Dear Parent/Guardian,

 

I hope you had a wonderful Easter holiday! It was lovely to see all of you at parents evening and I am very grateful for all of your continued support. The following is a brief outline of the work which we will be undertaking within the class during the final term in Primary 2.

Literacy

We will continue to work on North Lanarkshire’s Active Literacy programme for spelling and phonics. Children will learn new sounds and words each week and this will be consolidated through class work and homework. The new phonemes for this term include: e-e, ss, ll, ff, kn and mb. For reading, the children will continue to read one or two books per week. I would be grateful if you would continue to support reading at home and ensure that your child brings their book into school each day.

Numeracy

This term we will be focusing on the following key areas of numeracy: measurement, time and angles, symmetry and transformation. The children will experience a variety of active lessons as well as written tasks in order to develop their skills in each of these subject areas. We will also continue to work on addition and subtraction as well as mental calculation skills.

Health and Wellbeing

In P.E. the children will be taking part in Athletics. Aspects of Physical Education will be demonstrated on sports day in June. It is very important that your child takes their P.E kit to school on the days in which they have P.E, Monday and Wednesday. All kits should be clearly labelled, so that it can be easily identified. NOTE: please check that your child has the correct P.E kit as a number of kits have gone missing throughout the year.

This term we will also be exploring the theme of ‘Respected’. This aims to help children become familiar with their rights and responsibilities that go with them as well as how to show respect for the rights of others.

Religious Education

This term we will be focusing on the themes of ‘Community of Faith’ and we will explore the importance of Mass, prayer and worship as well as learning about other world religions.

 

Interdisciplinary Learning

This terms IDL (Inter-disciplinary Learning) theme is ‘Enterprise’. This will be explored through the theme of ‘Sweetie Land’, encouraging the children to participate in decision making and to consider different options available in order to make an informed decision. The children will lead the enterprise making decisions about what type of enterprise business to run as a class, where it will take place and when. Throughout the IDL the children will revisit money as they will need to work out an amount of money needed in order to buy items and understand that they may not always afford what they want. The children will learn the different jobs involved in running a business enterprise and understand the role each person plays in its success. Our new role play area will shortly be set up in the classroom which will run alongside our topic.

 

Finally thanks again for your continued support and please do not hesitate to contact me concerning your child’s learning. You can communicate any concerns/comments through your child’s homework or behavior diary.

 

Kind regards,

Miss Degnan.

P2 Class Teacher