St. Brendan's Primary School and Nursery

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

Dear Parent/Guardian,

We hope you enjoyed the Easter break.  Here is a brief overview of the learning that will be taking place in our Primary 1 class during term four.

Literacy

Children will follow North Lanarkshire’s Active Literacy programme for spelling, phonics and reading.

P1 – In phonics we will be learning the sounds oo, ck, ai, oy and oa as well as consolidating all of our initial sounds and phonemes taught.  Children will be introduced to the phonemes through a multi-sensory approach. One Phoneme will be introduced each week alongside three spelling words. Children are now able to recognise and write initial sounds and will continue to consolidate the skills of blending and sounding out unfamiliar words. Please continue to revise all common words and sounds taught to date regularly with your child so they are able to recall the sounds or words instantly.

We will be co-ordinating our handwriting with the sounds we are learning. Children will use whiteboards in class along with other kinaesthetic and visual materials such as plasticine to practise letter formation and early writing patterns. Please encourage your child to practise writing the letters using the correct formation.

Children will receive two reading books each week. (Monday and Wednesday) These books give you an opportunity for you and your child to enjoy reading together. Children should begin to identify the common words within the reading books and use their knowledge of sounds to sound out words. You can help your child by talking about the pictures in the book to help find clues about the story and the characters and also encourage them to make predictions about what may happen next in the story.

Numeracy

In numeracy we will be learning about measure (capacity and weight), data handling, symmetry and fractions.  Numeracy is taught actively here at St. Brendan’s through stories, games, number rhymes and songs.

Social Studies

This term the children will be learning about France. They will be responsible for making decisions about their learning, where they work and the resources they will need to complete tasks.  We will be focusing on shops and businesses and how they help us. We will also be learning some new French vocabulary. There will be lots of opportunities for active learning through role play, art, construction and writing.

Health & Wellbeing

P.E. this term will be on a Monday morning and a Tuesday afternoon.

The children will be working on team games, as well as preparing for sports day by practising a variety of different races.

R.E.

In Religious Education the children will be learning about Mary. We will also be listening to a variety of bible stories and enjoying the messages they portray.

Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks

Miss Cochrane

Dear Parent/Guardian,

We hope you enjoyed the Easter break.  Here is a brief overview of the learning that will be taking place in our Primary 2/1 class during term four.

Literacy

Children will follow North Lanarkshire’s Active Literacy programme for spelling, phonics and reading.

P1 – In phonics we will be learning the sounds oo, ck, ai, oy and oa as well as consolidating all of our initial sounds and phonemes taught.  Children will be introduced to the phonemes through a multi-sensory approach. One Phoneme will be introduced each week alongside three spelling words. Children are now able to recognise and write initial sounds and will continue to consolidate the skills of blending and sounding out unfamiliar words. Please continue to revise all common words and sounds taught to date regularly with your child so they are able to recall the sounds or words instantly.

We will be co-ordinating our handwriting with the sounds we are learning. Children will use whiteboards in class along with other kinaesthetic and visual materials such as plasticine to practise letter formation and early writing patterns. Please encourage your child to practise writing the letters using the correct formation.

Children will receive two reading books each week. (Monday and Wednesday) These books give you an opportunity for you and your child to enjoy reading together. Children should begin to identify the common words within the reading books and use their knowledge of sounds to sound out words. You can help your child by talking about the pictures in the book to help find clues about the story and the characters and also encourage them to make predictions about what may happen next in the story.

P2 – This term in phonics the children will be learning the phonemes ff, kn and mb. Children will be introduced to the phonemes through a multi-sensory approach. One phoneme will be introduced each week alongside four spelling words. Children will continue to receive one reading book per week.

Numeracy

In numeracy we will be learning about measure (capacity and weight), data handling, symmetry and fractions.  Numeracy is taught actively here at St. Brendan’s through stories, games, number rhymes and songs.

Social Studies

This term the children will be learning about France. They will be responsible for making decisions about their learning, where they work and the resources they will need to complete tasks.  We will be focusing on shops and businesses and how they help us. We will also be learning some new French vocabulary. There will be lots of opportunities for active learning through role play, art, construction and writing.

Health & Wellbeing

P.E. this term will be on a Monday afternoon and a Tuesday morning.

The children will be working on team games, as well as preparing for sports day by practising a variety of different races.

R.E.

In Religious Education the children will be learning about Mary. We will also be listening to a variety of bible stories and enjoying the messages they portray.

Thank you for your continued support. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks

Mrs Shaw