We’re excited to share what we’ve been learning and enjoying so far this term. Our class teacher is Miss Connell, and we have 15 pupils in our class. We’re also supported throughout the week by Mrs Eaglesham, Mrs Morrison, Miss Mackay, and Mrs Robertson. On Thursdays, our class is taught by Mr Woods.

Our Weekly Routine

• P.E. takes place every week on Thursday.
• Our other PE session is either a Tuesday or a Friday!
  • If we have Outdoor Learning on a Friday (which happens every second week), P.E. will move to Tuesday.
  • If there is no Outdoor Learning that week, P.E. will take place on Friday instead.
• Committees take place every Wednesday afternoon.
• Outdoor Learning happens every second Friday.

Literacy – Talk for Writing

This term, our Talk for Writing focus has been on the story ‘Mr Big’.

We’ve been developing our creative writing skills by learning how to use descriptive language to bring our characters and settings to life.

So far, we have:

• Created detailed story maps to help us retell and innovate the story
• Collected powerful and interesting vocabulary
• Explored how to write strong openings

We’ve been working hard to include adjectives, adverbs, interesting openers, and to create characters that go through a clear change in the story.

Numeracy and Maths

In Numeracy, we’ve been exploring 2D and 3D shapes. We’ve learned how to:

• Name and describe a variety of 2D shapes (like triangles and quadrilaterals, polygons)
• Irregular and regular shapes
• Identify 3D shapes such as cubes, spheres, cones, and triangular prisms
• Talk about their properties (sides, vertices, edges, faces)

We’ve also been learning about symmetry, and soon we’ll be diving into angles and transformations.

As always, we’re continuing to practice our core skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and developing our problem-solving strategies too!

Topic – Travel, Tourism and The Titanic

At the start of term, we explored the topic of Travel and Tourism, looking at different destinations and types of holidays.

We’ve now moved on to a fascinating new topic: The Titanic. So far, we’ve learned about:

• The Titanic’s voyage and why it was considered “unsinkable”
• The tragic events that led to its sinking in April 1912
• How Morse Code was used on board to send messages and call for help

Next, we’ll be investigating:

• How the Titanic was built
• What the ship looked like inside
• What life was like for passengers in first, second, and third class

It’s been a really exciting and thought-provoking topic so far, and we’re looking forward to learning more!

Our Class Rules

As a class we have decided on the following rules which align with the following Rights – article 29, 12 and 19.

• Be positive and always try your best!
• Keep unkind thoughts and actions to yourself!
• Always be respectful and listen when others are speaking!
• Be polite!

Class Rewards and Responsibilities

We have two exciting systems in place to help us stay motivated and learn about responsibility:

1. Shooting for the Stars – Reward Rocket

Our class earns (or loses) free choice time based on our actions and efforts throughout the week. We work as a team to make good choices and aim for the stars!

2. Classroom Economy

Each week, we can nominate ourselves for different class jobs, and if we carry out our duties responsibly, we get “paid” on Fridays. We can also earn or lose money depending on our actions.

This helps us understand important real-world skills like budgeting, responsibility, and teamwork.

Primary 2/1 have had an exciting term 1. We have welcomed our 6 new shiny primary 1s who have all settled in well to school and are following the rules and routines of the class.

Literacy

Primary 1 have been introduced to Inky the mouse who brings them a new sound every week to learn. He brings a song with him to help us remember the sound and words that can be associated with it. So far, we have learnt, S, A, T, P, I and N and have used lots of different strategies to help us learn these.

Primary 2 have been learning new graphemes together and playing a range of new games and strategies to help us learn. We have been challenging ourselves to learn tricky words and showing great progress so far! We have also been using the Julia Donaldson Songbird books to consolidate the new graphemes and tricky words we have been learning.

Talk for Writing

Primary 2 had an interesting visitor in the classroom who left big footprints and a note. It was a dragon! He introduced us to the story ‘Kassim and the Greedy Dragon’. We have been working together to learn the story and complete different writing challenges to help us develop our writing skills. We can’t wait to see what else the dragon has done.

Numeracy

Primary 1 have been learning the numbers to 10 by visiting Ten Town. Each number is represented by a character who has a story and a song to help us remember. We have developed this by introducing addition to 5 and using the concrete materials to help us. We have also been learning about patterns and using lots of different materials to demonstrate this. We will be moving onto look at shape before the October week.

Primary 2 have been challenging themselves to learn the numbers to 100 and looking at their value. We have been developing our knowledge of place value and breaking numbers down into hundred, tens and ones. Everyone is enjoying using the base ten material to help us. We have also been learning about estimating and rounding as well as adding and subtracting 2 and 3-digit numbers. Pattern has also been our beyond number topic, with a focus on number patterns. We will also be moving onto shape before the October holidays.

 

Topic

Our topic this term has been animals. We have enjoyed learning all about different animals, where they come from and lots of interesting facts all about them. We had a focus on animals that live on land or water, mothers and their young, zoo animals and being able to place different exotic animals on a map to explain where they come from. It has been an enjoyable topic and all of the class have shown lost of interest in learning more.

PE

Our PE days are a Monday and Wednesday and we are required to change into a change of shoes, t-shirt and shorts to be able to participate. We have had a focus this term on ball skills, with lots of practice of throwing and catching. We are beginning to show great progress with this and will be moving onto tennis after October.

Outdoor learning.

Outdoor learning takes part every Friday with P1 and P2 going out alternate weeks. P1 have been joining the EYC with Mrs McLean and P2 with P3&4 with Mrs Parker.

Term 2 will see Mrs McLean going out with P2 and Mrs Parker joining P1 and the EYC.

 

We are so excited to see what Term 2 will bring us and what crazy Christmas activities we can get up to!