Here is the link to tonight’s Parent Council Meeting….
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85098589089?pwd=bG9xZkU4Nm9mNW90TDBVSGo2RXFtdz09
Meeting ID: 850 9858 9089Passcode: 6U7CER
This will take place at 6.30 pm. Please help support your child’s school by joining.
The children in Primary 3/4 have had a very busy few months since returning to school so we would like to share some of their learning with you.
In Maths the children have been learning a variety of approaches and strategies to aid them in their learning. In Number Talks they are developing secure mental strategies that they can draw upon when faced with any calculation. Through this the children demonstrate that they are confident individuals as they eagerly share their responses, solutions and justifications. The children know how to estimate and round numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds and thousands. They have used concrete materials to explore Place Value and this has really helped with Addition so far and will help as they continue to develop skills in subtraction, multiplication and division.
In Literacy the children continue to work hard on their Spelling, Reading and Writing. The Green Group have been learning all about phoneme families and are learning to use spelling strategies such as ‘word within a word’, ‘compound words’ and ‘syllabification’. Ask them to demonstrate how these help them work out tricky or new words.
The Red Group are working through the Active Literacy programme and are learning new phonemes and common words each. The children love to look for these sounds and words in their surroundings and get very excited when they spot them.
In addition to their various Home Reading Books, the boys and girls have been reading ‘Poppet’, a story about a baby African Elephant who becomes friends with a little mouse. The children have used this to develop their comprehension skills and are working hard to produce answers in full sentences. 
In Health and Wellbeing the children have been learning about staying safe and healthy. They take every opportunity to get outdoors for PE and have been effective contributors to our school community by participating in Beat the Street. Friday afternoons are spent with their friends in Primary 2/3 at Hope Street Park as a fun way to end their hardworking week.
With October being the month of the Holy Rosary the children have learned how to pray the Rosary and have visited Holy Family Church every Tuesday with primary 2/3 to pray in the gardens. This has been a really lovely experience for us all and it is wonderful to see the children enjoying being in the Church again. Please try and provide this opportunity for children by attending Sunday Mass, especially if the children are making their sacraments this year.
The boys and girls also participated in their Class STEM challenge ‘Spaghetti Towers’ where they used Spaghetti and Marshmallows to design and build a freestanding tower. They loved this and look forward to doing more challenges throughout the year. 
Our IDL topic has been the Vikings and the children have developed a range of skills across many areas of the curriculum, they made 3D Longships and explored symmetry when designing their own Viking shields. They also used the knowledge that they have gained to create posters giving others information all about the Vikings, their lifestyles and their beliefs.
The children have recently began to learn all about Climate Change and what is happening during COP26. They have been learning about what Pope Francis said in Laudato Si and are eager to demonstrate that they are responsible citizens by contributing individually, as a class, and as part of the whole school to help tackle the impact of Climate Change on their World.
As you can see the children have experienced many successes as learners over the last few months so what better way to celebrate this than a fun filled Halloween Party which they are so excited about.
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.
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.
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!
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
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
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 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
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.
