbers to 20 and have also covered the topic of money. We enjoyed investigating the different types of coins and using money to buy items in our play shop.

As part of HWB, we made sandwiches for our whole school picnic. We have also been talking a lot about our feelings and emotions and have identified the many ways in which we are the same and different from one another. In PE, we really enjoyed our multi-sports sessions which had a big focus on tennis.

We also enjoyed creating paintings inspired by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and have engaged in drama activities based on the story ‘The Magical Toy Box’.  We also enjoyed welcoming Snuggles the teddy from St. Andrews hospice into our class and have been busy learning songs about bears to make him feel welcome. We are so looking forward to our Teddy bear walk on Monday!

Our topic this term has been journeys and we have really enjoyed our play sessions based around the airport. We have enjoyed taking on the roles of pilots, flight attendants, security guards and passengers. We have also enjoyed making lego constructions of ships, planes and buses.

February has been a very busy month for primary 1.

The highlight of the month for us all was Global Play day…we had so much fun! We turned our role play area into a dinosaur museum and really enjoyed playing the different roles of tour guides, ticket sales people, gift shop workers, tourists and dinosaurs! We also played with the many other toys in our classroom and some of us even brought in some toys from home…we had a very busy and fun filled day!

In literacy, we are working really hard on our two consonant phonemes sh, th, ch and ng. We are also working hard to improve our reading and writing.

In Maths, we have been working hard on addition within 10 and 3D shapes. We are also becoming extremely confident with our counting.

In HWB we have been working hard to be active and have been in engaging in lots of active activities such as the daily mile and outdoor play. We have also been doing musical theatre  and yoga for PE!

Our topic this term is dinosaurs, we have learned about the different types of dinosaurs and are looking forward to extending our learning on this topic in March.

 

 

P1 have had a wonderful November. We have been busy visiting different places and learning lots of new things. We visited our local library and also made a trip to the cinema in Braehead.

As part of our topic work on people who help us, we had a visit from Kyle’s dad who works as a policeman. We learned all about the Police, how to keep safe and even got to see the inside of a Police van! From all in P1 and P1/2, we would like to say a huge thank you to PC Bailey.

We have also been learning about doctors and nurses and have transformed our play area into a doctors surgery.  We have had great fun with this and have learned all about how to stay healthy.

 

October has been a very busy month for primary 1!

At the start of the month we turned our play corner into a supermarket and enjoyed writing shopping lists and using money to buy different types of foods.

Then, at the end of the month we turned it in to a Halloween fancy dress shop! Look at our cool costumes!

As part of our topic work on people who help us, we interviewed Mr Crielly about his role as school janitor.

We also did lots of exciting work on the topic of Halloween and we really enjoyed the Halloween disco.

What a month! Primary 1 have been working really hard to learn our new school routines and are settling into Holy Family primary really well. We are enjoying making new friends and learning lots of new things. We have been working hard on our numbers and sounds and really enjoyed making sets of 2 and sets of 3.

Of course, our favourite time of the week is golden time!

Congratulations to this months star writers Asmara, Callum, Ethan, Nisha and Zara! Congratulations also to our merit winners Leo, Aoife, Nisha and Ethan….well done!

Well done to all the boys and girls on completing their first few weeks in Primary school. You have all done so well and I am so very proud of you all!

Miss McNally