Primary 5 are hosting a Halloween costume exchange this week. If you have any old costumes that no longer fit your child, can you please donate these costumes to the school this week? Primary 5 will be accepting these costumes from Wednesday-Friday. On Friday, your child will be given the opportunity to look through the donated costumes to see if they would like to pick a new, ‘recycled’, costume.
For information about the upcoming Hallowe’en Parties and meeting minutes from the Parent Council go to the website tab Getting Involved –> Parent Council for all the latest.
Welcome to our September update which has seen us very busy indeed!
Literacy
We have begun to read our new exciting novels The Queen’s Nose and Dragonfire. Both are very topical given that we celebrated the life of Queen Elizabeth II as well and looked at the connection she had with Edinburgh where Dragonfire is set. In reading aloud, we have been focussing on reading clearly and with expression in order that we can entertain our reader. If possible, encourage your child to read some of their novel aloud to someone at home in order to boost their confidence when asked to read to others in their group or class!
We continue to work on revising all spelling strategies taught in order to read and spell both common and unfamiliar words. We have again revised diacritical marking and have attached a short clip which will help parents what this means and how we do this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1-QFjT5yc
Numeracy
We have completed our work for now on Place Value to 10,000 and I would encourage all pupils to continue to spend some of their time completing the Sumdog challenges which will reinforce what has been taught in class. We will return to this topic throughout the year to ensure sound knowledge and understanding this important aspect of number.
We have also completed our block on Estimation and Rounding and can successfully round numbers to 10. 100 and 1,000 to routinely estimate the answer to a problem.
RME
As October is the month dedicated to the Holy Rosary, we will say these prayers together for peace in our very turbulent world and would encourage our families to join their prayers to ours by saying some or all of the Rosary together with everyone at home.
Science
We have been exploring our amazing bodies and began by looking at the Leonardo da Vinci painting of the Vitruvian Man where the dimensions on many aspects of our bodies are linked to other parts. One of the most fascinating facts was that our foot is the same length as the distance between our wrist and inner elbow, try it out at home!
We are now exploring our 5 senses and have some brilliant experiments planned.
HWB
This month’s focus has been on being kind and focussing on what makes a good friend. We were helped greatly by the parents and families that came to our Meet the Teacher afternoon and assisted us in creating an Autumn themed Friendship Tree. Pictures to follow.
Helpful resources from Nessy all about dyslexia:
Interesting reading for you if your child has dyslexia or you suspect they might:
August ’22 Update – Primary 1
Hello and welcome to our first update from Primary 1! At the end of each month, we will share some of the exciting things that we have learned in Primary 1 and some photographs so that our families can see us having fun at school. The children have settled very well into school life and have been having lots of fun with new friends!
The boys and girls are learning to follow new routines and are working hard to take care of their own belongings when at school. The children are being supported in unpacking and packing their own bags, taking home their own reading books, and making choices for lunch. We are learning to change into our PE clothes and back into our uniforms, this is something we must keep practising at home with our families. Here we are enjoying PE with our P6 friends.
In Literacy we are learning to use good listening skills. Percy the Park Keeper has come to our class to help us to do good sitting and concentrating. We take turns to listen to our friends and share our thoughts and stories. We listened to Percy’s book ‘The Rescue Party’ and talked about the story with Percy. He asked us to make a book with our name and things we like. We loved becoming authors! Percy will be coming to visit us with different books in Primary 1.
Our Smart pal helps us to practise our letter and number formations. We use these in the morning to help us to focus and concentrate. Every day we practise writing our names too, even in the playground with chalk.
We have been learning how to form our numbers in Primary 1. We read the number puppy stories and talk about what our numbers look like and how to write them. We can count together in 1’s, forwards and backwards. So far, we can read, write, and count 0,1,2 and 3.
If your child is aged between 9 and 16, see link below for all details:
Healthy Sleep Habits for Children
Virtual Workshops Online
Please see information about these courses that may be of interest to you regarding your child (and you!) getting a good night’s sleep:
Sleep workshop afternoon Sept 22 parents
We are looking forward to welcoming back all the pupils of Holy Family Primary on Wednesday the 17th of August at 9:00am.
For our P1 intake, we will welcome all our new starts at 10:00am on the Wednesday where they will be collected at the gate and taken into their new class by their teacher, Mrs Stevenson.
P1 parents, you are most welcome to come, a maximum of two parents per child, at 2:15pm to collect your children from inside the school where you can take lots of First Day photographs of your child.
A lot of our classes will be covering God’s Loving Plan as our final RE topic of the term. For more information and what this means your child will be learning about, please click on the link below. Any other questions, please feel free to contact the school.
This document is intended as a supplementary reference to provide parents with information about the learning and teaching detailed in ‘God’s Loving Plan’ for each stage across the primary school. In addition to a summary of the core learning for each stage you will find information about the vocabulary introduced and details of the corresponding learning. Information regarding the vision behind ‘God’s Loving Plan’ and suggestions on how you can support your child at home can be found in the guide for parents available at:
http://sces.org.uk/download/guidance-for-parents-on-gods-loving-plan/
Click to access vocabulary_guide_glp_2016.pdf
Primary 5/6 had another successful month of learning in May.
Numeracy
We worked extremely hard investigating different types of angles. We even learned how to measure and draw angles. We then moved onto learning about money. We learned to add, subtract, multiply and divide money. We used our prior knowledge of our taught strategies to do so. We also practised budgeting our money and exploring profit and loss.
Literacy
As always, we worked hard at applying our spelling strategies. We are all able to do this independently which is fantastic. We have been working our way through our reading novels (Wonder by RJ Palacio and The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross). We have explored and applied different reading strategies to help us understand our novels to a great extent. Furthermore, we have also worked hard in our writing lessons. We have focused on narrative, persuasive and discursive. Some of us have even became Star Writers and we are so proud of ourselves!
Topic
We were introduced to our new Enterprise topic when we came back from the Easter holidays. In groups, we have been planning for our Enterprise Day, 17th of June, where we are selling products and services to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Some examples of the products and services we are selling are stickers, face painting and beat the goalie activities.
Science
We were also introduced to our new science topic, Human Biology. We have explored bacteria growing on teeth, the sense of taste, our heart and BPM as well as memory. We are enjoying the practical experiments and investigations that science offers us.
H&W
We are exploring kindness during our health and wellbeing lessons. Kindness is one of our school’s core values and it is also a core theme within the Primary 6’s reading novel, Wonder. We have explored what it means to be kind to our self and others, ways we can be kind and the impact kindness has on the world around us.
Keep up to date with our school’s Twitter feed to see pictures of all the wonderful learning.
