Hello, welcome to Primary 2/1’s class web page.
This year our teachers are
Mrs Russell (Monday/Tuesday)
Mrs Harris (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday)
Mrs Thompson (Tuesday 1pm -2pm)
Mr Martindale (Wednesday 9am – 10am)
Our P.E. days are Monday and Thursday. Please ensure that children have indoor shoes, gym clothes and that all jewellery is removed.
Class Dojo 
Please join our class dojo to keep up to date with class news, photos and more! You can use dojo to view the points your child has been given and to view our class dojo stories. We post regularly throughout the week.
Homework 
Primary 1 receive homework on a Monday. Every child will usually receive reading books each week. These books will be discussed in class with a teacher throughout the week, however, it helps improve your child’s reading and comprehension if they are also practised and discussed at home. Phonics homework will continue each week. Remember to revise the sounds and use them to make three letter CVC words. Maths tasks will be sent home too.
Primary 2 currently receive reading and spelling homework. Every child will usually receive two reading books each week. These books will be discussed and read in class with a teacher throughout the week, however, it also helps improve your child’s reading and comprehension if they are practised at home. A Maths wall will be sent home soon for some active maths activities you can do with your child at home to support their in class learning.
Polite Reminder
Please ensure that all items that your child brings to school are clearly marked with their name. This is very helpful if items get misplaced. We already have a growing collection of lost property!
Class Leadership Role
Primary 1 are responsible for looking after and feeding the birds which visit our bird boxes and bird feeders. We have been learning all about birds through observations, visitors, videos and stories.
Here are some of the exciting things we will be learning this term…
Literacy
P1 Writing – We are drawing pictures of ourselves, adding detail and pattern. These stories are scribed and the children can ‘have a go’ at writing too.
Through Talk for Writing we are learning repetitive stories with lots of actions. The children create story maps and then tell their stories to their friends. They can add different characters and settings to their stories.
Opportunities to write are available in all areas of play. Children are often seen writing shopping lists, cards, names and plans
P2 Writing – We are all working on our letter formation through a range of active play tasks, online activities and practise in our jotters.
For additional practise at home, the Doorway Online website is used in class and is one your child should be familiar with. It shows how to form letters correctly. It also allows you to follow or ‘write over’ the letter as they are formed. https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/activities/letterformation. This term we are working on capital letters.
We are learning to ‘have a go’ and use our spelling strategies to sound out and write unfamiliar words. We will be learning to write a range of different imaginative and personal pieces of writing.
We are all completing writing activities through our Talk for Writing Programme. We enjoy creating story maps to write and retell our own stories. We have been learning about characters and settings.
Our latest story writing was based around ‘Defeating a Monster’ we used the stimulus of the “Billy Goats Gruff” to support this Talk for Writing theme.
Our Grammar is all linked to Talk for Writing. We have been learning about nouns, adjectives to add description as well as prepositions. This term we will be learning about verbs and adverbs.
P1 Reading – We are busy learning our sounds. We use Jolly Phonics to introduce these and there are lots of opportunities to use our sounds during play and activities. We are beginning to make, read and write 3 letter words. We are also learning some Tricky words to help us with our reading books.
Reading books are sent home on a Monday. The number of books may vary from week to week. These will include; phonics books which encourage the children to sound out and blend words, Oxford Reading Tree which introduces our family and their adventures and some tricky words, library books chosen by the children and Non-Fiction books to be read and discussed together.
After reading together at school we often discuss the children’s likes and dislikes, puzzles or things they are not sure of and connections to their own experiences.
P2 Reading – A variety of books will be sent home on a Monday for you to enjoy together. The number of books might vary each week. These will include non-fiction, core readers and library books. The purpose of the core reader is to reinforce vocabulary, work on comprehension and and further develop the reading strategies that have been taught in class. Some weeks they will be given chill books and the purpose of this book is to develop confidence through reading a book at an easier level. They may also be given challenge books which can be read together with an adult. Things that you can discuss is tricky vocabulary, what is happening in the story, are there any puzzles and are there any parts that you don’t understand.
Numeracy
Primary 1 –
A lot of our number practice involves counting forwards and backwards within 10, 20 and beyond. We start at various numbers within the sequence. Lots of practice is given in counting, sorting, patterns and estimating and writing numbers through play, games and active teaching. Addition and subtraction is introduced through active tasks and play with the children learning how to ‘count on’ and ‘count back’. We discuss and learn our Wonder Doubles; 1+1=2, 2+2=4 etc. The children then learn to use + – and = correctly.
In class we have a monthly calendar and weekly planner where we note events and activities. We sing lots of songs to learn Days of the Week and Months of the Year.
Through play, opportunities are provided to compare and estimate lengths, weights and capacities. Language used includes: full, empty, heavier, lighter, tall and short.
This term we will explore 2D shapes and 3D objects. Lots of active tasks will encourage the children to use their names; circle, square, rectangle, triangle, cube, cuboid, cone, cylinder, pyramid and sphere. Through play they will describe and sort these according to various criteria. Have a look in and around your house for these shapes and objects.
We will also explore time. The children will learn to read and write analogue and digital o’clock times. Explore where they can tell the time at home.
You will find you child’s Sumdog login in their diary. Practice at home will support their learning at school.
Primary 2 –
Primary 2 have been working on numbers to 100 and beyond. We enjoyed learning about money and worked hard on adding up totals and giving change. We have been learning our 2,5 and 10 times tables. We are able to create arrays and have begun to look at Division by sharing objects and numbers into groups equally. This term we will look at Fractions, Data Analysis as well as 2D and 3D Shape.
We are always revising and aiming to improve our mental agility of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You will find you child’s Sumdog login in their diary. This helps with mental maths revision. Regular practice at home will further support their learning at school.
Health & Wellbeing
These are our PATHS friends. Twiggle 🐢, Daphne🐥, Duke🐶 and Henrietta 🦔. each week we have Circle Time where our friends help us with emotional understanding, self control, social problem- solving, peer relations and self- esteem. During each lesson one child is randomly selected to be ‘Child of the Week’. This child helps Twiggle during the week and during lessons. At the end of the lesson we make a compliments list for the PATHS child which they will bring home. Please read over the list with your child and ask them to tell you how it felt to receive the compliments
Broad General Education
In Primary 1 and 2, the children are able to lead their own learning and often choose ‘topics’ of their own that they want to learn more about.
This term we will all be taking part in a Scottish Topic. We will learning about Scotland the country where we live, different aspects of life in Scotland and sampling Scottish foods.
We will all be focusing on a novel study this term. Primary 1 will reading Katie Morag stories and Primary 2 are focusing on Julia Donaldson books.
We will be reciting a Scottish poem as a class to the rest of the school in February. More information will be sent home about this soon.
