Primary 5/6 have been working extremely hard learning and successfully applying their reading strategies as well as practising their verbal reading skills. Primary 6 are reading Holes by Louis Sachar and Primary 5 are reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Primary 5/6 have also been learning and successfully applying their spelling strategies.
In Maths, we have been working very hard learning our addition and subtraction strategies. We have also been learning a ‘times table of the week’ in conjunction with our number strategies. We will be moving on to multiplication and division.
During topic time, Primary 5/6 have been creating a new invention in their groups to combat climate change, in the run up to COP26. We have also incorporated our oceans and continents topic in our expressive arts lessons by creating posters of animals from different continents in their natural habitats as well as learning songs from different continents.
We have been learning about the life of Jesus during RE recently. In particular, we have looked at Jesus the Healer and Jesus the Teacher.
Primary 5/6 have been successful learners and Miss Gallagher is very proud.
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Primary 2 October 2021
We have had a very busy month in Primary 2. The children have been working so hard and have learned so much.
Within Maths we have been focusing on number. Our Cubes group have worked so hard within numbers to 20. We have looked at numbers before and after, larger and smaller and we have been ordering. Our Counters group have challenged themselves within numbers to 100 by learning about Place Value through working with tens and units. The children enjoy using concrete materials to help them with their learning. Here are some of our superstars learning through play.
Within Literacy, we have continued to work hard on our new sounds and common words. We enjoy building words using the sounds we learn and our great progress can be seen in our reading and writing. Here are some activities that we have enjoyed during our phonics lessons.
In Taught Writing we have been using a selection of spooky stories to help us to create exciting stories. We especially loved learning about the story ‘Room on the Broom’ and after writing, we made fabulous witches using a variety of materials including autumn leaves. Mrs Simpson loves to pick Star Writers each week. Here are a few of them showing their super work! This month we have been thinking about adjectives. We enjoyed creating adjectives for a range of different pictures and we used lots of these super descriptive words in our stories.
We enjoyed learning about the Month of the Holy Rosary in October, and we enjoyed paying visits to the gardens of the church where we participated in a decade of the holy rosary. We have begun to understand that the rosary prayer tells us about the life of Jesus and his mother, Mary. It was a great time to learn about this, as we have been studying the topic Jesus’ Family and Yours within our R.E. lessons. Within this topic, we particularly enjoyed hearing about the story of the boy Jesus in the Temple. Pope Francis has called for us all to unite together and care for our planet. We have been learning about COP26 in Primary 2 and we discussed ways we could look after the environment. We made bunting to celebrate the conference. Here are some of our pupils showing off their promises.
Health and Wellbeing is extremely important to us and is a core part of our curriculum. This month we finished up our topic on People who Help Us. We carried out wonderful solo talks about someone we know who has a job helping people. Mrs Simpson was delighted with us. She said we had prepared so well and we demonstrated lots of confidence. We made sure we were a super audience when others had a chance to speak, and asked lots of super questions when they were finished. More recently, we have been learning about the importance of sleep. We read the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, thought about how we feel when we don’t get enough sleep and we designed cosy onesies for bedtime.
Our recent class topics have been Traditional Tales and Halloween. We especially enjoy purposeful play and the challenges we solve in carousel activities. We studied stories such as ‘Goldilocks’, ‘The Gingerbread Man’ and ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We loved making the pigs from the story, then creating houses made of Lego for the pigs to live in. Here are some of our favourite activities from Purposeful Play afternoons.
We understand the need for fresh air and exercise in Primary 2. We love to learn in an active way in the great outdoors. We have been great team players this month and worked so hard to earn lots of Beat the Street points for Holy Family Primary School. We also enjoyed the lovely Autumn weather and went on an Autumn walk to discover what we could hear, see, smell and touch.
Mrs Simpson is so proud of us for all our hard work. She said we should give ourselves a tap on the back as we have been successful learners this month. We can’t wait to start our new learning in November!
Virtual Curriculum Night
Good afternoon,
As we are still unable to have parents and carers into the school for our annual Curriculum Night, each of our classes have produced a video. Click on the link for your child’s class…
Primary 1
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Primary 2
Primary 2/3
Primary 3/4
Primary 4
Primary 5/6
Primary 6
Primary 7
Parent Council Meeting 7/9/21
Here are the details for tonight’s Parent Council meeting –
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5303457556?pwd=THJYeUQva2JuYTZiUUUvS2dEUDJ0QT09
Meeting ID: 530 345 7556
Passcode: Q3e7EG
Start time- 6.30 pm
Parent Council Meetings
Please note that Parent Council meetings will take place online on a Tuesday night (6.30 pm) on the following dates-
Tuesday 7th September
Tuesday 2nd November
Tuesday 11th January
Tuesday 8th March
Tuesday 3rd May
We would love to see some new faces. Please support our school community. The link to our first meeting will be shared next week.
