{"id":10862,"date":"2025-09-09T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:51:57","slug":"family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/09\/09\/family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Family learning informs and inspires Primary 1 parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10890\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/09\/09\/family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents\/img_7600\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1757411058&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0082644628099174&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7600\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600-300x225.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600-1024x768.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10890\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/09084912\/IMG_7600.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>Our first &#8216;universal&#8217; Family Learning workshop of the year, for parents and carers of our new Primary 1 pupils, took place on Tuesday 9th September. The workshop focused on Primary 1 literacy, particularly Cathedral\u2019s approach to teaching phonics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr Young opened the workshop by talking about Cathedral Primary\u2019s holistic approach to literacy:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">a rigorous synthetic phonics programme to give children the tools they need to read and write<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">the use of decodable reading books during phonics lessons to give children instant success and build their confidence<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">exposure to non-decodable reading books to develop vocabulary and comprehension<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">access to \u2018real\u2019 books through regular visits to the school library<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">daily opportunities for the children to apply their phonics and reading in meaningful ways across the curriculum<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The remainder of the workshop was led by Mrs McCoy who gave a presentation on \u2018Read Write Inc. Phonics\u2019, followed by a live phonics lesson with a group of Primary 2 pupils. The children were absolute superstars and parents and carers were amazed to think that\u2019s what their own child will be able to do in just a year\u2019s time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our August \u2013 December Parental Engagement &amp; Family Learning leaflet can be accessed via the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/08\/19125008\/Aug-Dec-2025-Family-Learning-programme.pdf\">Aug &#8211; Dec 2025 Family Learning programme<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first &#8216;universal&#8217; Family Learning workshop of the year, for parents and carers of our new Primary 1 pupils, took place on Tuesday 9th September. The workshop focused on Primary 1 literacy, particularly Cathedral\u2019s approach to teaching phonics. Mr Young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/09\/09\/family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions\/10899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}