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.

We have had a very busy month in Primary 1/2.

In maths we have been working on time, addition, subtraction and data handling. Our counters group have been adding to 20 and have been using a variety of concrete materials to help them to explore subtraction. They enjoyed this simple game which they could play at home too.

We have also been learning about tally marks and horizontal/vertical bar charts. The children enjoyed finding out what flavour of ice cream their friends like best then creating their own bar chart. Here is one of our Cubes group members completing a bar chart.

Within literacy, the children have been making good progress through the Active Literacy programme and have spent time revising previously taught phonemes as well as learning some new ones. The children enjoy partner spelling and the games we play to help us learn. Here is one successful learner who was able to match sounds to words which contain the sounds.

The children have also been working on instructions in Taught Writing. They wrote their own recipe for an Ice Cream Sundae as part of their Seaside topic. They also made their own Rainbow Fish and wrote instructions for Primary 1 to use when they made theirs.  Here is one of our budding artists showing off his Rainbow Fish.

One of our favourite times of the week is when we choose Star Writers each week. Here are a couple of our superstars in May.

We are really enjoying our topic in primary 1/2 and have participated in a wide range of lessons about the Seaside. We enjoyed our Seaside purposeful play when we were asked to design a new lighthouse for the lighthouse keeper. They children designed lighthouses using playdough and lego. They also created a pattern for their lighthouse and measured pictures of lighthouses. We had a ball being designers for the day.

We also showed off our creativity when we made octopus for our Seaside display in class.  Our topic wall looks awesome!

In Science, the children have been learning about living and non-living things. We also explored the habitats of living things. Here are some pupils matching a variety of habitats to the animals that live there.

We are ending May with our Health/Eco Week. The children have been busy sprucing up their playground. They did some weeding and will plant new seeds in our planters. This will ensure the playground looks beautiful in the next few weeks.

Please click the link below for the minutes from the most recent Parent Council meeting on the 1st April.

Minutes 1st April 2021

Here is the timetable for our final week of Teams meetings. P7 remember you have transition meetings with Cardinal Newman High School on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

Also please note that we do not have any meetings taking place on Friday.

Teams meetings wb 8th March

Please see this timetable for the days and times of our P4-7 Teams meetings taking place this week. Remember to join us for our whole school Teams assembly today at 1.30 pm.

Teams meetings wb 1st March

Please see this timetable for the days and times that video calls are taking place this week.

Teams meetings wb 15th Feb

Please see this timetable for video calls taking place today and tomorrow.

Teams meetings wb 8th February

Here is the timetable with the days and times of our Teams calls taking place this week. Please note that days and times may be different to last week as some classes now have additional calls taking place this week. Tomorrow we are going to have our first whole school Teams call at 1.30 pm so head to the NLC Holy Family Primary School Team at this time and click Join.

Teams meetings wb 1st Feb