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Early Level Transition

St Patrick’s Primary School Transition

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  St.Patrick’s Primary School and Nursery Class

Station Road, Shotts. ML7 4BJ Tel: 01501 826711

“Fortis in fide”

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Date: 15/02/17

 

Primary 1 Induction

 

Dear Parent / Carer,

We would like to warmly welcome all our new primary 1 children to attend a series of induction events during the week beginning 2oth February 2017.

Our first event will take place on Monday 20th and Wednesday the 22nd February 10:30 – 11:30. This will involve the children working alongside our current primary 1 pupils carrying out play activities on the theme of Traditional Tales.

The second event will take place on Friday the 24th of February at 10:30 – 11:30 with a special visit from Clyde Built Puppets who will be performing Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This will be followed by an open morning where the children will showcase their learning followed by tea and coffee for parents/carers.

This is a very exciting time for the children and we look forward to meeting you all during this event.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Miss C McDonald

Principal Teacher

 

St.Patrick’s Primary School and Nursery Class

Station Road, Shotts. ML7 4BJ Tel: 01501 826711

“Fortis in fide”

 

 

Date: 15/02/17

 

Primary 1 Induction

 

Dear Parent / Carer,

We would like to warmly welcome all our new primary 1 children to attend a series of induction events during the week beginning 2oth February 2017.

Our first event will take place on Monday 20th and Wednesday the 22nd February 1:30 – 2:30. This will involve the children working alongside our current primary 1 pupils carrying out play activities on the theme of Traditional Tales.

The second event will take place on Friday the 24th of February at 1:30 – 2:30 with a special visit from Clyde Built Puppets who will be performing Goldilocks and the Three Bears. This will be followed by an open morning where the children will showcase their learning followed by tea and coffee for parents/carers.

This is a very exciting time for the children and we look forward to meeting you all during this event.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Miss C McDonald

Principal Teacher

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Early Level

Numeracy across learning

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Within baking and cooking opportunities the children have been using language of comparison as they become increasingly familiar with quantities which are bigger, smaller, more, less, before, after and altogether.

Some of the children have been learning how to order numbers from 0 – 10 and used the long jump they created to count how far they could reach.

In the realisation that there was no phone book in the role play area it was decided to create a book where they could call on characters from favourite stories.

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I wonder which recipes the children will be using in the kitchen next week?

Early Level, National storytelling week

Once upon a time……….

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Throughout National Storytelling week the children have brought their storytelling skills to life by using  a number of different mediums.  They have been able to link what they know about characters, problems and the setting within their play to retell some very amusing and interesting stories.

A story created by Mirryn and Cole

Once upon a time Betty was at the shops when she realised she needed the toilet.  She met Humpty Dumpty and asked him, “is there a toilet anywhere?” He replied “No”.  Betty then met Little Red Riding Hood who was buying cakes for her granny.  Little red Riding Hold told Betty.  “You’ll need to go home if you need the toilet.”

Then , as Betty walked home she saw Sid and Shannarri, so she waved at them and asked, “are there any toilets?” They replied, “follow the road up to the nursery and press the green bell.” So Betty arrived at the nursery and saw the troll who was hiding  at the gates.  The troll said, “move on”.  She pressed the buzzer and Lorraine said “come in”.  As Betty opened the door, she met Purple Luigi who tried to push her out the nursery, but Betty manages to shove him out of the door.  Betty eventually found the toilet in time.  She lived happily ever after.

The end

Using props and costumes to retell a familiar story

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Being creative by using finger paints to tell your story…..

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Telling a story through the power of yoga…

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and finally creating the ultimate web……

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We hope that you had as much fun at home creating your “once upon a time stories….”

Uncategorized, What's On

What’s on week beginning 6th February 2017

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Monday 6th February 2017

Lynn will be in the early level playroom today

Lorraine will be on annual leave today

Tuesday 7th February 2017

Lynn will be in the Rainbow Room today

Kodaly session with Claire Howarth in the afternoon

Wednesday 8th February 2017

Gemma speech and language therapist will be in the nursery today

Lynn will be in the early level playroom this morning

Elaine will be at a meeting with Educational Psychology this morning, Emma will support the Caterpillar Group

Lynn will be at a meeting with Educational Psychology this afternoon.

Thursday 9th February 2017

Lynn will be in the Rainbow Room today

Friday 10th February 2017

Shotts Early Level Community Assets Transition Event for parents and carers Calderhead High School 10 am – 11.30 am.

Elaine will be delivering an information workshop at the transition event around SID and SHANARRI

Siobhan will be co delivering an information session with Jennifer Rhodes from Dykehead Primary School, around Early Numeracy progression

We look forward to welcoming as many parents and carers to this event. 

Early Level

Numbers, numbers everywhere

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This week the Number Bunch  had set themselves many tasks as they planned their learning.

“I know how to write my name and I can count people but I don’t know how to write numbers”

“I want to look at everyone’s ideas and learn with them”

“I wonder where I can find numbers outside?”

“I think I want to learn how to write numbers”

“We can play hide and seek and count up high to 14”

“Play games and learn how number games work, adding on and taking off”

By the end of the day they realised that there were numbers almost everywhere, even on the labels of their clothing.  The task they set themselves was to challenge their mums and dads to see who could find the most numbers at home as possible.  We wonder who the winners were.

 

 

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What's On

What’s on week begining the 30th January 2017

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National Storytelling Week

Monday 30th January

Lynn will be in the early level playroom all week.

Tuesday 31st January 

Kodaly sessions delivered by Claire Howarth in the early level playroom.

Lynn and Elaine will be out of the nursery this afternoon.

Wednesday 1st February

Gemma speech and language therapist will be in the nursery today.

Lynn will be out of the nursery today.

Thursday 2nd February

Friday 3rd February

Lynn will be attending NLC  Mulit AgencyNurture Conference in Motherwell.

Elaine will be meeting with Claire from St Patrick’s Primary to plan the Health & Wellbeing workshop for the transition event.

Lorraine is on annual leave this afternoon.

 

 

Early Level

Once upon a time………National Storytelling week

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national-storytelling-week

 

Can you think back to the time when you were little and your granny told you some wonderful stories which all began “Once upon a time……”, with each time she told it, there was a different ending with new characters popping up along as the story was told?

This week we will be encouraging the children to retell their own stories, which will not only develop their memory and  language skills but will also help develop their understanding of characters and setting, which they have been learning during the stories heard in their Three Read to Approach to literacy groups.

Why not rather than having a bed time story this week that you share an old fashioned “Johnny Morry Story” with your child.