{"id":13837,"date":"2026-09-08T21:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:05:07","slug":"family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/09\/08\/family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family learning informs and inspires Primary 1 parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13840\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/09\/08\/family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents-2\/screenshot-79\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"854,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1788904280&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1-214x300.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1-729x1024.jpeg\" class=\" wp-image-13840 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1-214x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1-214x300.jpeg 214w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1-729x1024.jpeg 729w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2026\/09\/08205444\/IMG_9762-1-768x1079.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our first \u2018universal\u2019 Family Learning workshop of the year, for parents and carers of our new Primary 1 pupils, took place on Tuesday 8th September. The workshop focused on Primary 1 literacy, particularly Cathedral\u2019s approach to teaching phonics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mrs Duffy 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 Tominey 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\/2026\/09\/01183320\/Final-August-to-December-Family-Learning-2026.pdf\">Final August to December Family Learning 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first \u2018universal\u2019 Family Learning workshop of the year, for parents and carers of our new Primary 1 pupils, took place on Tuesday 8th September. The workshop focused on Primary 1 literacy, particularly Cathedral\u2019s approach to teaching phonics. Mrs Duffy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2026\/09\/08\/family-learning-informs-and-inspires-primary-1-parents-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13837","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\/13837","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\/29482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions\/13846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}