PE days
PE Timetable
Each class will have PE twice a week. Children can come to school dressed in their PE kit on these days.
PE days are as follows:-
P1- Monday and Thursday
P2- Monday and Wednesday
P2/3- Tuesday and Thursday
P3/4- Tuesday and Thursday
P4- Wednesday and Friday
P5/6- Wednesday and Friday
P6- Tuesday and Friday
P7- Monday and Wednesday
COVID-19 Information Letter
Please see the below link for a COVID-19 information letter for the new school term.
1. Letter for the new term – schools – August 2021 – NHSL – v3 ML final
Please see this link if your child attends the nursery.
P4/5 May 2021
P4/5 have been working harder than ever this month! We have all been reading our novels, Poppet and Tilly and the Badgers, as well as the first Harry Potter book: The Philosopher’s Stone.
Not only have we been working hard reading, we’ve been doing so much maths including times tables, 2D and 3D shapes and objects, and, most recently, fractions.
As well as all this wondering learning, we’ve been busy in the playground and garden doing litter picking, weeding and planting. It has felt really good looking after our planet and keeping active.
Health Week has been great fun, with Sports Day, Outdoor Clean Up, and gardening.
Our certificate winners for this month:
Primary 7 – May 2021
Primary 7 have been working hard this month and the children have written their own blag post to share their learning with you.
Literacy by Sophia
This month we are enjoying reading the novel The Eleventh Orphan by Joan Lingard. We are enjoying this book so much and want a chance to read aloud. The book is about an orphan called Elfie who is taken in by Ma and Pa Bigsby. We think there might be a mystery in the story.
In writing we have been learning about the genre of explanation and we wrote an explanation of the Circulatory System.
Numeracy by Ushna
In the morning we have been doing a starter of calculating area. We have also been learning about not only decimals but fractions and percentages! It has been busy but we had fun learning lots of new things in numeracy.
RE by Shannon
In RE we said the Rosary of the 24th of May because the Pope said we should pray for all children and young people of this day. As it is the month of Mary we are making sure that we pray as much as possible. We are working hard as a whole school because we have promised to be a Laudato Si school so we are thinking of ways we can help to make the world a better place.
Learning Across the Curriculum by Ava
Over the month of May we have been learning about the human body. On this topic we have been taught how the circulatory system works. We have also been learning about tonal studies in art. We have drawn eyes and half of a celebrity’s face using tone and shade. This month has been so much fun.
Health Week by Alfie
This week is health week and we have been doing lots of activities. On Monday we had our sports day which included a sprint, egg and spoon race and a three legged race. Today we had the job of tidying the yard. We weeded the garden and planted some onions, peas and beans. We also tried lots of different fruits.
Primary 1 May
We have had a very busy time in Primary 1 during the month of May. We have worked very hard to learn new skills and we have had lots of fun too!
In RME we have been learning all about Mary Our Mother and listening to lovely hymns about Mary. We have been praying the Rosary together and have enjoyed learning how to do this with our friends. We have been learning about how special and unique we are and talked about our qualities and talents.
During our maths activities we have been learning how to tell o’clock time. We are all able to read analogue clocks and can tell our teacher when it is an o’clock time. We have learned about symmetry and finding a line of symmetry. We enjoyed going outdoors to find symmetry in our environments. In our number work we have continued to learn more about numbers to 20 and can read, write and order the numbers. Brilliant work Primary1!
Our class have worked very hard in literacy to learn all of the alphabet sounds since starting school and now we have more hard work to do in learning phoneme sounds. We really enjoy using our magnetic boards to help us to learn the phoneme sounds and have been text detectives in looking for our sounds in our books, in school and at home. In our reading we are beginning to blend our sounds to read short words. Some of us have learned to read all on our own! Fantastic work! We got to go up to the top floor of the school to visit the school library. Some of us thought it was very high up but we really enjoyed choosing a book and hearing a story from our teacher.
To improve our health and wellbeing have been getting ready for our Sports Day and have been practising all of the skills that we will need for our big day. It was so much fun trying out all of the equipment and being in teams with our friends.
We have taken part in health and eco week this week. Here are photographs of some of the things we have taken part in so far.
